spoonjim

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by spoonjim 3y ago
A lot of technologies are brought to a much bigger audience through an acquisition. PASemi for example wouldn’t have had nearly the impact they did if Apple had not acquired them and made them the foundation of Apple Silicon.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
She’s probably the most senior one. So she can override anyone but doesn’t always do it.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
I don’t think Carmack’s wrong but he should also realize that he is a 7 standard deviation outlier so his brain might not be like others’. It’s also a question of ROI - it may be a lot easier to spend 12 hours a day programming if you’re li
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Only if your best way of expressing yourself is in what you buy
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by spoonjim 3y ago
The idea that you could achieve "individuality" by purchasing a mass-produced item just because it has 1% instead of 25% market share was a lie sold to you by the manufacturers of those items
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by spoonjim 3y ago
> I'm decently sure that you could pick any two players of the same Elo on lichess and one will win the majority of games. I think that's true at 2000+ but at my rating (500) it's just a comedy of blunders
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Before you take this guy's advice think about whether you want to be a single childless man going to tend bar in Thailand in a desperate attempt to make his life interesting to him
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by spoonjim 3y ago
"Blowing up your life" is what you do in a desperate search for meaning-making when you haven't taken the much more durable and constructive path to meaning-making of having children
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Does the dowry get paid after the marriage? Why wouldnt' it be paid at the time of the marriage? Or do they keep asking for money?
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by spoonjim 3y ago
They probably all use the same Taiwanese component
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by spoonjim 3y ago
I’m not saying I’m better than a self driving car… I’m saying that using vision alone for cost cutting is short sighted and might kill the industry.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Humans use a lot of reasoning though. I once saw a guy approaching an intersection where he had the red light and from far away I could see he was jamming out to the music and in his own world. I didn’t go on green (getting honked at by the
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by spoonjim 3y ago
They forgot the #1 rule: the house always wins, even if they have to take you to the courthouse they own.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Nobody felt entitled to WFH pre-2020. Not sure why a virus changes things
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Restaurant quality is real and it’s because high end restaurants usually buy the best produce at wholesale and pay for stuff a grocery store can’t. For example they get much better blackberries in top restaurants because they need to be han
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Going to be wild to see city officials cope with the reduced tax revenues when they’re used to giving homeless people $600 a month and a dog
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Layoffs are to clear out people who aren’t wanted or needed anymore. They still need to hire!
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Now I won’t be able to have warm nuggets by the time I get home. The crybabyification of America
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by spoonjim 3y ago
There is a lot of electric heating in the world and all of it should be performing computation rather than just sending load through a resistor.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
That’s obviously a wrong or insufficient because much more has spent than that without fixing the problem.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Everyone accuses Apple of “price gouging” but they objectively make a better product at a lower price. They sell the iPad much cheaper and it has Apple Pencil support!
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by spoonjim 3y ago
If they activated this software with a bolt that was installed at the dealership, there would be no complaints
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by spoonjim 3y ago
That’s why the US was higher trust when uneducated people could get well paying factory jobs
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by spoonjim 3y ago
What if every scientist had said this? We’d be living in mud huts and dying at 35. Progress is important. Nobody personally has to commit to it but as a society we need some people to.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
This is a good idea in general… eventually all of this gas infrastructure will be incredibly expensive to maintain just to send energy when you could send that through wires.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Businesses are supposed to care a lot about cost control. The fact that they didn’t for a long time was the anomaly.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
How would that have acceleration?
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by spoonjim 3y ago
The businesses may not be illegally colluding: they may be all owned by the same entity as franchises
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by spoonjim 4y ago
“Stand your ground” laws don’t just increase the rate of homicides, they increase the rate of murder. Turns out that thugs are better at killing than civilians
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It’s not sarcasm. It’s just a very obvious confounder

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