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Key word in the article “cold winters”. This is fairly common for cities with cold winters, it’s just Toronto’s network is one of the largest of its kind. It’s a big selling point for you to have a condo that can take you to the metro witho
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A TLM reduction isn’t any middle management reduction. It’s an IC role still.
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90% number checks out as Canada is ~1/10th the population of the US.
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A large bulk of CPU orders comes from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Want to say 50% of all AMD revenue is datacenters, and the Hyperscalers represent the largest chunk of that.
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Anycast can have serious reliability challenges. It was common at GCP for a small QPS user of anycast to have their Load Balancers nuked in a given pop as it was backed by a single machine. But BGP showed it as still the best route. The maj
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Cause Matt comes from a technical background. Most CEOs dont.
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Automation lowers costs, which increases consumption. We essentially trade time for dollars, and then dollars for goods that themselves took time to produce. While the exchange rate of time-for-time stays constant, automation means we now g
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Unemployment in California was higher back in 2015. Feels like this is layoff related
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You don’t have sales meetings from a vendor on a cruise ship in the west. Thats considered bribery
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And the Syrian Druze? Christian Syrians. Anyone in the UN speaking up for them. Why just Gaza and not the other civilian casualty events.
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Maybe take a few minutes to talk to the other side to better understand their thoughts and why they have such thoughts. Sadly I’ve noticed understanding and tolerance of diverse perspectives went out the window lately.
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Yes there is https://www.privacy.com/ which gives you a unique virtual credit card per subscription, which you can cancel from the bank.
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Actually now is different. The axis of resistance that would pop up (asad, Hezbollah, Hamas, houthis) are all basically gone and unable to mount an attack. Saudi, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, HTS, and majority of Middle East is not in favor of Iran
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About 60% of my job is writing. Writing slack, writing code, writing design docs, writing strategies, writing calibrations. ChatGPT has allowed me to write 50%+ faster with 50%+ better quality. It’s been one of the largest productivity boos
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Disagree it lasts 5-10 times longer. IKEA kitchens will last anywhere from 10-30 years. 5-10 times longer is 50-300 years, which is well outside the range veneered hardwood kitchen cabinets will last.
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generally its not energy star, but online reviews/audits of efficiency under various scenarios. Just like how for EVs we don't generally use MPGe but the range tests from YouTube & Blog reviewers.
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That’s 18 billion in near 100% profit margin. Which will be painful to loose.
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Wonder if the name is inspired by my favorite snack, bamba. The best are the hazelnut bamba. Btw bamba if given to kids at a young age can drastically reduce the chance of peanut allergies
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FYI musk had a backup funding for Tesla during that time. Google’s co founder offered to buy out the entirety of the company to accelerate waymo. However musk got the loan, and the rest is history. https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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Because compensation?
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Some Kafka writes might fail. Hence the Kafka client having a queue with retries.
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Reminds me of the Google search appliance.
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You gotta feed the GPUs & TPUs with enough data to avoid them sitting idle. Which starts to become incredibly challenging with latest gen GPU/TPU chips
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It’s GCP’s answer to AWS S3 express zone https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/
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Glad to see the zonal object store take off. Such massive bandwidth speed will re define data analytics where 99% of all queries able to run on a single node faster than what distributed compute can offer.
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2y ago
Amazon? Google? Meta? Tencent? etc etc etc
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NVIdia reinvented the graphics card towards ML with their massive software investment into CUDA, infiniband (acquisition) among other tech needed. Wiz isn’t a new industry for Google, but adjacent expansion. Not seeing the reinvention remar
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The doj should split up more of big tech. The industry is stagnating and allowing a more healthy competition would do wonders.
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Depends on if there’s capital gains tax when leaving the firm.
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Or schemes similar to agriculture where the government buys excess production for price stability. Which is good for consumers and businesses alike.
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