letitbeirie

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by letitbeirie 1mo ago
> nothing indicates we've hit a peak Opus 5 is arguably a regression but GPT 5.6 is pretty strong evidence that we haven't hit a peak. I think I actually prefer Sol to Fable at this point.
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by letitbeirie 2mo ago
> back seats included I ended up buying loose seat belt buckles for my wife's car from a pull and pay to stop this. Evidently nobody at Toyota has a dog.
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by letitbeirie 2mo ago
The irony there being the "cars are evil" politicians are typically the strongest advocates for EVs, but EVs (being new) are the cars most likely to be affected by these annoyances. I would love to replace my 2007 GTI with somethi
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by letitbeirie 1y ago
Are you young enough to have grown up in a house without a land line by chance? I think land lines are where many current adults (who grew up before cell phones were ubiquitous) learned a lot of that common sense, because in order to get in
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by letitbeirie 1y ago
> Machine tools are not designed by extremely skilled machinists But they're built by extremely skilled machinists. I've practiced engineering for decades but I wouldn't even want to be in the same room as any object I&#
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by letitbeirie 2y ago
I wear my seat belt anytime I leave the driveway but I still want one of these things. My car can't tell the difference between a person and my backpack on the passenger seat, but it dings regardless.
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
> actually do more harm than good I've wondered about this too. I have a common enough name that about 2/3 of the info data brokers have on me is garbage. If every data broker could be relied on to faithfully delete my info I w
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
> Therefore the difference between the horn being readily accessible and being hidden away could be the difference between life and death. Being readily accessible is a must. The point I was trying to make (poorly; it was late) was that
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
It's weird that Tesla is being called out over the horn. In driver's ed they tell you to not to use your horn when you're annoyed at other drivers - only use it if there's an imminent danger to avoid a crash. But you bet
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Operational Technology. It's basically IT but for industrial operations instead of commercial. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/internet-of-things/w...
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Devs who haven't worked in industrial controls won't believe it, but the overwhelming majority of critical OT software still doesn't.
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Visual Basic as a language is just C# for people who want to type more to do the same thing. Visual Basic as a tool for building Windows programs with GUIs was pretty hard to beat though. Maybe there are tools that churn out fully-polis
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
> solar electricity is already cheaper than natural gas Does that include transmission? Most population centers already have the pipeline network needed to bring them gas but the getting power from giant solar projects in the desert (whe
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Depends where you are. In the US natural gas is a byproduct of shale oil extraction and we have a limited capacity to move or export it so it's almost priced as a waste product. It's unlikely that electricity will be any cheaper t
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
I managed to collect a rather massive digital music collection when p2p was en vogue. I still listen to it every day because it's highly curated and has tracks unavailable on any service, but quality-wise it definitely feels like I&#x2
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
They're allowed to have limits like "local driverless taxis don't operate outside SF city limits or below 35 degrees with precip in the forecast" etc. at level 4, but to meet level 5 (per the bet) it has to be able to &q
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Modern Google is an embodiment of many of the flaws which allowed them to crush Lycos 20 years ago.
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Non-software engineering has needed a git-like version control system for decades now but there are two giant hurdles: - Designing a UI for resolving merge conflicts is non-trivial and a lot of the visual cues git diff viewers use to highli
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
It will be like salvaging pre-1945 shipwrecks for their non-irradiated metal.
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
This phenomenon was really useful for sneaking booze into football games as undergrads. Two airplane bottles in your pocket, belt loop, etc. - somewhere obvious but not too obvious - can absolutely blind a ticket taker to the 6-8 you have t
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
It's hard to know how much time has to elapse before all the problems have been teased out though. Anyone who thought the DC-10 was in the clear after its cargo door problems were fixed was in for a nasty surprise a few years later whe
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
I wish they'd be a little less one-size-fits-all. Nixing parking minimums for businesses in already-walkable, transit-connected downtown cores is overdue, and areas close to that density can easily become new downtown cores when infi
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
My situation is basically the other side of the same coin: I built out my network 7 years ago using Edge gear instead of UniFi. The hardware is solid and the software isn't flashy but it's reliable. It's exactly what hacker
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
> we had to be constantly thinking about failure modes This to me is the biggest difference between writing code for the software industry vs. an industrial industry. Software is all about the happy path ("move fast and break things
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Ironically back in the answering machine era you could screen your calls as they were coming in, short-circuiting this entire loop.
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Especially all of those "atoms for peace" projects that had nothing to do with nuclear power. Widening the Panama Canal with nuclear bombs, for example: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/20/archives&#x
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
> A single failure is enough to contaminate an area for hundreds and thousands of years. A single coal seam fire can do that too. A dam failure can even render an area uninhabitable forever . Nuclear isn't quite as green as many of
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Not saying they won't try, but there are enough label-represented bands on Bandcamp that they would obliterate their back catalog (along with any network effects they're enjoying) overnight.
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
Something like this seems like it would be good at solving normal public transit systems' last mile problem, but to make the economics work you'd need to run very short trips or be able to take more than one rider at a time. Sho
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by letitbeirie 3y ago
> We don't need any new technology We need grid-scale energy storage. Right now we have about 30 GW worth of it on a grid with 1200 GW of generative capacity. Until that changes, every solar and wind installation is going to come pa

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