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541.
by ein0p 2y ago
To charge $3.5K for something that can only be used by one person is an epic fail of product vision. Like, what am I supposed to do if there are 4 people in my family? Or if I want to use the thing both at home and at work? I get that they’
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by ein0p 2y ago
Wait till you find out how they’re doing on bringing Internet to rural areas. This is quite literally a solved problem, but they don’t like the solution.
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by ein0p 2y ago
I don’t see a path for Waymo either. With crime as high as it has gotten in the likes of SF, LA, Portland, Seattle, NYC, without a dude inside these cars will have a fairly short lifetime. Ads, idk, I haven’t seen them in the last 15 years,
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by ein0p 2y ago
It’s not even that “cushy” anymore. There’s still (at Google) free lunch, but the truly critical (and expensive) stuff such as medical insurance has been enshittified considerably to the point where exchange-bought insurance I had as a bus
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by ein0p 2y ago
They never had any meaning. They’re merely HR devices to make you feel like you’re making progress up the ladder in spite of meager increases in pay. They aren’t even portable across companies. The only thing that matters when you move to a
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by ein0p 2y ago
Idk about Meta, but Google is also pretty soul draining these days. Pre-Pichai it was a pretty cool place, but that was ages ago.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Too bad we aren’t going to the moon anytime soon: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-17/michae... .
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by ein0p 2y ago
As a rule, compute only takes less than 10% of all energy. 90% is data movement.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Sanity prevails. A rare turn of events for US government whose main motto in life is “we don’t care - we don’t have to”
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by ein0p 2y ago
What is a “trustworthy news source” these days. I saw the seismograph charts on Twitter. If you expect any “trustworthy” news in an environment where US MIC could get another trillion dollars in (borrowed) taxpayer money, I have a bridge I’
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by ein0p 2y ago
Seek different news sources. That earthquake in Iran wasn’t an earthquake. It didn’t have aftershocks and USGS couldn’t determine the depth.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Uh-uh. The country which has just tested a nuke a couple of weeks ago and easily defeated the Iron Dome with its cheaper rocket stock is “totally decimated”. Sure buddy.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Not only does Iran not wish to destroy Israel, it is also unwilling to allow Hezbollah to successfully do so either. If it wanted to destroy Israel, Israel wouldn’t have any AD after the last strike.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Just Iran alone is capable of defeating Israel if it wishes. Israel is only 8M people. There are hundreds of millions of Muslims living in Middle East. They aren’t united right now, but Israel, ironically, could unite them.
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by ein0p 2y ago
You’re presupposing they actually survive the current events and come out victorious in order to “write history”. I’m not sure of that at all if things kick off in earnest there.
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by ein0p 2y ago
Wasn’t aware there’s now a direct flight from Miami. I went there through Canada back in the day.
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by ein0p 2y ago
This is spooky similar to how things have been for me. Also 6-12 month breaks, also the itch to start doing something at about 6 month mark. I’m about to take another one of my breaks and too think this time will be different. I get paid an
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by ein0p 2y ago
Canada is probably also in large part “the US” - there are no direct flights there from the US. Why we keep up this idiotic embargo is anyone’s guess.
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by ein0p 2y ago
1.58bpw is not “1 bit”.
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by ein0p 2y ago
This is NYT, so there’s about 95% chance they made it all up for clicks. And you’re giving them clicks.
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by ein0p 2y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-underco... I have no reason to believe this got any better since then. So they accidentally caught a bunch of dudes who don’t read the fine print. Any determin
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by ein0p 2y ago
Yes, the US government does propaganda. Is that news to you?
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by ein0p 2y ago
Emphatically. Higher frequencies even get attenuated by _air_, and this stuff goes all the way up to 150GHz
564.
by ein0p 2y ago
This is only for direct line of sight in public spaces. Even 5GHz has severe trouble penetrating walls.
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by ein0p 2y ago
“Everyone is excited” but the share of papers that use it hasn’t budged from 3% in years.
566.
by ein0p 2y ago
Very high quality anti-China propaganda. You don’t need China to make the precursors for fentanyl in necessary amounts.
567.
by ein0p 2y ago
How about we end the TSA instead. It’s provably pointless security theater. Their own pen tests show it to be ineffective.
568.
by ein0p 2y ago
Memory bound workload is memory bound. Doesn’t matter how many TOPS you have if you’re sitting idle waiting on DRAM during generation. You will, however notice a difference in prefill for long prompts.
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by ein0p 2y ago
I run Mistral Large on 2xA6000. 9 times out of 10 the response is the same quality as GPT 4o. My employer does not allow the use of GPT for privacy related reasons. So I just use a private Mistral for that
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by ein0p 2y ago
Just as most Mercedes owners don’t really care how many horsepower the car has. It just has “enough”.

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