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by dboreham 3mo ago
As an employer (in the US) I have always had the impression that I'd risk being on the hook for overtime or some other form of additional compensation if I routinely engaged in communication with employees out of hours, so unless the p
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by dboreham 3mo ago
Flying on one in August, upper deck, courtesy of a lowball points redemption through United.
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by dboreham 3mo ago
Widely held belief in investor circles is that the Chinese government has a goal to deflate the US AI bubble and Deepseek is part of the plan to achieve that goal.
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by dboreham 3mo ago
They're thinking about taxing more heavily because some bright spark decided to tarrif their exports extremely heavily.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
The battle was between Oracle and MySQL (and PostgreSQL won).
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by dboreham 4mo ago
It's only small government when they are trying to not give money to some group they don't like.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
There never was "a community". The vast majority of all open source software is written by people paid by some corporation to do so.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Old enough to remember several memory price boom cycles. In the late 80s at the place I worked we bought a bunch of DRAM for a production run that became delayed because the CPU needed wasn't ready. The DRAM was in a large cardboard bo
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Ah, thanks for that explanation. I was wondering how IBM could fund cutting edge research in semiconductors when they haven't been a semiconductor manufacturer for many years.
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Incident review for TanStack NPM supply chain ransom incident(grafana.com)
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Of course. But as an old sales guy used to tell me: "In the story, at the end the wolf shows up".
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by dboreham 4mo ago
My take: publishing Rust crates shouldn't depend on any single internet property, including crates.io.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
I live in the USA. Houses around here don't have A/C. That's because until recently it wasn't needed.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
I suspect parent is using "a service like Wise" even though they believe they're using Crypto. That's because for an end to end transaction to complete in under 10 minutes it has to be performed by an exchange (not actua
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Except it requires institutions in order to work.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Something to bear in mind when planning to attack a market where the existing vendor charges a high price (Salesforce in this example) -- they can reduce their price in the future.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
It's the fact that he wasn't immediately removed from office that's the underlying problem.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Also interesting that there can be a giant asshole running a federal agency into the ground and I've never heard of him until now. Gives some scale to the problem. I also wonder what else is going on in government that falls below the
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by dboreham 4mo ago
See also Coals from Newcastle.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
The only thing to understand is that it does nothing useful today.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Er no. That doesn't happen.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Well, yes but no: The Z80 took 3 cycles to load from memory. A register to register transfer took 4 cycles (including fetching the instruction). Only one of those cycles was instruction execution. I think the only reasonably mainstream scen
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by dboreham 4mo ago
I would guess it means Sam Altman gave him more money.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
I use it as a hosting target for automated deployment tooling we wrote. Tools were originally Digitalocean-only and I wondered if LLMs could add support for a second provider, so asked Claude to add Vultr which it did very nicely. But other
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by dboreham 4mo ago
The people who train the frontier models want to recover their costs, so they're not going to let you do that.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Linux is only widely used/successful today due to commercial vendors who consumed it as way to reduce their input costs. Arguably the same incentives exist for AI in which case the way forward would be through some sort of consortium o
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by dboreham 4mo ago
This is obviously in direct opposition to the very idea of America. So if it happens it'll happen in other countries.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
These things sound plausible, but have they actually been demonstrated? Wouldn't anyone who succeeded in making such a small but useful LLM be raking in the money now?
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Americans didn't build the current AI tech.
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by dboreham 4mo ago
Fable will actually finish the job.

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