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by usrusr 7mo ago
I guess the idea would have to be to look at it in the reverse: have some domestic capacity for those usual strategic supply independence reasons, even if it operates at a loss. And hope that occasionally, one of those demand surge waves wi
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by usrusr 7mo ago
Reads a bit like the Paperclip Maximizer appearing way ahead of schedule? Implemented not as AI, but as emergent behavior in the ways of the financial class (that happens to be about AI, singularity and all that).
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Given the level of totally bonkers I feel tempted to suggest that it's a hit piece indirectly commissioned by palantir themselves so that they can for once appear as the good guys in a news story
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by usrusr 8mo ago
The effect is the same though (well, worse), that was GP's point.
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Not knowing the established history of some characters can actually be nice I think. The difference between a blank slate with conveniently made up background and a background that has already been told , in quite some detail, that differe
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by usrusr 8mo ago
"Any sufficiently sparse graph is indistinguishable from a linked list" comes to mind ;)
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by usrusr 8mo ago
When you have to care for money, visibility doing so feels like exposing weakness. But when you care for the little amounts while it's clear that this is unrelated to need, it turns into showing off a quality.
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by usrusr 8mo ago
How dare Europe force card companies to distribute the cost of being poor on all customers. Cashback is effectively a special fee levied exclusively on those who don't qualify.
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by usrusr 8mo ago
You must frequent a very interesting subset of German web shops then. Yes, some do offer bank transfer (many don't because latency is just so terrible), but I've never seen credit card not on the list. Perhaps with the exception o
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Not sure what exactly you're referring to, but legal is a very interesting field to observe, right? I've been wondering about that since quite early in my LLM awareness: A slightly sarcastic (or perhaps not so slightly..) mental
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by usrusr 8mo ago
"Intel keeps starting to make GPUs"
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Karma per word would be a terrible metric though: the short, slightly divisive clever quip tends to still net a few points positive as long as it's not all too negative, despite clearly not being great hn content. Great content isn&#x2
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Space to put them, terrestrially, is not infinite. Demand has a hard ceiling.
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Some of my favorite examples of graceful aging in architecture are concrete - but those are never the ones that celebrate efficiency, they always have some playful element that will still be playful when the newness has faded. Ribbed concre
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Not necessarily. On a design that requires being new to look good, all weathering will be perceived as rot, never as patina. The point is that some approaches to architectural beauty make it more or less impossible that any amount of weathe
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Pretty much what has long been my dream "make the world better" product (long as in from pre-genAI days), only that this one happens in image space: take an architectural model, look at the surface material specifications, analyze
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by usrusr 8mo ago
At this point, calling ISAR a competitor to SpaceX feels a bit like calling Pringles a competitor to TSMC, but it's certainly good to see some movement happening.
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Cardio units have neither a "weight bar" nor a repetition counter, but they have a whole universe of possible features in the realm of scripted sequences, reactions to HRM signals and even just "making time pass" feature
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by usrusr 8mo ago
Same! My use case is 2d splines for use in openSCAD, stuff that eventually arrives at my doorstep from a 3d printing service. I just love the ability to overlay reference bitmaps, super valuable for the parts I've been making. Before s
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by usrusr 8mo ago
And then you get to a cardio unit where you want a completely different set of features and have to start over. Going lean on hardware only makes sense when you push out a very high number of units, when you have to deal with battery constr
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by usrusr 8mo ago
The key info token you'll want to know as someone foreign to map topics is that maplibre is a licence continuity fork of the formerly open source Mapbox code. Everything else pretty much derives from this, e.g. yeah, OSM did not sudden
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by usrusr 8mo ago
But do you really have to cram in as many residents as you could with a purpose-built tenement? There must be ways to keep headcount in the range the infrastructure can support and still provide a lot more housing than just leaving them as
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by usrusr 8mo ago
What's hard to understand? They switch the companies from growth (no matter the cost) to revenue extraction (even if it will eventually fade) Minimum viable cost of keeping the lights on. And sometimes they even compromise a little, &q
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by usrusr 9mo ago
But the broligarchs don't need purchasing power. All their wealth is in assets, leveraged many times over. Currency collapse is the best that can happen to them.
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by usrusr 9mo ago
But is that because the phone is difficult to repair or because repair shop personnel has clear instructions to not try anything on devices they haven't been trained on? Likely "trained" as in their parts supplier does not h
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by usrusr 9mo ago
"King Henry VIII and his queen" Someone appears to have had a bit of fun being unspecific
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by usrusr 9mo ago
Sure, but they did have a place to go to. Unlike all the other people that risk getting killed at a border
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by usrusr 9mo ago
Reminds me of how often I've felt a little envious as a dev of how much influence QA people had on effective specification. Whenever a spec appears a little ambiguous (or contradictory) the QA person becomes judge and their decisions e
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by usrusr 9mo ago
That FAQ is directed at organizations willing to act as a _distribution point_. So mostly charities who think they can spare the time and effort. I guess a better written FAQ would put it "Wie viele Kartoffeln bekommen _wir_?", ma
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by usrusr 9mo ago
An interesting observation, that racism link. Fills a glaring gap in a sad part of my own family history.

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