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by usrusr 2y ago
The engineers are still there (where else would they go!) and with ICE development moving far out of strategic focus, there might actually be more room now for trying odd curveball approaches than back when ICE refinement was still a corner
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by usrusr 2y ago
Now imagine software priced like OEM car parts. We'd all be running some heirloom version of Turbo Pascal.
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by usrusr 2y ago
If you don't want to do business with criminals, don't buy crime futures. Because that's essentially what crypto are (unless not held and only purchased on demand for whatever oddball transaction you'd want to do that&#x
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by usrusr 2y ago
What makes you assume the vector is an incoming connection? Routers and firewalls won't protect a device from a user lured into installing malware with promises of "free Netflix, completely legal" running off some pirate mirr
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by usrusr 2y ago
Special mention to Amazon who insist that you want to browse their entire dropshipper directory, on all devices, in the language of whatever you last opened in a non-dubbed version on your TV. (if the original version is even available, the
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by usrusr 2y ago
In defense of your bingo skills, that table isn't exactly running on PoBT
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by usrusr 2y ago
I wouldn't even frame that as "not trust": of course it's rarely more than that one guy! And technically, that's perfectly sufficient for what they claim, even though practically it's several orders of magnitud
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by usrusr 2y ago
Much cheaper for the company footing the bill, and much less worthwhile for the expert convincing the company that it's a good idea to spend the money.
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by usrusr 2y ago
> the super-rich will just go around buying up land until 20.01% of their wealth is in land" No, only until every last tiny scrap of land is owned by the super-rich. Capital accretion without any occasional catastrophic reset makes
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by usrusr 2y ago
Entrenched typos like ATRISTS are actually a greppability goldmine. Chances are there are more occurrences of pluralized people who are making art in the codebase, but only ATRISTS is the one from that enum. I certainly would not suggest de
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by usrusr 2y ago
Tiny tip of the iceberg. And all of those only got to prison for crimes against their investors, not for crimes done on behalf of their investors. Your examples actually support grandparent's point.
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by usrusr 2y ago
> "So why not just, well, burn (i.e. rust) the iron directly? What exactly is the dissociation and re-combination of the steam accomplishing?" Direct use of reduced iron as an energy carrier has been discussed here: https:&#x2
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by usrusr 2y ago
Assuming that the crows attacking years later were not conveyed a detailed account of the original events, this is an interesting model also applies to many human group behaviors: "this is the guy we hate, it gives a great feeling of c
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by usrusr 2y ago
The way tech worker ageism works is that many employers would never consider offering someone with a few years of experience (even if it's just life experience) little money. It's either a generous offer of the full package or a p
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by usrusr 2y ago
> As for titles, I usually didn't put "junior" or "senior" in them at all as far as I could get away with it So instead of golden handcuffs, you apply lead handcuffs, forcing them to lie in their resume if ever t
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by usrusr 2y ago
The point is that metadata lies. Intentionally, instead of just being coincidentally wrong. For example everybody who wants to spew LLM produced garbage in your face will go out of their way to attach metadata claiming the opposite. The val
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by usrusr 2y ago
yeah, it's never really flying for me, but lots of navigating across fantasy landscapes in odd modes of transport like chairlifts and ski runs. But the perception of those landscapes is very much including bird's eye view, only th
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by usrusr 2y ago
Toyota - level reliability, train schedules that describe expectation , not ambition , speaking as a German I would have had a lot more trust in Japan running reactors.
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by usrusr 2y ago
Oh yes, you're not alone! That secret battle between "must have" character classes and "can't have" character classes is the bane of all mental password algorithms. Where do the "can't have" rul
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by usrusr 2y ago
It also makes it easier to see what it's not : at a glance, the "p" could really be anything until you scan the context. The <p> isn't a string (that on further examination turns out to get used for marking up a p
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by usrusr 2y ago
Not different at all. But who would go through the pains of manually making up a mushroom identification book, while perhaps being quite clueless about the topic, on the faint hope of selling a few copies? Knowledge is not the bottleneck.
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by usrusr 2y ago
"wasn’t any more expensive than the competition (IBM)" In other words: no more expensive than the other thing nobody ever bought? The success of the PC did not lie in IBM selling large numbers.
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by usrusr 2y ago
It's not just that partisanship has increased: the age of ad-funded has deeply spoiled us with its ability to easily sample the whole spectrum. Even people who hardly ever put that to use (e.g. me) would perceive subscribing to a singl
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by usrusr 2y ago
Privatization has brought some truly crazy incentives into the spotlight. Like how bridge maintenance is paid by the company, but when a worn out bridge needs replacing it's suddenly a government investment. I consider it safe to assu
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by usrusr 2y ago
The mechanism reads a lot like an admittedly more sophisticated version of what existed in early mountainbiking as the "self energizing" Pedersen brake. More braking for less force, but terrible at dosing. I'd be surprised if
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by usrusr 2y ago
Thanks. So an ore with a high aluminium content that also has some amount of e.g. iron (I read that as an example in another comment?) would be worse than an ore with much less aluminium, but where everything else is "more different&qu
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by usrusr 2y ago
How are alloys a worse source of pure aluminium than natural deposits? Are natural deposits available where the aluminium is very pure once you squint hard enough to not see anything else in the mix that has sufficiently different propertie
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by usrusr 2y ago
But nothing in File is tied to "stream of bytes", it's really just an immutable ID that may or may not point at an entity in a file system. What it adds is operating on filesystem attributs in a best effort WORA way, which le
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by usrusr 2y ago
Not sure what's worse: the potentially changing equality, that you can get blocking i/o on something as supposedly local as using URL as keys in a hashmap, or the fact that identical paths on different hostnames that happen to res
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by usrusr 2y ago
I use Optional quite a lot, but only ever as a poor man's x?.let{f(it.y)} via Optional.ofNullable(x).map(it->f(it.y)).orElse(null); Will it at least get taken care of by escape analysis? These days I'd not even

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