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by byw 3mo ago
Is $200 close to what it costs the hospital, or after subsidies?
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by byw 3mo ago
> Opus in January So pre-nerf Opus?
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by byw 10mo ago
The trick to longevity in things is to acquire skills in repairing.
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by byw 1y ago
I'm curious if Rust (WASM through JS interop?) also has access to `window.location`, and if the API has some more safety mechanisms.
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by byw 1y ago
Maybe they can also make the boxes out of concrete for a lot cheaper?
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by byw 1y ago
>Except even in volume, you've probably spent more than the car is worth (labor will be the killer, not hardware), or enough that the person whose economics dictate an older car can't afford the upgrade. I'm not sure why t
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by byw 1y ago
Open Pilot essentially created an aftermarket advanced adaptive cruise control that works better than most brands outside of Tesla. They just can't sell it legally as a whole package, so you buy the hardware, but the software is open s
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by byw 1y ago
On the flip side, I bought an used 08 Sprinter van over the previous, more reliable generation, mainly for the side airbags. It turned out the one I bought didn't have them. It was a $120 option, and most buyers opted out. A few years
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by byw 1y ago
I think it's a shame that we can't add new safety features into older cars. I feel like there's very little engineering reasons why we can't, and it's mostly regulatory hurdles, that removes any economic incentives
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by byw 1y ago
I wonder if it has more to do with larger training data than the languages themselves.
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by byw 2y ago
My impression with the visa situation is that while technically green card is very difficult, in practice most expats have no issue renewing their work visas, so effectively living as long term residents - buying properties, getting married
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by byw 2y ago
I'm not sure if this is a solid argument. Most of the art, music, literature before the twentieth century were created under censorships of authoritarian regimes, and they don't lack vitality. Creativity often thrives under constr
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by byw 2y ago
Probably not enough space for people. Often people aren't allowed to stay in their cars.
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by byw 2y ago
More so in the Chinese-speaking world and South Korea because the industrialization/urbanization is more recent, so there's rising demand in the urban areas with high population growth, resulting in high prices. Japan's urban
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by byw 2y ago
Cost of living can be a lot lower in Taiwan, if your property is already paid off. Unfortunately housing is super overpriced, due to the Asian mentality resulting in high property ownership. Real estate is always the monkey wrench in the ge
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by byw 2y ago
Similar for Ferraro Rochers I think. Like Pringles, they are definitely not the cheapest options, even in rich countries. But there's always a market for the occasional splurges. Btw, Thailand is solidly upper middle-income. I think yo
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by byw 2y ago
Any devices that fare better in this regard?
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Why Can't You Pack a Bag(newyorker.com)
3 points by byw 2y ago|0 comments
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by byw 2y ago
The robot brain could be layered so that more basic functions are embedded locally while higher-level reasonings and offloaded to the cloud.
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by byw 2y ago
> where we can integrate with system accessibility APIs directly Is this something Flutter doesn't do? One of the most jarring experiences I have with Flutter Desktop was it lacked MacOS Emacs-style key bindings for text editing (ct
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by byw 2y ago
What I found hilarious is in the Dexterous Hands video, the robot deftly places a walnut on the table, then proceeds to smash it with its bare fist.
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by byw 2y ago
I mean, humans also have tons of failures modes, but we've learned to live them over time. The average human have tons of quirks, talk over each other all the time, generally can't solve complex problems in a casual conversion set
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by byw 2y ago
Even within China, the north (wheat-growing culture) is noticeably more individualistic than the south (rice-growing culture). The south is also significantly more traditional. Japan and Korea, despite being in North-East Asia, are rice-gro
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by byw 3y ago
I owned a bunch of mid-century Danish/Swedish furnitures, and they're generally pretty light. They tend to have slimmer profiles for the "modern" appearance, so less material. Also solid wood tend to be lighter than engi
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by byw 3y ago
I wonder for drivers who drove with regen-only for too long, do they lose the reflex to hit the brake?
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by byw 3y ago
I'm honestly not sure why Siri sucks so much. Apple could probably hire 10,000 employees to manually train for various scenarios brute-force (10,000 x $200K (salary + admin) = $2B), and it would still be chump change to them.
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by byw 3y ago
I feel like there's way too much VFX in Marvel movies that most of them are unnecessary. If the VFX artists worked reasonable hours and cut down the VFX by half, they'd make movies just as entertaining and profitable. But if the V
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by byw 3y ago
I guess they are the corporate memphis of architecture. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Corporate_Memphis
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by byw 3y ago
I'm not sure about other parts of the East Coast, but when I was in Toronto, while the older houses are bricks, many newer ones are wood-framed with a brick facade. What surprised me was that many owners had no idea, especially if they
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by byw 3y ago
>but even apartment locks are being built from wood these days. Are the apartments traditional wood-framed or cross-laminated timber? CLT is an entirely different beast that performs more like concrete or heavy timber in fire. I would pu

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