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by esseph 28d ago
Companies are doing 7-9 interviews now for even mid level engineering and infra roles, and these companies are not doing anything unique. As someone often doing the hiring and firing, I do not understand it. If it takes that make interviews
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by esseph 28d ago
Brother if you have the solution, start a company. There are people willing to throw money at you. But Free is hard to beat with a global presence. And please listen to what others are saying here, there's a lot of experienced people h
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by esseph 29d ago
Data scraping. If anything else, the AI machine wants near constant streams of new data, even if it already checked with you 30ms ago. A CDN helps immensely. Also keeps you from getting DDoS'd if you did something like run it off your
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by esseph 29d ago
The site this is about is current down due to HN traffic. Lol
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by esseph 29d ago
> Im assuming the people who _train_ AI [ LLMs ] actually need to separate the two, and avoid the feedback loop of training the next LLM on the output of the previous LLM. Check out Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF). Then s
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by esseph 29d ago
> “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This has not led to positive outcomes currently in the US. I agree with it in theory, I truly do. I think it also gets used as a tool for politicians,
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by esseph 29d ago
That is a ~9 year old card. I'm not sure any of the newer work AMD has been doing can utilize that hardware at all. It would have been sold off to grey market or destroyed 3-4yr ago in most companies. Newer, much cheaper stuff ironical
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by esseph 29d ago
On Linux the problem is often flipped (historically for Nvidia/AMD). The AMD drivers are mainline kernel, while Nvidia is still handing out binary blobs.
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by esseph 29d ago
It's part of a very popular song from the 70s by Joni Mitchell called "Big Yellow Taxi". Counting Crows did a cover in 2002.
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by esseph 29d ago
LA county has about the same population as Sweden.
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by esseph 29d ago
”Not really" what? It's hard to understand what point you're trying to make. Can you clarify?
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by esseph 1mo ago
> AMD GPUs are not price inflating to the same degree as NVIDIA, because they are bad at LLMs. 9060 XT 16GB seems to have some great performance with gpt oss 20B and others, and works great with their lemonade-server. https://
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by esseph 1mo ago
4 major AI services all had outages around the same time. Gemini, too. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/four-major-ai-models-suff...
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by esseph 1mo ago
You're talking about a CHILD, the posters grandchild, and some of the joys of life. And your response is "Well what if they become Hitler?" Are you serious?
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by esseph 1mo ago
What is wrong with you?
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by esseph 1mo ago
Update: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
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by esseph 1mo ago
https://bughunters.google.com/about/key-stats Total rewards given $81,933,423
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by esseph 1mo ago
Right, but it's value-add on a derivative, not its own standalone engine.
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by esseph 1mo ago
"Google has confirmed that an exploit exists in the wild but has not disclosed information about the threat actors, targeted organizations, or attack campaigns while the update is still rolling out."
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by esseph 1mo ago
The problem is they are being flooded with both fake AND real disclosures. Imagine if they tried to pay out $250,000 or more per bug? Would the cost be worth it? Maybe, but shareholders may not be pleased... Unless they viewed it as insuran
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by esseph 1mo ago
> But it didn’t make any perceivable difference in real usage. It can, it depends on the systems and user patterns. Example: if an end user is going to the same site over and over, those DNS responses are probably cached locally on the d
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by esseph 1mo ago
Normally there are only a handful of employees on the payroll at each major company that exposes the US or US government to risk. It is not often the Executives or Legal even know, but sometimes they did. AT&T bent over backwards to hel
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by esseph 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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by esseph 1mo ago
Historical precedent repeated over and over, and the US ties to DoW work, and the national security implications. It's actually the Occam's Razor explanation if you know the history.
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by esseph 1mo ago
Was thinking this exact thing.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> I realise LinkedIn is a surrealist caricature of corporate reality I don't think it's a caricature of reality at all, it very much is like the large US corps I've worked at.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> have never nor will ever eat sushi You're really missing out. It's probably my favorite food on the planet, lol.
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by esseph 1mo ago
> They're run extremely efficiently for the government. That's because ours are all done by third party companies on contracts :P
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by esseph 1mo ago
This sounds like a Bitwarden specific issue, because I don't have that problem with Proton.
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by esseph 1mo ago
Hey, you know what...

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