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abc_lisper··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
You both could be right. It might depend on the area the car is driven. I guess you are not in the Bay Area?
abc_lisper··on Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
They are also interned such that there is only one keyword by that name. It is created atomically. You can use it to create synchronized blocks in the rare case you would have to
abc_lisper··on Gigapresses – the die casts reshaping car manufacturing
Can one align the grains by magnetizing the cast (aluminum is para magnetic)
abc_lisper··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
But, the battery chemistry is almost the same across the phones. There is no magic sauce for one phone company. However, bigger batteries generally last longer, because they go through less full cycle refreshes. Getting better battery chemistry is the same order of difficulty as curing a particular cancer! May be you care about cheaper battery swaps, and that is something we all can get behind.
abc_lisper··on Kate
It’s a nice editor and old as hills
abc_lisper··on It is becoming difficult for me to be productive in Python
Null Pointer Exception
abc_lisper··on PayPal to lay off 7% of its workforce, about 2,000 employees
Think different, I guess.
abc_lisper··on The limits of "computational photography"
Why is the X-T5 picture so grainy? Was it taken in dark? Or through a microscope?
abc_lisper··on Functional Programming Is Great. But It Ain’t Magic
OTOH, It does seem like magic if you have dealt with Java in your previous life
abc_lisper··on GPT is all you need for the back end
Great analogy!!
abc_lisper··on We invested 10% to pay back tech debt
That’s hardwon wisdom! I think it’s possible to do this elsewhere if you keep it simple, restrict yourself to a feature set that one understands well.
abc_lisper··on Directly access your physical memory (dev/mem)
Lol. Back in TurboC days I wrote my first “random” number generator by reading off memory. Win 98 I think
abc_lisper··on India’s caste system limits diversity in science
Your intuition is on point. It is very much alive in India.
abc_lisper··on India’s caste system limits diversity in science
You got it backwards. There may be small pockets where caste won’t matter, but it mostly does in insidious and invisible ways all the time.
abc_lisper··on Jack Ma cedes control of Ant Group
This is a very fertile perspective. Explains so much about CCP.
abc_lisper··on Amazon rescinding the offer while I am on the notice period
I’m very sorry about this. You should look for another job. But make stink about this - write a letter to local congressman, senators and newspapers. It’s ok to hire and fire at will, but it should be not ok for Amazon to do this. A months pay is a spit in the face- they could have let you known upfront; it’s not like recession happened last night. You shouldn’t suffer for their mistake.
abc_lisper··on Brutal week sees Tesla shares lose $80B in market value
I had the same experience as you four years ago. I have owned Tesla from 3 years. It is a great commuter car, and I am hardly tired at the end of 70 min one way commute every day. This is because of AutoPilot, acceleration and the ease with which it handles curves in AP. And I bought an electric tire inflator the other day, because I never had to visit the dealer in 3 years. It offers comfort in a different way - for busy people in cities.
abc_lisper··on California pulls the plug on rooftop solar
We have ways to go before all electricity generated during the day is solar. There were only a few days last year when such a thing happened. In any case, the reason given by them is rich people not paying their due, not what you say. I say this is all a failure of imagination. Give me mobile electricity - if my solar panel is generating 5KW at home, give me the same electricity for free(or nominal charge) at my work, so I can charge my car. Electricity use will increase by a huge %, because of electrification of vehicles. You got to make sure that’s all generated by Green energy, not kill it as whole
abc_lisper··on California pulls the plug on rooftop solar
That’s not what the linked article says. It says any exported energy will be valued at 10% of what it did before. When you send 10Kwh to grid, you get 1Kwh back. That is why, the breakeven period increased from 4 to 14 years on a new solar installation
abc_lisper··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
I just checked. I can find it on archive. I don't want to post that in a public board. Please do your due diligence
abc_lisper··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
> Links? You mean a picture of an https addresses that leads to a deleted tweet.

Yeah, obviously those pictures and associated tweets are deleted. That is why we are here. However, those are archived in WaybackMachine(archive.org). Copy/paste those links there.

abc_lisper··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
I meant Elon commissioned posts that Matt Taibi posted. Links to Hunter’s pics were among them. If you are curious it was Tweet 8. Biden wasn’t part of federal government then FYI. https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394
abc_lisper··on PhD student solves 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem
Yep. National news was broadcast all over the country in Sanskrit language daily on Radio. Weekly on TV I think
abc_lisper··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
I did. Did you? There were links to pictures of Hunter in Elons posts.
abc_lisper··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
Could be, but there is no proof of deals in Elon’s Twitter files. Just Hunter’s naked pics
abc_lisper··on Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account
Hunter was Joe’s child. If Twitter not publishing Hunter’s pics is a conspiracy, I don’t understand why this isn’t
abc_lisper··on Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal
Yep. Insecurity of being wrong and found out plays into it too
abc_lisper··on ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman
Sorry.. try this https://twitter.com/gorrepati/status/1601046917009772544
abc_lisper··on ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman
I think so too. https://twitter.com/gorrepati/status/1601033566405931009
abc_lisper··on Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains?
Spot on. I felt like my IQ shot up by a couple of points after reading this book
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