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by belval 3y ago
Anecdotally I have had trouble reconciling this seemingly prevalent "you can't disassemble Ikea furniture" with my own experience. It's not made for it sure but bookshelves, bed frames and tables can all be reassembled r
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by belval 3y ago
Imagine listening to some rap music which contains an audible N-word and your Mercedes-Benz gets locked until you call their customer service.
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by belval 3y ago
> The attempt by auto manufacturers to cut out the dealer would only result in higher prices and less customer service to the public,” he said. “The new car dealer is the customer’s advocate when it comes to warranty work and service on
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by belval 3y ago
> The move solidifies Europe’s position as the de facto global tech regulator, setting rules that influence tech policymaking around the world and standards that will likely trickle down to all consumers, as companies shift their practic
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by belval 3y ago
> with one person speculating that Bezos planned to give the physical certificate as a gift To me that one actually sounds likely. There are probably a lot of processes around interacting with his 10% stake in Amazon so touching it costs
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by belval 3y ago
Doesn't have to be that complicated to be dodgy. A bunch of carbon offset works on optimistic to downright stupid metrics for carbon capture. For example they buy a plot of land and then raze it, then they will plant 10k saplings and t
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by belval 3y ago
> Over the next two years, it plans to raise €3bn — that averages out as €125m a month for everyone keeping score at home The EU pledged €2bn so it's mostly government funding. Imagine burning €125m in public money every month.
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by belval 3y ago
Probably a bit of both, but their competition in this article is unproven and unbuilt data centers. Ultimately DCs don't exist in a vaccum, if the energy in Europe makes it possible to be 100% renewables without dodgy offsets then ever
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by belval 3y ago
Corporate fluff aside, AWS is on track to run on 100% renewables by 2025[1] so the selling is mostly "European cloud" since the green part will be mostly expected by the time they actually ramp up. Competition is always good thoug
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by belval 3y ago
Anecdotal but I've had a lot less cuda/nvidia driver breaking moments with Arch than Ubuntu.
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by belval 3y ago
Not really into UFOs myself, but that's not what the article (the whistleblower) is claiming: > “We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” Grusch said. “The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.” The
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by belval 3y ago
I'll preface this by stating that I don't like Apple products and I love my Quest 2. We absolutely need the 10x better in VR for "spatial computing". Right now the issue with the Quest 2 for work is that it's way to
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by belval 3y ago
If you ever get the chance to write something in OpenCL and then in CUDA I promise you will understand immediately why Google didn't push for it. There is a lot more boilerplate to it, read/write to the buffer, queueing being hand
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by belval 3y ago
Amazon acquired Ring in 2018, the fine is for bad internal controls before 2018.
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by belval 3y ago
> So Amazon's lawyers want to show that I'm lying or wrong. > That's why they've requested all these documents. > They want to find the ones which make me look bad. The guy volunteered to be an expert witness...
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by belval 3y ago
Not sure why your comment got downvoted. There were several articles before COVID that covered a few low-profile drug lords from China that were smuggling fentanyl in the US. EDIT: Found the specific article I was thinking about: https:&#x
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by belval 3y ago
Realistically the layoffs usually come with a set of projects/features that will also be getting the boot to allow the remaining employees to regroup under specific initiatives that are deemed more important. Since the layoffs are top
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by belval 3y ago
OpenSearch (or ElasticSearch) query building. I was new to the technology and their syntax took a while to wrap my head around. Instead I'd just tell ChatGPT my document format and then ask for specific data in natural language. Fair
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by belval 3y ago
Counter-argument: an hypothetical manager simply won't (and very often can't) get involved to a point where they can fix this situation. Worker A: Pushed the feature in 2 hours. Worker B: Pushed the feature in 4 hours says he read
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by belval 3y ago
Maybe Venezuela could be cut some slack, but those other 4 are definitely not poster childs of human rights or liberal societies that we should support.
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by belval 3y ago
That is such an awful take. There are so many professional-looking LaTeX templates online, associating it with "willingness to waste time" and actually ditching a candidate shows that you likely don't know how to recruit an
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by belval 3y ago
It's still extreme. I have no doubt that he works extremely hard but what are shareholders getting for a 226M$ compensation instead of a 100M$ one?
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by belval 3y ago
Personally I'd say that happiness is such an ill-defined state that it's not a topic that can be debated a lot. A more objective term might be satisfied. The author is satisfied by his life and does not yearn for something else. M
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by belval 3y ago
Sure but the article really seems to imply that he's not neglecting himself, just optimizing his schedule completely to code all the time. > I run 6 miles many days of the week to keep healthy. I do it while writing code, using a st
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by belval 3y ago
> I regret nothing. If I die this way, I’d go out happy. To me that's what it is really all about, if this person is happy who am I to judge? It's obsession in a search for greatness, not for me but I can definitely see how it
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by belval 3y ago
That's pretty much what the high table task force is wearing in the 3rd movie and the solution is to use bigger guns.
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by belval 3y ago
That's my main gripe with how the bulletproof suits were shown in the fourth movie. There is a difference between getting shot in the chest and actually catching a bullet with your suit while using it as a shield. The former is believa
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by belval 3y ago
Reality Lab (VR) revenue is down +50% YoY which seems surprising. I know VR is not doing great but 50% is a major drop.
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by belval 3y ago
This seems like a pretty bad faith argument that illustrates exactly the point the parent comment was making. Firing Gebru for insubordination is not "extinguishing" anything, it's getting rid of an employee that was actively
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by belval 3y ago
There is a first mover handicap there though. TF1.0 included a bunch of things that were harder to understand like tf.Session(). PyTorch was inspired from the good parts and "we will eager-everything". Internally I'm sure the

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