kristjansson

> Bullion advocates argue that exchanging dollars for physical gold is a currency exchange rather than a consumption purchase. One can argue that until they're blue, but it'd still be wro…

Really why have the PCI/CPU artifice at all? Apple and Nvidia have the right idea: put the MPP on the same die/package as the CPU.

Sure, some fraction of withdrawn water is retained due to contamination. That’s counted in the consumption numbers of the source study? The operative question is still whether DCs and related power ge…

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230401438A1

> 20+% margin on cars wouldn't that be nice.

It was way too easy for the venv to be the only artifact of the process used to produce it. pip install, hit a bug, install some other dep, another bug, oh this one needs to be downgraded, and so on …

> I don’t want a thing that hijacks my terminal and PATH The shame is ... it never had to be that way. A venv is just a directory with a pyvenv.cfg, symlinks to an interpreter in bin, and a site-…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Mansion_(film)

Step One: get them to a better payment processor than PayPal! I waded through it, but that's a high friction funnel.

uh. there was a bit more to the story than 'yup totally unalloyed free lunch'

While no one will deny you (or I guess your system) the immense satisfaction of 100x improvement on a given step, I think it would be helpful to note the frequency of this rebalancing step, and to con…

This is quite cool, but I must note that the 5x reported in the headline is the _runtime_ of the load balancing algorithm itself, not the load factor or throughput of the system or what have you. >…

Whole seconds will have been wasted!

yes yes yes we'll just invent the world from whole cloth at 60 fps

I mean there is the chance it's on someone else's computer ^W^W^W^ the cloud, and his provider of choice doesn't offer easy access to deep scrollback ... which means this is only ineffi…

If it’s in the context window … it’s sitting around as plain text. I guess asking is easier than scrollback?

There's an older talk Simon Peyton Jones (IIRC?) gave about some development or other in haskell, in which he suggested that many software systems have some aspect of the swamp or the marsh into …

B200 is 1kW+ TDP ;)

$500 isn’t even out of the question for a great knife, it feels like about the right price point for the product.

On one hand I would buy that instantly. On the other hand, it’s already missing small pieces thanks to my current mandolin. Not sure I want to make my scariest utensil scarier.

yeah 'they' was a bit of a generalization. just pointing out that there's already weird stuff afoot with Holmes.

> Holmes they're trying. https://theinventors.com / https://theranoslabs.com are up on billboards around LA with 'Elizabeth Holmes Innocent' marketing.…

Not if there's no corner to cross. It's totally possible to entirely enclose a piece of public land; it's even easier to own land under access roads, and restrict their use as seems to …

> these [AirPods and Apple Watch] are the Apple products I care the least, together with HomePods and Apple TV. I won’t defend HomePods much, but skipping the other three misses a lot of the ecosys…

Part of the points of fallacies one and four is that a human can get out of the car and walk into work as a CPA or whatever, while even the autonomous-ish offerings of Waymo et al don’t necessarily a…

Blockchains are foremost a social technology :)

A cogent, long range tariff and industrial policy might accomplish something like this over a period of years. Does that describe the last 6 months?