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It's not new, but it's become more widespread and we're reaching the point people have been warning for years that we'd reach if we didn't take any efforts to reign it in. Americans, and perhaps much of the Western
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That's because smart meter data is classified as PII. I worked for decades at a utility and was a lead implementor of their smart grid rollout. We had worked with a company that had done machine learning on the meter data. They could t
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The Dark Ages were precipitated by massive political corruption which led to the breakdown of law and order, which in turn led to the collapse of engineering, science, and the philosophies. Things atrophied for 1,000 years before they start
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It’s true the Plaid Track Edition is brutally quick off the line, Tesla nailed the 0–60 quarter-mile game. But saying it’s 'just as fast' as the Lotus Evija misses the point. The Evija hits 200 mph in about 13 seconds. That’s not
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Why was this random Wikipedia article posted on HN?
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Alfa Romeo did an experiment for you. The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale comes with two different propulsion systems: pure ICE and pure EV. The buyer chooses which one they want. Before you check it out, what are your expectations for which propuls
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Just goes to show they'll go to any length to avoid discussing the Epstein files!
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My point is the EV is the mundane vehicle. Apple can pack features into their watch all day, but the Swiss mechanical watch - despite doing far less - is still seen as superior. That’s the same reason people buy high-end ICE cars. It’s no
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The Republican base likes breaking the law? That's rather ironic coming from the party professing to be the party of Law and Order. Here's where some "show me, don't tell me" can be applied.
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> Why shouldn't US respond in kind? Because what the US is doing is against international law, and they know it. US sovereignty extends 12 nautical miles from its coastline. Within that boundary, the US has full authority to enfor
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Using public roads as a racetrack is also obnoxious - so what you're really saying is that these cars aren't needed. And you're right: they're not needed. That’s why it’s important to understand why people buy them.
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The recent US strikes on vessels in the Caribbean appear to violate Maritime Law and international human rights standards. Given the US Navy’s global reach and legal expertise, ignorance is not a plausible defense. These actions suggest the
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Americans are beginning to realize what Germans learned nearly a century ago: corporations won’t save you. They serve power, not people. Whether the authority is democratic or authoritarian, businesses will comply. Their mission isn’t to de
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I assume by "ChatGPT" you mean LLMs? If so, then I'm using them about the same. The honeymoon is over, we understand what these tools are good at and what they're not so good at. The studies we're seeing saying no j
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One of the goals is to avoid duplicate storage for the same item. That's what makes deletion difficult - how do you know you hold the last reference to the item in storage?
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Welcome to the trough of disillusionment!
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Sam Altman should know better than to make sweeping statements like this. Would you trust a college dropout to design the airplane you're flying on? Or the rocket taking you to a Moon colony? Would you go to a doctor or hire a lawyer w
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Now all Professor Gupta has to do is show these forces actually do weaken over time. Occam's Razor is what leads us to believe fundamental constants remain, well, constant. That's what led us into thinking Dark Energy and Dark Mat
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This paragraph explains the problem: So when a user wants to remove a CAS-addressed document, before really deleting it you need to detect if it's the last reference. This is not easy to do, it is in fact much harder to do correctly t
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America is finding out how quickly a military state can be re-purposed into a police state.
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I ran QNX on 16 MHz 386 hardware back in the day. Later, they introduced a window manager that was far less complex and far more powerful than what Windows had. It was a system way ahead of its time.
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This reveals a whole new channel of modern warfare. Imagine a nation state getting control of an adversaries' smart devices? You don't need to destroy capital-intensive infrastructure such as an electric grid if you can disable th
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"It's a 24/7 campaign-style work ethos. Not everyone is cut out for that." It’s not a matter of being "cut out" for a 24/7 campaign-style work ethos. It’s a matter of persisting in that kind of self-effaci
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The Boomers are aging out, but Gen X will still be too small a voting bloc to effect change benefitting themselves as the Millennials will be the largest voting bloc - and I don't think they're going to be a mood to save Gen X fro
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If AI improves at the current pace, then few jobs will disappear. Yes, I'm well-aware that some companies have engaged in cyclic belt-tightening and are trying to sound forward-thinking and say it was a result of AI, but there's
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The United States will handle this crisis like they do every other crisis: ignore it and let the chips fall where they may. Besides, Gen X is too small of a voting bloc to effect change benefitting themselves. That's been a deciding ad
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Autumn has rolled around, and it feels like we're heading into another AI Winter. Not the deep freeze of the past, but a milder season where the harvest of LLMs still feeds us - just with smaller yields. The era of exponential gains ma
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Likewise, SQL was originally aimed at business executives to quickly and easily get any information they needed from their databases. We see how that turned out!
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We have the technology to send robots to Mars and do the exploring for us. Did you miss that?
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We've been exploring Mars for nearly 50 years now and you call it "showmanship"?!?!

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