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by crmd 1y ago
One of my favorite YouTube channels. I have such a nostalgic soft spot for late 90s to mid 2000s enterprise network and server tech :-)
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by crmd 1y ago
Is there a literary/journalistic term for the style of writing in this piece?
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by crmd 1y ago
> The New York Power Authority—created nearly a century ago by then-Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt to manage hydropower production on behalf of the public This is rich considering that NYPA’s current customers are exclusively government enti
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by crmd 1y ago
Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine famously summarized the US left-wing position well with, “If you’re not angry you’re not paying attention.”
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by crmd 1y ago
Authors are getting busted[1] on a regular basis publishing LLM-generated or augmented novels that plausibly compete commercially with human-written books. If the LLM was trained on any books in the same genre, it seems like a clear violati
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by crmd 1y ago
CAD, all aspects of machining, tool and die stuff, injection molding, and similar manufacturing techniques.
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by crmd 1y ago
I worry that, rather than de-escalation, one of the White House’s explicit goals here is to stage manage a Kent State-like demonstration of state force against left-wing activists that spreads to other cities. I sincerely hope I’m cynical
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by crmd 1y ago
I am very suspicious of Quadratic Funding after reading its top google result[1] which presents it as an egalitarian democratic mechanism, and this article which shows it to have the opposite effect in practice. It reminds me of the Citizen
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by crmd 1y ago
I personally agree fully with your sentiment, but I don’t see any place in today’s American polity where this spark could catch fire, because there’s no donor class that would ultimately benefit. It would have to be like the French Revoluti
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by crmd 1y ago
If you use ChatGPT or similar for any non-trivial purposes, future you is saying it’s essential that the chat logs do not map back to you as a human.
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by crmd 1y ago
This is so fucking cool. I expected it to be an SGI Indy or Octane running weather channel software outputting via its SDI card, which in itself is cool, but it turns out to be a much more interesting hardware and software architecture!
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by crmd 1y ago
An EULA and an Employee Handbook serve different legal purposes. The reason handbooks for example say “downloading or transmitting copyrighted material on the company network is strictly prohibited”, is so if a copyright holder attempts to
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by crmd 1y ago
A lot of this prompt text looks like legal boilerplate to defend after the fact against negligence legal claims, in the same way that companies employ employee handbooks.
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by crmd 1y ago
>… it is hard to optimize for learning only since the reward signal is clearly user engagement (meaning subscription revenue). Schools can give reward signals for demonstrating subject mastery, or for tuition payment and attendance. It s
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by crmd 1y ago
Reminds me of when I started working on storage systems as a young man and once suggested pre-computing every 4KB block once and just using pointers to the correct block as data is written, until someone pointed out that the number of uniqu
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by crmd 1y ago
In the linked doc they say it’s MQ on AIX but I believe it’s interchangeable with Z.
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by crmd 1y ago
The US Federal Reserve uses IBM MQ for the FedNow interbank settlement service that went live last year. Architecture info: https://explore.fednow.org/resources/technical-overview-guid...
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by crmd 1y ago
Yes! I'm going to see Underworld[0] play tonight in Brooklyn, exactly 7500 feet from my house, and according to google maps the options are a 14 minute taxi ride or 53 minute train + bus journey. I think it's insane that we don&#x
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by crmd 1y ago
Mazda’s operating margin is higher than Walmart’s (along with many others). I think hyper scalable sectors like high tech and finance distort our OM expectations.
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by crmd 1y ago
IBM. Regulatory risk issue.
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by crmd 1y ago
I was there. IBM tried to buy Sun. Lawyers said no.
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by crmd 1y ago
That brings back memories. The first time I ever heard of Digital Unix was in college looking at netcraft.com's web server ranking, where it showed that www.amazon.com was running on OSF/1. I figured if Amazon was using it, it mus
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by crmd 1y ago
It would be essentially the same thing as a grid black start, except that the first breaker to close has the European grid on its primary side, instead of a freshly started generator under your control. The complex process of configuring th
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by crmd 1y ago
This is true for ultra high net worth individuals. They can do schemes like borrowing against equities and using the tax-free cash for expenses or purchasing other assets. It is also true for many “normal” one percenters. For example there
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by crmd 1y ago
According to the Tax Foundation[1], for tax year 2021, the top 1% of U.S. earners—those with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $682,577 or more—accounted for 26.3% of total AGI and paid 45.8% of all federal income taxes. My personal opinion
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by crmd 2y ago
In my experience, many if not most tech executives don’t believe in the concept of truth vs lying. There are only “competing narratives.”
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by crmd 2y ago
Thank you. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to write “we don’t need the money but are saving for a rainy day” CEO talking points and press releases for companies that were < 90 days from not being able to make payroll.
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by crmd 2y ago
I actually have a Jim Henson Pastor of Muppets tee shirt that is an instant conversation starter with strangers anytime I wear it out!
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by crmd 2y ago
> Some pieces for example require the player to not alternate their picking, but pluck only in one direction, as the difference is audible. I still remember the moment in my bedroom 30 years ago trying to play Master of Puppets when I ac
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by crmd 2y ago
This is exactly the kind of content marketing I want to see. The IO bottleneck data and the fio scripts are useful to all. Then at the end a link to their product which I’d never heard of, in case you’re dealing with the issue at hand.

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