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Comment · 2 years ago
In 2014 it wasn't all that obvious yet that the future internet would largely abandon the Web and become mostly apps talking to JSON APIs.
Comment · 2 years ago
"import pytorch" is the new "if-else".
Comment · 2 years ago
We can do both at the same time.

Are you working on X11 though?

Comment · 2 years ago
Just like any other LLM.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's a positive and a negative.

It makes people less happy, sure.

But it's also the reason why German machinery has the good reputation it has. Because even if it works pretty great already, somebody will find a detail to "complain" about and improve it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Or, to quote grandpa Simpson: "You only think you're happy, but you're not!"
Comment · 2 years ago
Musk did an interview with Sandy Munro about it. Worth watching.
Comment · 3 years ago
It uses methane and oxygen, could that be easily mass produced from solar or hydro? It may turn out better than burning fossil fuel in a plane. Just a thought, no idea if true or not.

Also, Starship doesn't need pilots, so freight transport could be automated.

On the other hand, I wonder about noise emission. Probably much louder than planes.

Comment · 3 years ago
Isn't the sun doing that already pretty successfully?
Comment · 3 years ago
If they have password and 2FA on the same device, then it's not 2FA. Tell them to get an external TOTP generator, at least.
Comment · 3 years ago
What made you think that you "need" to "celebrate" anything?

Who told you that? Weird choice of words.

Comment · 3 years ago
You missed to mentioned that he murdered all voices that dared to come up with ideas.
Comment · 3 years ago
About what? That phrase, that was just a trick by the Chinese Communists to find and kill millions of its critiques?
Comment · 3 years ago
Or that "toy OS" Linux.

Heard it all a thousand times already.

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