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by short_throw 3y ago
If you want learn how things scale across a team and last years, read or contribute to open source code. It takes years for a single person to get a project to the point where it's a good learning ground for scaling and maintenance. Gl
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by short_throw 3y ago
For much of the developed world, the ratio of retirees to working age people is going to get a larger, causing economic difficulties across age groups. Healthcare for the elderly will put huge strain on government budgets. With the young st
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by short_throw 3y ago
Bunnie's "Hacking the Xbox" is still one of my favorite books ever. First read it as a teenager, it was my intro to bootloaders, encryption, copyright law, and so much more.
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by short_throw 3y ago
> YouTube has no financial incentive... Nonsense. A Google controlled browser runs plugins Google allows with privacy settings Google creates. More data and no ad blockers is worth many billions of dollars to YouTube in the long run. The
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by short_throw 3y ago
It's still a serious structural defect. The importance of the distinction here is that Tesla can't argue the customer caused this...a cold shut can only happen at casting time.
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by short_throw 3y ago
Identical twins may both die of a heart attack, but not usually at the same time. Normally, failures come from some amount of non-repeatability or randomness that the systems weren't robust to. The drive industry is special (in a bad w
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by short_throw 3y ago
A healthy marriage of two people treating each other as equals takes a lot of communication, and that almost certainly can't be scaled 10x, nor do the same principles apply when someone is only getting 10%. In traditional polygamy, the
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by short_throw 3y ago
"You could have learned that stuff in the last 6 months" "You might have to hand in your power user card over that one" And these attitudes are why most consumers almost exclusively use proprietary software. You have to
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by short_throw 3y ago
If you aren't familiar with Ray Dalio's Principles for a Changing World Order, I can't recommend it enough (both the book and the YouTube video). You'll understand a lot better where the U.S. is in it's history and
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by short_throw 3y ago
I'm a bit perplexed that you see trashing a man's character with certainty as right and pondering if his actions could reflect a struggle with mental illness as wrong. I don't like Musk, nor do I trust the things he says, but
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by short_throw 3y ago
I was just waiting to hear that the parameter loading wasn't available in some edge case scenario and code review changes took down the system. But actually this is a story about the process working.
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by short_throw 3y ago
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
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by short_throw 3y ago
If no one speaks than you can't differentiate a false alarm from someone who can't breathe, or is hiding from an attacker, or is too hurt to put the phone to their ear. It's a massive nuisance unless someone gets on to say it
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by short_throw 3y ago
If you think the entirety of corruption in the US is recent and tied to a specific family you need to switch to a media source with more nuance.
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by short_throw 3y ago
There are tradeoffs here, but the current approach seems to protect people's inheritances better than people's lives. Selling straight up snake oil is still fraud, and letting money be thrown at overhyped but ineffective treatment
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by short_throw 3y ago
You will find the second law of thermodynamics very disappointing.
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by short_throw 3y ago
I'm 2 for 2 with SanDisk ssds suddenly dieing due to the controller going out way short of the drive's expected life. That was years before this issue but my rule of never buying a SanDisk product again is serving me well.
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by short_throw 3y ago
I'm like you, Asus router on stock firmware and happy. In my case I set that up after a bad experience with openwrt. Years ago I bought a $100 gigabit Linksys router, immediately flashed it with openwrt, and set it up. I assumed my isp
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by short_throw 3y ago
Gotta switch to some a4988s so the machine can moan back.
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by short_throw 3y ago
The founders of the United States thought it was too dangerous to let a democratic government influence the media, which is why we have the first amendment. Rival nations with totalitarian governments are now exercising control over US medi
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by short_throw 3y ago
There are a lot of surprises here. I'm surprised this wasn't settled confidentially out of court, since Javice presumably doesn't want to go to prison and JPM doesn't want all this publicity as the bank that paid 9 figur
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by short_throw 4y ago
"I gave my kids junk food and they got excited." Do you think there could be any potential confounders here?
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by short_throw 4y ago
Well I think if Intel had decided to start from scratch to make "x86 only more power efficient, it'll only take one product cycle" they would have failed miserably, but if they said "let's make a phone cpu, that&#x2
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by short_throw 4y ago
For steering you're exactly wrong. Drive an old car without power steering, on the highway you'll barely notice, but you'll be using all your might to park. It's much easier to steer a rolling tire. Power steering system
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by short_throw 4y ago
If the article were more prescriptive (i.e. it were giving people life advice or suggesting policy) I'd agree. But it's primarily descriptive ("this is what I lived" and the prescriptive parts are limited to "if you
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by short_throw 4y ago
He left a factual statement of his own experience. It's not poorly worded. It's entirely fair to point out that different castes would see and experience casteism very differently...but sheesh, it's tiresome to see a bunch of
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by short_throw 4y ago
HN predictably tearing him apart for his pricing and marketing. If you haven't heard of fireship, do this instead of complaining about his prices: 1. Watch a few videos on his YouTube for free ( https://m.youtube.com/c&#
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by short_throw 4y ago
It seems you're a big fan of judging people on superficial details of their internet comments. The point was pretty clear to me...that there's a person and a family on the losing end of all this. Giving the owners of a store a bac