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by xyzzy123 2y ago
More like, it's interesting that big tech companies can create extremely elaborate copyright assignment, metering and payout mechanisms when it's in their interest - right down to figuring out who owns 30 seconds of incidental rad
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As I understand it, the claim is that basically if they let von Braun loose they could have easily beat the Soviets (and he badly wanted to do just that) but one of the major reasons they didn't is that leadership wanted that milestone
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
When people talk about resources on HN the common narrative is that they don't "run out", some reserves are just less economic than others, you could always squeeze out more, the price just has to be right. The first order ef
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Life isn't fair but you also have agency. That's my favourite take.
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https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ The graph on this page disagrees, can you explain please? I haven't heard anyone say the two concepts are the same before. As I have heard it "productivity" is r
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Java as a language totally lets you do this (and it's great!) but you'll be fighting the "culture" if you work like this in a bigger org. In enterprise you have template repos and engineering fora where teams standardise
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Can't resist posting this classic video from "yes minister" that discusses the "zeno's paradox" of MAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang (The general idea is that in a slowly escalat
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Even the board can be replaced.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I feel like you have it the wrong way around. There are a lot of political setups where you "elect someone" that are absolutely not democracies. I can be an authoritarian supreme leader who allows citizens to elect who will run th
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
> China is a democracy You get to vote sometimes but there's only one party...
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Not the OP but look at the difference between what governments can do when there is a sense of urgency (i.e it is wartime or one is in recent memory) vs what they do when it's not. My lizard brain interprets this in the following way:
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
This happens everywhere in enterprise and government because policies and processes are designed to avoid mistakes or embarassment at any cost (because those risks are internalised by the bureacracy and therefore "real") but do no
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
This is like asking "if steam engines are so powerful, why can't they end poverty".
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The cost would be borne by the consumers of Telcos / wireless services rather than by all taxpayers. The Telcos would allocate funding / resources based on their financial position and their needs. I dunno, tbh maybe the governmen
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IMHO the primary problem with offshoring vs using employees was always principal / agent problem and incentives. There was never a strong incentive for your "partner" to actually finish the job, they got more money from overr
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
If you move slowly, agencies will circle the wagons and organise resistance. I don't endorse it, but it seems like the "strategy" is mainly speed and surprise.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Thats weird, you can open an account with just a credit card and update tax id / business details later. Was it because you were doing "AWS activate" or something? If that experience is much worse than their regular signup
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I agree that if you want to get better at specific things you should just do those things. Usually when you "learn" something you improve your understanding of the domain, you start chunking things up into patterns and structures.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Multiple small kids are incredibly disruptive to this. Just, a continuous "happening", constant out-of-context asks and "situations". 5 different things can happen between noticing or thinking of a task and being able to
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
For easy things, LLM assist has sped things up a lot for me. For medium complexity things, I can get them done quickly without manual coding if I have a clear understanding in mind of what the implementation should look like. I supply the r
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I think the answer to the author's question "So how did inequality establish and grow without the cloak of law and the shield of organised state power?" is, one group at a time, either by agreement or at the pointy end of a w
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
What happened was that they ran out of forex and couldn't buy it any more. The government subsidises it heavily.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
In 2025 making pancakes at school requires a written risk assessment / safety plan. Health and safety regulation has exploded in the last 40 years and the liability gives administrators heart attacks. Many kids today are not even allow
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Most of the current metal printers have a wacky vendor-specific supply chain, for feedstock and also post-processing. It's not really worth it for me to buy the equipment when I need an ongoing contract for it, and it will severely dro
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
It's like, the complexity has to live somewhere . I've seen successful serverless designs but the complexity gets pushed out of code and into service configuration / integration (it becomes arch spaghetti). These systems are
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My understanding is that free tier is awesome but if you have (for example) a massive traffic spike there's no real way to avoid paying for all the egress unless you go cap in hand to AWS support (who, to be fair, are usually pretty re
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
One of the interesting use-cases in the video is machining the part while it's being printed. This lets you machine inside surfaces and do a few things that would usually be tricky to do. Thinking of inside-machined almost closed man
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Do you feel differently if it runs the prolog in a tool call?
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More applicable might be training, courses, certification etc (where you can clearly demonstrate a business purpose related to your current line of work).
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According to this: https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5134/8/2/52 you get better heat control / precision at the cost of being slower. Apparently people are also working on a process combining arc and laser. One

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