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by sterlind 2y ago
Moving to Canada is way harder than choosing not to buy a Tesla in the future. And few people will buy something that gets them judged or ridiculed by their community or friends. Fortunately, the EV market is getting competitive.
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by sterlind 2y ago
blowtorch effect. depressurizing the cabin and cargo hold is on the checklist for some on-board fires, but the rushing air can produce a blowtorch and spread the fire along. see UPS flight 6 iirc.
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by sterlind 2y ago
No, I don't think so. You specifically rejected the idea that everyone inherently deserves anything. Objectivists would agree, but I don't think Ayn Rand would have been popular with Jefferson. Perhaps you could clarify - what d
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by sterlind 2y ago
Do you have a GPU?
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by sterlind 2y ago
That puts you at odds with the tradition of natural rights. The Declaration of Independence says everyone deserves life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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by sterlind 2y ago
That's fine. Part time jobs can pay a living wage/hr instead.
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by sterlind 2y ago
Blast overpressure has a way of opening windows. And they're hard to close once the glass has become shrapnel.
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by sterlind 2y ago
Afghanistan and Turkmenistan are allowed, but not China or Russia. Which makes legal sense, I guess, but did the Taliban takeover just take place too recently for Afghanistan to be placed on the embargo list?
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by sterlind 2y ago
ChatGPT the breakfast cereal is just alphabet bites. Nutritious but the next-token prediction accuracy is terrible.
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by sterlind 2y ago
This man indirectly killed thousands and left many more sick and destitute. His policies have made countless families mourn. His life had negative value. I celebrate its end.
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by sterlind 2y ago
Surely there must be an emulator you could use?
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by sterlind 2y ago
What about the POWER9-based Talos II systems? Extraordinary niche, I know, but aren't they PC-ish?
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by sterlind 2y ago
How is Go an iteration of C? You can't use Go to write a kernel, or program a microcontroller, or for high-frequency trading or a web browser or a tensor library or a language run-time. It's either a bad idea or simply impossible,
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by sterlind 2y ago
I started going gray at 16. My dad would pull my gray hairs out and marvel at them whenever he saw one - without thinking to ask first, of course. they joked it must be from stress - disquieting that it might have been metabolic, and that t
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by sterlind 2y ago
"乇乂ㄒ尺卂" looks like "EXTRA", but it's (meaninglessly-arranged) Chinese characters with a purely coincidental relationship to the Latin. Did they find a bunch of these artifacts, with a variety of inscriptions? If so
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by sterlind 2y ago
depends on the work, depends on the government. building a system to hunt down illegal immigrants for mass deportation? no thanks. building a missile shield? happy to help.
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by sterlind 2y ago
Here's one source on Python very obviously not matching Node.js's perf on a simple microbenchmark: https://jott.live/markdown/nodejs_vs_python_ CPython really is inherently less performant than V8. CPython, u
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by sterlind 2y ago
to be fair, Python's performance has lagged far behind comparable languages (e.g. JS) for at least a decade. maybe more devs could give it the V8 treatment?
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by sterlind 2y ago
I'm suggesting we should value civilian casualties equally. You're free to shoot at soldiers.
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by sterlind 2y ago
My view is the ethnicity of the human shields in question shouldn't factor into your decision making. You shouldn't shoot through an Egyptian aid worker or Lebanese child if you wouldn't have shot through an Israeli hostage i
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by sterlind 2y ago
Unifil has been there since the '70s, apparently. Their role was to monitor Israel's withdrawal and to assist the Lebanese government, to patrol the Blue Line and various humanitarian tasks. They're not a counterinsurgency fo
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by sterlind 2y ago
> Ecstasy and molly (pill and powder forms of MDMA, respectively) are the most common types of phenethylamines, but similar substances go by the street names N-bomb and Smiles. Good to know the DEA is still as clueless as ever (MDMA is
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by sterlind 2y ago
how long did you work in the space before your conscience caught up with you?
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by sterlind 2y ago
HN isn't well-known outside deep tech circles. anyone who clocks you reading it probably reads it too.
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by sterlind 2y ago
too expensive and fragile for airlines themselves, at least outside of first class, but I think air travel is a killer app. I do find the idea of a plane full of goggled humans packed in like sardines to be a touch dystopian, but I feel tha
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by sterlind 2y ago
That surprises me. I thought motion planning and motor control would be harder - old memories of Asimo falling helplessly trying to climb stairs, the clunkiness of a robot aligning itself perfectly with a drawer before executing a scripted-
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by sterlind 2y ago
I use ASP at work! I used it as the core of a powerful code generator: I modeled the type system I wanted to implement, some base operations and derivation rules, and had it synthesize implementations for every possible operator between eve
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by sterlind 2y ago
I want to like Collier, but she has a patronizing, gatekeeping edge to some of her videos that I don't like. She also spends nearly as much time talking about science communication as she does actually communicating science. Like for e
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by sterlind 2y ago
You can index, but iirc Prolog's indexing isn't powerful enough to efficiently handle SQL-like queries. Like, iirc `WHERE Id > 500` still requires trying all the Id values, you can't binary search on keys like that. And cl
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by sterlind 2y ago
Prolog's clpfd (constrained logic programming over finite domains) is actually just a library - albeit one with very ergonomic bindings that mesh almost invisibly into the language. Prolog's evaluator backtracks when it hits a con

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