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901.
by twoodfin 2y ago
That's what the question of strict scrutiny vs. intermediate scrutiny vs. rational basis is about. The courts would have to decide the appropriate level of scrutiny given the legal context and then apply that to the law as written. You
902.
by twoodfin 2y ago
All that is great, except for the part where the algorithms that collect your reactions to content and then choose new content for you in a feedback loop—which as you point out, can produce valuable effects as well as harmful ones—are a bla
903.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Right, and mandates like this make the market that much less appealing for anyone considering the massive capital costs needed to compete.
904.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Why would consumers pay for NotebookLM? It’s basically an (impressive) party trick.
905.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Apple routinely rejects apps that try tactics like this. Otherwise it'd be an easy way around the "Ask App Not To Track" prompt.
906.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Apple wants total freedom to rework lower levels of the stack down to the hardware, without worrying about application compatibility, hence their answer will continue to be Metal.
907.
by twoodfin 2y ago
The Air exists so the Pro can have expensive Pro features and the (null) iPad can hit an impulse purchase price point. While those two are pulling in opposite directions, having nothing in the middle would leave a big market gap.
908.
ScyllaDB moving to a source available license(scylladb.com)
14 points by twoodfin 2y ago|10 comments
909.
Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming [video](youtube.com)
53 points by twoodfin 2y ago|5 comments
910.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Of course, 65scribe has a great (if you appreciate his passion and shtick) video on the 4400: https://youtu.be/40VtkZdOAGo
911.
by twoodfin 2y ago
It’s the government’s choice whether they allocate resources to investigate and prosecute “suspicious” deaths of terminal patients. Deciding as a matter of policy, not law, “No, we don’t do that outside of extraordinary circumstances” is
912.
by twoodfin 2y ago
I guess that depends on whether you think cloud storage is a commodity. Surely despite their business being storage, Dropbox would be foolish to design and manufacture their own hard disks?
913.
by twoodfin 2y ago
What you’re hitting on is the inescapable truth that there are problems government institutions can’t solve.
914.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Sure, that was a great feature in 2007. (S3 existed when Dropbox was founded, FWIW.) It eventually stopped being a differentiating source of value, and trying to out-commodity the CSP’s on storage cost at scale seems like a bad strategy to
915.
by twoodfin 2y ago
I dunno, if you can’t provide enough value to adequately mark up bulk purchases of commodity Cloud storage, what exactly are you selling?
916.
by twoodfin 2y ago
That sounds fascinating… any pointers here?
917.
by twoodfin 2y ago
My issue with this alternative history is Intel’s consumer roadmap for Itanium, or rather its complete lack of one. AFAICT, they expected Itanium to own the high end server/HPC market, while 32-bit x86 would continue supporting PC’s fo
918.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Steve Jobs wasn’t a programmer, but he was absolutely a techie. Go watch some of his marketing and keynote videos from the NeXT days: He understood the technology and more importantly why it mattered to the product and customers.
919.
by twoodfin 2y ago
AFAICT, this was a self-serving bit of reverse myth-making from Otellini. If there really had been a single binary decision Intel got wrong—saying no to Jobs when they might have said yes—then their collapse looks like bad luck: Nobody bats
920.
by twoodfin 2y ago
That’s what Vanguard investors are paying for, or rather, not paying for. Passive investing is cheaper, this is what “passive” means. Historically, in the aggregate, boards of US public companies are competent enough to create good returns
921.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Great bit of history. The nugget I hadn’t heard before is how the 386 enabling DOS extenders really threw the whole product strategy for a loop. I wonder if that was a happy side effect of Intel’s other goals, or if there was design intenti
922.
Playstation 30th Anniversary Interview with Shawn Layden(eurogamer.net)
1 points by twoodfin 2y ago|0 comments
923.
by twoodfin 2y ago
They really need to clear house in a spectacular way but I'm not sure who could even do that at this point. An alien from Vega looking at our constellation of tech companies and their leadership might point at an obvious answer…
924.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Intel’s board is (or should be!) in exactly the right position to assess whether this dam is springing leaks. (It is.)
925.
by twoodfin 2y ago
They’re fighting a calcified perception in the corporate IT market that the standard “unit of scale” should be a dual-socket system, because they have a differentiated product in EPYC that shines single-socket. This likely still remains a m
926.
by twoodfin 2y ago
The more important question is, would Satya Nadella?
927.
by twoodfin 2y ago
I’d love to find [3] as a PDF!
928.
by twoodfin 2y ago
State laws incompatible with the Constitution are null & void. “We’re going to award our electors according to a compact never approved by Congress and that by design disenfranchises some fraction of our citizens who voted in a Federal
929.
by twoodfin 2y ago
You are, I believe, correct. States can pick any means of selecting their electors that doesn’t conflict with other provisions of the Constitution. Obviously, a state imposing a requirement that electors be white or male would not fly. OK,
930.
by twoodfin 2y ago
FWIW, “sleepfoundation.org” is owned by Sleep Doctor, and is essentially a sales funnel to sell CPAP machines and other sleep-related therapy. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s at least a little shady to present themselves this way. A Slee

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