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by timmg 3y ago
Interesting take by a scientist who was a witness in this trial: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/false-equivalence
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by timmg 3y ago
Interestingly, I started reading it over xmas break -- based on a recommendation. I got, probably, a quarter of the way through it before I went back to work. And I haven't felt the urge to pick it up again. I was reading above comme
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by timmg 3y ago
> It is to be expected that there will be entire industries that spring up to extract some of that wealth from the less bright wealthy. I'm not sure it is as much "less bright" as maybe "more impulsive" or someth
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by timmg 3y ago
> The problem is that management is a lot harder than many thought, but you could sort of hide the fact that you're bad at it when everyone is at the office. There simply isn't enough talented managers around. I feel like this
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by timmg 3y ago
> There are catastrophic predictions actually happening, sure some of them were wrong but the planet is in a pretty fucked up state right now. Can you be more specific?
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by timmg 3y ago
According to Google Finance, their p/e is almost 40. Not sure they have enough growth in them to justify that valuation. Apple is 32 and Google is below 30. Overall, I think the whole market is frothy. But MSFT seems even more unjust
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by timmg 3y ago
Is that true, or just a joke? It's honestly hard to tell.
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by timmg 3y ago
Unrelated to JWST, specifically, I'm curious: Why haven't we developed a "generic" satellite that we can "mass produce" and send one to every moon and planet in our solar system? It would be so amazing to have
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by timmg 3y ago
That's a pretty good theory/explanation, tbh.
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The thing that bothers me is that Apple’s actions hurt iPhone owners. Making it harder for them to communicate with non-iPhones is a bad experience. Intentionally making their product worse to encourage lock-in is anti-user. I’m oddly surpr
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Google's NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant(wired.com)
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NotebookLM GA for US today.
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by timmg 3y ago
But this isn't OpenAI making their own chips, right? It's the CEO of OpenAI creating a separate company to make chips and then selling them to OpenAI.
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by timmg 3y ago
I was an early paid user of Evernote. They lost their way like a decade ago. It's so sad. Looks like they are not going to recover.
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by timmg 3y ago
This guy did a nice reenactment of some of the key bits: https://youtu.be/O3C2V7y_yLs Worth a listen if you are interested in movie making or this movie.
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by timmg 3y ago
Because they might speak English and another language?
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by timmg 3y ago
It depends. A lot . I work with people I do "trust" and my code-review is usually "LGTM" -- often without even looking. Most code doesn't go right to production and can be fixed if there are bugs (which I'
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by timmg 3y ago
I find it interesting how these big (near?) monopolies are fighting each other through the anti-trust system. Even as it seems the anti-trust system isn't working well on its own. I really don't know what the answer to all these
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by timmg 3y ago
Anyone collect ancient coins? I've always thought it would be interesting to own something that was created and handled by someone in ancient Rome or Greece or China. My wife is 100% against the idea, though, because you don't kno
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by timmg 3y ago
> After the talk, the activity on it is nearly zero since then... Is that true? Seems like he is actively working on it: https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront/commits/main
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by timmg 3y ago
> Is that necessary? Yes, it is. First, you can't expect everyone on the team to have all context on everything. That would be an incredible waste of everyone's time. Second, even if everyone did, in most cases the individual
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by timmg 3y ago
Not sure how 256x256 is going to make potential customers happy.
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by timmg 3y ago
> Fun fact: light travels a bit faster in space than in an optic cable. Doesn't it have to travel farther, tho? Does that cancel it out?
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by timmg 3y ago
> Acorn computers, creator of the ARM processor. Whoah! I didn't realize they were the same company!
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by timmg 3y ago
You forgot: different defendant.
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by timmg 3y ago
FWIW, my brother-in-law is too. I and do guarantee that he is reading slides every working hour.
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by timmg 3y ago
> However, when someone today claims they're colorblind, I accept that they most likely don't mean it in the same way that MLK did. And too often, I'm proven right. I guess, two questions: 1) What is different between what
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by timmg 3y ago
> I already spend an embarrassing amount of time slacking off daily, it's not like I'm pressed for time to get stuff done in the office. Just because that is true for you doesn't mean it is true in general. Like, imagine
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by timmg 3y ago
Obviously, please share when you do. Is the technical information needed readily available? Just curious. I took a parallel computing class decades ago in college and we programmed a Connection Machine. I think a CM-2. Maybe CM-1? IIRC, w
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by timmg 3y ago
> So, yeah, as a fellow older HNer, it's hard to see these kinds of re-defining ideals we once ascribed to. But it's happening, and that reality is the one we have to live in. I'm trying (honestly) to understand your posit

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