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by simonh 3y ago
Alternately, would increasing the cost of the base phone for a facility hardly anyone would use the right thing to do? Especially when there is a high end model specifically for people who are willing to bear the cost for higher end feature
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by simonh 3y ago
You need to read this. https://xkcd.com/1053
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by simonh 3y ago
Or even “Apple doesn’t like open standards that are weak”. OpenGL was just no longer fit for purpose. They were competing against DirectX, needed to do ML acceleration, and at the time Vulcan didn’t exist. They had to do something, and espe
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by simonh 3y ago
Idiot who transferred from physics to computer science after year 1 here, so please make allowances. But all of those phenomena are emergent. Shouldn’t physics focus much more on the underlying micro states and micro processes than the emer
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by simonh 3y ago
Except that many of them are purely optical phenomena that don’t show up on radar at all. Which of course is even more mysterious and meaningful!
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by simonh 3y ago
A lot of the people using AI art generators are not themselves artists, but how do you prove they aren't?.
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by simonh 3y ago
Both can be true at the same time. On the one hand yes intelligence services attempt to manipulate public opinion at home and broad. On the other, they know that independent reporting in and of oppressive opposing states undermines those st
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by simonh 3y ago
I think there’s a reasonable argument that manufacturers should be required to open up hardware when they no longer support it. The problem is I doubt that would achieve what most people here seem to expect fur older devices. You might be a
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by simonh 3y ago
Those machines have 256 MB of RAM. Is there any way to run a modern web browser in that?
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by simonh 3y ago
Look up the interviews with people who actually worked for him and with him on YouTube. He successfully recruited and retained top talent, and inspired fierce loyalty at Apple, NeXT and Pixar. Hard to do if you treat people unfairly.
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by simonh 3y ago
"One of the frustrating things, and many of us probably experiences this in their lives, is that as you grow and mature you change, but people are constantly treating you as though you are still the same person you were when you were 1
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by simonh 3y ago
Ive seen and read multiple interviews with people he worked on later in his career, and that doesn't seem to be their experience.
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by simonh 3y ago
Dude was 19 at the time. People change, I know I have.
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by simonh 3y ago
He was actually quoted 104,000 Euros in Germany. The article is on an Australian web site so the amount in the headline is in Aussie Dollars.
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by simonh 3y ago
Oh absolutely, of course that's the point and it's why Orwell was a democratic socialist. In democratic mixed economies we have some redistribution, and some private property, and some state capitalism all mixed together. In truth
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by simonh 3y ago
The Zapatista movement is almost entirely rural. What capital intensive industry have they built and run? In fact they are adamantly opposed to big infrastructure projects in their region. That's remarkably prescient because they would
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by simonh 3y ago
That can work at a local level, I have a friend who was born into a Kibbutz, but what happens at the national level? Most Kibbutzim are agricultural, but there are some that operate capital intensive high tech manufacturing, including one t
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by simonh 3y ago
The core problem is how to have redistributive system, from each according to their ability, to each according to their need, without a dictatorship. Someone has to determine what the needs are and do the redistributing.
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by simonh 3y ago
YouTube video comments, Reddit subs, Twitt…er I mean X. Probably Facebook. Occasionally Hacker News. In my experience mostly ad hoc rather than one big town hall on politics, though those may exist.
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by simonh 3y ago
Oh boy, do they ever.
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by simonh 3y ago
There have been numerous interviews with and statements by current and former SpaceX engineers.
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by simonh 3y ago
iPhone multitasking was the full 32bit preemptive real deal for background services like GPS, networking, the phone stack, core data, OpenGL, etc and built in apps. Only user applications had limited access to background processing, but tha
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by simonh 3y ago
The huge bronze-bound Assyrian city gates in the British Museum are stunning. That's a real "Wow!" moment. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr...
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by simonh 3y ago
The question isn't whether they need more people to make it all work. That's not in dispute. It's the degree to which any of these people are replaceable. If you removed any of the engineers working on the iPhone Jobs would h
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by simonh 3y ago
I think this underestimates the degree to which the iPhone running essentially a full pre-emptive multitasking workstation class OS mattered. The Blackberry, Palm and Pocket PC OSes were basically Windows 95 and Classic MacOS era style tech
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by simonh 3y ago
I'm talking about the ones that were banned in March 2022 after the start of the invasion. I don't think any were banned before then.
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by simonh 3y ago
The UK passes roughly 33 acts of parliament per year, and 3,000 Statutory Instruments. What other concern is so pressing that passing one act of parliament would render the nation unable to complete it?
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by simonh 3y ago
Nobody else was pushing reusability in the way Musk was, or with the same approach of propulsive landing. Pretty much the whole rest of the industry was absolutely convinced it was impossible. Yes he found a few engineers willing to try to
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by simonh 3y ago
I think we need both. We need clearer and more just laws governing free speech, and we need the right to the protection of our private speech.
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by simonh 3y ago
They did not, there are about 300 political parties registered in Ukraine. They banned a handful of parties with ties to Russia. While I'm queasy about the treatment of this guy, he's a foreigner so why not just deport him, bannin

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