FuriouslyAdrift

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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   I mean... Larry Ellison bought an entire Hawaiian island... from the Dole family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%81na%CA%BBi
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   I work for a tiny little company ($150MM annual rev with 9% net) and we are already looking at dropping $100k on hardware to run local models because, for us, they're "good enough." Our estimated spend for AIaaS would exceed
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   I do not know anyone other than teachers, cops, or firemen that have pensions and all of those are grossly underfunded (see city of Chicago). Now... if you mean IRAs then yeah... that's 99% of all private "investors" EDIT: I
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   Ruhlsman's "Ratio" is also quite good at distilling the mechanics of food into an algorithm of sorts. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ratio/Michael-Ruhlman...
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   Pension funds still exist?
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   I've gone back to just calling people on the phone like a true savage.
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   No one mentioning you can borrow against an asset. Unless you have a massive portfolio of stcok, you usually aren't going to be able to borrow against it (at least on favorable terms).
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   They are running fabs at 100% capacity. New fabs take many years to build, cost billions, and are out of date within a few process moves. One cannot simply "flood the market" or the Chinese would have done it ages ago.
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   by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

   In the US, over 70% of commuter rail uses shared freight track and electric planes are not going to be moving freight.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    DragonflyBSD is a beautifully well done OS.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    If you really really care about security, then consider CHERI and CheriBSD https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    For power tools, there's also Festool
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    I still dream about a world where we ended up with BeOS instead of OS X. Fastest and lowest latency UI I have ever seen.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    It's $600. In this market that's practically free.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    Reverse engineering vulnerabilities from patches is red team 101...
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/product...
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 5mo ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubUXNSWGth0
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    A reminder that Edge is just Chromium plus some Microsoft hooks for automated SSO.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    LLMs are lossy compression of a corpus with a really good natural language parser... that's it.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    Edison was close friends with Ford and tried to get the electric car market going waaay back around the turn of century. https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/thomas-edis...
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    Most coffee in Vietnam is the rustica variety. It's fantastic with condensed sweatened milk.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    Ajinomoto is also the worlds largest (95% market share) supplier of build up film necessary for integrated circuit packaging. https://www.ajinomoto.com/innovation/our_innovation/buildupf...
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    I am being told by my local coffee geeks that it's Gaggia
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    So... what is the Corolla of espresso machines?
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    AMD has been doing inference chips for many years and are the leader for HPC. https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct.html
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    Great Lakes Chemicals (Chemtura) extracts 40 million pounds of bromine in Arkansas (Smackover Formation) annually. The Dead Sea (Israel) has approximately 1 billion tons still in the water. There's around 100 trillion tons in the ocean
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    IPv4 was exhausted at ARIN in 2011. Last time I bought a /24 on the open market, it was around $6k. I assume it is much more, now.
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences of that speech
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    Riding the the train daily is the norm in the eastern United States. The urban density and shorter distances between metros allows it to be affordable. The US is massive... riding the train between most cities is dramatically more expensive
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    by FuriouslyAdrift 6mo ago

    Well.. they pay the checks so it was easy to go shadow IT. They paid the company that manages the physical building to install access pipes on the roof and run the cables between the dish and the routers. Dishes sitting on the roof and rout