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by alecco 11mo ago
This is worth its own post.
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by alecco 11mo ago
> But all this is opinion and anecdotal. Just pick a random network feature and compare by yourself the Linux and the FreeBSD code. Why did you take out of context my self-criticism and omitted the second part of the line showing how you
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by alecco 11mo ago
I don't like Javascript for CLI. I think OpenAI did the right thing by switching to Rust.
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by alecco 11mo ago
Yeah my business account was forced to pay for an AI. And I only used it for a couple of weeks when Gemini 2.5 was launched, until it got nerfed. So they are definitely counting me there even though I haven't used it in like 7 months.
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by alecco 11mo ago
Please no. It would be impossible to decide the cutoff for who deserves it. Loud communities would bring drama when their favourite person doesn't get pinned. A black strip might be fine, though.
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by alecco 11mo ago
This thread is about Gemini 3. It will be interesting to see your benchmark results when it's available later.
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by alecco 11mo ago
For SWE it is the same ranking. But if Google's $20/mo plan is comparable to the $100-200 plans for OpenAI and Anthropic, yes they are done. But we'll have to wait a few weeks to see if the nerfed model post-release is still
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by alecco 11mo ago
Because FreeBSD is known for having the best network stack. The code is elegant and clean. And, at least until a few years ago, it was the preferred choice to build routers or firewalls. AFAIK, they were the first to implement BPF for produ
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by alecco 11mo ago
Being a networking company I always wondered why did they pick Linux over FreeBSD.
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by alecco 1y ago
Wind and solar are extremely unstable. Spain had a country-wide blackout earlier this year because of reactors being off. Days with peak solar and wind (heavily subsidized) made nuclear not viable. But you need a stable source to keep the g
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by alecco 1y ago
Guys, please read the article. Yes NVIDIA sells servers already. What they mean is they are going to also do other system parts that currenlty the partners are doing. > Starting with the VR200 platform, Nvidia is reportedly preparing to
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Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay(infinitescroll.us)
41 points by alecco 1y ago|16 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
More: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/ai-triggers-... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/server-dr... https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmast
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RAM and storage are ridiculously expensive because of AI(old.reddit.com)
12 points by alecco 1y ago|1 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
As in another comment, adding code/fixes only adds more work to the existing ffmpeg team as they need to review and maintain it forever. It's not good enough. Even security fixes in the style of "drive-by patching" are d
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by alecco 1y ago
Adding code/fixes is a tiny fraction of work compared to reviewing and maintaining. The only reasonable way is for Google and other big corps to either sponsor members of the existing team or donate money to the project. And making it
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by alecco 1y ago
Thanks for the info. That does look like a much better composition and obviously less CO2 for same energy. I've heard the US government plan is to do gas generation aggressively for next few years to bridge untile they get all the new
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by alecco 1y ago
I dare you do the CO2 added due to outsourcing to India, a country whose electricity is 75% generated from burning coal in dirty old power plants.
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Lossless Compression with Asymmetric Numeral Systems (2020)(bjlkeng.io)
1 points by alecco 1y ago|0 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
They bait-and-switch like hell. Once the original workers are out of the picture they squeeze the contract like a lemon. The managers involved won't re-hire and more often than not will even hide the mess (for their own sake). The old
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by alecco 1y ago
> A lot of “AI” investment in countries like India is just annotation and labeling kind of work . Then why are they giving one year of free accounts for developers to the whole country? Remember they have about one million CS graduates
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by alecco 1y ago
[0] no concrete number, and wording implies intent in the order of 1 billion total [1] only $135 Million [2] only 1,300 new employees (over 6,000 current); meanwhile "Apple India leases [...] likely to be one of the largest single-te
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by alecco 1y ago
Are they investing tens of billions in new offices in those non-Indian countries? My other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867014
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by alecco 1y ago
This week OpenAI, Google, And Perplexity announced free 1 year subscription to Indian devs. It must cost quite a fortune in inference https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14pr0enjr6o Not a single mention of jobs b
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by alecco 1y ago
This is a very dumb take. The US markets are over-leveraged so they are very sensitive to any Fed rates news. Mag7 are still doing very well this month in spite of the madness of issuing 60 billions in bonds to build AI datacenters. But Chi
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by alecco 1y ago
Microsoft announces US $3bn investment over two years in India https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-announces-us-3bn-... (Jan 2025) Google announces $15B investment in AI hub in India https://apnews.co
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by alecco 1y ago
AI is taking jobs but for a different reason. Big Tech is in an AI race so they will shrink their staff or move jobs to India as much as possible to free capital for GPU datacenters. To hell with the consequences. Meta, Alphabet, and Oracle
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by alecco 1y ago
> That said, YT in particular has a tendency to draw me into endless shorts holes. Does it matter if it's social media or not? I'm sure you could do a lot better with that wasted time and dopamine.
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'Scamming became the new farming': inside India's cybercrime villages(theguardian.com)
6 points by alecco 1y ago|0 comments
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Alphabet Selling €6.25B of Debt Amid AI Expansion(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by alecco 1y ago|0 comments

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