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by throwaway_20357 10mo ago
Can shops not just embed Schema/JSON-LD in the page if they want their information to be machine readable?
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by throwaway_20357 10mo ago
> I think that this is actually the only viable strategy for a hardware product company in the current world. Isn't there also the "premium" route? Charge ~3x the price of your Chinese competitor but provide a product that
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
Energy prices? Unit labour costs? Pisa Scores? VC Investments as percentage of GDP? Number of IPOs? Taxation of Income? Punctuality of public transport?
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
As far as I understand, the VW Amarok is based on the Ford Ranger, the VW T7 Transporter (their Commercial vehicle) is based on the Ford Transit Custom. The T7 Multivan and California are still built on their own VW platform.
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
It seems a lot of blame is put on regulation when there is also a lack of a "can do attitude" or a sense or urgency that procedures that might have been okay to take a couple of years in the past have to happen much more quickly n
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
Borland => Roland
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
Cinebench points per Watt according to a recent c't CPU comparison [1]: Apple M1: 23.3 Apple M4: 28.8 Ryzen 9 7950X3D (from 2023, best x86): 10.6 All other x86 were less efficient. The Apple CPUs also beat most of the respec
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
I really like how well he explains the details and his "Sidebars" describing some core functionality of the underlying architecture. Link to that: https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
I'm glad for any initiative that leads to less crap reaching the markets that is either dangerous or has a shelf life of a few months before breaking down. The EU as a whole will become even less competitive if we don't re-gain so
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
It is even worse for the planet when scammers keep flooding the market with low-quality products, a majority of people become accustomed to low quality and short replacement cycles, and the minority who cares about quality and product safet
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
I prefer Scala's Option over Kotlin's nulls.
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by throwaway_20357 1y ago
https://archive.is/ts8cu
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The Tech Industry Is Huge–and Europe's Share of It Is Small(wsj.com)
10 points by throwaway_20357 1y ago|5 comments
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
My interpretation: "No one really knows what will happen but it could work to bring some production back to our country, let's give it a try, if it doesn't we try something else."
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Yes, fines sometimes appear levied selectively. Where do you draw the line though? Would you consider the tens of billions Volkswagen had to spent in the US to settle their emissions scandal as "tariffs"?
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
I should have more precisely referred to the "productivity growth gap" ( https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000053... )
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
One example is pensions. For demographic reasons the state pension system is underfunded for years, a situation that is projected to become worse. One solution would be to increase contributions which are already sky-high and make working o
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
I'm sceptical. Recent movements in Germany point into the opposite direction or rather a continuation of wishful thinking. Yes, a lot of debt-funded defence investment is coming. They also promised some investment in "infrastructu
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
> I understand that Trump wants Zelenskyy to sign the minerals deal and that implicitly there’s security guarantees. I don't think there are any "security guarantees". What could they be? The "endgame" as far as
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
I am surprised Dobrokhotov was still traveling to Russia after the Navalny publication and Grozev felt safe holidaying in Bulgaria. There is this interesting FT interview from August '23 where he predicts Prigozhin's death and hin
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
"Solely made in China" is true for many electronic product categories, unfortunately. I love China but don't like any country dominating manufacturing to the extent we seem to have reached. For keyboards there is at least sti
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Unfortunately, the local option has already disappeared for so many product categories. In our city, buying computer peripherals in a shop has become difficult and the last stationary and toy stores are closing down. While it might be a str
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Different experience here in Germany. Amazon is often 2-10% more expensive than cheaper alternatives on most goods (just check a random product on idealo.de). People are still buying at Amazon, frequently citing the "hassle-free return
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
From my perspective most of Europe believed in the "end of history", i.e. a world where armed conflicts would no longer be relevant. They thought local wars were only instigated by "medieval barbarians" in remote geograp
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
I fully understand this sentiment. After all, combined more than $6tn (!) have been spent on the rather ill-advised engagements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. It's unfortunate that the US invested so much in these affairs that there i
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Do you have any insight on which kind of clothes last longer today? I thought that the rush to "fast fashion" and the shrinking budget for clothing had actually led to the opposite effect [1]. I'd also say that kitchen applia
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Also still use Total Commander, a software now in development for > 30 years. Even paid way more for continuing my CrossOver subscription than in TC license fees over the years.
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Are you aware of any benchmarks comparing the HNSW with the the binary quantization trade-offs in accuracy for different models/datasets?
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
That's from driving VW ID3s, Cupra Borns, Polestars mostly in a city with shorter trips outside. I admit the Mercedes EQB included a trip on the Autobahn with the occasional 90-100 mph.
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by throwaway_20357 2y ago
Which geography was this analysis made for? It seems model market share is for the US while prices are listed in EUR in the first part and USD in the latter? A German perspective: Households pay between $0.30 and $0.40 per kWh, Diesel is at

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