Apes

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by Apes 5d ago
I'll believe it the day SpaceX - the AI company that is mostly making money selling datacenter compute using gas turbines for energy - takes a single day 90% or greater drop in stock price.
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by Apes 11d ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding - but I thought there's already "dumb" headsets doing foveated eye tracking, like the Pimax headsets. If that's the case, then you don't need $300 of ram and a $200 CPU to perform thi
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by Apes 11d ago
I'm not sure going from less than $50 of RAM and a $50 processor for foveated eye tracking to 16 GiB of RAM ($300) and a Snapdragon 8 ($200) is a "slight bump".
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by Apes 11d ago
The real question is why did they release this as a standalone unit for $1049 and then claim they couldn't sell it for less due to the RAM shortage - when that implies they could have released a dumb unit that depends on the Steam Deck
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by Apes 2mo ago
This isn't a very productive statement by any standard.
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by Apes 5mo ago
No argument against VMs - just that they have a different risk profile and a different set of trade-offs than containers. They're not a silver bullet, but if they're working for you, then go for it.
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by Apes 5mo ago
You can't really do anything useful with a VM either unless you start punching holes in those boundaries.
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by Apes 5mo ago
If you're connecting to a host on a port < 1024, then you know a SysAdmin must have set it up, and it must be trustworthy. It was a simpler time.
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by Apes 5mo ago
If you have write access to nginx.conf, you can set "user root root;"
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by Apes 6mo ago
The theory behind the US having a large military is that it acts as a sort of fleet in being - that the US prefers other methods of engaging with countries, and having a stronger military precludes other countries from engaging militarily.
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by Apes 7mo ago
> An MRI is great at identifying which ways your body doesn’t look like a textbook reference body, but it doesn’t necessarily tell you what those things are or whether they will ever cause you problems. Its the doctors doing this, not th
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by Apes 9mo ago
I've got this game in my steam library, and I wondered why no one ever talks about it. I never realized it was delisted and made impossible to buy so long ago.
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by Apes 11mo ago
The year is 1846, and a doctor has a radical new idea: doctors should wash their hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies! You're not sure of whether this is a good idea or not, so you ask various physicians, and the co
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by Apes 11mo ago
I strongly suspect the truth is both are "right", but they're both optimized answers to slightly different problems. Mainstream medicine is hyper optimized for the most common 80% of cases. At a glance it makes sense: optimiz
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by Apes 1y ago
I don't think there's a silver bullet coming within our lifetimes. There's no single points of failure: as you get older, everything just starts wearing out and failing. If you cure heart disease and cancer, then others wil
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by Apes 1y ago
Whoops, I haven't worked with bonds directly in a bit and forgot the coupon rate was split across payments.
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by Apes 1y ago
I'm not sure there's a significant difference in practice, but technically the $50 would be part of the bond's debt principal, not interest. A bond with a face value of $1000 means the government has $1000 of debt regardless
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by Apes 1y ago
I think you have a strong argument here, but there's a problem of deeper and widespread rot at play. The reason Uber can get away with pretending it's just a "connector" is because the entire tech ecosystem has been allo
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by Apes 1y ago
Byuu was fantastic - I remember when they came onto the scene and made a big push for better emulator compatibility across the board. Byuu made positive changes in the world, and I still think about them from time to time.
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by Apes 1y ago
It seems odd that you're fixated on the tool used rather than the content itself. Do you refuse to wear clothes because a machine made them?
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by Apes 1y ago
I created the list and had an LLM review it to ensure I wasn't just pulling stuff out of thin air. Looks like it switched my hyphens for em-dashes.
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by Apes 1y ago
People often get hyper-focused on a single cause, but there is a whole range of forces driving a sharp decline in jobs. All of this is visible, yet we are marching toward an economic crisis of our own making. I believe the best term for thi
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by Apes 1y ago
People often get hyper-focused on a single cause, but there is a whole range of forces driving a sharp decline in jobs. All of this is visible, yet we are marching toward an economic crisis of our own making. I believe the best term for thi
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by Apes 1y ago
RTX 5090 is about as good as it gets for home use. Its inference speeds are extremely fast. The limiting factor is going to be the VRAM on the 5090, but nvidia intentionally makes trying to break the 32GB barrier extremely painful - they wa
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by Apes 1y ago
My understanding is the DGX Spark is optimized for training / fine tuning and the Jetson Thor is optimized for running inference. Architecturally, the DGX Spark has a far better cache setup to feed the GPU, and offers NVLINK support.
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by Apes 1y ago
The “employee” isn’t living off an H-1B salary — they’re already wealthy enough to bankroll the whole arrangement. The company is just a shell to win the auction and sponsor them. If an auction system were adopted without safeguards, it cou
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by Apes 1y ago
That's technically true, but I have seen PhDs hired under H1B - I've never heard of, let alone seen someone hired under the O-1A program.
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by Apes 1y ago
It’s not hard to imagine a loophole here: • Someone with a lot of money wants to get U.S. residency. • They set up or work with a shell company that “hires” them under the H-1B program. • That company uses part of their payment to win the v
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by Apes 1y ago
It’s not even clear that an auction would be the most efficient way to allocate H-1Bs if we define efficiency as maximizing long-term economic and societal value, not just short-term revenue. An auction favors companies with deep pockets ri
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by Apes 1y ago
People want at least the appearance of a holistic process that considers a candidate’s broader value to society — even if that process isn’t perfect. An auction drops the pretense entirely and just says: pay to win.

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