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by xenadu02 7mo ago
It's an accelerator. A great tool if used well. But just like all the innovations before it that were going to replace programmers it simply won't. I used Claude just the other day to write unit test coverage for a tricky system t
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
Funny enough Chinese State owned banks have been doing much the same for quite some time. No one ever defaults, loans are extended as long as it takes. Presumably the threat of being called into the next party meeting to explain yourself is
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
> No bank would agree to such nonsense Ohhhh a live one! Sir do I have a wonderful bridge in Brooklyn to sell you! :) Fun fact: banks fund this sort of nonsense constantly. I've asked about this before: why they do it. They must be
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
"usually" and "typically" are doing a lot of heavy lifting here :) Access to knowledge, equipment, and budget varied dramatically prior to widespread internet access. Someone setting up a BBS might not even know about mu
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
> It's a wild misunderstanding of how BBSes worked. That's quite the assumption. There were a lot of different BBS hosting programs. They wildly varied in what they supported and how they were implemented. Further even within a
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
> What we could start doing is embrace our existing dual-voltage home wiring methods, and putting 240v sockets in some places where it's actually beneficial. Places like kitchens (for heating water and food), say. But broadly speaki
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
True which is why I posted the caveat. It is possible that the prices we are seeing are legitimate market dynamics. I just think given past history we should be skeptical of that. It smells like market manipulation to me. Of course given
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
Perhaps but is the machine serial number something customers should be able to trivially change? Or be something capable of being lost?
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
Making the default MAC address and machine serial number depend entirely on the NVRAM/RTC battery is... a choice. You'd think they would have used some fusible links to burn the original values into the hardware to fall back on if
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
They keep financing these deals so they must be making money on them but there is so much value destruction in so many of these cases. Someone has to be left holding the bag of hot garbage in the end so who is taking the loss? We know priva
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
> Alternatively you can just run everything at 230V Sure and everyone can just stop using Python 2.x tomorrow right? Backwards compatibility is a big deal. Even moreso when it involves physical infrastructure. who wants to pay billions u
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
> This is wrong; it's very common to have for instance both 127V and 220V in the same building, sometimes even side by side in the same wall faceplate; 127V is phase to neutral, 220V is phase to phase (on the common 3-phase system).
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
We use a center-tap neutral except for commercial/industrial that receives three phase. Most small-to-medium homes/businesses have two hot legs coming off each side of the transformer coil. The neutral is connected to the center o
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
> The IDC article says that DRAM prices are not expected to come down again Sure thing. I'd take a look at IDC & similar firms' forecasting history before worrying too much about what they say. There is an AI boom right now
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
> At least allow us to use names instead of numbers. You can for the destination. That's the whole reason you need the "&": to tell the shell the destination is not a named file (which itself could be a pipe or socket)
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
My question is: who is lending the money for these leveraged buyout deals? They seem to leave the lenders holding the bag at some point when it all implodes. Do these deals really pay off often enough to be worth financing them?
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
US style plugs and derivatives (and Australian, Japanese, Brazilian, etc) - all invented by Hubbell - are "good enough". Are they objectively good? No. Do they regularly fail, cause fires, or shock people? No. Even my kids when yo
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
But just use Chrome! Our website only works in Chrome. Everyone should just be using Chrome. What's wrong with a Chrome monoculture? :)
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
Who buys on Amazon anymore anyway? You can't find anything. Want a desk fan? There are four types of desk fan in the entire world (per Amazon). Page after page after page of listings of the exact same four designs. Often listed with th
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
Indeed, the problem is the same in Texas which is about as opposite California as you can get. Sprawling suburbs over old farm fields. Installing infrastructure is vastly cheaper when you are doing so in an unoccupied empty field. None of t
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
I stand corrected! It still highlights the performative nature of some legislation. I'm certain everyone involved understood that's exactly what would happen.
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
There are two forces at work: 1. Rich cheats for whom complexity is the goal. Reduced enforcement benefits them without the guilt. They can construct nonsensical schemes but if no one ever audits them they get to feel like they are paying w
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
Indeed. Uber Eats now makes you talk to an AI bot among other customer-hostile issues. I've largely abandoned them. The last straw was a driver leaving the food at some random house I could not even identify from the picture. It made m
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
Not really. It only applies to machines whos "sole or primary" ability is to manufacture firearms. I'm not sure even one such machine exists. Some companies market benchtop or small lathes as "gun lathes" but that i
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
Do things that don't scale. No one built a business by starting out with huge email blasts. At least not anytime recently. You start by finding individuals and addressing them as individuals. When you find one such person who finds you
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
Like any tool it can be put to productive use or it can be used to crank out absolute garbage.
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by xenadu02 8mo ago
> who will have all their questions answered, correctly and in the way they can best understand Highly unlikely as the feedback cycle used to train LLMs will choke off all future learning. In other words if AI bots consume and regurgitat
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by xenadu02 9mo ago
Need historical data for comparison and percentages would make it nicer. K-12 spending: the same dilemma afflicting everywhere. Despite spending more dollars not getting an equivalent return. Yet teachers are not raking it in. The money is
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by xenadu02 9mo ago
Some epigenetic effects are semi-heritable too, eg maternal exposure can be transmitted. That's in addition to environmental effects like you mentioned. Two otherwise identical cohorts can inherit the same genetic predisposition for de
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by xenadu02 9mo ago
FWIW even in the US system the courts usually won't order someone off land they are living on or using even if this were the case. At worst they would order compensation be paid - which is what title insurance actually covers. Many sta

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