faitswulff

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by faitswulff 3d ago
And the majority shareholder, at that!
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by faitswulff 6d ago
Politics means putting job creating infrastructure projects in red states to curry favor with Republican demographics.
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by faitswulff 10d ago
The same reason scam artists describe themselves as businessmen
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by faitswulff 12d ago
I’m not very good at mathematics, but it seems like Kevin should take his girlfriend on trips more often for the good of all mathematicians.
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by faitswulff 13d ago
Heard on the grapevine that the OpenAI blip was a cloudflare issue
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by faitswulff 23d ago
This video compares the Mediatek Dimensity to the Xring 03 (at the given timestamp 329s in) and finds significant differences in physical layout and performance: https://youtu.be/BCCJuOopLK8?t=329
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by faitswulff 23d ago
China actually penalizes, imprisons, and even executes its billionaires, so that’s different.
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by faitswulff 24d ago
On first blush, everyone gets housing and land ultimately belongs to the country sounds a lot like China.
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by faitswulff 25d ago
> For Codex, working with Jira and Atlassian was a hassle in my environment... I hated this so much. Both acli, which my agents have to rediscover how to use from --help every time, and the MCP, which I have to reauthenticate against fre
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by faitswulff 1mo ago
The currency code is CNY or Chinese Yuan. Yuan itself is like “dollar,” with many different countries calling their currency “dollars.” Renminbi refers to the Chinese currency as a whole rather than any particular unit.
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by faitswulff 1mo ago
Data centers would be less contentious in the U.S. if energy was plentiful and clean. As it is, it externalizes costs onto the public and strains profit-optimized electrical grids while contributing to local pollution and global warming.
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
Another reason this may be true, selling hardware may be the only durable moat after a while
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
It’s also a flywheel for China’s homegrown chips industry.
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
Nationalism is a cancer
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
I wish this had some code or pseudo-code tests!
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
That simplistic characterization is still essentially "China-bad." The CCP is the same government responsible for lifting historically unprecedented numbers of people out of abject poverty. Does it make up for other human rights v
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
> Didn't they bring hundreds of millions out of poverty, and built amazing cities and facilities in the past 30 years? Yes, but China-bad ideology demands that we ask ”at what cost?”
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
> I can’t conceive of the leadership of the Python or Rust or any other community I’ve ever worked with doing something like that. At least for Rust, part of this is because there is no BDFL, by design. Python has moved away from the B
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
Also throw in GLM 5.2 for good measure
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by faitswulff 2mo ago
> That depends on if car was originally made for left-hand or right-hand traffic I was referring to i.e. Arabic vs English
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by faitswulff 3mo ago
Surprised no one's mentioned it so far, but CarPlay / Android Auto aren't just features, they're consistency . Across makes, models, years. I know what I'm getting when I connect my phone - and if anyone uses my ca
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by faitswulff 3mo ago
Code review isn’t a singular thing. There are many reasons for code review, like knowledge sharing, liability laundering, code quality, regulatory compliance, etc. As usual, what purpose it serves depend on your use case.
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by faitswulff 3mo ago
There's another end to test, yet!
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by faitswulff 3mo ago
Waymo Premier soon to be followed by Waymo Mythos and finally Waymo: Tokyo Drift
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by faitswulff 3mo ago
> The analysis uses a single metric: bugs per 10 commits (bugs/10c). Bugs per commit as a metric papers over severity, both in terms of security severity as well as the effect on the user. A mislabeled button has the same weight as
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by faitswulff 3mo ago
Also see: the entire history of America
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
Sort of, but the amnesia typically applies to writing characters, rather than reading them.
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
Pinyin is widely used, but pinyin’s primacy is oversold. Chinese texts start with teaching Chinese characters - many are recognizable to children from daily exposure to begin with, so they don’t need the pinyin. Pinyin only comes in when th
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...
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by faitswulff 4mo ago
This runs counter to the last 50 years of American propaganda espousing the inefficiency of government. If the Chinese government can just throw money at industries and have them flourish, why can't other governments?

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