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by 0xWTF 10mo ago
Children do the same thing intuitively: parents continually complain that their children don't listen to them. But as soon as someone else tells them to "cover their nose", "chew with their mouth closed", "don&
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
Ok, this seems like a good post. At the end of the day, what do I, as a single investor, do? I'm 50 years old, 2 kids in college, I have a $300,000 mortgage on a house presently worth $1M. I have $300,000 cash and an open eTrade accoun
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Venture Capital Investments by U.S. Academic Medical Centers(nejm.org)
3 points by 0xWTF 11mo ago|0 comments
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
Sonova (Phonak's parent company) bought Sennheiser and you can now buy their Sonite R at Costco for $1600. If you have recent Phonaks, you'll recognize the design immediately. They also have an array of peripherals: https:/&
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
Trusting a random vendor, even on your home network, seems crazy. But how do you secure a home network? Are we all supposed to be running Nagios, Grafana, Splunk, and have a personal CISO?
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
I don't understand why this has 29 points and no comments. What's so amazing about this?
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Wirecutter buys 450 lb box of Amazon returns(nytimes.com)
17 points by 0xWTF 11mo ago|1 comments
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
I usually look at garage sales as displays of things you shouldn't buy. I feel like this is even more ... that. It would be helpful if Amazon posted to the return rates of this stuff. Random samples being even more valuable than biased
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Redditor digs up 1961 oceanographic survey data to answer random question(reddit.com)
5 points by 0xWTF 11mo ago|0 comments
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
Yeah, I love folks who worry about China having access to models and GPUs. I mean, friend, they have 1.3B people. They could put a crack AI team in every country in the world, tomorrow. But yes, instead, it's far cheaper to let each of
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
> "world leading" AI lab (now run by a teenage data labeller) Aarush Sah?
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
Depends on the market. Everyone dies eventually. Every near-fatal illness you suffer is a windfall for the medical system and ensures another windfall later. For all other businesses, it's a little more complicated. If the patient&#x2F
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
USB2-A ... what? Why? It's <checks watch> almost 2026. Apple hasn't shipped USB-A since 2017. But ok, apparently there's a bunch of PC folks still rocking USB-A. Cool, love that for them. But why not make them all USB3-
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by 0xWTF 11mo ago
My wife tried using Gusto and hated it. She then happily went a different direction, picked up Guideline for her 401K provider, and now she's super unhappy she's getting pulled back into Gusto. /sigh
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
My L7 and L8 colleagues at Google seem to be signaling next 2 years. Errors of -1 and +20 years. But the mood sorta seems like nobody wants to quit when they're building the test stand for the Trinity device.
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
> "Reflections on trusting trust" Obligatory link to the unspecified-at-the-time Air Force critique of Multics with the introduction of a Trojan horse: https://csrc.nist.gov/files/pubs/conference/
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
Meanwhile Ubuntu is still snappy on my original 2012 rMBP. It got a new screen, two new batteries, still has the last supported version of macOS installed if I want it. Still sparks joy. If only my fingers could keep the Ubuntu cmd and ctrl
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
What line of laptops is in the same league as the MacBook Pro?
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
What tools do you use for this? PlantUML?
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
I just signed a credit card payment at a restaurant using a Toast device and it asked if they wanted to run in offline mode. So this is already solved at scale to some degree.
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
I love the idea of high quality code. I do, however, dismiss the energy efficiency issue. > Data centers already consume 200 TWh annually. That's 7.2 x 10^16 joules Some estimates suggest that's low. Let's multiply by 5. A
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
Is this measureable? Like code readability scores on the GitHub corpus over time?
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
> parallelism at both the core and instruction level Which most programs don't take advantage of.
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Drew Cukor – AI Adoption as a National Security Priority [video](youtube.com)
1 points by 0xWTF 1y ago|0 comments
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
Am I reading this right? Statistical LLM outputs pushed through a formal logic model? Wouldn't that be a case of "crap in, crap out"?
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
That works with a network. But as the period of disconnection grows, the uncertainty grows.
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
There's a term I saw all over someone's Google calendar schedule, pre-pandemic "DNS without asking". Now I realize it means "Do not schedule without asking" but my mind thought "Domain Name Service without
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
Can we get a reset on the state actors while we're at it? Because I'm sure there are a number of countries who can't infiltrate 2025 FAANG, but could infiltrate 2015 FAANG, and any start-up is going to be dealing with scaling
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
I was about to ridicule this, but then I thought about it. My wife is in a skilled trade in SV, and that actually sounds about right. She has nothing to do with software, but probably earns, dollar/hour, about the same as a mid-tier L6
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
Anyone who has downloaded raw data from an unencrypted weather satellite can appreciate how crazy familiar territory can look when a bit of rotation and skew is applied. Imagine a satellite over the Southern Ocean looking southeast across M

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