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by simonsarris 4mo ago
I've had surface devices for a long time, originally for work to test HTML Canvas with the touchscreen. Unlike a lot of the other comments, I've had a nice time with them. The screens are a great quality, the keyboard especially i
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by simonsarris 4mo ago
true but be sure to see `All Employees, Government/Population` https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1WF5r
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by simonsarris 5mo ago
Many people hold one or more of the following positions: 1. Illegal immigration is bad, and we should do more to reduce it. 2. Immigration (any kind) is too numerous. Eg someone could say "Nashua, New Hampshire is now 17.2% foreign bor
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by simonsarris 5mo ago
Because how you spend your time is different when you need to work for a living and when you do not. If that's not transparent, this can't really be discussed. Spending 4 years and $300,000 is "fine" if you have a trust
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by simonsarris 5mo ago
There's not really enough info to know if this is just a coin toss or something more. "Company tries to roll its own system and [saves / loses] money" is just a common story, one way or the other. For context, the Homes
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Hand Held Laser Welders(blog.humbaventures.com)
2 points by simonsarris 5mo ago|0 comments
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by simonsarris 5mo ago
we spent one zillion dollars over 200 years to make flat surfaces everywhere, often perfectly flat (like inside of stores), so that ball bearing wheels can work well. We've found that tracks work even offroad. Arms, sure, but why legs?
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by simonsarris 5mo ago
So that was 2016. Why doesn't it link to "Chinese property sector crisis (2020–present)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_sector_crisis... Never mind, I added a link to it, and the prior Ch
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
> but [gestures vaguely at the state of it] Everyone wants to gesture vaguely at the state of it but it's still by far the best place. Just use the site the way you want to use it, post the way you wish others posted, and mute stuff
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
Younger Dryas, definitely. It very likely abruptly stopped progress in human agriculture, before allowing it to abruptly restart again. Makes the Medieval warm period and little ice age look like a joke. Two massive shifts that punctuate th
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
As a fan of Calvino I will say that If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller is somewhat more enjoyable after you've read a bunch of other Calvino, since it has a somewhat cheeky, self-referential feel and the more you sympathize with the
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
https://floracarta.com/ Flora Carta, design and keep track of your gardens. Originally a project for myself to keep track of every rose variety (I have over a hundred) in my garden, and apple/pear/plum variety in
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
Presumably, those have influenced elections, though I guess it depends what you count as an attack. Plenty of bots try to modify public opinion. Someone hacked the DNC in 2015/16, the result of which also alleged attempted manipulation
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
Yeah. From the Italian defense minister: > Someone is trying to get the message across that Italy has decided to suspend the use of bases for U.S. assets. > Something that's simply false, because the bases are active, in use, and
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
Is this really true in 2026? Even 10 year old cars are simply big now, and not that expensive. I could believe it in 1990 maybe. I have 3 babies (ages 0, 2, 4 when we started) in a 2016 Subaru Outback for 1.5 years now and it's been mo
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by simonsarris 6mo ago
He's made a lot of predictions: Apple will acquire Disney (recent), Microsoft will acquire Yahoo (mid 2000s), we'd have a "hard landing" in 2023/2024. None of these have turned out true. It's especially hard to
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by simonsarris 7mo ago
On the other hand, the best way to improve your capabilities is to use them frequently. The Russian army assumed a state of readiness for the Ukraine invasion that turned out to be, well, less. Their special forces floundered, their logisti
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by simonsarris 7mo ago
This is essentially what Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) was predicting a few months ago. Incumbents in most software spaces will probably see a lot of short and medium term benefits from the new tooling as being trustworthy and truly understandi
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by simonsarris 7mo ago
Where was this kind of movement when Russia invaded Europe in 2022? I think Europe's inaction in 2022 will go down as the greatest moral failing of the century. You can't say "they didn't act because Russia is a nuclear
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by simonsarris 7mo ago
It's commendable relative to other countries not deploying much, but nonetheless, CO2 cares only about totals. See consumption by source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
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by simonsarris 7mo ago
US, AU? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...
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by simonsarris 7mo ago
> though they've gone mostly electric Who on earth told you this? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
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by simonsarris 7mo ago
I mean, did you know most dental floss has PFAS? You have to go out of your way to get PFAS free Do you know what "countertop sealer" is made of? It's PFAS! Lots and lots of people rub PFAS on their food surfaces on purpose!
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
That top graph has been shared a lot but its a somewhat disingenuous display of data. It's true that lots of growth has been healthcare in the last 2 years, but that doesn't mean zero growth elsewhere, you can see eg construction
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
I have always like C. P. Cavafy's famous poem about this, Waiting for the Barbarians , because of what it emphasizes about why people want these things to be true. Doom is an abdication of responsibility. https://simonsarri
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
But that doesn't work for desktop (they already killed the messenger desktop app)
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Show HN: Flora Carta, design and keep track of your garden or orchard(floracarta.com)
1 points by simonsarris 8mo ago|0 comments
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
> but where is my car version of this? It's the status quo? Cars last longer than they ever have in history. In 2 decades average age of cars on the road increased from 9.5 to 14.5. They are a little more difficult to maintain for
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
Mostly because when social security was designed there was a retiree to worker ration of 1:130. Today it is closer to 1:3. Soon it will be 1:2. We already allocate immense resources to the elderly (over 50% of US federal budget is for old p
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
> The feedback loop has changed. The intimacy has gone. The thing that kept me up at night for decades — the puzzle, the chase, the moment where you finally understand why something isn’t working — that’s been compressed into a prompt an

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