dehrmann

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by dehrmann 10mo ago
> When the early-electrification bubble built, we were left with the grid. And when the dot-com bubble burst, we were left with a lot of valuable infrastructure whose cost was sunk, in particular dark fibre. The AI bubble? Not so much. E
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Sibling comments are mostly saying they either started hoarding books or switched to some combination of blog posts, Stackoverflow, and LLMs. For those with books, how are you using them?
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
> Dollar stores are private equity with a checkout lane. Dollar Tree and Dollar General are publicly traded. So Family Dollar might be the result of PE tactics, but the other two aren't, and Dollar Tree sold Family Dollar because th
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Not charging the best-advertised price is dishonest. It might also be in customers' best interest if the cost of keeping consistent price data on low-margin items costs more than whatever the inconsistency is. Or the answer might be th
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
The real answer is that you either rename the product right around version 10 (because 17 is too big for iPhone versions) or you use the year like sports video games.
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
In some situations, you can trade resolution for frequency and maintain quality. 1-bit audio is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
> bolted on, awkward params passing Shell had to do this because of shell reasons, like how you need spaces where you shouldn't. Perl post-dated C by over a decade, so there was no reason for goofy argument unpacking.
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Could you share parts of /proc/cupinfo?
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Would they be subject to CCPA, then?
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Isn't that the state with license plates that say "live free or die?" Unless, of course, you have a moral objection to that statement, cf. Wooley v. Maynard.
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Guess OpenAI finally found a business model that works: memory futures.
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Cloudflare is orders of magnitude larger than any fintech. Rollouts likely take much longer, and having a human monitoring a dashboard doesn't scale.
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Not trolling, but I'd bet something that's augmented with generative AI. Not to the level of describing scenes with words, but context-aware interpolation.
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
Is it just prompting LLMs with "I have $100k to invest. Here are all publicly traded stocks and a few stats on them. Which stocks should I buy?" And repeat daily, rebalancing as needed? This isn't the best use case for LLMs w
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
> In other words --- pure greed. It's the opposite; it's FOMO.
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by dehrmann 10mo ago
ECC memory has been one of my better investments in the past two years, and now because of the crashes it might have prevented.
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
Pre-revenue gets weird when you're in the cuatro commas club.
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
> And no Jira Not officially, but once you remove the skills required for the tasks, it's not all that different.
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
Or set up a social content recommendation system.
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
But that's it's thing . C++ with improved syntax (think Kotlin for C++) isn't really enough to gain popularity. It's like how Dvorak is sorta better than qwerty, but it doesn't offer anything new, and it isn't
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
There are also a lot of PE strategies. Buying a class of small business and squeezing out value is one, but it's completely different from buying failing businesses and restructuring them, hoping for a turnaround.
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
> I haven't run into this at all so I wonder how much of it is more sport dependent where the company controls the infrastructure My experience is with San Jose where I'd be really surprised to see this happen. There's a m
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
I'm not sure how much Hotspot can do this, but JIT means you can target different CPUs, taking advantage of specific extensions or CPU quirks. It can also mean better cache performance because you don't need branches to handle dif
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
It's more like JITs got good.
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
Coincidentally on the front page, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989650 ARM also used to have opcodes for Java: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
> a stack trace takes a lot of overhead to generate Can't Hotspot not generate the stack trace when it knows the exception will be caught and the stack trace ignored?
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
> 2. it makes lambdas and functions incompatible. This is true, but the hate predated lambdas in Java.
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
It's the same blind spot people have to Java's checked exceptions. People commonly resort to Pokemon exception handling and either blindly ignoring or rethrowing as a runtime exception. When Rust got popular, I was a bit confused
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
I don't buy the SNAP argument because there's already rounding when taxes are applied, and half cents are still legal tender, so you could go into a store, tell them they should have charged half a cent less, and then they'
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by dehrmann 11mo ago
Meta: https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-infer... They don't sell it, but they could if Nvidia started charging too much, and some of these are going into Meta datacenters instead of Nvidia. In

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