nick_kline

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by nick_kline 3y ago
Or they don't want to pay a little extra for something that almost no one listens to. I think it's valuable, maybe for my favorite movies I'd want it.
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by nick_kline 3y ago
Like all big companies, when something comes along that is growing fast, where they don't have a product, they might choose to buy an existing one to get in the market. On some of them they might spend lots of time and money building h
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by nick_kline 5y ago
It is a fact that there was an insurrectionist attack on congress on Jan 6, that there were obvious lies about false election fraud pushed by the president and eventually by the majority of the Republican party. What are you getting at by s
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Do you see Tesla as a snakeoil company today when it comes to their batteries, drivetrain, range, reliability? I wouldn't put Nikola and Tesla in the same categories. Tesla has one serious issue imho that they can only fix with refund
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Just because its convenient doesn't mean I want that. I want less tracking. At least let people opt in to reporting their mileage and paying an annual tax instead of even more tracking.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
We should get a WA state law passed controlling information access for cars. I'm sure it will be really hard with all the usual suspects against it. Most recent cars have a privacy policy and have some part of opt out. But it's un
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by nick_kline 5y ago
One more piece of this is they endlessly mutate, I don't think in reality there is a limit. Most mutations probably don't help the virus proliferate, might cause it to not be effective. Eventually the shape of a new one, what your
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by nick_kline 5y ago
I never need to restart emacs. It's generally only when I reboot that I have to start emacs again.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
It's different this time ;-) In 2008 there was a lot of new construction that wasn't yet sold, and people bought houses out in the boonies sometimes, but they got loans they could never pay for - expecting the house would appreci
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by nick_kline 5y ago
I'll add a guess for not able to keep charging it's batteries and having enough solar energy to keep it going in the cold.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
If the workers aren't important, then they don't need laws to stop them from looking for jobs elsewhere. Are us software engineers more important than those in other countries with comparable costs of living? That's hard to a
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by nick_kline 5y ago
It's not impossible, it just takes planning and multiple technical steps. Until the last 6 months, no other cars had plug in and charge (with your car telling the charger the credit card number and/or car id)! You had to sign in t
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by nick_kline 5y ago
There are few repairs needed so parts don't matter ;-) More seriously I do hope that there can be third party access to shop manuals and repairs though.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Every 2 or 3 months it changes for everyone when they +/- it by $500. It's not a negotiation. It is surprising to me they do this, I cannot understand the tweaking.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Correct! Teslas have been reasonable for a lot of long distance travel with their superchargers for 5+ years. They built chargers between big cities, close enough to each other. Every other ev suffers in comparison for long distance travel.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Can give some more context about this situation? A web search didn't find the obvious answer, other than it was an expensive area.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Ok, maybe not useless. It feels so far away what I imagine human or a dog's "consciousness" that it is hard to see how to rate the jump up from an ant to mouse, dog, great apes, etc.
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by nick_kline 5y ago
So consciousness is some kind of messy combination of matter, responding to inputs, to connections between particles. This feels wholly inadequate. My human consciousness is reduced when I get shot in the head but the particles are still th
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by nick_kline 5y ago
The 10x class here are not 10x programmers - they have 10x or more the reach because they can be a celebrity/leader on a platform that reaches vastly more people. But the other side of that is the very few people will be able to comman
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Nurses and teachers are more important than me, a programmer. I was reminded of this when my state put me in the last vaccination group. Yet because of supply and demand, but also the potential for companies to earn from software and the va
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by nick_kline 5y ago
"Sumer is icumen in". I can puzzle that out more than 750 years later, hopefully without false cognates, "summer is a-coming in". It kind of matches the translations. A human being just like us wrote it, trying to be hap
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by nick_kline 5y ago
It seems like as soon as spacex has more polar satellites they'd be able to match this service with lower latency because they'll be closer to the earth. The only thing spacex can't handle is dense areas of usage like a big c
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by nick_kline 5y ago
I feel like that's misleading. The key thing you said is outside - inside there is plenty of research about various aspects of the protective value of masks in stopping droplets and comparisons of various masks. https://news
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Ha! Perhaps you have not published a theory paper. I'm on the systems side but theory is real too, even if there is no perf test. Systems papers can benefit from code and data though ;-)
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by nick_kline 5y ago
Instead of negative energy this warp drive idea requires 10^30 more energy than the matter contained in Jupiter, so we aren't quite there ;-). The additional issue is whether something going faster than the speed of light violates caus
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by nick_kline 5y ago
The skateboard was actually a very successful concept. The most important ev to date has been the tesla model s, started shipping in 2012 - https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/12/the-tesla-model-s-skatebo... . Multiple
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by nick_kline 5y ago
How about conventional building materials, surely they would be safe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire I don't want to assume that a wooden building under construction would be less safe than mult
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Interesting unsolved murder from ~1941, why post this, is their a y.c. connection?
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by nick_kline 6y ago
There was one key entry there, actually coding. Non-coding architects are rife with the possibility (but not certainty) of being too disconnected from the reality of the systems they are working on.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Well, that is terrifying. On top of not hoping to die because your lungs stop working, now you have to worry about long term brain injuries. Hang on until inoculation gets to you.

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