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by WJW 2y ago
The goal of such regulation would be to reduce the amount of influence US tech billionaires can exert over the EU. Any regulation would be written with that in mind, so an opco which would still be controlled from the US is not in line with
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by WJW 2y ago
If that were the actual reason then why did the sales drop so much in the last month? Surely the new model Y has been coming for a while now, it is difficult to imagine that it would cause a >40% drop across the board from month to month
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by WJW 2y ago
There's a correlation-is-not-causation issue here. Yes, most very good developers pay a lot of attention to details, as well as to the bigger picture. But there are a lot of mediocre to downright bad developers who think that paying a
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by WJW 2y ago
Someone has never encountered bureaucracy I see. Human chains of responsibility manage to dissolve blame into nothingness all the time.
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by WJW 2y ago
> one reason startups work so well Since when do startups "work well"? Some startups work well, but famously >90% of them fail. Imagine if 9 out of every 10 fires was just left alone because the fire brigade was replaced b
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by WJW 2y ago
Who is Jimmy Savile? I know I could google it easily and it's probably some guy who did something terrible, but it's certainly not a fact I could pull from memory. Savile row as a tailors' institution on the other hand is com
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by WJW 2y ago
Wouldn't that just ruin the document you were trying to print?
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by WJW 2y ago
> Those who have paid even passing attention to modern productivity software will recognize the language and aim of Agenda, a project from more than 30 years ago, and therefore the broad endeavor of saving time, breaking silos, and endle
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by WJW 2y ago
Yes it does. It just takes a while to load. No idea why this is though.
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by WJW 2y ago
Part of NVidias valuation was due to the perception that AI companies would need lots and lots of GPUs, which is still true. But I think the main problem causing the selloff was that another part of the popular perception was that NVidia w
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by WJW 2y ago
By and large they don't come from a software development background either though. It's all math and physics PhDs.
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by WJW 2y ago
I agree that it will improve demand for AI services. There's no hard rule that the demand increase will be larger than the efficiency increase though, and so total sales of GPUs may still decrease as a result.
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by WJW 2y ago
It's a reflection of expectations about the future economy. Obviously, such expectations are not always accurate because humans are quite fallible when trying to predict the future. This is even more true when there is a lot of hype ab
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by WJW 2y ago
Having the connection for longer than needed only puts more pressure on databases on which connections are a scarce resource (basically only postgres, and even then it's easily fixed with pgbouncer). When using a database with a better
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by WJW 2y ago
For 50k?
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by WJW 2y ago
10+ year old development means practices like scrum and agile? Or do you mean 10+ year old tech like Golang and Rust? /s of course but I think you need to calibrate your level of "old" :)
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by WJW 2y ago
Have the non-tech people you used to follow on Twitter also migrated to Mastodon? What about the other half of the tech people, where did they go? Labeling another post as deceptive and then trying to use just one demographic (and not a ver
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by WJW 2y ago
Don't want to be a hater but the parent of my previous post was literally about charging more for rich people. That is the entire point of enterprise plans too.
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by WJW 2y ago
No, go to https://rideshare.spacex.com/search?orbitClassification=2&la... and click through a couple of times. It literally asks you for your contact data and credit card number so you can pay 650k USD for launching 15
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by WJW 2y ago
You can find that information in quarterly published information for all publicly traded companies, and for many non-public companies with only slightly more searching.
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by WJW 2y ago
It's uncanny how accurately this maps to departments claiming they contribute V-$1 of the total profits. Sales argues they bring all the money, engineering argues sales would have nothing to sell without the products being made, platfo
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by WJW 2y ago
More like the people who appear rich subsidize the repairs of the people who appear poor. Probably usually fairly accurate but it's amusing to think about the edge cases where the truly rich don't feel the need to dress wealthy an
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by WJW 2y ago
People with backup generators are also legally mandated to have switchgear that prevents them backfeeding into the mains grid when it is down, for the exact same reasons.
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by WJW 2y ago
Technically probably yes, provided you had millions of neighbors, the sun never sets and all big users like kettles and heat pumps kindly switch off as well. If either of those conditions stops being true, then either the frequency or the v
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by WJW 2y ago
The safety reasons are real though: when linesmen need to do work on the grid, it has to be depowered. This used to be easy to accomplish: just make sure the line is switched off from at the substation and you can be reasonably certain that
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by WJW 2y ago
I don't think that is weird at all. Nobody is born knowing about UI threads and junior devs today are not significantly different in knowledge from junior devs a decade ago. It's not surprising that things which were confusing in
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by WJW 2y ago
The function itself hardly communicates with the db then, does it? In your example it's the impure process that does all the actual communicating.
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by WJW 2y ago
There are plenty of amateur- to semipro-level youtubers out there in the metal and woodworking spaces with a total amount invested in their workshop that is way larger than that. I wouldn't be surprised if there are EE hobbyists with p
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by WJW 2y ago
LLMs can be trained on chess games, but the tree of possible board states branches so fast that for any given position there is simply very little training data available. Even the billions of games played on chess.com and lichess are only
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by WJW 2y ago
Is it? TBH it sounds like "climbing a tree is a start on getting to the moon beyond just jumping up and down". Yes, it does "more". But whether it will actually get you to the desired end state is highly dubious. Nobody

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