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by xt00 4y ago
Yea presently a new technology benefits consumers because essentially it makes something previously more expensive now cheaper, but just like Netflix once the contracts all expire the artists and labels will say, we want more money — so sud
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by xt00 4y ago
I wish somebody would create some scheme to like self host the backend of an app.. like you launch Signal and it has a button to type in the name of your own server, where that server runs a VM that you configure and setup on your own PC lo
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by xt00 4y ago
I wonder if anybody has any good book / article references on alternatives to what Jack Welch did with GE. For years what he did was touted as genius and efficient etc. But it seems that these strategies all sort of make sense if your
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by xt00 4y ago
The article mentioned that it’s possible - likely the kids contracted covid while outside of school. So it’s like saying if you only put up your umbrella to avoid getting rained on on mondays but the rest of the week you don’t have / u
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by xt00 4y ago
Probably trying to encourage attrition of those who are half on the fence about leaving the company.. Tesla definitely seems to be behaving like a company super nervous about revenue growth suddenly..
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by xt00 4y ago
Yea many startups can save money as well not needing an office.. if you were an investor and the founder(s) said, "yea we are paying 25k/mo on some nice office someplace" you might be thinking, "have you tried remote onl
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by xt00 4y ago
One major differentiator between the US and China is that China traditionally / currently is not considered a good destination for foreigners / immigrants. (even Chinese people inside China from lower tier cities / countrysid
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by xt00 4y ago
LVT would be reasonable if presently home values were very low compared to wages so the impact to people would be minor, then over time it would encourage a certain behavior -- essentially a way to make more money with your land, rather tha
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by xt00 4y ago
Ha that's a great idea.. sounds like a good idea for a coding book.. hey so you know minecraft.. use that knowledge to learn how computers work..
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by xt00 4y ago
Great book -- read it when I was a teenager -- but one thing that I think makes the book a bit harder to explain to smaller kids these days is the use of relays for explaining lots of things. Its a great concept to explain things but it doe
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by xt00 4y ago
For SPARC the big innovation sounds like it is being able to use some special superconducting electromagnets to generate the massive magnetic field in the tokamak -- since that part is such a critical part, it would seem like in the next sa
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by xt00 4y ago
Scott Manley talks about it here: https://youtu.be/W4sOABdM9Q0?t=665
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by xt00 4y ago
With high cost buildings in NYC it would seem companies would be happy to sell their billion dollar building and make like 2 small satellite offices closer to where the people live -- one say in eastern New Jersey and one in Brooklyn when y
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by xt00 4y ago
So after it disappears into the 1950s in two streaks of flames you can claim you still own it of course..
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by xt00 4y ago
So I wonder if anybody here could compare what Phoenix has vs Hsinchu in Taiwan. It seems like the closest the US has to what Taiwan has.. (Intel, new TSMC, various other fabs are there).. so making Phoenix the Mecca of semiconductor jobs i
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by xt00 4y ago
I wonder if there are some folks within the city council or whatever governmental group that essentially allows people to camp / live in this area that want this to be a public eye sore to get public support to do something about it? B
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by xt00 4y ago
Yes they did -- but as a thought experiment, these types of security measures could be totally reasonable to have if the owner of the phone had root. Sure, lock my phone down until the cows come home.. but I hold the master key (or I can
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by xt00 4y ago
Yea the mentality with phones is super annoying from both Android and Apple.. The user should have access to everything via some special interface / typing in your pin / password or whatever. The idea that the owner of the phone c
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by xt00 4y ago
If you look at the history of lots of packages in matlab they fixed tons of bugs that sound similar to this stuff over the years. It requires consistent hard work by a core group of people who understand the issues to get everything right.
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by xt00 4y ago
Yea came here to say the same thing -- you can just imagine the executive level conversations.. "the company is really struggling, and here are these bozo's sitting at home enjoying their life while I am stressed out in this board
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by xt00 4y ago
In regard to the points brought up in the article -- one could say there is a case for maybe what you could call "premature steelmanning" or "poorly justified steelmanning" -- meaning that somebody is asking you to see t
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by xt00 5y ago
It’s really unclear what the goal here is—I guess there is some metric that they hope to improve? If the metric is equity, sure it’s easier to create equity by taking something away from somebody than giving something to people. But what’s
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by xt00 5y ago
Yea the structure matches what you said but not really using the set of words called out in that example like "feat" "chore" etc.. Personally I find that less useful than categorized tags that the developers just choose
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by xt00 5y ago
One way to help this is to use some sort of tag text at the beginning of the commit info that is useful so you can see this in the sequence of commits that all go together (top is most recent commit): sql_parser: add new languages now suppo
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by xt00 5y ago
I think most people get the sentiment but to say that somehow it’s better inside Google sounds hilarious to me.. try building chromium or similar things and you are greeted with a huge set of one off “Google solutions” that almost nobody el
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by xt00 5y ago
Yea -- imagine if you attempted to send the CEO / CTO a message with the same expectations.. I imagine things would not go well for you after that.. :-) The classic rules for thee but not for me.
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by xt00 5y ago
Yes -- on the perimeter of the main square there is all of that exactly -- its pretty convenient for sure but having stores / shops like that on each of these super blocks I imagine works when you have tons of people living around ther
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by xt00 5y ago
These superblocks are also used a bunch in china in newer cities. When subway's come to the edge of the superblock where you live its pretty nice -- you basically never interact with cars or potentially once or twice even though you li
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by xt00 5y ago
Totally agree -- a similar situation has occurred where some airplane crashes and the people that know the most about it either work for the industry or consult for the industry and there is essentially nobody else that knows anything usefu
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by xt00 5y ago
Seems like the end-game for this is to change things around like this: 1. you can't track items outside of some distance from you in real-time 2. items marked as lost would need to be sent to a review team inside apple (contractors I i

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