timr

61 ms·

901.
by timr 1y ago
The point of the doorbell metaphor was to illustrate that we're (over-)regulating a tiny sliver of the problem, and ignoring the big issues. To this point, you're making a big leap, going from "current consumption while runni
902.
by timr 1y ago
> Are you arguing that giving consumers a choice between a slow cheap cycle and an expensive fast cycle is somehow a bad thing? No. I'm saying that you don't need a government bureaucracy mandating it. Moreover, you definitely
903.
by timr 1y ago
> New dishwashers take a long time because they can be more energy and water efficient if they leave more time for detergents to degrade grease and the other stuff on dishes. Yes, I know the reason, but now say it in a way that doesn&#x
904.
by timr 1y ago
EnergyStar has nothing to do with "modernizing the grid". It is, however, why any new dishwasher in the US takes like 4 hours to finish a load, unless you put it into non-bureaucratic mode. Meanwhile, we're driving energy con
905.
by timr 1y ago
We're talking about two entirely different things that lead to the same outcome. The approach we're describing is not a "hot reload" per se, it's just selectively updating the changed contents of the page. For the v
906.
by timr 1y ago
> What if you have a modal opened with some state? Stimulus controllers can store state. > Or a form filled with data? Again, you can either use a Stimulus controller, or you can just render the data into the form response, depending
907.
by timr 1y ago
I use the various chatbots when I want a tutorial (e.g. math or some programming library). I can (in fact, must) verify these myself. This is strictly better than doing a bunch of queries and reading a bunch of blogs. I also use them for th
908.
by timr 1y ago
Sales taxes are calculated on the gross, not the COGS, so it's not the same. It's also different by locality. But yes, the same principle applies: huge retailers negotiate for better margin. Any tax on the retailer can be theoreti
909.
by timr 1y ago
Huge buyers can and do negotiate discounts to place the burden on the seller. If you're buying 1 item, the tariff is your problem. If you're buying 99% of the company's output, the tariff is their problem.
910.
by timr 2y ago
If you're trying to imply that the whole thing is about gender, then I submit that even the author disagrees with you: > I am structurally incapable of being Technical because in the world we have built, Technical must always be co
911.
by timr 2y ago
Well, pretty much everything in the comment I replied to is untrue, so technically the entire comment falls in that category.
912.
by timr 2y ago
> "The authors acknowledge support from NIH Training Grant No. T32GM145452 (A.T.G., C.S.O., and Z.L.), NIH Training Grant No. T15LM007056-37 (J.A.L.), and the High Performance Computing facilities operated by Yale's Center for
913.
by timr 2y ago
> we're going to have to accept that everything everywhere else is just going to be awful. Hallucinations in your doctor's notes, legal rulings, in your coffee and laundry and everything else that hasn't yet been IoT-ified
914.
by timr 2y ago
Yeah, the most important part of that video is where he says: "it works well enough" . I think there's lots of room for this kind of bespoke software that's fundamentally unmaintainable -- and not something anyone could
915.
by timr 2y ago
> Solving hard math problems requires understanding the structure of complex mathematical reasoning. No animal is known to be capable of that. Except, it doesn't. Maybe some math problems do -- or maybe all of them do, when the
916.
by timr 2y ago
Yeah, I know. That's all me. > Every generation has to invent sex and politics for itself, or at least imagine for a while in its 20s and 30s that it did. Why not the same in another preparadigmatic field like computing? Because it&
917.
by timr 2y ago
> Tailwind provides predictable classes like `p-2 ml-1 text-sm`, ensuring uniformity across your app. This is literally what bootstrap did/does. You could also trivially do this yourself with just a tiny bit of discipline -- it&#x27
918.
by timr 2y ago
> I don't think you fully grasp the gravity of Trump's actions. I "grasp the gravity", to the extent that anyone is actually able to do so at this time. I am unwilling to engage in hyperbole in order to create the ill
919.
by timr 2y ago
Being able to do the opposite of what others do is a useful quality to have as an investor. I don't tell random people to "buy the dip" because I don't want to be responsible for the myriad dumb ways people interpret tha
920.
by timr 2y ago
> I'm struggling to understand the disagreement because it's not like I'm saying that markets perfectly price all available information. You're being sanguine about the power of markets to react to short-term change.
921.
by timr 2y ago
> This is just false. Countless people were busy running scenarios based on the expected range of tariffs. Appeal to authority ("the experts did the math!"), but OK... > It wasn’t a surprise that tariffs were coming. It was
922.
by timr 2y ago
> The market is still pricing in the optimistic scenario of tariffs being repealed "The market" has no idea what the impact of the proposed changes are. Setting aside the obvious questions about whether or not this stuff will
923.
by timr 2y ago
> Indeed. That's especially true on the NATO side. This is a historical event on the scale of the breakup of the USSR. Exaggeration isn't helpful. Whatever "this" is, you can't possibly make an assessment of that
924.
by timr 2y ago
More important is why they do it: it's a chance for the market to pause and rationally assess automated trades. The reason we're seeing it more often is because it's a reaction to stuff like "flash crashes", which
925.
by timr 2y ago
You're just using new terms ("cost-push inflation") to disagree without actually disagreeing. > so of you care just about near-term price levels, the same monetary interventions make sense as for demand-pull inflation....C
926.
by timr 2y ago
Yes, that's fine. But if the acute cause is not consumer demand, raising interest rates won't do anything. (Note: a sibling comment suggests that it "doesn't matter", because if you slow the economy enough , you&#x
927.
by timr 2y ago
Prices rising due to tariffs isn't "inflation" in any traditional sense. It's not driven by consumer demand, and therefore the logic for raising rates (i.e. slowing economic growth by reducing money in the market) doesn&
928.
by timr 2y ago
"I think I'm getting brain fry!" "OK Mitch, I'm gonna make it up to you. Let's just pause...take a step back. No, I was wrong, I'm sorry: take a step forward. Now, take a step back...and now we're cha
929.
by timr 2y ago
This comment thread is indeed pretty depressing.
930.
by timr 2y ago
The comment I was responding to said/implied that transgenic research is somehow politically prohibited now. This is simply false, and no amount of hand-wringing about what the president meant is relevant to the question I was addres

More ›