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Re:Reverse Jevons Paradox on Friday August 07, 2026 @09:00AM (#49209763)
I liked this footnote. A simple, intuitive explanation.

> If you pay $1.00 to press a button, and pressing the button pays you $0.99, you > will press the button zero times. If you get $1.01 instead, you will press the > button all the time.

One thought: If it only gives you $0.01 profit you'll (have to) push it more than if it gave you $1000 profit. There's a saturation point.

Now the remaining problem is to make Magnetoencephalography devices affordable and not insanely huge.
He’s from the EU. I think that Google can’t terminate him immediately.
Re:I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it on Saturday November 22, 2025 @03:02PM (#46017778)
You’re risking bike shedding “bike shedding”.
Re:When is causal broadcast not enough for causal memory? on Sunday October 13, 2024 @07:21PM (#41832622)
It made to the front page this time.
Thanks for the reply. You may have a new user. :)
Does elvish have a command history limit? Or is it configurable? I like a nearly infinite history.
Saunas, hot baths, and excercise improve blood flow.
Simple solutions to hard problems seem to be falling out of favor.
What’s wrong with being excited and working hard towards something? Hoping for nearly anyone’s demoralization is not good. I wish you a spirit of adventure that takes you many exciting places!

Also, what specific safety problems do you think need to be solved?

I like it too. Bigger video, more visual information without scrolling
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:47PM (#40348892)
This is a good question! I think in the short-term fake can work for a lot of people.
I also wonder what changed between the Cyclops 2 and the Titan.
Interesting find! Lots of information about the winding and the materials used. I wish there was more information about the epoxy used to adhere the titanium endcaps to the hull.

I also wonder what changed between the Cyclops 2 and the Titan.

Re:Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:00AM (#36010837)
Do you have a link for that claim?
Re:Faster CPython at PyCon, part one on Thursday May 11, 2023 @12:49PM (#35904812)
I hope you feel better. This is a neat project and I’m looking forward to trying it out.
Re:Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers? on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:59PM (#34889574)
I think you mean system call bound which is really another way of saying CPU bound. The hardware underneath is incredibly capable, but the interfaces to it are inefficient. I’m skeptical that JSON payloads over HTTP based applications are saturating 10gig+ network interfaces.
Re:All Programming Philosophies Are About State on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:58AM (#34691595)
Can you explain more what you mean by controlling dispatch?
Re:Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:27PM (#34254089)
I love annual plans when they can offer savings over paying monthly.
I hope this is parody. I agree with being pragmatic and not being arbitrarily constrained, but this comes off as fanatical.
The Abe assassin did not use a 3d printer to create his gun. This is false information.
Re:Searching for Susy Thunder on Thursday January 27, 2022 @06:49AM (#30099336)
“When the phone system went electric”

I have trouble getting past this sentence. Did they mean “digital”?

Re:Designing Data Gateway for Cassandra in Open Source on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:20AM (#29163735)
Any thoughts on whether the internal API would use streaming or unary calls?
Re:Apache Cassandra 4.0 GA Released on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:04PM (#27965449)
It’s still not possible to remap mouse buttons for most applications under Wayland and libinput is allergic to adding features.