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by avalys 7d ago
Why do you need it to last longer than ~20 hours?
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by avalys 19d ago
“They could be involved in importing”
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by avalys 22d ago
This is a manufactured propaganda issue by dishonest and/or innumerate people. However, can’t data centers just use closed-loop cooling and avoid this whole thing? With all the money going into AI, it’s hard to imagine it being prohibi
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by avalys 22d ago
Movie set pieces, as a motivation for Apple making these high-end configs available? That makes no sense. For one thing, you can’t tell from a movie what the specs are. A $999 Mac Studio looks exactly the same as a $20,000 one. For another,
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by avalys 29d ago
Most of this is self-censorship by people who believe they are being oppressed by all-powerful dark forces, whose malevolent schemes can nevertheless be foiled by simple character substitutions. My favorite example of this is people self-ce
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by avalys 1mo ago
> A thin-faced, introspective Montanan, Wolfe had recently quit his job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Helena to concentrate on running for the North Face’s global athletic team. Well yeah, that seems more important. /s Article is
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by avalys 1mo ago
Most of these are authored by what appear to be non-native English speakers. So, the most likely explanation is a translation issue. In engineering literature from Russia from the 1960s, one sometimes finds references to a ‘water goat’ in p
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by avalys 2mo ago
Yes, and what I outlined is one reasonable way to implement “the consent of the governed”, and still a lot more democratic and inclusive than the system the authors of that statement implemented for the next ~150 years after writing it!
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by avalys 2mo ago
What is inherently unreasonable about the idea that only people who pay into the system get a say in how the system operates? The constitution still guarantees fundamental human rights. Another idea - everyone is eligible to vote for the pr
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by avalys 2mo ago
A privilege, really? Who bestows that privilege? I am certainly sympathetic to people who are genuinely disabled. That doesn’t mean we have to lie to ourselves that they are being productive by sitting around reading books.
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by avalys 2mo ago
If they are JS frameworks that enable other engineers to build applications that support farms, and banks, and taxi services and insurance companies and mines and factories, etc. then obviously that is productive. If someone is willingly pa
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by avalys 2mo ago
Who produces the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the energy you use, the medicine you consume, etc. while you airily define ‘productivity’ as reading the classics and spending time with friends?
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by avalys 2mo ago
Apple no longer supports this platform. There is no reason to target it for new releases. Java is not abandoning MacOS.
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by avalys 2mo ago
What method do you suggest is more information-dense and less lossy? What people are lamenting is that reading is being replaced with less information-dense, less accurate, less effective mechanisms, like Tiktok shorts and TV news.
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by avalys 3mo ago
Switzerland has a population of 9M people - the entire country has fewer people than the third or fourth largest US metro area - and a GDP per land area 8x that of the US. What works for Switzerland as a matter of policy, is essentially irr
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by avalys 3mo ago
I’m referring to Doctorow’s credibility, not Williams.
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by avalys 3mo ago
“Zuck is also revealed to have given the Chinese state access to all of Facebook and the power to censor content they disliked, as part of a failed bid to get permission to offer a Facebook service in China.” This did not happen and I’m not
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by avalys 3mo ago
There are many factors driving this: 1. Fuel economy regulations that scale regressively with vehicle size, that incentivize automakers to build and market larger vehicles that are easier to hit regulatory targets. 2. Rollover and crash wor
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by avalys 3mo ago
Nice to see a unanimous decision on a (by most appearances) controversial topic like this.
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by avalys 3mo ago
It was a unanimous decision.
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by avalys 4mo ago
The Cybertruck and Jaguar rebrand are both complete flops. Interesting product advice you have to offer. Who do you think is the target market for expensive Italian sports cars, if not “car enthusiasts”?
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by avalys 4mo ago
This would have a chance as a $250k entry-level Ferrari. Not much of a chance, but a chance. At $600k? Crazy. You could buy a V12 Ferrari at that price, if a Ferrari is what you want. Or a Rolls Royce Spectre if you want something quiet and
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by avalys 4mo ago
These are pretty expensive and specialized electronic warfare planes that are identical to a regular F18 in aerodynamic performance. Sucks to lose two of them for an airshow display. Isn’t that what the Blue Angels are for?
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by avalys 5mo ago
Am I supposed to know what a “system card” is?
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by avalys 5mo ago
How do you feel about the batteries in electric vehicles? What about wearable devices like a smartwatch, headphones, smart glasses? Should all these be consumer-replaceable without tools, regardless of the effect on the other things people
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by avalys 5mo ago
Magneto-optical drives are what I miss! The nearest thing we ever had to a durable and useable long-term storage media for normal users, as far as I know.
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by avalys 5mo ago
Don’t know who this guy is, but I’m glad I never interviewed with him. This is language-version-specific behavioral minutiae that anyone can look up in 5 minutes in the rare case it matters, and is otherwise irrelevant to engineering softwa
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by avalys 6mo ago
It’s not that they can’t afford it, it’s that Android users aren’t worth the investment.
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by avalys 6mo ago
Like others here, I don’t have this problem. I often leave them in my backpack for weeks between airplane flights, etc.
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by avalys 6mo ago
Up 30% is not “nearly doubles”.

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