joshlegs

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by joshlegs 3y ago
would be hilarious if Altman was directly hired by Microsoft to head their AI teams now.
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by joshlegs 7y ago
I like how OP commenter is essentially arguing that the government should regulate journalism, which fundamentally misunderstands the role of journalists -- that is, it is a direct check and balance on the government, except that it relies
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by joshlegs 7y ago
I love Tim Dodd! I'm actually really surprised to see him show up on hacker news. I've been watching his youtube videos for quite a while now. Anybody else interested in space stuff should also check out Scott Manley. I also like
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by joshlegs 7y ago
sure, but what i'm saying, is were all the actual unique positions listed, not were each individual position for each job listed .... make sense?
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by joshlegs 7y ago
but were all 30k jobs listed? I'm assuming the positions listed were nowhere near close to the positions they need to hire for. As in, they probably havent even listed for a lot of the roles. That said, I really didn't read the ar
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by joshlegs 7y ago
just as an fyi, most people take mortgages for anywhere between 2 and like, 5 times their annual salary. I think my mortgage right now is about 3x my salary. So dont worry about that too much. I used to stress out a lot about ANY debt, but
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by joshlegs 7y ago
i seem to recall something about some carbon technology recently that is supposedly the next big revolution in semiconductors, and might revive Moore's Law? I wanna say it was about how carbon nanotubes can be used as an excellent semi
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by joshlegs 7y ago
I mean, to be fair, everyone thought the soviet union was ironclad, and a lot of people were surprised when it fell. that said, i'm not optimistic that communist china will reform any time soon.
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Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints(arstechnica.com)
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by joshlegs 7y ago
im a little perplexed why the phrase 'oral' was at all used here. It literally means "spread by word of mouth" -- but this is a text format. although this is probably a little bit nitpicky, i guess.
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by joshlegs 7y ago
you could make a strong argument that the 'winner-takes-all' electoral votes in states that have winner-takes-all systems is essentially already doing what the proposal to effectively eliminate the electoral college is doing -- it
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by joshlegs 7y ago
if the company was lying to VC's, is it possible for them to recoup their investments outside of a civil lawsuit? I'm imagining some sort of criminal fraud investigation could happen, but dont really know.
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by joshlegs 7y ago
hell, or even just good ole 'institutionalism'. "Deep state" sure does imply conspiracies afoot, and it's hardly such a thing. really it's just plain ole bureaucracy
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by joshlegs 7y ago
also basically any 'balance transfer' option on pretty much every credit card ever.
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by joshlegs 7y ago
> towing capacity what? Electric vehicles are vastly superior in towing capacity. The Model X from tesla can TOW a boeing jet -- 230,000 pounds. Now that has some tradeoffs for range, i believe. but in terms of actual towing capacity, i
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by joshlegs 7y ago
i have a tesla model 3 and i believe that multiple smaller sessions are better for the longevity of the battery. elon has said that 'a plugged in tesla is a happy tesla.' you're also only supposed to charge to 80 or 90 percen
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by joshlegs 7y ago
wait, i was literally just reading from something else posted on HN about the 'resurrection' of Linux Journal and how they were bought by some company and had a plan for not repeating their previous mistakes ...... i'm confus
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by joshlegs 7y ago
This video series singlehandedly inspired me to delve into hardware (i'm a software guy). It's INCREDIBLY well done, and easy to follow. Fast forward to now, when I've blown several hundred dollars on electronics supplies lol
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by joshlegs 7y ago
36 yo here. I've found that it is incredibly easy to 'overthink' and therefore overengineer things, and I've seen a LOT of my coworkers fall into that trap. Analysis paralysis is real, and delivering something and th
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by joshlegs 7y ago
this also means that people in china cant afford products from the US, and China is a major consumer of goods, especially for large sectors of our agribusiness. Also the fact that their yuan is worth less now is increasing uncertainty in th
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by joshlegs 7y ago
> was fortunate to see a Tigress with fresh kill and couple of cubs. also fortunate you werent the 'fresh kill'! serious, though, in what kind of context is it possible to see an adult tigress and not totally crap your pants?
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by joshlegs 7y ago
Found the wiki page for the project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot so it looks like they'd want to launch by 2036. In the 'technical challenges' section, it does mention that some t
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by joshlegs 7y ago
there is an effort to put super mini spaceships on missions to other solar systems, and they would travel at something like 20% the speed of light. I think it works by having the probes be like the size of a cellphone or something, and bein
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by joshlegs 7y ago
additionally, isnt glass a semi natural occurring substance? Im pretty sure ive heard of lightning strikes in deserts/sand that created glass.
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by joshlegs 7y ago
oh wow. that's pretty meta.
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by joshlegs 7y ago
how do we report comments like this ? or just downvote them?
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by joshlegs 7y ago
`DiableInstallNow` i liked this json key in the api
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by joshlegs 7y ago
Indeed, Musk has encouraged competitors from the start. I believe they open sourced a lot of their patents in an effort to encourage competition in the electric vehicle space.
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by joshlegs 7y ago
oh interesting. definitely not the video i remember seeing, but that demonstrates the same thing very well, and makes me more confident that the previous video I saw was legit. thanks for sharing!! The cutting action happens around 32:07 fo
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by joshlegs 7y ago
the new solid state lithium batteries being developed are pretty astounding. i think i saw a video of a phone being powered by one, then the demonstrator cuts the battery in half while the phone is being powered by it and nothing happens --

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