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dmitrygr
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I make things and I break things for fun.

me@dmitry.gr

https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/

Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple


  1. probably due to this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/linasbeliunas_insane-the-eu-n...

    EU now makes more money fining US tech than it does taxing its own public internet companies

  2. "native-born citizens" may be, but do the majority have something in common?

    A quick look at the table https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7242a4.htm shows that the issue is not guns but something else. This is corroborated by these similar charts: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

  3. Atlas Shrugged. Downvote at will, but I’ll die on this hill. It has some issues, sure, but it should be mandatory reading.
  4. Statistically, yes they should.
  5. Perhaps habitual drug users should not participate in operating heavy machinery around people?
  6. "We chose to base our System-on-Module (SOM) "

    Holy clickbait, batman! The hard parts were done for them! All the fast signals like DDR are on the SoM, designed by real humans who understand EE. To make it all even more of a lie, their design is basically a copy of the reference base-board for the SoM.

    "Boots on first attempt" well, duh! the SoM is self-contained. It boots all by itself as is... so no wonder that it boots.

    No EMC results either. Making things work is 10% of the work. Passing certs on unintended emissions and making it stable is the other 150%.

  7. This was always the end game and all our warnings were ignored. One of those very bittersweet “told you so” moments. Bye bye, Britain.
  8.   > We need a healthly ecosystem where there are hundreds of separate companies each solving 1-5 use cases.
    
    please make a successful economic case for a company only making a mobile phone OS, in a world where android exists and china can crank out 100x the devices at 1/10 the price paying $0 per device license fees than eu could.
  9. I met the people. None of them would stand for that. My bet offer remains
  10. The way I read the US constitution, every federal government agency is necessarily contained in one of the three branches, since the entire federal government is made of and only of those three branches. FCC is not in the legislative branch -- constitution is clear that that is only the congress, it is not judicial -- the constitution is clear that those are the courts. So it is in the executive, which makes sense since its job is to enforce law -- the job of the executive branch. The executive branch reports directly to and is directly answerable to the head of the executive -- the president.

    The congress cannot legislate a fourth branch even if they wanted to. They'd need a constitutional amendment for that. We have thus, by a simple application of reading and logic concluded that this is precisely as is expected given the US constitution.

  11. it never was...
  12. I worked on SW at apple. I would be VERY surprised, to a point where i'll offer you a $1k USD bet.
  13. > Regen braking isn't more complicated than an alternator.

    Either disingenuous or ill-informed. one is ~1KW for a few seconds a day, the other is > 100KW of power for dozens of seconds, multiple dozens of times a day. completely engineering

  14.   > capital owners successfully avoid contributing to the financing of our states and social system
    
    Say what now? So i've been paying cap gains tax like a chump while there is a "no thanks" option you're aware of? Please tell me where to tick that box.
  15. parsing html -> lazy but ok

    using an llm to parse html -> please do not

  16. "computers used to require"

    please do not write code. ever. Thinking like this is why people now think that 16GB RAM is to little and 4 cores is the minimum.

    API -> ~200,000 cycles to get data, RAM O(size of data), precise result

    HTML -> LLM -> ~30,000,000,000 cycles to get data, RAM O(size of LLM weights), results partially random and unpredictable

  17. I support apple doing what Xbox does. A separate mode - you can side-load, but you lose all access to appstore and all built-in apps. Enjoy :)
  18. > why not use another operating system?

    on pc hardware, no alternatives exist that support sleep/wake properly while also providing for good battery life on modern hardware

  19. And your point is that before Instacart all those people died of hunger? Please!
  20. For the modern web it isn’t fast enough. Thank the JavaScript slingers for that.

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