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by foobiekr 3y ago
I think you are overestimating R&D budgets for companies. Very few tech companies - even large ones - have R&D budgets in the $10B+ range, let alone $100B. Most of the fortune 100 isn't even $10B.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
That's literally my point. The problem is that there's a massive amount of hidden infrastructure behind those that you don't see and that "oh look everyone has a big model" isn't as impressive as it sounds.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Name one software-based tech company where this isn’t true.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Adoption and a mass of human feedback collected which is not available in the gleaned data sets. Here’s another way to think about it. Why does ISA matter in CPUs? There are minor issues around efficiencies of various kinds, but the real ad
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Commoditize your complement strategies can just as likely put a market into a zombie state in the long run.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
This. We haven’t even entered the get-serious monetization era. Now that the infinite free money pump has been turned down a bunch, we’re going to see what reality looks like.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The cost isn’t sunk cost at all. These models need to be trained and retrained as data sets increase. Putting aside historical cutoff points, there’s a lot of data and kinds of data not currenty used and the costs even to train the current
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Point went right by you. Most people do not count calories and calorie counts aren’t accurate anyway. The people sitting around counting calories because they have to are afflicted with the same thing that obese people are, they’re just put
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by foobiekr 3y ago
No it just requires the company wanting to do it due to a government order. The “compromise” is coming from inside the house. Might as well claim no one knows the admin passwords because they are written in a notebook that the management ke
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by foobiekr 3y ago
If they can update software they have administrator access any time they want it.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The cash thing is awesome and good for them. That said, I don't know if Mullvad is good or evil, but one of the ways you can evaluate companies is to recognize when they're making sketchy, not-relevant claims to create an air of l
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Should they sell VPN services to North Korea? What might the reasons be on the "no" side?
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by foobiekr 3y ago
"You know, if we starve people, they lose weight. Obviously it's just self control." "Yeah. Weird. Well, guess I'll go have a donut or whatever and think it over. It's a mystery why they aren't just thin l
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by foobiekr 3y ago
People who work there will of course claim that. Maybe they should demonstrate it.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It's hard to claim that SW engineers are against SW patents since ICs are responsible for submitting and helping to complete the vast, vast, vast majority of the patents filed by big tech. As with a bunch of the sketchy-as-hell "t
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by foobiekr 3y ago
“The mistake here is not that the company poured dioxin into the waterway but that regulators didn’t stop them” Regulation is a trailing thing, we need people not to be default evil for us to have a society.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
In the US I have friends who are deliriously happy with their absolutely incompetent financial advisors. The problem is that it’s a sales role and the usual customer manipulation applies strongly.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Short sessions are there because, for all practical purposes, SLO doesn't work and we are using short sessions to simulate high-latency SLO. In a previous life we supported SLO properly, and it had no value at all. It's one of the
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Juicing growth for a pump and dump scheme probably.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It’s actually not clear at all that erythritol is safe for anyone. That will likely be determined over the next few years but the persistence isn’t great for the use as an artificial primary sweetener vs the small amounts found in fruits:
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by foobiekr 3y ago
There are degrees. I’d be happy to not see code generating millions of medium lifetime garbage objects per request.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Was that before Intel spun it out? I can see people being willing to do that build if Intel was seemingly on board. Today things are pretty different. Modern HPC mostly means GPU compute and tons of data shuffling, but point taken. CPU boun
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The amazing thing is that for 5g, T-mobile has, by far, the best network. And that's not just the radio network but the interior as well. Friends with t-mobile report the problems above regularly. AT&T has an absolutely terrible ne
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by foobiekr 3y ago
agreed. really any performance oriented code would be useful. god help the kids reading the trash that makes up 99% of the code out there today.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Erythritol was safe from everything we knew until it wasn’t. Sorbitol was safe … you see the problem? I’m guessing a lot of the keto fad sugars will end up there.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It's not going to work because they are too late. HPC cluster builds are complex enough due to the presence of multiple networks (2x moderate-scale infiniband chassis and 2x ethernet chassis as a minimum) without introducing unknown ve
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by foobiekr 3y ago
You might actually expand "Apple likes open standards when it is weak" to "companies likes open standards when they are weak." Generally speaking you get standards consortiums when there is a clear winner that is mopping
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I think these people are all around us and we just don't always recognize it. I have a friend who, in his youth, decided one day that he was going to be left handed because a teacher he admired was left handed and he wanted to be like
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It’s actually better to just assume levels are just pay grades and totally dismiss the idea that it otherwise means something.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
So in the failure case, very little of it matters, but in the success case the VC industry can be exceptionally predatory - participating preferences, multipliers, etc. etc. etc. Honestly, it takes no time at all to have clean term sheets a

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