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Very much worth saying that many of the people what write code at Apple are women. Some of them are my friends.

Do you mean to suggest women have a lower sex drive? When I started taking estrogen and suppressing my T, my sex drive changed a lot but it didn’t reduce. It’s just more impacted b…

Certainly the ire of Andrew Tate fans should be thoroughly ignored. You can have whatever sex drive you want, and their contempt is childish and misguided. If you did want to try e…

20 years is an eternity in terms of innovation. This has an extreme effect compared to the natural state (no IP restrictions). I argue that the effects of patents is actually poorl…

I’m vegan too. Someone will say “what about the microorganisms in your gut” or something. People often have a negative reaction to vegans and that’s not going to change.

Yep even in Oakland California where they don’t sell BYD cars, they recently replaced all the school busses with BYD electric. https://thedriven.io/2024/09/04/the-biggest-electric-…

Sure, their choice to give it away may not have gone as they hoped, I’m just pushing back against the idea that making copies of a thing the creator explicitly gave permission to c…

Prusa gave everyone permission to make copies of their i3 series machines, make modifications, and distribute modified versions. It’s not theft if you have been given explicit perm…

Hah. I mean it did blow up (the booster), but not due to impact from a failed soft landing. The soft landing succeeded, then it blew up.

One time I had to run a very old version of Eagle CAD on Linux and it turned out that even tho I had a native Linux version, it was easier to run the windows version in wine! I gue…

> In terms of quantity At the very least China is generally gonna have everyone else beat on quantity of people involved in quite a lot of things.

Not with that attitude.

Moving?

> Should we charge taxes on sugar due to health care costs? Doesn’t New York City do this with a soda tax?

I don’t think Altman’s predictions about AI progress can be relied upon. With tens of billions of dollars or more in company value tied up in that claim, I don’t think any person c…

Ah that’s a fair point. I asked him: https://bsky.app/profile/tlalexander.bsky.social/post/3laiw4... I think I have heard that in the country he was living in, violating patents fo…

A few notes: The patents were a huge impediment. They did not expire till 2008 - before then printers cost $25k. They were expensive and stratasys had no incentive to make them $30…

And the use case!

Yeah I have seen a farm do this! They bought from other local farms at least, not Target. But the claim "vendors at farmers markets can only sell what they grew themselves" is only…

Yeah it’s very strange that all three links are bad! Here’s a source selling them for $99 with the POE module, heat sink, and case: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtcURKu

Does Wikipedia allow content of this type? Aka “here’s some cool stuff I found”? Or put another way, if you’re more familiar with Wikipedia, can you describe how to think about thi…

Certainly I can see the appeal of implementing control in the silicon I own rather than buying a vendor's chip and having to deal with their supply chain, their sales team, their s…

Ah, that’s a good point thanks for the correction.

At this point I really only take rigorous research papers in to account when considering this stuff. Apple published research just this month that the parent post is referring to. …