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by belval 4y ago
Thanks! I've been wondering if exiling myself deep in Canada and using Starlink to be fully remote was viable. Do you notice any impact from the increase latency (compared to coax cable or fiber) in meetings/voice chat/video
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by belval 4y ago
> Starlink's median US upload speed dropped from 12Mbps to 7.2Mbps from Q4 2021 to Q3 2022 I wasn't able to find an answer online. Is this the expected "ok" upload speed? 7-12Mbps seem low for typical WFH usage like v
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by belval 4y ago
Personal attack aside, from your own link: > Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the: > MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes > MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manne
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by belval 4y ago
The soft kind. Major versions are deeply ingrained as "possible backward-compatibility issues" in most engineers' brain. If you handle model development, evaluation and deployment yourself than sure you won't have any is
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by belval 4y ago
Not sure I understand that question, is versioning the biggest problem no, but it costs nothing to keep semver and prevent production headaches later. If you meant inference speed then yeah it's a very big problem so it's good tha
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by belval 4y ago
> We believe that this is a substantial new direction for PyTorch – hence we call it 2.0. torch.compile is a fully additive (and optional) feature and hence 2.0 is 100% backward compatible by definition. How about just calling it PyTorch
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by belval 4y ago
It's 127m as in meters, not 127M as in millions. I think the actual price was more around 300M.
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by belval 4y ago
I've always said it as "latin-ex" and "latin-exes", but I could just be using it wrong.
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by belval 4y ago
For some reason every layoff press release on HN gets the "The CEO takes responsability but doesn't actually" comments. I'm not sure what people expect, "I will whip myself once for every employee I had to layoff to
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by belval 4y ago
Un-ironically: the pride of a job well done? Most people in software on this site a very well paid and well treated, the least we can do is do our job right.
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by belval 4y ago
Regenerative breaking is an amazing piece of tech. I really like electric cars that have it baked-in the "gas" pedal so that releasing it slows down the car without using the brakes. You can achieve "optimal" driving by
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by belval 4y ago
As a general rule, most machines break during state changes like start/stop. Keeping an engine running means no piece is subjected to the extra acceleration of restarting and your starter isn't used.
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by belval 4y ago
> he's Putin invading Ukraine I get that he's not the most tasteful individual out there, but this seems like a questionable parallel to draw.
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by belval 4y ago
> But what if I need packages created and maintained by vetted, qualified devs rather than the unvetted randos that upload PGBUILDs to the AUR? Pay for them or package them yourself. The nerve of being angry at people giving you their wo
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by belval 4y ago
> LeCun also approvingly links to someone else who writes, in response to AI critic Gary Marcus The article really fails to explain that LeCun and Marcus have been trading insults for the last few years, it's hardly LeCun snapping
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by belval 4y ago
Sample size of 1, but I use HomeAssistant a lot more than I ever used Alexa/Google Home. The voice interface might be interesting for the next generation, but having grown with computer/smartphones it just feels more natural to fl
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by belval 4y ago
> I don't understand why they keep bringing this up when they talk about fentanyl. Because when the lethal dose is 2 mg, it's very easy for a careless dealer to make a bad mix and kill their customers. Fentanyl is cheap so you
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by belval 4y ago
It does touch on that point: > The anti-fentanyl antibodies were specific to fentanyl and a fentanyl derivative and did not cross-react with other opioids, such as morphine. That means a vaccinated person would still be able to be treate
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by belval 4y ago
If it's any reassurance, it most likely had nothing to do with fasting and everything to do with the disease itself. Dementia patients will have bigger symptoms later in the day, peaking at dusk.
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by belval 4y ago
Depending on the country you could try to find a hardware swap subreddit. Mining RTX 3090 (not the one that you mentioned but still) often go for <1000 CAD so you could get 2.5 RTX 3090 for each RTX 4090 you wanted.
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by belval 4y ago
Perhaps it's just a green engineer thing. I know GitHub actions, CircleCI, Drone, etc... I don't know pipelines and sometimes it feels like dark magic to me. As far as the other tooling goes, I often find that they are very Java-o
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by belval 4y ago
My work life balance at Amazon as an SDE is great but I don't have 24/7 oncall, make of that what you will. That being said, I agree that the internal tooling at Amazon is not that great. It's actually a place where newer emp
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by belval 4y ago
Someone who didn't pay for OW1 might have no ground to complain, but in my case I paid for OW1 which now doesn't exist and I am left with OW2 which locks away any kind of progression unless I pay. It's a bait and switch and t
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by belval 4y ago
You got me. I wonder if we did a poll, how much money is "a bunch of money" and how much money is "a bunch of money on ads" for people. I think if it had been $500k or $1M I would've called it a bunch, but $160k see
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by belval 4y ago
> According to internal documents viewed by CNBC, SpaceX has spent more than $160,000 on the Twitter ad campaign for Starlink in Australia and Spain so far. Your definition for "a bunch" is a bit questionable, but good on you f
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by belval 4y ago
Why is there no black market for insulin? Like build capacity in Mexico/Canada and smuggle the product in the US? Seems like the multiplier would still be pretty good.
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by belval 4y ago
> Soviet physicians chose Laika to die, but they were not entirely heartless. This tone is really harsh, animals dying to push science forward is still common today and acting like they were "heartless" for it is disingenuous.
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by belval 4y ago
Could be worse, imagine if instead they framed it in amounts that the reader could actually understand. "U.S. tech companies reportedly lost a combined $4 trillion in value this year. To put that in perspective, that’s more more than $
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by belval 4y ago
> even though the tech is amazing right now Have you ever tried to work in VR? It's not amazing at all, my Quest 2 (which has reasonably high resolution per modern headset standard) just can't render clearly enough for me to us
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by belval 4y ago
That statement is way too definitive. VR gaming and sales are low because content is low. It's plagued with the cold start problem of all new platforms where publishers won't target VR because it's a small market, and VR won&

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