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by stkdump 2y ago
Once the central government has decided what they want, China absolutely has a track record of extremely heavy subsidies, both for domestic market and for export. Like you say, it is to get to that sweet 'economies of scale' (or t
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by stkdump 2y ago
Don't know how it is for Chinese projects, but in the west you should not compare actual cost of A with projected cost of B, because with such projects we repeatedly see that the actual cost can be a multiple of the projected costs, es
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by stkdump 2y ago
> I try to remember how the general demise of OK/ cancel buttons came about I think there was a time when dialogs had all three: Apply, Ok, Cancel. I formed the habit of clicking Apply and then Ok back then. Either way, I think Ok w
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by stkdump 2y ago
Sorry, but I seem to have lived in a fundamentally different universe than you. I remember that my 386 took longer to boot to DOS (which is not even an operating system by today's standards) than my current laptop to come up. When Wind
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by stkdump 2y ago
As mentioned somewhere else, these time signals also carry information about DST and adapt for leap seconds, both of which GPS doesn't do as far as I know. I remember that earlier versions of Android always set the phone clock to GPS w
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by stkdump 2y ago
I wonder if an extension to the concept of jwt that extends the cryptographics chain down into some hardware component such as a TPM or secure enclave is the right answer. Basically the payload of the token could contain a pubkey for checki
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by stkdump 2y ago
It even uses the exact same syntax as in html, so as long as svg content isn't specifically excluded, normal web scraping would just work without modification.
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by stkdump 2y ago
I would go even further and say there isn't any indication that we are even close to what is possible. My subjective feeling is that with the current rate of progress it is entirely possible that we will have GPT-4 level performance lo
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by stkdump 2y ago
If you actually read the pages that you linked, you will see nothing of the sort you describe. One page is literally talking about wages only. The other says that unions want companies to train employees so that they are prepared for automa
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by stkdump 2y ago
So unions block innovation by insisting the government pays union-level wages to construction workers. I can tell you what is the difference between unions in Europe and unions in the US. As far as I can tell, unions and paying fair wages a
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by stkdump 2y ago
Right, in Europe there are no unions.
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by stkdump 2y ago
Nowadays there is also more and more nothing shared besides the kernel. Look at technologies like electron, docker, flatpak, etc. Similar to multiuser: Security is important, but as applications get more and more powerful it is not about wh
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by stkdump 2y ago
You can also get independent data. For example what drivers have to pay for (liability) ensurance based on make and model. The rating system in Germany puts a Model 3 at rating 20 (out of 10-24, where 10 is lowest cost for insurance) this i
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by stkdump 2y ago
That is great to read and I genuinely believe everyone with such adverse experiences will be better off if they lived their life with this attitude. It is also a healthy attitude to focus on what one can control, which is how they choose to
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by stkdump 2y ago
I don't know, I don't want want to be too political here. But there were people saying out loud that it would be better to have no police at all a few years back. Not sure how common this position is nowadays. But that shows that
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by stkdump 2y ago
I find it interesting how it probably evolved from "people on the citizen review board don't know what it means to police" to a moderate position of "why not add a retired policeman, so he can at least explain it to them
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by stkdump 2y ago
When the monitors connected have the same serial number the OS could just use the connection side to distinguish the monitors, i.e. where is the monitor plugged in. I gets bad when that is not possible, for example when using a bluetooth he
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by stkdump 3y ago
Isn't there a fundamental difference between buying a copy of a newspaper/magazine vs buying a subscription? I would love to be able to pay a few bucks once and be able to read a number of articles for that. But that's not ho
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by stkdump 3y ago
The US is special in being able to build and sustain huge tech companies. But the most important (internet or otherwise) services for anyones' economy don't require such huge companies. Not saying that the loss worldwide free comm
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by stkdump 3y ago
Since the extended integer types are just aliases to the other types, they wouldn't solve the problem. Also in C++ these aliases create a problem with overload sets when you mix the two worlds and try to produce portable code. For exam
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by stkdump 3y ago
Even on Amazon (in Germany) shipping is free starting at 39€ only. It used to be 19€ a few years back. Often when I add an item to get free shipping, they are then shipped separately anyway (presumably they are stocked in a different logist
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by stkdump 3y ago
I think at least one participant is visibly uncomfortable with the fact that a f*g internal meeting is posted for the entire world to watch.
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by stkdump 3y ago
I think this story is not about the result. The story is about the journey how he got there. When he realized that his original plan wasn't working he did it differently, but told it as if he sticked with the plan, which was the reason
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by stkdump 3y ago
Anecdata from Germany checking in: I have 2 kindergarden aged kids. They have 13 cousins. I don't even know how many second cousins.
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by stkdump 3y ago
Another reason is likely clipping. When drawing the cursor you have to prevent pixels from being drawn off screen to the right or bottom of the screen. If the cursor were symmetric, you would have to watch out for the left edge of the scree
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by stkdump 3y ago
I guess the problem is that we only have a single example.
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by stkdump 3y ago
I had to check if that realistic. 40 million gallons at 85 feet is 11MWh of potential energy. At 70% efficiency it would take 16MWh to pump that. That has to be a small amount of energy compared to what ships take for traveling the detour.
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by stkdump 3y ago
I barely remember what it was like waiting for the bus with nothing else to do. But I remember vividly what it was like that the school bully was next to me waiting for the bus with nothing else to do. Hope my kids don't have to know w
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by stkdump 3y ago
More like 8 or 9 dice landing on the same number.
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by stkdump 3y ago
It's not uncommon nowadays to pay 300€ for a Schulranzan in Germany [1] for 4 years of primary school, as opposed to 450$ of the price paid in Japan for 6 years. I don't see a fundamental difference. [1] https://www.ber

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