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by zhdc1 13d ago
Thought it was worth a read.
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by zhdc1 2mo ago
Seems reasonable and closer to American averages than I would have expected.
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by zhdc1 2mo ago
Yes, well over a hundred iirc that the US can requisition on day one of a conflict. America still leads here. Worth noting that, outside of WW2, the US has never really had a large merchant fleet.
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by zhdc1 2mo ago
Good article but, like a lot of stategic studies pieces, grossly underestimates what the American industrial base is capable of. 1. The US is second in the world, behind Ukraine, in military drone production. 2. The US is a close second to
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by zhdc1 4mo ago
Bought a TI dev board with c7x and c66 dsp cores. Have it doing PEQ and FIR room correction, along with tube amplifier emulation. Will be trying to implement a virtual bass array next.
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by zhdc1 4mo ago
> Maybe slightly higher. …
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by zhdc1 4mo ago
They’re just about dead even. Maybe slightly higher. Not unreasonably higher. Inflation is a pain in the rear.
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by zhdc1 4mo ago
A Big Mac meal in the states (fried and drink) cost 2.99 USD in 1990. It now costs around 8.50 USD. The inflation adjusted value of 2.99 USD in 1990 is about 7.88 USD. Did the price go up? Sure. Are you likely getting slightly more in 2026
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
This. It’s ugly. All of talk about the technical merits or demerits misses the point. I can spout of a dozen or more memorized IPv4 addresses. IPv6? Good luck.
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
It's a very US-centric perspective to assume that density = cities. Almost every town in the US, at one point, was dense enough to support a vibrant main street. Many (most?) of them even had tram lines and other forms of public transp
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
My source -> https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/003/033/089/164...
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
> which can still be far less dense than urbanists really want. And this was my comparison?
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
The Swiss public transport system is a century-plus old at this point. Compare pictures of the Zurich tram system in the early 20th century with today - squint your eyes and you won't notice any difference. That said, I'm willing
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
East coast cities were built before modern building codes. Something that, for some reason, people in the states don't want to accept is that - when given the choice - the vast majority of people prefer living in dense urban environmen
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
The same way people in every other country do it (rental vans) Rail <-> Road isn't an either or issue. It wasn't in 1850 and it isn't today. The only difference, at least in the US, is that poorly designed government in
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
Or just rapidly spinning up something. Codex -> LiteLLM -> VLLM |____> MCP Takes a couple of minutes to setup.
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by zhdc1 5mo ago
Completely agree. I don’t see why people view this as an either or decision. Also worth mentioning that some paid MCP providers offer an actual value added. Sure, I can use curl or a self hosted crawler for web searches, but is it really wo
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by zhdc1 6mo ago
> Do you want issues of Nature and cell to be replication studies? As a reader even from within the field, im not interested in browsing through negative studies. Actually, yes, I do. The marginal cost for publishing a study online at th
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by zhdc1 8mo ago
Langstrasse is as close to a red-light district as you'll find in Zurich. It's gotten a lot better over the last couple of years, but stating that you were offered drugs there is like being offended that you walked past a casino i
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by zhdc1 8mo ago
"waiting at a bus stop in Langstrasse" -> what were you expecting?
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by zhdc1 10mo ago
Shortage -> Glut
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by zhdc1 10mo ago
Contrarian here. I've fell in love with Firefox's AI Chatbox sidebar. It's extremely helpful to have Gemini immediately available to help with translating and summarizing text.
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by zhdc1 2y ago
Reintroduction of phonics has been pushed - hard - by academia.
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by zhdc1 2y ago
> Construction in the USA is driven by capitalism. From my own observations, a big part of why we build less in recent times is the real estate market crash in 2008. We're still feeling the effects. An efficient market would see an
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by zhdc1 2y ago
> We have too much space relative to our population If you're arguing that there's an abundance of space, this is true in many countries (and was certainly true prior to the Federal-Aid Highway Act or Levittown). > We have t
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by zhdc1 2y ago
MB provided a cash infusion during the GFC in exchange for 10% of Tesla. Both companies saw it as a strategic partnership. Tesla planned on sticking to luxury vehicles and selling electric power trains to companies, like MB, that would hand
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by zhdc1 2y ago
That’s completely by design. Heavy subsidies to get the industry up, which are then retracted slowly to force competition. It’s a well tried model at this point (a century or more, across a large number of countries).
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by zhdc1 2y ago
Not going to happen. MB had a large stake in Tesla. When they realized that Tesla could out innovate them (Model S vs the B 250e), they sold out. This is still an economy where ‘digitalization’ is a desirable buzzword.
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by zhdc1 2y ago
> I expect the EU will introduce hefty tariffs on Chinese EVs when the local automakers will lobby for it to protect local jobs, but hardcore protectionism long term only ensure your domestic industry lags behind technologically and fall
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by zhdc1 3y ago
I’ve transitioned a lot of my work over to Julia, but R is still the most intuitive language I’ve used for scripting out data collection, cleaning, aggregation, and analysis cases. The ecosystem is simply better. The folks who maintain CRAN

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