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by ux266478 1y ago
Even putting aside that it destroys incredible natural beauty for land that's not even productively useful, it astounds me that people still buy into major terraforming projects. Every single time it's had absolutely horrendous co
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by ux266478 1y ago
Alligators are the exact opposite of aggressive. If you walk up and pat one on the head it'll probably just hiss and start slinking away at the speed of syrup. You should be more afraid of the spiders and blood-sucking insects.
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by ux266478 1y ago
Interesting, that much isn't common knowledge. I was only aware of the struggles he had at Time Share and later obscure research foundations. It's good to know his name mattered in important places, that kind of stuff often doesn&
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by ux266478 1y ago
Personally I'm skeptical it wasn't just a product of context. The Xerox document model was logical, in a world that still heavily relied on paper. Having an abstraction that seamlessly interoperated with the century of informati
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by ux266478 1y ago
People talk about Apple stealing from Xerox, but what you may not know is that Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI left shortly after this demo and took everything to Xerox without him. The man spent the rest of his career being swept into
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by ux266478 1y ago
I genuinely think if Sony offered a Linux phone and didn't lock it down too bad, they could serve as the catalyst for the whole market. I don't think I would trust any other company at this point to execute the platonic "Linu
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by ux266478 1y ago
> US corporations ran labor arbitrage by shipping $20/hr jobs to China that was paid ~$0.20/hr and pocketed profits You have to consider two things in addendum to that: - Those $0.20/hr jobs come with major financial burde
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by ux266478 1y ago
This doesn't holds water as an argument against labor protectionism, since we can point to China as a contemporary example with the opposite result. Much of the US's industrial base wasn't destroyed by consumer choice, but wa
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by ux266478 1y ago
What he suggests is completely besides public transit, it's about spaces in general where cars aren't allowed or catered to. It doesn't just apply to big cities, but mid-sized and small cities have an absolute dearth of pedes
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by ux266478 1y ago
> The more remote your living is, the more everyone else is subsidizing your existence. This is an uncritical viewpoint, you're simply describing a society. It doesn't matter where you live, you're soaking up the labor and
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by ux266478 1y ago
I wouldn't qualify Tokyo's public transit system as poor. In fact, the only one that might rival it in Europe would be the one in Moscow.
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by ux266478 1y ago
While interesting on a surface level, I find this paper curious. What it describes here is essentially a roundabout way to try and express open type associations ("extending the data set" as it calls it) when the class hierarchy i
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by ux266478 1y ago
As someone else posted elsewhere in this thread, Asahi nets about 6.5 hours on a Macbook. Apples to apples the story is the same. It's really not that shocking. The effect of power management (or rather, when it's lacking) is very
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by ux266478 1y ago
> Does such a proof exist in this context? Or are we writing fanfiction about the problem domain now? "Often HPC codebases will use numerical schemes which are mathematically proven to 'blow up' (produce infs/nans) un
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by ux266478 1y ago
> You're just going to unwrap that monad and promptly crash. It's unrecoverable You handle the error gracefully. It's not "unrecoverable" in the sense of an incorrect memory read that arises from a logic error in
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by ux266478 1y ago
The overwhelming majority is due to the power management software, yes. Other ARM laptops do not get anywhere close to the same battery life. The MNT Reform with 8x 18650s (24000mAh, 3x what you get an MBP) gets about 5h of battery life wit
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by ux266478 1y ago
So does Haskell.
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by ux266478 1y ago
In those situations, the functions that contain a singularity should return an Either monad, and in order to bring the resulting data back into the bloodstream of the program, you have to deal with that potential singularity. Unfortunately,
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by ux266478 1y ago
I don't think Haskell is a good language to model our idea of error handling off of. It's one of many bugbears I have with that language, that it uses the Maybe monad as an error type. It technically works, but doesn't provid
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by ux266478 1y ago
Is it reasonable to expect concrete examples of ephemeral decision making that happens within opaque organizations, given that the overwhelming majority are not held to explicit disclosure of their decision, let alone a verified paper trail
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by ux266478 1y ago
> But you still can’t have repercussions from the government for your speech in America. You absolutely can. The obvious example most frequently talked about is that there are plenty of things you can say, which if the wrong person hears
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by ux266478 1y ago
Reading on from that he says: > If the platform really needs to watch every cycle that tightly, you aren't going to be a general purpose platform, and you might as well just make a monolithic C++ embedded application, rather than a
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by ux266478 1y ago
At the time that the muscle car came into existence, there was nothing wrong with the build quality of American cars compared to European cars. It wasn't until the mid-70s that this changed.
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by ux266478 1y ago
F-14D unit cost was ~$74 million in 1988. Adjusting for inflation that's ~$202 million in 2025. It's not that unreasonable for an American fighter jet, honestly.
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by ux266478 1y ago
FP is principally about function composition, folds and zippers. I still find myself thinking in terms of iteration, it's just not expressed as a for-loop. Instead, the iteration conditions are expressed by the composed function which
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by ux266478 1y ago
Major social networks aren't even remotely close to being in the same niche. There are no algorithms, no friction with accounts, no obtrusive interfaces or feature bloat, no likes, no post ratings, content is completely ephemeral. Thi
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by ux266478 1y ago
The point is that it's not about connection in the slightest. There's more to community than friendship. > You like having middlemen? Consider this, there still has to be someone to maintain that machine. What's the point
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by ux266478 1y ago
Or that the NSA doesn't have it all centralized, tagged and sorted.
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by ux266478 1y ago
The background noise that those social interactions constitute is valuable and important of itself. Bonded relationships are important, but it's a separate matter entirely. Otherwise relationships lived out over the internet would be e
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by ux266478 1y ago
My experience is that it's really just the upper end of AAA games. Things like Call of Duty, Fortnite, Apex Legends. You might run into problems if it's a game that requires an external launcher. These days, Windows doesn't s

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