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California town settles suit over Flintstones house(theguardian.com)
18 points by boulos 5y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 5y ago
If your employer offers a 401k with a match, you should do it. To invest outside of an employer fund, you can open an account with any number of firms, but many folks like Vanguard: they have low fees and aren’t trying to up sell you. There
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by boulos 5y ago
Yeah, she uses OBS to flip the recording (she mentions “in software” in the video in the tweet, and the interview mentions OBS)
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by boulos 5y ago
Think of them like oysters or mussels. Snail is often prepared with lots of garlic, pesto, or cheese-ish things. The south of France styles are pretty easily taken, since there’s more garlic than snail :).
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by boulos 5y ago
Given your interest, there’s a Tom Frost documentary [1] in progress (I saw an early cut as part of an SFFILM event). There’s a lot of great material, but the film wasn’t ready (late 2019?) and I assume the pandemic paused their release pla
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IBM Stops Selling Ladders for Blue Gene/Q(theregister.com)
2 points by boulos 5y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 5y ago
Annoyingly, that list includes companies with Israeli founders that aren’t companies founded in Israel (e.g., WeWork). There’s no need to do that though, there are plenty of Israeli companies! (Oh, I see they have a pie chart of companies i
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by boulos 5y ago
Yeah, depending on your climate, a heat pump can have a Coefficient of Performance [1] of like 3.5. If you don’t take this into account and just take “natural gas in therms => kWh” it often seems like a heat pump would be a large increas
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by boulos 5y ago
Off-topic bug report: Montoya is the last name, not the first name. (Also, in the book / movie the spelling is Inigo not Iñigo nor Íñigo, but people use all the variants)
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by boulos 5y ago
Re-reading the post, it sounds like the conclusion was just “don’t use it” / label it as dangerous. Why didn’t they end up marking the instruction as “can’t speculate this”? (I can imagine wanting to keep it for straight line unrolled
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by boulos 5y ago
> Idk if it’s Bezo’s roots in finance Bezos graduated from Princeton in the mid-80s, and while he did do a stint at some networking company (but for Finance), he ended up in finance directly. He was at D.E. Shaw when the web exploded, an
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Cloud TPU VMs make training your ML models on TPUs easier than ever(cloud.google.com)
3 points by boulos 5y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 5y ago
Yeah, seems to have recovered. AFAICT though that was a 45-minute plus outage. Amusingly, status.chase.com redirects to status page and then to Atlassian (presumably someone at Chase had done a trial of statuspage.io and didn’t renew?)
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by boulos 5y ago
Pay $2/month for Google One? You can share the plans amongst a “family”. https://one.google.com/about/plans
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Chase Bank Login Was Down
2 points by boulos 5y ago|2 comments
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by boulos 5y ago
Versus night sight? The single shot with wide enough glass is definitely going to be better: there just aren’t many photons on the little sensor! But the stacking that night sight does “in camera”, particularly since the Pixel 4, seems to o
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by boulos 5y ago
Hmm. The Linux statement for UE 4 just says “use latest stable” [1] (which is why I always just download the .run file and install “by hand”). But your driver was released in April. While there are a lot of serious-ish sounding issues fixe
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by boulos 5y ago
> cheap DSLR paired with a cheap 35mm f/1.8 in absolute terms. I think this depends on the shot. The Pixel 4 easily beats “cheap DSLR” in several settings, particularly low light. I know folks who have an iPhone as a phone and a Pix
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by boulos 5y ago
> This is with a NVidia 3070 with the current NVidia driver on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, which is about as good as it gets today. Driver installed by “hand” or via the Ubuntu packages? More importantly: What’s the output of nvidia-smi?
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by boulos 5y ago
It’s kind of mentioned in the article, but to be more explicit: reducing safety factors has asymmetric risk vs reward. Reducing the factors “just” lowers cost or improves performance. But if your field is padding by 50%, then you need to tr
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by boulos 5y ago
That was the original article which didn’t have the cause, and I hadn’t seen that they’d decided it was disabling the brakes [1]. A couple days ago it was “not sure which was first: support cable snap or emergency brake”. It seems like they
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The Queer Legacy of Billy West and Zuni Café(nytimes.com)
1 points by boulos 5y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 5y ago
Disclosure: I used to work on Google Cloud. Perlmutter seems like an awesome system. But, I think the “ai exaflops” is a “X GPUS times the NVIDIA peak rate”. The new sparsity features on A100 are promising, but haven’t been demonstrated to
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by boulos 5y ago
The article is focused on video, but fwiw (at least several years ago), the browsers do bad stuff with images, too. It is (was?) impossible to get Firefox and I think also Chrome to correctly render PNG, JPEG, and other formats, especially
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by boulos 5y ago
> Hugh Hoppe Hugues (though most people pronounce it fairly close to “Hugh’s”, so maybe that’s what stuck for you?)
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by boulos 5y ago
(Posting top-level so it isn’t missed several layers down) For folks that are interested in this kind of thing, Frank Crow’s 1987 article “The Origins of the Teapot” [1] has some great stuff in it (including a small scan of Martin Newell’s
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Samuel E. Wright, the Voice of Sebastian in ‘The Little Mermaid,’ Dies at 72(nytimes.com)
1 points by boulos 5y ago|0 comments
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by boulos 5y ago
Right. Both the teapot and Ivan’s VW are “manual scans”. The teapot even got “accidentally” stretched by Jim Blinn and most copies use that one. In searching for that evidence (Wikipedia says citation needed!), I rediscovered Frank Crow’s g
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by boulos 5y ago
Duh! I got tricked by the things near the PDU as "oh, these must be the pure-compute nodes". So maybe that's the better question: what are the 4U worth of stuff surrounding the power? More networking stuff? Management stuff?
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by boulos 5y ago
First, congrats! But second, I'd love to understand the compute vs storage tradeoff chosen here. Looking at the (pretty!) picture [1], I was shocked to see "Wow, it's mostly storage?". Is that from going all flash? Head

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