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by sottol 2y ago
Except, the money is generally used to fund the basic functioning of society and benefits all citizens to a large degree somewhat equally - yea some % is lost to inefficiencies but I doubt it's > 50%. But also, most individuals ulti
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by sottol 2y ago
I think the full article available via archive link here: https://mattlevine.co/work
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by sottol 2y ago
So afaik, Hyundai/Kia first recalled around 90k cars over fire risk due to accessory tow hitch, then ~100k over faulty-start-stop AND THEN ~450k SUVs over fire-risk due to seats... but an EV fire gets all the politicians to "rethi
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by sottol 2y ago
Wow! This also seemed to be first site to show up on HN to show the new Pico 2 / RP2350... ... and it has twice the RAM - so rePalm might run better on it!
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by sottol 2y ago
Standards of.. Quality? Safety? Significantly lower? Probably not. I bet in some ways higher, other ways lower. But different for sure. Problem is probably the landscape of huge cars proliferating in the US vs smaller cars other places. But
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by sottol 2y ago
But at what terms? That will imo largely depend on the GPT-5 release. Have LLMs plateaued or is there another leap-jump?
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by sottol 2y ago
For the retro vibes? Or maybe their polaroid-style mini film cameras? They do _really_ well with their Instax line - afair it was > 50% of their revenue once.
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by sottol 2y ago
Reading the article it mostly sounds like someone pretty new to an ecosystem leveling up to an ok level - so more like 0.1x developer (newb) to 1x developer than 1x to 100x. There's a lot of value in skipping months of familiarizing on
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by sottol 2y ago
The antibacterial resistance is often on small DNA loops called plasmids which are often and easily exchanged between bacterial species. I assume this has to do with that, either the resistance would have to develop twice in the main genome
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by sottol 2y ago
Terms of Service? "Naturally, we're never liable for any damages we've caused."
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by sottol 2y ago
You can create an appropriate API to run the code outside the kernel. Nobody is forcing MS to run everyone's the security code in the kernel, MS choose to (because it's easier). The law is about fairness and equal access for all.
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by sottol 2y ago
This is not so much about prioritization but outright dismissal and comfortably not questioning the status quo. Reminds of many surgeons refusal to use checklists a while ago despite showing general improvement in outcomes. Nobody wants to
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by sottol 2y ago
you have to wait a while until the before box starts to stutter, maybe 30-60 secs.
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by sottol 2y ago
> I think the adjacent discussion is much more interesting: What does it say about our society that `s/a touring bicycle with 10 years of warranty/an engine block/` has the same price as 400g of plastic with a Star Wars li
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by sottol 2y ago
I don't know that I see anything revolutionary? The peak power seems maybe higher than Bosch CX at 850W vs 600 but continuous power is similar 250W. 800Wh max battery pack size is also not entirely out of the ordinary. The packaging se
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by sottol 2y ago
Generally, there's more car fires than you'd think. Summary off google: "Data from the National Transportation Safety Board showed that EVs were involved in approximately 25 fires for every 100,000 sold. Comparatively, approx
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by sottol 2y ago
At that point, why not just let Neuralink tickle the right brain regions - seems more sensible than literally stuffing food into your mouth. Also seems closer to being achievable than nano blood.
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by sottol 2y ago
The other problem imo is that it just further erodes shared values and beliefs when everyone has their own network of trust. And a shared system of beliefs may be vital to a functioning society I'm starting to believe.
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by sottol 2y ago
That's a bit of a strawman - I'm sure there are old washer and dryers that were also terrible, it's not inherently a property of all modern washers and dryers.
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by sottol 2y ago
Modern washing machines, fridges and appliances come with other advantages - especially in terms of efficiency and lower water use. We have Maytag Centennial dryer and washing machine - they may be robust but they're quite inefficient
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by sottol 2y ago
looks like the doj is doing just the slap (or tap?) on the wrist that the market was expecting.
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by sottol 2y ago
I think that's the new value system that leads to having children being such a burden. There are sooo many expectations of parents that they spend all their time fulfilling those without questioning any of them.
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by sottol 2y ago
It's partially because you just can't let kids "be", nowadays they always have to be taught, mentored, entertained and generally watched at all times. Parents are driving themselves crazy spending all their time tend to
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by sottol 2y ago
Even asic will imo only give us one step-function jump. there will be a huge jump and then it is mostly back to moore's law-ish. maybe the gradient will be a bit steeper but i doubt it.
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by sottol 2y ago
I misread this: > How easy is it to use two handed and not like a laptop? Two-handed NOT like a laptop? Probably slightly better than touch-typing, the keys might work a tad better that way but I haven't really tried it a lot - just
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by sottol 2y ago
i'm not a super discerning keyboard user but it's definitely not a laptop. my main gripe is probably the in-between key spacing, but there's nothing you can do about that in such a small form factor. you can't quite fit
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by sottol 2y ago
I just bought NOS Gemini! I tried some of the Windows CE Pocket PCs like the Journada and the Psion 5 line in the mid-2000s but CE was too limiting, the Psions were better. The Planet Computer devices have kinda been the fulfillment of that
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by sottol 2y ago
That behavior inconsequential during non-congestion hours as the traffic can flow around the bus or else there'd be congestion, and helpful when traffic is near congestion. Traffic models show that it's the sudden acceleration and
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by sottol 2y ago
Probably because they're impossibly hard or expensive to manufacture at scale and nobody was willing to front the money to kickstart the research to commercialize.
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The First Machine-Polished Cybertruck(twitter.com)
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