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I absolutely love this. I really wish that generative AI was fast enough that you could infinitely scroll a single sandwich and it would generate more on the fly.

I'm surprised their battery technology isn't just a tank of hydrogen that's shaped like a normal EV battery.

Does anyone else study Category Theory in the hope of finding Revelation/Truth? I'm mostly kidding but for some reason CT scratches a different kind of itch.

I love that they explicitly list the xkcd compiling comic in their references.

What are you talking about? eBikes and regular bikes are WAY different. They're way heavier because of battery + motor, so you need special stands and lifts, or it takes two people to manage it. All the electric components add way more complexity to maintaining the bike. It can take a 60 seconds to pull a wheel off a regular bike, but on an ebike that can to 10 minutes. The bike shops are spending more time on it.

Suits also aren't a new invention, but I wouldn't ask my bike mechanic for a bespoke suit. Most bike mechanics aren't used to working with electrical components. I wouldn't expect them to know about charging circuits, battery life, motor efficiency, etc...

What a weird rage-bait comment for HN.

Can we all appreciate the fact that this game was developed/produced by Tim Sweeney, who is still very active in Video Game development.

I don't know of anyone else who's tenure in the industry is 30+ years.

yeah that was my memory of it too. I didn't recall MP until Doom.

Isn’t it being pushed through by ultra religious and right wing groups? While I admit I don’t understand the Israeli high courts I do understand the impact of zealous right wing groups forcing unpopular changes to the basic function of the government.

I recall playing this back in the day. It was super cool.

My Dad pulled it from the DEC internal file sharing service and brought it home. I long believed that it was a figment of my imagination until I heard that ID had developed a demo for Nintendo that must have gotten leaked

Super cool

So nice having a positive news story for once.

I don't understand the smugness of Software Engineers' belief that pure remote is the only option. It seems short-sighted.

If everything is remote then companies don't care where they hire from. Whats the difference between you and an engineer from South America? Maybe you're a better engineer and maybe you are a better communicator in English. How much better? When do the scales tip? Why hire an engineer for over 200k who's remote in Wisconsin when you can hire one who's remote in Peru for $75k?

It might be better for you right now, but what about in 3 years or 10 years?

I know that this is not a popular opinion here. I think its hard to put the genie back in the bottle, but I also think a tremendous amount of innovation happens in person.

Existing companies will probably continue to operate just fine, but the next wave of game changing companies will be small and in person.

I didn’t go to Harvard but lived in Cambridge and had a bunch of friends there. Everyone I met was pretty fucking smart, but I guess that could be selection bias.

20 is a lot for some people, but it’s like 5/6 beers most places. Sure in the poorest parts of the country this could make or break, but the list of places where people could afford it is much longer than SV, Boston, NYC.

What about suburban DC? Dallas? Houston? Denver? Salt Lake City? Chicago?

Not sure if your last sentence was intended to be ironic, but there’s nowhere you can fly that’s less than an Economist subscription

I’m so glad all over my elderly family members have locked down iPhones and iPads. Remember all that tech support you had to do back in Windows 98 days?

Modern devices are too complex for most people to really grok. The only sane solution is to lock them down.

Frogs are notorious for their selfishness.

Unnecessary pedantry. You know what the title meant.

Yeah I also remember this. My Dad was at DEC/Compaq at the time and had access to the Windows NT prerelease. He was explaining to me why it was cool, but as an 8 year old I didn't really get it.

I agree, Monads don't solve everything, but if we're being pedantic then I would argue that in a functional context you would almost never write

fn doTheThing() -> void, raises Error SomeVal x = try doSomethingFallibly()

Functions don't do things, they process and return things. Side effects are handled higher up at the root of a program. Generally any time you'd be "doing a thing" you'd also be in a position to handle the error.

source: I don't do any functional programming but have seen some videos on youtube

The DEC Alpha was a 64 bit CPU architecture that came out in 1992. Java support it from Java 1.0 to ~ Java 3

Interestingly, I can't find any information on Google about this, but ChatGPT does support this. Unfortunately all the primary sources it gave me are for docs that no longer exist on the web. The Wayback machine was no help. The old web is dead :(

Companies start their fiscal years at different points in the year and name the years differently.

Some companies name their quarters based on the calendar year that the fiscal year starts in, some do it based on when fiscal year ends.

It probably matters to people in finance, but I'm not sure it matters to anyone else.

I'm not sure that video is evidence for anything more than a single cybertruck existing.

Is there research that shows that a well maintained API adds value to large established companies?

Maintaining a good API for an ever changing product is VERY non-trivial. Designing easy to consume APIs and writing good documentation requires some specialized skills. Internal APIs are often very different than external ones. Some times APIs need to be duplicated which can make breaking changes of the underlying systems more complex.

I can see the value of APIs for a growing company that is trying to establish itself, but there must be a line somewhere.

I suspect a large amount of API support over the last decade has been driven by brand development and recruiting.

Even if this is true is it a problem? It obviously has limited how Amazon can scale the product, but I don't think its a scandal worthy of a "gate" suffix. It's just a product/engineering issue. I'm sure someone in a meeting said, "We tried an experiment to scale our image recognition technology, but it turns out the problem was more complex than we thought and not worth more engineering investment"

What are all the teens/20 yos going to do when they wake up one morning and TikTok is turned off?

I’m not saying that TikTok or other social media is great, but it would certainly be an interesting social experiment to suddenly force millions of kids to go cold Turkey on something that they’re addicted to.

Maybe they’ll turn to other social media, maybe they’ll start painting, maybe they’ll burn down a city.

What does escape mean?

GPT4 can't run on my home computer. I don't have the giant pretrained model and I don't have a powerful enough CPU to run it at speed.

Would escaping mean copying the entire model somewhere else? Some subset of the model?

Wouldn't it need to copy its current state/thread to another computer?

If you're referring to Robolab it was actually based on LABView under the hood. LABView is well known drag and drop programming interface built by National Instruments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms#Use_in_educati...

source: My robotics professor developed Robolab and we got tons of cool shit from LEGO

Don't iPhone routinely get 7 years of support?

The iPhone 6s came out in Sept 2015, it can't run the latest iOS, but it can run the previous version which is still getting security updates.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

Who hurt you?

I mostly buy my eggs from local farms at the farmers market for ~$10. I'm in the Bay area so nothing is cheap. Price have gone up lately as many of the farmers have had to cull based on bird flu.

This is a bit more than I'd like to pay, but its not going to break the bank. I'm happy to have some eggs that taste good and I know come from birds that aren't tortured.

Its odd to me that people are totally willing to spend $60k on a car but whine about eggs that costs more than $0.50. To each their own.