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Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that Never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4 PM on some idle Tuesday
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x86x87··on US set to impose 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicle imports
Decency? Why the attack here?
x86x87··on Tesla Autopilot feature was involved in 13 fatal crashes, US regulator says
> After closing the first investigation, regulators opened another, this one into whether that recall to install new Autopilot safeguards was adequate.

Tesla in a nutshell.

x86x87··on AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life
Given a torus what initial configuration yields the maximum number of unique generations? :)
x86x87··on Does light have an infinite lifetime?
Yeah, this is like asking if energy has an infinite lifetime.
x86x87··on Cheap Mortgages Deter Workers from Relocating for $250k Jobs
Rent a house in the new location + Rent out your curent house. Not ideal but you can do this for a few years to enjoy the increased tendies.
x86x87··on When teaching computer architecture, why are universities using obscure CPUs?
Simplicity. A real CPU is way more complicated than the toy cpus used.
x86x87··on Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
yeah. you can get pretty far with it. i remember doing a similar experiment where I used just cowboy and plug without a framework (ie pheonix) when playing with elixir.
x86x87··on Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
Why not use something like cowboy?
x86x87··on Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
But they do negotiate all the time. For employees that are critical they do this all the time. For the regular employees? Nope
x86x87··on Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
This is not about preference about where you work (ie maybe not all good engineers prefer WFH). This is about fkexibility ane accountability. People don't like being jerked around. Don't like being forced to do stupid things that don't matter. The better you are at your job, the more options you have. When you have options you don't have to stand for this bs.
x86x87··on Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]
Most researchers cannot agree on what consciousness is. If we cannot even get a straight, agreed upon answer on what consciousness is how can we actually make these sorts of claims?
x86x87··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
which one would make you more angry: 1) being mugged in full daylight in an area with low crime rate (maybe near where you live) 2) being mugged walking in a dark alley somewhere in the "bad" part of the town?

How about if you chose going to 2) knowing very well that muggings are a real possibility and you should probably not go there?

x86x87··on Ask HN: What's the best way to exit tech?
Link to the teaching program?
x86x87··on How to mess with your roommate (2018)
Back when windows 98 was a thing (targeting the same annoying roommate):

1) there was a way to limit the amount of RAM windows used. It was a setting. Set it to 25% and watched him try to debug. Eventually he figured out that the game he was trying to play could show him how much memory he had. At 2am he was sniffing the RAM chips to see which one was burnt.

2) same a...friend. Wrote a small program that would delete, at random a file from system32 (this was at a time when windows had no clue how to protect system files). This would be scheduled to happen anywhere between 1 day and 2 weeks. When it first happened I "helped" him repair it by installing windows over/repairing. Pro was that it fixed the problem, con was that the fun mechanism was left in place. He had fun with this for around 6 months until at a point did a clean install. Nobody that knew him believed him when e started ranting about how unreliable win98 was.

x86x87··on Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
Yeah. It's not the same thing by far. Amazoj deliberately chose to pour all income into expanding. On paper they did not have profit but they could at any point turn a profit by halting the expansion.
x86x87··on In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses
Lichens are a mix of algae & fungi. :)
x86x87··on In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses
Here: https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_6_ways_mushrooms_can_...
x86x87··on In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses
Yeah. Lookup Mycellium Running by that wacky dude Stamets. There are mushroom species that can be emplotey to cleanup nasty oil spills and stuff.

Also, there are mushroom species that can breakdown plastics in effect getting rid of stuff that woulf take hundreds/thousads of years to decompose.

Mushrooms are amazing

x86x87··on Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
Did they ever turn a profit?
x86x87··on How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
Check notes.... World population? We're in for a rude awakening.
x86x87··on Leave car keys 'at front door' to avoid violent confrontations: Toronto Police
Sure. Let the auto manufacturers also leak your biometrics along with all the shit they collect on you.
x86x87··on Leave car keys 'at front door' to avoid violent confrontations: Toronto Police
Buy a new car to avoid a violent confrontation with the police! /s
x86x87··on Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
It's bs.

It's well known that uncooked/undercooked morels can cause this. Food poisoning is not this rare thing that happened to hit this crummy place in Montana. It's non-news.

x86x87··on Software Company HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale
Imho, the license change didn't cause this. It was an attempt to make money. At that point they were already in trouble.
x86x87··on Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
What a bunch of bs.

Deadly morel but nobody died. Sounds like 50 people got food poisoning. Sounds like non-news to me. First: morels can make you sick if not cooked properly, Second: lookup how many people get food poisoning each year.

And all this speculation about the mushrooms coming from China. Assume they came from China. So what?

x86x87··on AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
The effect is not new. We have known about it ever since we've had basic machine learning. The way to look at it is somewhat novel but not surprising at all.
x86x87··on AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models
i think it's pretty much a problem and it's going to ruin any chance of high quality, original content.

look at the original internet content and what seo has done to it. google and search in general results are trash nowadays. this is what genAI is going to do over long term. garbage in garbage out.

x86x87··on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
Yup. And put in a speaker that randomly generates noise resembling the fuselage creaking/crumbling
x86x87··on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
And make the jail cell one of these famous Boeing planes that flies continuouly?
x86x87··on Ask HN: Fundamental Math Dilemma
Good point. But it's still integer division with a remainder
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