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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Or even just 10% of them, or 50% of the first year savings In the world of manufacturing this is known as a gain-sharing plan. Not sure I'd call it common, but it certainly isn't unheard of
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
For starters "Terraforming Mars" is not a prominent feature of Musk's Mars plans. He's repeatedly stated that it's possible to do so, but the things he's consistently said he wants to do are to establish a
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
It's a shame Biosphere 2 didn't get more funding. It was supposed to solve exactly this issue, with the tremendous cost advantage of being reachable by car instead of rockets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bios
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
That's a very bad-faith take of Musk's stated plans. Which is great for sound bites, but there is enough wrong with a good-faith interpretation of his plans that this is entirely unnecessary. He is not arguing in good faith here
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Our Mars robots are awesome, but they take years to accomplish what astronauts could do in days. Our latest and greatest model (Perseverance) has traveled 40km (25mi) in 5 years, with the support of a scout helicopter. Which is more than wh
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
"To get to our habitat, you take a commercial flight to Bali, then a two-hour trip by boat" just does not have the same ring as "it's a six month trip in a space ship, but in a couple decades it might be as fast as 30 da
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
However there are a lot of entrenched interests that would be harmed by any large-scale attempts at fixing earth. Even if you paid for it out of your own pocket and brought your own engineers, your attempt at fixing Earth would face strong
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Alternative framing that sounds less pedantic: Nobody was complaining about middlemen in the first place. The argument you responded to was "I don't need to support the white box oem mug manufacturer". Meanwhile you were talk
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
I guess they are technically not middle men because they sit one the start of the value chain, but the company making the t-shirts, the one selling it and the one printing on it are still making good profits. On top of the actual costs of m
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Codeberg is a German nonprofit. To keep their tax-advantaged status, anything they do has to follow the purpose established in their bylaws. That purpose is "to promote the creation, collection, distribution and preservation of Free Co
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
CI needs good integration into the source forge. But I don't really perceive Github actions as a huge benefit over the times when everone just set up CircleCI or whatever. As long as it can turn PR checks red, yellow and green and has
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
While the EU council is composed of people from the respective country's government, the European Parliament is directly voted in by citizens and has a lot of people for whom politics is not their main career. You could interpret the r
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The first defense is that the Council of the EU (formed by government ministers of the member states) and the European Parliament (elected directly by EU citizens) have to agree on the legislation. And while the council is staffed by career
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The UK has shown that they can vote down bad EU legislation, and pass a lot of pretty awful legislation that's worse than anything the EU ever produced But I'm sure voting for Nigel Farage one more time will fix everything
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Also making sure this is as painful and costly as possible to pass will discourage future attempts. If we just rolled over and let it happen that would signal that it's easy to pass legislation like this and we would get a lot more lik
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Perfect name. Who in their right mind would ever vote against the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse? Imagine if your voters heard that
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
If they were just shutting down the dedicated app and offering the same capabilities in the ChatGPT interface, I don't see why Disney would exit their deal?
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Wasn't video generation one of their big stepping stones towards AGI? "Simulating worlds", reasoning about physics and real world interactions and all that? Or are they still doing that behind the scenes and just decided that
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Another big thing is trust. With any of these digital markets I'm not truly buying games, I'm purchasing a revocable license. That requires a certain amount of trust that the platform isn't going to screw me over. Steam isn&#
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
I find the RYS result far more surprising than the ERD result. Encode-Reasoning-Decode is after all a very popular way to design neural networks (even an autoencoder is just that without the reasoning step), the same structure emerging from
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
You can allow by prefix, and the permission dialog now explicitly offers that as an option when giving permission to run a command But that has its limits. It's very easy to accidentally give it permission to do global changes outside
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Many of those you don't need . For example Claude can switch to plan mode itself, either because you tell it to or because the model thinks it's useful. I still prefer using shift+tab to set my preferred mode before sending the m
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
GH Actions was good for them as another billable feature, but I'm skeptical we actually gained much over external CI providers The improvements to PR review have been nice though
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
I need to host my emails somewhere. This means that you can't reject the EU in isolation, you have to compare it to the alternatives. And the most prevalent alternative is the US Now of course if somebody has a better alternative that&
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
> I tend to think there is a lot of scope for the $40 trillion white collar economy to be disrupted (re-imagined/made more efficient), so still see potential for software engineering demand to stay high over the next decade as the
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Because the car owner has an incentive to spend a couple thousand extra for a scout drone, but cities have very little incentive to spend many millions on a major infrastructure project that achieves the same. Despite that being cheaper tha
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Running a heater is easier the less efficient your engine is, because there's more waste heat to work with. ICEs have the clear advantage there
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
I'd call it bad on both levels. The costs imposed by car infrastructure are a tragedy of the commons. But even if you were the only person with a modern car you'd still be hit with the social effects of traveling in the isolation
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
At least in some instances you could frame it that way: You believe that doctors and medicine are effective at treating disease, so when you are sick and a doctor gives you a bottle of sugar pills and you take them, you now interpret your s
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Sound like solid prebuilt with well balanced components and a pretty case Not revolutionary in any way, but nice. Unless I'm missing something here?

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