Moissanite

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by Moissanite 4y ago
AWS and Azure should both be separated from their parent companies. That would end a lot of the hand-wringing about Amazon competing with its retail customers, and would force Microsoft to stop it's anticompetitive license bundling she
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I presume your point here is that a trademark represents "authenticity", which is valuable to consumers. That's a fair concern, but clearly a large part of the benefit does in fact accrue to the holder - otherwise they wouldn
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by Moissanite 4y ago
To counteract this, we need some form of vexatious litigation charge for copyright and trademarks - if you try to assert ownership over something you obviously don't own (as decided by a jury), you lose the original trademark you were
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by Moissanite 4y ago
You could say the English language is... Puts on sunglasses A-maze-ing.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I am increasingly in favour of an outcome like the end of "Ready Player One", where we just turn everything off for a couple of days per week.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
> mazes with only one path from start to end One of my favourite bits of trivia: it is this property (being "unicursal") which leads to a maze being more specifically characterized as a labyrinth.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Anyone in the US (or just anyone really) considering visiting Blackpool to see what is driving this equivalence from our end - don't. Historically, it was a pleasant seaside resort town. The rise of cheap flights combined with a decade
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Some of it also comes from prior impressions that a book is "worth reading". Take Wealth of Nations as an example. It inspired, arguably, the whole field of economics - and yet after a hundred or so pages of reading about the wort
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Normal file-systems come with too much baggage - permissions portability between Windows and Linux being the main bugbear for my own use-cases.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
If you like writing code, CS is the most sensible option regardless of LLMs. If you want to make money, the picture is less clear - hopefully LLMs will reduce the demand for code monkeys which is skewing dev salaries to such absurdly high l
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by Moissanite 4y ago
For Americans who don't want to click the link: "Spack" is basically a milder British-English version of "retard". Imagine how well the "Spaz programming language" would do in your market.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I haven't tried since the binary cache launched - but over the years I've attempted to use Spack following their "getting started" guide half a dozen times and achieved nothing but long waits and disappointment; part of
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Spack has significantly higher adoption than EasyBuild overall, though Spack usage has a US bias while EasyBuild is more popular with EU public sector HPC sites.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I encourage anyone to follow the "install your first package" instructions, but pick a real scientific package like WRF or GROMACS. Be prepared to wait a while though...
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Lightsail lacks any VPC or Security Group controls - these are typically the first things I miss when using plain servers at a VPS provider.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
The sad part is, it was actually quite good. I used Stadia for more than a year, and very rarely had issues or perceptible input lag even on FPS games, on a middling internet connection. The problem was, everyone knew right from the get-go
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Morals can be exchanged for goods and services!
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Being conversant in modern DevOps tools and having some Python experience was enough to get me to interviews last time I was on the job market. AWS skills would probably rank next, followed by "general Linux sysadmin" - this last
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by Moissanite 4y ago
My cats are non-Newtonian - fluid when trying to force their way onto my knee past the laptop, but solid when sitting in the middle of a step as I try to walk upstairs.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
> Although eventually some corp will make a minor tweak to this and copyright the hell out of it Patent rather than copyright, but you are most likely correct - in fact I fully expect at least one company already has a patent which might
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by Moissanite 4y ago
> rather than be paid to little to be the ablative armour of a system stretched to breaking Love that imagery. Although I work for a tech consulting firm rather than having a real/useful job like those you describe, I would apply th
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by Moissanite 4y ago
> I don't know what working there is actually like but the interview made it sound like a goddamn cult. I felt the same way on my induction ("Day 1"...) - it quickly became clear that the main relevance of LPs was as a wea
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Data which they haven't shared. Don't you think that if it was convincing, they would gleefully publish it?
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I'm salaried, but this could fit with another idea which is in the air at the moment - a reduced working week. I have been WFH since before the pandemic, but technically there is an office I could commute to. It would take me about an
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by Moissanite 4y ago
What makes it particularly irksome is how Amazon fashions itself as a data driven company, requiring reams of evidence from employees to get promoted - but that doesn't apply to the S-team and their decisions, because they are obviousl
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by Moissanite 4y ago
...and you'll be warm for the rest of your life.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I imagine one of the cute IKEA pictures of a confused man, scratching his head, wondering why his new galaxy is broken and on the floor.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
You will see tech "luminaries" talk about T-shaped people sometimes on Twitter, implying that you need both breadth and depth. Depending on your level of cynicism, you can either take that as them trying to get 2 employees for the
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Chat AIs are a mirror to reflect the soul of the internet. Should we really be surprised that they quickly veer towards lying and threats?
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Hiring them is fine - charging thousands of dollars per day for expertise they don't actually have is where people start to have a problem.

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