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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Raspberry Pi themselves said they were prioritizing businesses over retail consumers at the time; businesses need stuff to sell to remain viable.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I think people would do well to read about Philo Farnsworth in this context.
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That's not promising! Ive isn't an interface designer and doesn't know a pushbutton from a skeuomorphic hole in the ground. Software and industrial designers can work with each other to build great things, but they are not eq
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That’s only the Canada -> US leg, though. They can still grab your phone on the US -> Canada return trip, ne pas?
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
To be clear, we also need more medical professionals in general -- they're not keeping up with the population and it's making us all less healthy. Three to six months, or more, in the SF bay area for some critical appointments is
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
What that means, though, is that you have a choice between defining memory unsafely away completely with Rust or Swift, or trying to catch memory problems by a writing a bunch of additional code in Zig.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
This is what the Slate truck is promising. I won’t buy it without CarPlay, personally, but you can put your money where your mouth is, supposedly.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
The meaning of “antitrust” is very clearly defined. You’re allowed not to like it or to think that laws against it should be struck down, or whatever, but you can’t say it’s something it’s not.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Maybe, but: 1. People won’t ultimate go download ChatGPT.app or use a website — they’re going to be using the functionality through structured services in iOS and Android, and it’s necessarily going to be under control of the OS vendors for
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
It doesn’t even have to be that negative. With the best intentions in the world, it’s rare to have a CEO who is fundamentally capable of understanding both the technology and the viable market applications of that technology. Steve Jobs did
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Intel at the time was clear about it: they wanted to concentrate fully on x86. They thought they could do everything with x86; hadn’t they already won against their RISC competitors by pushing billions into x86? Why would ARM be any differe
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Soundbars -- and also improved built-in TV speakers -- have eaten the low-end receiver market, for sure, but there are still a lot of other installations. A soundbar and stuff like Sonos are still compromises vs discrete channel speakers, a
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
<pedantry corner>CFront was never compatible with K&R C to the best of my knowledge, so the actual start date would be whenever C89-style code in widespread use; I'm not sure how long before 1989 that was.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I don't think you even need to go that far -- the problem seems to be on the side of the verification of financial aid being too lenient, right? How is that vetting breaking down? The typical financial aid forms and process is a pain i
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One common use case is remote debugging over serial or ssh. edit: and a reason you would do this locally using ssh is debugging the UI layer itself. if you have to step through the window server, you can't be using the window server at
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Apple is not the right analogy. OpenAI has first mover advantage and they have a widely recognized brand name — ChatGPT — and that’s kind of it. Anyone (with very deep pockets) can buy Nvidia chips and go to town if they have a better or eq
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It’s important for sanity’s sake to remember that the bigots are a minority of Americans. They’re just a more reliable vote than the rest of us (and you can thank the Koch Brothers and John Birch Society for the multi-decade conspiracy that
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I’m not sure about that. Think about what would be so bad in your life that you’d send somebody huge money to avoid exposure of it. Keeping in mind they’ll demand more money later because you’ll be tagged as an easy mark.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
This is exactly right. If you’re old enough, you might recall George W. Bush insisting people should go shopping; the point was to encourage people to spend their way out of his recession. Didn’t work!
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Kissinger and Rice are war criminals who should have gone to jail for the rest of their respective lives. Trump’s guy can’t even manage that level of evil.
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> Benioff's whole weird "Aloha" thing I'll defend Benioff here, a little. The O'hana thing isn't a new, desperate COVID-fried-divorced-billionaire invention; it dates, I believe, from the establishment of Sa
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
IANAL, but that's not true. Fortnite was removed due to breach of contract.
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>If the rule is 85% domestic than any company can do it. To be making this claim, you must be an vehicle supply chain expert, so can you tell the rest of us which parts can be domestically sourced in the US and which can't? Also, wh
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The incentives are structured to make immediate takedown the path of least resistance. Yes, in theory, they can do otherwise; why would they spend money and effort doing otherwise?
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they have more efficient central planning, less red tape, and they don't let people like Elon Musk come in and derail the project with dubious and irrelevant alternatives
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It wasn't a landslide by any definition except the Trump campaign's; Trump won by an extremely narrow margin. It's important to be accurate about this to try to preempt despair.
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It wasn’t a discovery: DEC knew the 9000 wouldn’t be competitive against VLSI implementations! DEC’s board really should’ve replaced Ken Olsen by 1985 at the latest. > There are several quotes by prominent engineers on the NVAX project t
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I don’t think she actually has a known political affiliation.
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Yeah, the problem with Saturn was the general level of QA of GM cars of that era. I could make the "check engine" light come on by pressing the accelerator with a small amount of force in my SL2. And it didn't handle very wel
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Cost savings wasn't the reason for the Saturn plastic panels, IIRC -- they were intended to make the car more durable; they were hard to dent. Some Saturn salespeople would kick the side of the car, hard, to demonstrate their resilienc

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