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by chipdart 2y ago
> Hinton was never going to win the Nobel Prize while working for Google, right? This conspiracy theory makes no sense. Nobel prizes are awarded based on someone's life's work.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I find it weird that the convention to use char/short/int/long/long long has persisted so widely to this day. I don't think this is a reasonable take. Beyond ABI requirements and how developers use int over sho
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by chipdart 2y ago
> This is paying people who are already registered to vote? Others already pointed out that both are a crime.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The single use drones that operate like kamikaze vehicles may throw a winkle into the mix, but a helo flying at 150knots is going to be very challenging to hit for one of those. All you're seeing is makeshift COTS drones picking t
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by chipdart 2y ago
I agree. What a treat. One of the best submissions gracing HN in months.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Not a fan of ownership changing to rent, but it's almost inevitable that these kind of products will turn into AI cloud services now. All that server power is not cheap. I don't agree at all. Just because you want to push a s
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Yeah, but why would a spy agency set up a line with an automated recording and then post the number on craigslist? I suppose that it's easy to monitor who calls a line if you only expect a single user to sporadically call. If you
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by chipdart 2y ago
I think slow writes are not a major concern, as most databases already use some fast log-type data structure to persist writes, and then merge/save these logs to a higher-capacity and slower medium on specific events.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> There's another choice, though: instead of being a drive-by cynic, just move on and don't comment. Unfortunately that recommendation is also pushed by snakeoil salesmen.
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by chipdart 2y ago
Most humans don't handle sensor and simulation data for a living, though. CERN just so happens to employ thousands who do that for a living.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> A lot of drive-by cynicism I see these days is really just a lack of curiosity and bad faith assumptions (this guy must be an idiot, etc.). You're talking if guys pitching overpriced and underquality gear is completely unheard of,
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Can anyone explain the rise in DBs backed by object storage? I dare say it's a "when the only tool you have is a hammer" problem. But it might also be the fact that object storage services are reliable, relatively cheap
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by chipdart 2y ago
> For every read you first do a (super fast) memcached query using the SQL you're about to run as the key. If it exists, you just send the value back without running the query, if it doesn't exist you run the query and store th
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Out of curiosity, why do people switch to bazel? From what I've read, even for C++ projects Bazel is pushed by FANG-driven cargo cult mixed with FOMO. Even for its internal use, Bazel sounds an awful lot like a promotion-oriented
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The gist of it is that Intel took MINIX3 to create the Intel Management Engine, but never contributed anything back. That's hardly relevant though. Either a project is usable and people use it, or a project is unusable and people
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by chipdart 2y ago
> At some point the comparison becomes moot. That's a red herring. No one is looking at the decimal places. The comparison serves to provide a real-world benchmark of the expectable destructive power of the cargo held by this vessel
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Are the sailors actually Russian military? The people Russia is sending to their deaths in their meat wave tactics aren't exactly Russian military either. They are at best civilians under contract and moved to front lines weeks if
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by chipdart 2y ago
> This is quite possible, equally though, what is stopping all these countries from simply refusing access to territorial waters for this ship. Note that for the ship to travel between Lithuania and Norway/UK, it needs to pass by Ka
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by chipdart 2y ago
> (...) we should still assume that most media are just propaganda (...) Is the ship filled with the same Beirute port explosion compound? Yes or no? Is the ship refusing to turn to Russian ports and instead is aimlessly trying to get in
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Would you want to be a captain of an EU registered ship stuck in Russia for an indeterminate amount of time with limited ability to pay for (sanctions) repairs of an uncertain nature? Your hypothesis is quickly rejected/proven to
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by chipdart 2y ago
> (...) how would the Russians coerce a ship full of sailors to not surrender or abandon the ship rather than choose between vaporisation or arrest or death by (...) Have you paid any attention to Russia's meatwave tactics in Ukrain
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by chipdart 2y ago
> While Lithuanian authorities announced there was no evidence of malicious intent against the country’s national security, they noted that when dealing with Russia, or other unfriendly international actors, states should always be cauti
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Deader than disco. The real question is whether the project is deader than HURD.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> There is no compelling reason to fly to Bali from the Hague each year. I know the feeling, but you do not need to travel to the opposite side of the planet to enjoy nice weather.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Unsure about the effectiveness of banning air travel ads. If you have a compelling reason to go somewhere (...) I'm not sure you realize this, but travel ads are used to create demand among those who do not have a compelling reaso
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by chipdart 2y ago
> What if alternatives are worse? Slower? More expensive? You're talking as if air travel isn't the slowest and/or most expensive option in some cases. See for example high-speed rail for travel distances under 800km.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> To the contrary, "sacrifice for thee but not for me" is not real leadership. Right, it's indeed the "Al Gore flies first class so let's not do anything about global warming" zombie rising from the dead. Yo
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by chipdart 2y ago
> You're still using Yao? Pfff. One-up flex master right here. Unbeatable.
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> These are the hard problems to solve. These are the big problems of our time. If you all love problem solving why aren't you doing anything in this space? With the exception of inequality and homelessness, you're not describi
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by chipdart 2y ago
From the article: > When Moscow launched bombing campaigns aimed at obliterating Ukraine’s internet infrastructure, Elon Musk began rushing tens of thousands of SpaceX Starlink transceivers into the country (...) I don't think so. T

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