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by failbuffer 2y ago
For relatively static info, sure. For real time bus/rail status you need integrations to countless public transit systems. For stuff like store times, etc, you need sufficient market power so that business owners are incentived to prov
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by failbuffer 2y ago
... and get them talking directly to the user. I feel that's where the real magic happens.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Honestly, that sounds like a typical ER visit.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Loma Linda, CA, USA; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan How many of these places have a sufficiently weak government as to permit pension fraud? Grandpa can "live" quite a long time if there's
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by failbuffer 2y ago
2D might be more practical if you were trying to make architectural decisions, but I feel the author's whimsical embrace of the starship metaphor made his/her project more interesting and fun. I've already seen a bunch of 2D
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by failbuffer 2y ago
You could just as well ask "why not give the fastest ride possible so everyone saves time?"
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by failbuffer 2y ago
The SpaceX drone ships are named after spacecraft from The Culture series by Iain Bank. The Culture is very much a socialist post-scarcity civilization where intelligent machines do all the work and most people apparently just party or do p
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by failbuffer 2y ago
5x to 10x seems too vague to be the result of objective benchmarking.,. those sound more like aspirational numbers from a guy who's been promising FSD every year since forever.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Looks good, but I wish there was a practicioner-oriented resource for how to use cryptographic libraries that didn't start by focusing on the math. I don't need to know the intricacies of RSA, I need to know how to securely compos
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by failbuffer 2y ago
I really like the hearty amount of configurability they make available thru the control panels. They're not afraid of giving you a lot of options, yet it's organized well, easy to use, and the defaults are sensible.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
What you have right now is a situation where airlines compete stiffly on sticker prices and then find ways to screw you on the backend. You save money if you're lucky, but it's because you're getting a hidden subsidy from peo
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by failbuffer 2y ago
UK becomes increasingly authoritarian every year. What a tragic and ignoble development for the nation that gave us the Manga Carta.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Killing your pipeline for innovation and talent development doesn't make you secure, it makes you fall behind. The Soviet Union found this out the hard way when they made a policy decision to steal chip technology instead of investing
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Strange how you, kind stranger, see it as disgusting but all the participants who forwarded the video apparently did not. I know I would share such a video with my coworkers (at least, over the shoulder). That's a mismatch in moral exp
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by failbuffer 3y ago
We'll never be post-scarcity because humans can never reach a state of sustained satisfaction.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
You abstain from coffee, chocolate, and fish too I trust? Otherwise you're undoubtedly supporting trace amounts of slavery and child labor. I bet the device you're reading this with was also made with such (and if it doesn't
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by failbuffer 3y ago
A whiteboard is complete. Every other way of diagramming software is deficient. Change my mind. ;-)
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Very thorough, thank you My source was Chris Miller's /Chip War/: "Upon landing in the United States in 1953, Morita was shocked by the country’s vast distances, open spaces, and extraordinary consumer wealth, especially
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by failbuffer 3y ago
It's how Blazor Server apps are architected. Blazor WebAssembly apps don't maintain client state in the server and can be load-balanced like normal.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Likewise, AT&T licensed the transistor to a small Japanese startup and told them it would probably only be useful for making a hearing aid. Fortunately, Sony had a knack for finding consumer applications of the device and humanity now m
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Notably, Tesla countered by upping the offer but keeping the gag provisions. It was only when it was clear author wouldn't budge that they folded on those clauses. His conclusion was they really wanted to avoid the legal precedent (and
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Truth in tech matters to this audience, at least to the engineers. Musk had repeatedly overpromised and undelivered ("full self-driving"), made preposterous claims (2019: Tesla Semi convoy FSD is "something we can do today&qu
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by failbuffer 3y ago
A good book on this is The Coddling of the American Mind. It argues several factors (including social media, safteyism, and the decline in unstructured play time) are responsible for the significant rise in young adult mental health issues
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Add to that: - no sex ed It really feels like there are a lot of parents who think they can keep their kids safe by keeping them dumb about how their bodies work.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
I remember when you could query Google for x and it would simply say it didn't have any results for x. It was such a great feeling to get a frank, honest reply instead of being bullshitted with results that didn't have x in then.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Yes, let's fix the problem by compelling people to have kids they don't want instead of creating a world worth bringing kids into. /s
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Birth rate always drop in times of riding political instability and decreasing quality of life.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
Exactly. Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a big enough rock.
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by failbuffer 3y ago
> The manufacturer was able to offer further expertise including analysis of lower-level software logs which led to identification of the likely flight plan that had caused the software exception. This part stood out to me. I've fou
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by failbuffer 3y ago
The menu descriptions in the study were quite thorough/complete. No trickery involved.

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