CapeTheory

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by CapeTheory 2y ago
> What am I missing? I think it can be summarised as "FOMO".
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
"Move fast and break things" Wait, no, not like that
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Dual class shares are part of the picture here. They are very common in the US, and allow founders to have their cake and eat it. UK regulators have historically frowned upon this, but that stance is beginning to soften.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Looks like you created a bespoke license for your tool, which is your perogative but also means many people won't even consider using it.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
The "magic smoke" is what happens when your PC gains a scintilla of self-awareness and realizes it entered your home without an invitation.
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Many of our existing physical models can be decomposed into "high-confidence, well tested bit" plus "hand-wavy empirically fitted bit". I'd like to see progress via ML replacing the empirical part - the real scienti
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Good old Chatty Jeeps
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
What USP are you aiming for, to differentiate from the many companies who have tried and failed to offer some form of HPCaaS over the last 10-15 years?
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by CapeTheory 2y ago
Maybe Covid will be The End of the Whole Mess after all.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Massive in his field.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
But eventually your human mentor diminishes with age. And then you can crush them.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
"This is...better?" :-)
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Yes. 1) Unique experiences create memories. Experiences you choose for yourself are more likely to result in happy memories. 2) More difficult to explain, it's just nice to be nice. Emphasis on "little bit" since you want to
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
It's amazing what can happen when software companies start doing something approximating real engineering, rather than just sitting a UI on top of some managed services.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
> hleswig-Holstein is also developing an open source directory service to replace Microsoft's Active Directory Colour me intrigued - but don't we already have this with FreeIPA?
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Maybe that's the new Turing test; true AGI is reached when computers are smart enough to dismiss the possibility of IBM returning to competence. For a warm-up task, ask the AI about a hypothetical scenario involving an honest and ethic
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Ridiculous fantasizing - there is simply no way that IBM would be able to build something as good as that.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
As an end-user I am not more inclined to support the profiteering of a small VC-backed company than an evil megacorporation - at least when the latter does well, I can see some upside in my pension fund.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
So far it feels like a gold rush without much gold, just a lot of very expensive picks and shovels.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Once you get into the top tax band, the 20% cut in base pay only corresponds to an ~8% cut in take-home pay - a pretty good deal as far as I'm concerned. The problem is that employers who pay this much tend to be large US companies and
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
The Devs thought this solar system was outside our render distance, so they used default placeholder values for everything. Should be patched in the next release.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
You are right, of course. If I had the money I would absolutely build a bunker, even if it was just as an entertaining project. The fact that we hear about Zuck and Altmann being the ones prepping or building bunkers could reflect that they
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
I didn't say no-one wants it, just that no-one is asking for it - which is exactly what you would expect for a component which is already a standard part of server hardware.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Option 1: Be a valuable member of society rather than a parasite, so that you can contribute something in a doomsday scenario Option 2: Dig a big hole to live in while the poors eat each other
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Do you happen to have a preferred source for these 3-year old off-lease servers?
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Ok thanks, sounds like I should finally check out this podcast. Instances where I have seen the hardware root of trust mentioned were all on Twitter I think.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
I guess you just made my point for me - a hardware root of trust is commonplace in modern computing, so I don't really get why they spent so much time talking about it.
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by CapeTheory 3y ago
Not really. More like one of those 8U blade boxes which holds >16 servers and reduces cabling by including a backplane - but extended to a full rack. They have made a lot of fuss about the "hardware root of trust", but that see