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by xondono 5y ago
> This is strictly, legally false in the US. GPs point is the only one that’s in question (covers your point 1), the rest should be straightforward to prove: 2- it appears on Facebook 3- they have appointed themselves as fact checkers an
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by xondono 5y ago
Don’t give Musk more ridiculous ideas, he might just get them funded!
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It is in SV after all..
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I guess your business school was better than mine.
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Yeah, it is standard now , he was making the rounds with this >10y ago.
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by xondono 5y ago
Being honest doesn’t make him wrong. If Thiel is known for something is for being insightful early. A lot of people in the startup world still value “first mover advantage” as something that gives them an edge, when evidence says it’s hardl
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by xondono 5y ago
The tricky thing is that it’s easy to end up with a result that’s not far off. Some modules will improve, but a lot of the time these kind of bottlenecks tend to happen because the performant version is not very idiomatic (feels weird), it
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by xondono 5y ago
> Buried in here are great examples of why rewrites don’t help That has not been my experience. Rewrites do sometimes help, because in a lot of codebases there’s too many “pet” modules or badly designed frozen interfaces. Rewrites can
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by xondono 5y ago
> we were constantly told by these corporations "it's impossible to have slim, tiny laptops and make them customizable" Because it’s true. The thing is “power users” and “regular users” look at that tradeoff differently. T
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I’ve never understood the trackpoint use case, the (admittedly few) computers I’ve had with it, I just felt it a nuisance in the middle of the keyboard.
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> where support for socialism is lowest. Citation needed. The paper does indeed limit the meaning, but also concedes that this interpretation of what they are measuring is possible. > Not all “elite theories” share this focus. Some em
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by xondono 5y ago
I’m guessing that force is reality.
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by xondono 5y ago
> free will bias As in the belief to having free will? I find it odd to describe that as a bias. > justify everything from inequality, No one justifies inequality, because the word by itself is meaningless. There’s a spectrum from tot
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by xondono 5y ago
I’ve tried a lot of those, even contributed to exercism. I think it has it’s uses, but you can only extract value from those exercises once you know enough about a language. For me those exercises are more about developing muscle memory t
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by xondono 5y ago
Any company that builds physical products that require programming (either firmware or software), is a software company. For most companies building the physical product is a loss leader, what they’re selling is their custom software.
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by xondono 5y ago
No I’m not, I’m saying that some tax systems make no sense. The only way to create a company in Spain is to flunk regulations. Some are meaningless and people ignore them all the time, some aren’t. Another example. When escape rooms we’re t
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by xondono 5y ago
Belligerently? He is just rising a point. Government “innovation” subsidies move a lot of money into shinny “new” ideas, but in EU there’s no thought about how to create innovation itself. Just as an example, a friend of mine roasts coffee
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by xondono 5y ago
I know, I was making reference to this > They are only theoretically possible if you allow for negative mass and energy--not an engineering problem so much as a "need to find exotic matter" Basically people ran the EFE "ba
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by xondono 5y ago
It’s just that drivers have always been a particular problem with linux, but IMO ubuntu has a very bad track record, because they want to provide it “out-of-the-box” windows style, but this approach gives users very little recourse when thi
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by xondono 5y ago
Those numbers are for people stumbling onto your web. If people are forced through your WiFi because they’re in a foreign country and get no data roaming, those statistics mean nothing. Being privacy minded and traveling during covid has be
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by xondono 5y ago
> Regulation is the cure Regulation is a possible cure. Call me crazy, but if some place would be weary of going straight up for the “let’s ban things with lawyers ” approach, I would think is HN.
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by xondono 5y ago
The Alcubierre drive “beats” the speed of light, for the effects described 0.7-0.9c are more than good enough (if slightly unpractical). We can’t do that either for now, but is way easier on the feasibility scale.
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by xondono 5y ago
Yeah, but that’s not syntactical structure. When you read prose you aren’t thinking about subject, verb, and predicate, because semantics are far more important.
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by xondono 5y ago
Well… it’s ubuntu
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The comparison with prose is pure nonsense. Syntax highlighting is about understanding structure. I could blur out my editor to the point where I could not make out individual letters and still understand the code structure. When reading pr
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by xondono 5y ago
They are independent but federated. The best example of how it works would be email. You can set up your own email server, and interact with other independent email servers seamlessly, or just find a provider you trust and get your email ac
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by xondono 5y ago
The last release of neovim is quite amazing as an IDE, the LSP is a game changer
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Where does one find this kind of ludicrous arguments? Facebook? There are far more important barriers in the way of 100% renewable energy than these strawman arguments.
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by xondono 5y ago
SiC is not a good fit for anything under ~100-200V, it's just not what it is designed for. GaN makes more sense for consumer electronics, that's why it's popping up in a lot of devices, even if prices right now are too "
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by xondono 5y ago
I don’t know what university did you went to, but most are, if anything, too reliant on students having Windows devices. I had to finish my masters work on a VM.

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