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by WatchDog 4y ago
Serious question, what's left after that? The technology involved in food production, medicine, and weapons are very diverse and complex, if you need to keep all the supporting industries, whats left to globalize?
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by WatchDog 4y ago
When will we see high resolution (say 1080p) FLIR cameras at a prosumer level price point ~$1,000?
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Semiconductors are probably one of the lightest products relative to their costs. So as you alluded to, the long distance logistics of delivering the finished products, have a negligent impact on it's price.
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by WatchDog 4y ago
The reason China want Taiwan is because it poses an existential threat to the CCP, same story with Hong Kong, Taiwan has the same cultural roots as mainland China, yet they pursued democracy and free markets, despite not having access to th
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Samsara is probably my second favourite after koyaanisqatsi, would highly recommend checking that out too.
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Are the GPU memory requirements different for this release? Is now it possible to generate higher resolution images with less memory?
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Also anecdote, but twitter has historically been pretty unreliable for me. Without a reliable twitter systems status history pre-acquisition, the reports of failures, like the issues with the 2FA system, don't mean a whole lot.
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by WatchDog 4y ago
> For one thing, I have relatives that got into the tech scene after me, but rack in much higher salaries than me. I'm not sure what it is, but probably staying in their jobs for more than two years helps. Interesting perspective, I
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by WatchDog 4y ago
USB-C ipads seem to support 10gbps speeds. You can hook up a 10gbps Ethernet adapter[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HesEVXItRu0
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Biden publicly stated that he will shut down the nord stream if Russia attacked Ukraine[0], so he’s sticking to his word. [0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbEoZXhCrM
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by WatchDog 4y ago
I don't quite understand the benefit of mixed precision. It seems like using high precision is useful for training, but if not training, why not just use float16 weights and save the memory?
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by WatchDog 4y ago
While there are different dimensions to intelligence, they tend to all be correlated to each other. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Is this the same thing as google forms surveys, or something else?
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by WatchDog 4y ago
> [The cords] are generally used to ‘back-feed’ electricity to a residence during a power outage by connecting a generator to an outlet in the home. Interesting idea, I suppose so long as you flip the main breaker this can work to electr
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by WatchDog 4y ago
There seem to be a bunch of open source risc-v cores. Such as the CORE-V cores. However I’m not sure how suitable they are for commercial use compared to the proprietary options.
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by WatchDog 4y ago
> It's not really a concern so long as they are engaged in nonzero economic activity, in which case no money is permanently trapped within the vehicle. On the contrary, unspent money has no impact on the real economy. If money is pe
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by WatchDog 4y ago
> one of our major banks actually has a touch reader on their machine Not sure I understand what you mean. NFC readers? Not just one, every merchant bank and payments terminal operator supports NFC. I haven't seen a terminal that do
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by WatchDog 4y ago
While it's not as natural to use for non-jvm projects, gradle has many of the same properties as bazel. It's just a graph of tasks that take inputs in, and produces artifacts out. So long as the inputs to a task don't chang
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by WatchDog 4y ago
I assume that you don't have thousands of people looking over your code, how can you know that it doesn't have similar or greater room for optimization?
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by WatchDog 4y ago
If that's what they cared about, they could have copied what ElasticSearch did, and switched to a Server Side Public License (SSPL).
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by WatchDog 4y ago
> NVMe is actually not any better than SATA SSDs at random/low-queue-depth IO. The fastest NVMe SSD[0] on UserBenchmark appears to be a fair bit faster at 4k random read compared to the fastest SATA SSD[1]. 75 MB/s vs 41.9 MB&#
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by WatchDog 4y ago
They have already developed and deployed custom silicon for their cars. There is probably some overlap in the IP between these chips, but Dojo is optimized for operating in a large data center cluster for training purposes, whereas their
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Great article, so much complexity and it doesn't even really cover USB power delivery and proprietary extensions like Quick Charge[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Charge
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Curious as to why the compensation is listed in AUD but the role isn't open to GMT +10?
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by WatchDog 4y ago
It’s not just a matter of ISA, Apple’s CPUs are significantly more performant in a number of ways compared to other ARM CPUs on the market at the moment.
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by WatchDog 4y ago
> randomly cancelling thousands of peoples domains on short notice simply due to the country they are from Not wrong, but for more context, they made their Russian customers transfer their domains, when their Ukrainian offices started ge
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by WatchDog 4y ago
"There you have it, you see how far the termites have spread, and how long and well they've dined." - Christopher Hitchens
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by WatchDog 4y ago
The state of multi module js/ts projects, is such a disappointment when you are used to working in the JVM ecosystem. The tooling sucks, configuration is overly redundant, it’s fragile and when it works it’s super slow.
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by WatchDog 4y ago
The major clouds all have generous free tiers as well. The developer experience varies but, they all seem to have their own ways of running containerised apps.
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by WatchDog 4y ago
Operating systems are software.

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