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by bitL 4y ago
Reading the CMU article, how do you actually make it fast? For each frame you need to collect all objects in the scene (for ray traced scenes anything that can be reflected), split them into micropolygons (either from a triangle mesh or fro
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by bitL 4y ago
Why not use Tor Browser for private things then?
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by bitL 4y ago
Alternative take: Linux could finally create a stable driver ABI so that drivers compiled in 1999 still work with the latest kernel without recompiling, as is with Windows. Until then only the most main-stream devices will be supported.
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by bitL 4y ago
Some AI startups backed by the biggest players are already hitting legal/regulatory issues.
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by bitL 4y ago
They proved that Galactica would be an excellent front-end for a differentiable information retrieval system. This definitely moved the research forward; work on the back-end (i.e. fact retrieval usable for LLMs) is still needed.
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by bitL 4y ago
If they manage to create a differentiable information retrieval system (i.e. a database that informs neural nets about facts) then the hallucination part might go away.
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by bitL 4y ago
Nobody is forcing you to plug a smart TV into Internet and no smart TV has the capability to talk to 5G free/marketing channels yet.
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by bitL 4y ago
Memory of a civilization only lasts a few generations and at some point all lessons are forgotten. You can see it already wrt lessons from WW1 and WW2 in Europe.
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by bitL 4y ago
Not just UK, the whole EU is basically flat since 2008 whereas US, China and India are growing like crazy.
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by bitL 4y ago
There seem to be studies with similar results for standalone zinc, vitamin B1 and B3. e.g. zinc twice a day: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
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by bitL 4y ago
Imagine being a 20-year old in Germany and Netherlands and finding the cheapest house you can own goes for 500k. Your salary peaks at 80k after 10 years of work, half of it goes to taxes and 1/3 of that is lost on rent you are forced t
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by bitL 4y ago
Thanks, I might have been misinformed then. I'll look into it in detail to set my perception straight when I have more time.
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by bitL 4y ago
Yeah, could be one of those. Anyway, the rule is to stay away even if they offer $400k/year ;-)
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by bitL 4y ago
BTW, most FAANG companies monitor and record everything you are doing, you just don't hear about it because they are smart about it. But when SHTF, you learn very quickly. Also ask Meta devs about their typical workload if they want to
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by bitL 4y ago
Thanks for giving me another perspective - so it's basically always a hack to go around limitations?
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by bitL 4y ago
Not if they only do business in the EU with legal entities like freelancers or small limited-liability pass-through companies where there is no weekly time limit for the owner nor the "no monitoring" requirement.
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by bitL 4y ago
I am sure those companies won't pop on your radar but they will for Indians and other foreigners that want to earn average US salary in their own countries. And yes, you should completely avoid them, they have typically terrible review
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by bitL 4y ago
Twitter will get 12-hour shifts common in Tesla instead...
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by bitL 4y ago
There are companies in the SW industry that require 40h/week and actually monitor that (e.g. collecting metrics in 10-minute intervals and rejecting intervals with low intensity levels).
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by bitL 4y ago
So your solution is to basically have them as "untouchable caste" that is supposed to pay taxes but can't vote, despite being born there and living there all their lives. Ideally if they just disappeared. And you don't s
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by bitL 4y ago
I must have misread, my apologies. I guess it's time to take a break.
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by bitL 4y ago
"Technically, Slovakia is not the successor state of Czechoslovakia, Czechia is. If a person was born in Czechoslovakia, and only speaks the official language of the successor state of Czechoslovakia, then that person should probably b
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by bitL 4y ago
You need to reside at least 10 years in Spain before you can invoke Beckham's Law, so not an option for many people.
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by bitL 4y ago
Look, Baltic states have my sympathy for what you managed to achieve in 30 years. I understand you needed a few years to establish yourselves as independent nations, assert/reclaim your national character and show it to your big bad ne
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by bitL 4y ago
Tax domicile laws are often in effect only after 180-something days in most developed countries. For example, imagine you are moving after 270 days from e.g. Croatia with 12% tax rate to Germany with 42% tax rate. The 90 days you are making
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by bitL 4y ago
You are most likely correct - those who want to own a property/live there forever are out of luck and likely bend local laws. It's always best to talk to your tax advisor wrt these issues to avoid any troubles later (I did to mine
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by bitL 4y ago
I understand you are used to it, but it's really bad optics from the outside. How can there be people in their 30s without a citizenship? Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language which means it's extremely difficult to learn due to a co
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by bitL 4y ago
A quick question - how can a person born in a Baltic state and living there their whole life end up without citizenship? How is that democratic? Don't you see any problem there? That doesn't happen even between Romanians and Hunga
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by bitL 4y ago
I think you'd need at least one country to give you a taxation statement for a given year or you risk your home country will extract those taxes from you later. I can ask my tax person about it.
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by bitL 4y ago
Read about how 1/3 to 1/2 of population is treated in Baltic countries, then get back to preaching about how moral/democratic they are. How can people born there living there for decades end up without a citizenship? Dubai im

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