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by bushbaba 3y ago
You can buy a single server with TiBs of ram. That’s why I think motherduck/duckdb really shines. It’s the best solution for 99% of users whose data can be processed relatively quickly on a single machine.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Would it be cheaper? Cloudera fits the bill and it’s for sure not cheaper
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by bushbaba 3y ago
We outsource janitors, lunches, and other aspects of the business. Some things are not your core competency where having additional people investment detracts from your core mission. That and do you really think 99% of companies are able to
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Called the wage price spiral. However data from fed doesn’t show we have one currently ongoing. With most workers getting screwed over.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Maybe EU dma related?
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Unless it’s a nation state attack against a high value target.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
It’s energy bound in the sense that Datacenters only have so much energy supply, and heat dissipation capabilities. And the grid these DCs are hooked to only have so much excess generation that can be tapped. But there’s ways to solve that
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Or as an renewables energy storage for use in leaker plants.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Even that seems low. New college grad going to a large tech firm can make 200k these days.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
4 times the population for the same land size means greater density to justify rail transport. The car is actually an amazing transport concept. And very hard to beat
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Americans are deluded with cars. America is just huge and our cities (metro + suburbs) are huge. Meaning to use a train requires driving to the train stop, parking, waiting for train, etc. and if that entire process isn’t meaningfully bette
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Could say the same about nyc.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Paying them enough to live off of though isn’t asking for much.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Bullshit jobs are encouraged for management to grow their org into a promotion. These companies are growing so nobody really questions the bloat as making the wrong move might impact future growth (or cause your action to be blamed for grow
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Disagree. The law ensures there are Canadian media, which can be used to push media to the betterment of Canadians. Many countries have protectionist laws and this isn’t much different.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Costs also include server/DC/sales/marketing etc. you can’t include the server cost of say google maps as part of the people-headcount costs of google maps.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Google isn’t spending 1M on an employee making 400k.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
A 200 person swe org is not 200MM/year of cost at google
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Shows how apples iPads for education might come out ahead in the long run.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Isn’t this a huge risk to AMD’s confidential compute offering. It’s a major security flaw.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Cloud would be a huge profit maker as YouTube, search, ads would all then pay cloud for hosting. And they’d have no where else to go.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
I’ve noticed the same. Very low utilization. But they are all used at peak every few weeks. For many companies having more GPU cost to unblock velocity of innovation here is worth it. As the benefits of improvement to your top line revenue
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Give it time. AMD, AWS trainium/inferentia, and Google TPUs all compete here. The gap is mostly with software drivers/support.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
I think it’s more to do with high rate environment, with most AI firms having no clear path to profitability. Where-as many traditional tech venture rounds (now of days) have a solid business model and current profitability per deal, using
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Those are universities and not colleges. Cãnada College, Foothills college, De Anza College are examples of “community colleges”.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
In California it’s ~85% of high school students graduate on average across all demographics https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/datasummary.asp
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Generally state colleges will take any applicant who meets the pre-set bar. Where as tier 1 universities are more a zero sum game.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Totally disagree. You could have said the same of Industrial Revolution. Yet here we are living better lives from the technological breakthroughs. AI will just usher the next industrial revolution of the modern era.
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by bushbaba 3y ago
You know it’s bad when they email you to come back
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by bushbaba 3y ago
Which is why many have stated it’s hardest to get into university if you are a non wealthy, legacy white or Asian male. I totally see that’s institutions all issuing apologies for the past discrimination.

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