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by strulovich 2y ago
Barring all the issues, if you did build a huge fleet of autonomous taxis - smaller, lighter cars with less moving pieces would save you a lot of money. 2 seater - smaller car No wheels or stuff - saves money on the build and parts.
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by strulovich 2y ago
Consider the alternative: richer people, the few of them, but your game, other people pirate your game. Now instead, you find a way to get the amount of dollars a person can pay extracting cents from the people who used to pirate a game, an
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by strulovich 2y ago
If you get downvoted, it’s because you threw a trollish text without any arguments or explanations to back it up. If you did, this could have been a good and useful discussion.
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by strulovich 2y ago
It does mean that in the realm of logic. But media, PR and politics don’t play by these rules. Mention two things together and the messages will go through. A similar example would be Whataboutism, a logical fallacy, but it seems to work ve
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by strulovich 3y ago
People in tech and the valley like judging things through the eyes of tech capitalism, and basically think that if “you’re good at something, never do it for free”. The truth is that many people don’t view the world through these lens. They
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by strulovich 3y ago
There’s some variations of prisoners de facto working for below minimum wage, but that’s now what you meant. The biggest issue, if we ignore moral values and try to keep it a cold hearted calculation (which I don’t agree with), then you hav
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by strulovich 3y ago
I believe even truly magic numbers don’t need to be extracted in many cases. Say in some UI code called FooBarItem you suddenly have some call to set padding to 12. People will take this number, put it in constant and name it FOO_BAR_ITEM_P
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by strulovich 3y ago
Isn’t this ignoring all black market income? Which is obviously more meaningful to the bottom 80%. Remember: If the numbers don’t add up, first check what you’re missing.
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by strulovich 3y ago
Yes to all but the last. (That’s not to say they’re not infringed implicitly in the same ways a minority group in the US or Europe is, but the law gives Israeli citizens generally the same rights whether they’re Arab or not.)
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by strulovich 3y ago
My experience is that it’s a drop in the bucket. But, there’s a power law distribution for virality, so removing the top 1000 most viral posts might still be impactful.
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by strulovich 3y ago
If you’ve been following this blog you’d know that this is a frequent subject of it. This is similar to a programmer parent getting a “hello world” shirt for their baby.
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by strulovich 3y ago
I used to think this way, but now I believe that any method requiring writing code in a different way than the more natural one for the sake of tests is suboptimal. People generally call time functions, and a good testing setup should keep
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by strulovich 3y ago
The killer app might be replacing your desktop. It’s just not good enough at it (same way early smartphones could browse the web, but were not good at it) In a way, looks like Apple is gambling on that direction.
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by strulovich 3y ago
Isn’t turning 40 just likely to remove you from all users filtering up to 39, which sounds like a natural setting many users would choose?
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by strulovich 3y ago
If new is not always better, then you’re stuck with the really hard job of knowing when it’s worth moving to the new thing. Worse, you’ll be blinded by survivability bias. One easily notices the good rewrites and can easily ignore the bad o
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by strulovich 3y ago
But: - you need a password for your password manager - you also need a password for your actual desktop/phone, when the manager is inaccessible. - you may have a work computer requiring a different password as well Here are already 3,
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by strulovich 3y ago
It’s a license, not a franchise. You should always be able to see ahead what is required and be able to get one in the end. This is in contrast to countries or times when the government wished to control the amount of licensees, thus giving
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by strulovich 4y ago
I know very little of the subject. But maybe since ads generally arrive from other domains, making them easy to differentiate from the site’s content, while these popup are part of the website and are much harder to distinguish reliably, ma
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by strulovich 4y ago
Everything suggests this is what happened. Polynesian people had for centuries boats that could make such voyages. It’s possible the original settlers got lucky/unlucky but the technology needed for it existed for them. There’s also pl
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by strulovich 4y ago
The field of parametric complexity deals with exactly this notion. The idea that some things are NP Hard, but this difficulty only materializes in specific and rare instances, and this does not stop them from being solved for most realistic
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by strulovich 4y ago
Do you have a family? Costco sizes makes perfect sense for many people. There’s nothing weird about buying 3lb of chicken at once or a 4 pack of butter. It might even be better by minimizing amount of trips and packaging material.
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by strulovich 4y ago
A lot is silly issues can be ignored in any small app, and will become big later on. If you picked good habits from past scars, stick to them. Otherwise, concentrate on functionality, dogfooding on real devices that real people have as much
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by strulovich 4y ago
This sort of calculations are slightly silly. F22s take off for training flights all the time, having one training flight switch to operational does not affect the cost. It’s similar for using missiles. The opportunity to shoot a real one a
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by strulovich 4y ago
If your intention is for people to confuse this person with Brad Pitt then you already have issues that will probably get to court, at least for the first few times to be decided should this be legit or no.
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by strulovich 4y ago
> So Luntz suggested shifting from calling it “global warming,” which sounds scary, to calling it “climate change,” which at the time at least sounded much less intimidating. It was apparently luck that it ended up being the more accurat
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by strulovich 4y ago
Google’s profitability came down as well. This affects the stock price, this in turn affects employees (not just hedge funds are invested in the stock, employees get a lot of their salary that way) This creates a pressure on Google to try a
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by strulovich 4y ago
The Quest Pro is a step towards AR. It’s what is known as pass through AR. There’s also work that was publically discussed about getting real “AR in your glasses” by Meta. The technology is just more far out.
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by strulovich 4y ago
Never heard of this one. Any articles about it?
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by strulovich 4y ago
1. There's some trend lines, or you can see a Kotlin module during build taking a lot of time. However, we can't tell how much of it is due to Kotlin and how much as an artifact of optimizations such as [1] that we work for Java a
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by strulovich 4y ago
We have a consistent braces style, so the lines that are removed are rarely those. A lot of the saves come from `?.` replacing null check chains. Many more from the shorter constructor and field initialization syntax (you can get a bunch of

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