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by citrin_ru 2mo ago
I doubt Russian nuclear ice breakers have naval escort. Until recently they operated within the coverage of on-shore long range SAM systems (but most of these SAM systems were moved elsewhere recently e.g. to protect oil refineries so Nort
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
If you live in a brick/stone hours you can still go a long way by maximally ventilating house at nigh and during the day keeping sun out (shutters, awning e.t.c) and keep ventilation minimal. It would not help if the nights are warm (s
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
Modern economy cannot exists without economy of scale. It's unfortunate is that if you want something else than millions of other people the price likely will be prohibitive - small scale production is not viable economically, especial
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
For a lay person (without background in finances) what AI companies are doing looks very similar in spirit to what Enron did and Enron actions were deemed not legal.
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
If LLMs is just another technology then low end will eventually win. The bet which I guess many AI investors are making is that LLM will allow recursive self improvement which will lead to development of super-human AGI. The company which w
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
> The example shows an auto-incrementing user ID. How’s that possible without contention between all shards? Why not divide ID range (63bit?) by the maximum planned number of shards and then set on each shard it's min/max value
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
Old generation DIMMs are not that much cheaper and supply is limited as old generation are taken out of production to free capacity for newer chips. DDR2 is already more expensive than DDR3, likely because it is no longer produced but there
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
Outsourcing never ended but it did happen in waves. Right after ZIRR ended but before the AI panic multiple companies started to layoff in developers in western countries and double down on outsourcing to India. During ZIRP they employed mo
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by citrin_ru 3mo ago
May be LLM resume screening is a symptom of a bigger problem - with tens of candidates per vacancy employers can screen resume badly and even throw half of the resumes away and still hire someone qualified.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
Threads are not free - they allow to use more CPU cores but if you load is not too high than with a single thread memcached uses less CPU than with multiple.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
What we see in quotes is not the price of oil being shipped right now; it is usually a one-month futures contract. Traders expect that by this time, Hormuz will reopen. If it does not, they will lose money, but the actual price could be muc
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
If memory shortages were not caused by AI then may be (but still unlikely). In the current situation even cautious in the past companies are switching to “move fast and break things” mode to not fall behind vibe coding competitors. When the
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
Web browsing is the most resource intensive task given how bloated modern websites are. It’s easer to imagine a cheap phone with a set of optimised native apps but the problem is tech giants are not interested in reducing footprint of their
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
Surprisingly high number given that people are being told by tech CEO that AI will replace all white collar jobs soon and a few years later AI guided robots will replace all blue collar jobs too.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
Many managers are more bullish on AI and less able to recognize slop, they are unlikely to recognize quality crisis. And they are the people who decide who belong to the industry and who is not. As a result we will get an escalation of ensh
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
AI investors bet on the high return in the next 10-15 years, they have no reasons to care if everything which require semiconductors will become much more expensive in the process.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
A typical modern car is already hideously complicated and a different type of motor would not change this. What is the current market sentiment? Share of EVs is slowly rising so having a good motor as important as ever.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
Gas prices vary across the world, mostly depending on if it's only LNG imports (high prices) or local sources (much cheaper, e. g. the US) or a mix (e. g. Europe but since 2022 it's heavy reliant on LNG which pushes prices up). Co
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
A big threat for illustrators is not LLMs per se but slop acceptance. We've seen the same with machine translation - it was (and to some extent still is) worse than human translation but people accepted it because it's free. I rec
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
In regions where winters are dark windy places tent to be not too far away. If both solar and wind both overbuild to the extent it makes sense (say 5x for solar and 2x for wind) and batteries cover a normal daily cycle you probably will nee
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
Gas allows to use combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) which is more efficient and it makes gas cheaper for electricity generation.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
It's a good news but I didn't expect that coal is still on the 1st place and not really trending down. I though coal was largely replaced by gas years ago...
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
I'm noticing some decline of skills I don't practice regularly and LLM is just one of reasons why one stops practicing. Switching to another area of work gives a comparable decline. If you want sharp skills you have to use them.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
IMHO peak GUI was in 2000s - on Windows most app used Win32 API and apps which followed "Microsoft Windows User Experience" guide had consistent UI/UX. Since then Microsoft introduced many competing frameworks to create GUI a
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
TUI returns what GUI lost over the last decades - low latency, low RAM/CPU usage, ability to navigate without a mouse. No one seems to be building nice GUI apps anymore.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
Nobody ever got fired for buying I̵B̵M̵ AWS. Most corporations already use AWS, used to its legal terms and accepted the risk. Any new provider will be scrutinised by legal more than an existing one.
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
I'm personally was fine with contributing to open-source without any financial reward. But I'm reluctant to release anything in public now because it will be eventually incorporated into the training set for the technology which w
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by citrin_ru 4mo ago
A significant job loss will trigger a deep recession which will eventually hit most AI customers so they will have too few customers to be profitable. The best (for AI business) scenario is when productivity is increased without mass unempl
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
The problem is that many companies which had reasonable leadership in the past with the advent of LLM AI started to make rushed (and dubious from my point of view) decisions - using token usage to evaluate an employee performance is just on
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
It's hard to separate impact of workers being replaced by AI from an impact of a recession (or stagnation). It's not obvious how AI impacts employees with various experience: on one hand a senior is better at spotting AI hallucina

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