atemerev

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1. 481.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   You can sell low-level exploits quite profitably. You don’t need to make it, like, an official employment. If you can find gold, why be employed in a gold-mining company for a salary if you can just sell your findings?
2. 482.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   You don’t understand. Women _want_ to work, like most people. House caring is a shitty, mostly thankless, boring, unpaid job — most of white collar jobs are much better in comparison. Rich people outsource most difficult parts to hired help
3. 483.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   I don’t know, is Switzerland civilized country? We don’t have single payer. Neither are most of Europe (except Nordics).
4. 484.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   Well, wives work too.
5. 485.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   I wonder why this really common use case requires so much esoteric SQL/Postgres knowledge. While everything is well explained, the solution is not simple, by all means. I don’t like complex solutions to common problems.
6. 486.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   For billions of nodes, there are two options: Graphistry (and it might be less than that, 100M is OK), and Pajek, which is weird, but can handle billions of nodes. Neo4j, cytoscape, etc will not work.
7. 487.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   Well, hardware is replaceable, too.
8. 488.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   Yes, except there is no “massive care”. If people are OK to install other companies’ rootkits to their critical infrastructure, they will not care about anything else, too.
9. 489.▲
   by atemerev 2y ago

   The industry couldn’t even prepare for a bad Crowdstrike update. And yet, it figured things out in a few days or so. The ability to prepare for catastrophic scenarios is overestimated. The ability to survive them is underestimated.
10. 490.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    It is not just the video cards. CPUs, mainboards, cooling systems, losses/inefficiencies… E.g. 4x4090 Comino Grando workstation is rated for 2811W, which is OK. 8x will probably trip my circuit breaker already, unless I plug it into hi
11. 491.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Well, I live in an apartment in Switzerland, we have different standards.
12. 492.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    But this is not a problem, if you have money to buy 1TB memory, you can easily get a motherboard that supports it for around $800-$1000. It will be cheaper than attempting to build a cluster with 4x256GB RAM. GPU inference is another thing,
13. 493.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Ubuntu loses talent, and it is no longer a Linux anyone would recommend for any reason.
14. 494.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Marketing is not about deception, it is about visibility.
15. 495.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    I would stop eating because I wouldn’t be able to sell my products and won’t have money to go to restaurants! Like most of the people who don’t work for employers (so they could outsource their marketing efforts to corporations), and have t
16. 496.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Well, if you try to run your own business of any type, you suddenly realize why there's need for marketing. Things don't sell themselves. Nobody beats a path to your door even with the best of mousetraps.
17. 497.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    No, it didn’t. Not for economic reasons — after the fall of USSR, many families started to make “homemade pizzas” of various quality. The reason was that nobody actually knew what is a pizza. USSR was a totalitarian state. All information f
18. 498.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Good call — it would be inconvenient to run a country in 2025 otherwise.
19. 499.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Nice try, but Trafilatura (which is the most popular web fetching library for AI pipelines) doesn't include the text in <p meta> in the output.
20. 500.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    As if they prefer this work to not earning money at all. Unless you are really rich, you can’t stop working and be fine too. I surely can’t.
21. 501.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Err, how? They are doing it voluntarily. They want these jobs. They can work at other jobs too, but that would be an education startup opportunity.
22. 502.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Also works in Switzerland.
23. 503.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Cool. Now replace hats with explosives and sell it to the military.
24. 504.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Do not use Ubuntu. It is becoming nearly unusable due to this stuff. Fedora or Debian or whatever else.
25. 505.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    For laptops, there are no alternative to Apple silicon anyway, and macos is still unix, so I don’t mind. For desktops, sky is the limit.
26. 506.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    Ah, right, CAD is still stubbornly there.
27. 507.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    I can live with this if I occasionally want to play so-called “AAA” games. I don’t use Windows for anything else.
28. 508.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    And half of software engineers (the other half have Linux laptops). I only use Windows as a game launcher (and I’m still on Windows 10), I don’t understand why anyone would need it anymore except games.
29. 509.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    I was working as a software engineer in finance (high-frequency trading, etc). When COVID started, I wanted to do something about it, so I joined a PhD program in medicine. Now I work as a HPC software engineer in neuroscience.
30. 510.▲
    by atemerev 2y ago

    I went for a PhD at the age of 37, learned quite a lot. Raw science is something that AI still struggles with, and expected to do so for some time.