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by yarg 4y ago
I'm sure he had the engineering nous and connections to find his way back from oblivion, but (unless he exaggerated) things we near dire for him financially.
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by yarg 4y ago
Given how much of this involves lots of stuff being on fire, rockets fail to explode amazingly often.
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by yarg 4y ago
I don't know what role Musk actually played in design (beyond "it needs to be pointy"), but he absolutely bet the farm on SpaceX. One more rocket-boom and SpaceX and Elon's pocketbook were done for.
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by yarg 4y ago
It is absolutely staggering what a titanic job Elon has done of obliterating his reputation. I really wish he could just come out and say "sorry guys, I haven't slept in 6 years", coma the fuck out and come back as a sanish m
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by yarg 4y ago
Smart people are everywhere, in small percentages - they can learn to do most things. I think part of the problem is, recruiters are (on average) less smart than greedy, and there's a layer of them before you even get to HR. Then you g
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by yarg 4y ago
Leaves it a little difficult to tell which bed was shat.
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by yarg 4y ago
This reminded me of a presentation of progress meeting that I once attended. I left wondering if I was the only one that noticed they'd said and shown nothing at all.
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by yarg 4y ago
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
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by yarg 4y ago
And their definition of content that discriminates against them is pretty ridiculous. Marriage and social definitions aside (those are fair enough), the trans community has some incredibly anti-scientific perspectives pertaining to the biol
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by yarg 4y ago
A group that represents ~1% of people is demanding representation commensurate with the rest of the human population. In a for profit environment. Perhaps they need to readjust their expectations?
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by yarg 4y ago
X has some fundamental security issues: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4641/why-are-pe... The lack of problems on X and the problems on Wayland are mostly an issue of maturity.
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by yarg 4y ago
> Java literally has a JIT to make generics fast ??? By the time it gets to the JIT, java generics have long since been erased. Java's generic classes run at the same speed as everything else, because there's no actual generics
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by yarg 4y ago
One thing that I did skip over: the limiting factors in manufacturing. judging by the pictures on the Samsung marketing page, the nucleus of their current design is down to 15 atoms for the highest frequency dot. in this case
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by yarg 4y ago
Not my field, but quantum dots are incredible. Quantum dots are of reversible polarity, a QD can absorb a photon of the same frequency it can release. QD frequency response is a function of size, not composition: unlike traditional LEDs the
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by yarg 4y ago
If it's documenting code, auto-generate as much as possible (this makes it less likely that the documentation will become invalid).
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by yarg 4y ago
Yeah, it's been known for quite some that epigenetic changes are heritable, and that they can be stress induced.
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Ask HN: Is 4-dimensional depth buffering feasible with modern APIs?
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by yarg 4y ago
That's neat - makes me think of 2D light-cones. The author doesn't mention it, so I'm not sure if he noticed - but this method is trivially extensible to weighted Voronoi graphs. All you need to do is change the gradients of
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by yarg 4y ago
What's the underlying structure that leads to the complex behaviour? It's not asking about the motivation for the form, it's asking about the properties of the structure. With scissors neither the mechanism or the behaviour i
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by yarg 4y ago
You're right. And oddly enough, as off-topic as my comment was, there's something self reinforcing about it. The fact that my mind leapt straight to the political shows the extent to which my thought processes have reshaped around
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by yarg 4y ago
Not possible, obviously. But in a hypothetical scenario where process shrinking continued unabated by considerations such a particle size and uncertainty, a negated logarithmic scale would do for naming conventions. gen = offset + log
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by yarg 4y ago
Because to the extent that it's induced by chemicals that have never naturally existed, it's unnatural?
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by yarg 4y ago
Perhaps we should stop redefining terms for political reasons. The democrats rig their primaries, the republicans dance with dictators, and progressives shut down anyone they disagree with.
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by yarg 4y ago
Sure, but depending on the T the delivery/reception mechanism can be somewhat functionally compromised.
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by yarg 4y ago
Wrong comment?
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by yarg 4y ago
But the dinosaurs didn't.
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by yarg 4y ago
If there's a shared cause to both it's industrialisation. It is the reason we're well fed and well educated - here's where I'd look for the cause of acceptance. It's also the beast we built to burn the world.
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by yarg 4y ago
It can be both (it almost certainly is). And as for the social awakening, acceptance is one thing (marriage and rights were a long time coming) - denial of reality for the sake of people's feelings is quite another. 100% of all LGBTQ+
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by yarg 4y ago
I think he's overstating the impact, but external factors absolutely impact how people present themselves. There aren't to many openly gay Saudi Arabians.
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by yarg 4y ago
The West's movement away from an Abrahamic worldview has certainly helped with the acceptability. There's no doubt that there's an aspect of the expectation of acceptance and safety that makes self-identification more viable

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