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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Most blue metros in the US have a bad combination of high labor costs/low labor availability, high regulatory burden, wealthy conservative inhabitants who oppose construction, and working class people who are convinced that constructio
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Public housing projects were and sort of still are a thing. Glass Amendment limits the number of units that can be produced but most areas are well below those limits and the larger issue is that there's no budget or political willpowe
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Hardware gets a bit easier in some respects when you have unit scale and don't need to make COGS+margin back on the sale. If Ubiquiti sell a base station, half of the unit price is gross margin. If SpaceX sell a Starlink terminal, they
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
After all the LLM written or lobotomized^W"polished" writing that gets surfaced here, seeing human writing makes me want to do drugs and fall in love.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
devs have really got to start using NSA style naming conventions where they use the Joycean compound with random stuff that sounds cool e.g. BANNANADAIQUIRI or FOXACID.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Thanks, I was actually trying to find this the other day. By trying, I mean I thought about it but wasn't near my phone so I forgot to do it.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
looks up latin conjugation chart fuck this i'll learn mandarin instead
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Beamforming is an old technology though. It's not hard to do, just a pain to do cheaply when you've got a bajillion emitters unless you have custom silicon.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
In MX and elsewhere lots of them are just mobile number through Whatsapp specifically. Like they have a phone number but it may be data-only.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
1. Synonyms exist in language. 2. You're on a site with a bunch of programmers who regularly use weird words for stuff that already has a name. Reading through HN is wading through a swamp of made up names and tech neologisms, you&#x27
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
CAFE regs made USian hugecars relatively profitable, and car makers got USians to demand them via savvy marketing. That's what I reckon anyway.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Birds adapt their song to ambient noise conditions. This paper [1] studies the Pearl River Delta (where Shenzhen is) as a natural experiment. It shows spectral changes in the target species correlating to background noise levels. I haven&#x
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
I think sometimes people forget that LLMs were trained on text that actual people wrote.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
That sounds lovely. I think too many people get attached to the structure of life as they've lived it for the last n years and resist natural phase transitions for far too long. Good luck with retirement and your dream of being the b
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
At least @tyrellcorp on X Social and see if you can threaten their support AIs with a bad viral story.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
> "Stop" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls from their second studio album, Spiceworld (1997).
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
inconvenient for the purposes of recording, sounds like
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
If we lost Digikey, Mouser, and AVNET, it would be catastrophic. Entire US engineering divisions would leave for Shenzhen.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
you are both right of course but for some reason my fealty to potato does not extend to tomatoes and eggplant quite the same way. i feel toward potatoes sort of how gary Larson feels about cows
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
1990s research at Novartis, not sure how quickly the new cultivars were adopted,.maybe someone else can chime in
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
you have done potatoes a profound insult by not including them in this list
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
The modern cultivars literally taste different, it's not just cooking method. The bitter compounds were identified and bred out.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
I once tore apart my laptop and ripped out all the blue leds and replaced them with green amber reds. If yoi hate it that much you can just mod it. Soldering iron and a magnifier if you're over 30.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Military connectors (e.g. MIL-STD-38999) are deeply multi sourced, like you can buy compatible connector sets from Souriau, Amphenol, ITT Cannon, some others. So it depends.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
I've replaced a battery, screen, hinges on a macbook (2015). Did they get considerably worse at repairability after that? Because while there were a fair number of steps, it's not like they required exotic techniques to pull off.
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
It's all Asia. Europe is in Asia. Europeans are West Asian. The traditional boundary of the Ural Mountains is a fabricated one. There is no reason to separate Europe out of Asia except for that "people that look like that go over
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Oof, you got me there!
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by 0_____0 6mo ago
Wiz and Waze are both Israeli companies. Not that suspicious, I think it probably just sounds better in Hebrew.
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by 0_____0 7mo ago
Agree, and this is in fact how I treat my devices. I can easily do my own battery replacements on laptops, although I still approach phones with suspicion due to the water ingress problem.
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by 0_____0 7mo ago
we're all just riding the ring buffer of samsara, maaan

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