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by gizmo 3y ago
Cars are getting way more complicated. Just look at all the tech inside of modern headlights and side mirrors. Don't you think you need a complicated supply chain for all the sensors in modern cars? ICE drive trains aren't impossi
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by gizmo 3y ago
The underlying issue here is that European car manufacturers are in deep financial trouble. Employees are getting more expensive. Cars are getting more complicated and contain more chips. This increases R&D expenses. Margins are getting
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by gizmo 3y ago
Who is "they"? Spotify executives who assumed the money printer would never run out of ink? The managers who hired and hired to expand their own empire? The software engineers who engaged in "resume driven development" b
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by gizmo 3y ago
This is article is low quality and almost fact free. Instead, read the IPCC report on this subject: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/chapter-4-sea-level-rise-a... Specifically, the section “projection” covers how
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by gizmo 3y ago
The article is wrong but the observations are correct. The codepen link posted somewhere downthread does result in usually high cpu usage (Chrome M2 Mac).
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by gizmo 3y ago
W-8 BEN doesn't apply to him because it's for foreign individuals who receive non-business income. He needs a W-8 BEN-E most likely.
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by gizmo 3y ago
What if a privacy subscription costs $1000/mo? Does anybody believe you can use this "one cool trick" to circumvent EU privacy laws? FB is basically daring Europe to enforce their laws. I hope the entire concept of paying for
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by gizmo 3y ago
For the algorithm used see https://github.com/jserv/tlsf-bsd
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by gizmo 3y ago
Not being quite sure how git deals with this even though, as the parent argues, it is the sensible default behavior, is really the problem. Everything is possible with git but nothing is easy or easy to remember.
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by gizmo 3y ago
At some point you’ve got to stop messing with syntax. It plain sucks not being able to run anything on a linux machine that is on a LTS schedule. The constant churn of version updates that fix some things but break other things is a massive
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by gizmo 3y ago
It makes no sense for a microservice that does one simple thing to run on top of 10 million lines of 90s C code. Especially since a lot of that code has to do with hardware quirks that don’t exist in a hypervised environment.
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by gizmo 3y ago
The energy required for carbon capture is larger than the all energy produced by burning fossil fuels over the past 100 years (00100 years?). It's not literally impossible, but energy would have to be "too cheap to meter" for
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by gizmo 3y ago
Yes yes, but that doesn't change the fact that Sam positioned himself to be unfireable. The board took their best shot and now the board is (mostly) gone and Sam is still the chief executive. They board will find itself sidelined from
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by gizmo 3y ago
If I'm correct then the board is fine with getting replaced, they just don't want Sam to have total control. Many of the candidates for independent director are friendly with Sam and will happily give him the keys to the kingdom.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Okay, let's stipulate that Sam was maneuvering to get full board control. Then the independent directors were probably worried that -- sooner or later -- Sam would succeed. With Sam fully in charge the non-profit goals would be complet
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by gizmo 3y ago
If Sam returns he doesn't want to risk getting ousted again? So presumably he'll appoint people 100% loyal to him. Plenty of precedent for tech founders to have total board control. It will take a little while for Sam to consolida
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by gizmo 3y ago
I agree. As long as Sam has total control over the board it's fine if Iiya doesn't approve of everything Sam does. Not worth losing a top AI researcher over this.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Steve Jobs was also a schmoozer and hustler with very good product sense.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Good point. Also, as long as javascript will happily convert an integer into a new Date() people will want obvious compatibility in Python.
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by gizmo 3y ago
They who control the gpus control the universe. There is a great chip shortage. If MS breaks the lease agreement with OpenAI (based on some pretext about governance) OpenAI won't be able to do any work nor will they be able to serve cu
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by gizmo 3y ago
Ousting sama and gdb over something as petty as a simple strategy disagreement is totally unprofessional. sama got accused of serious misconduct. Even if he was too eager to commercialize OpenAIs tech that doesn't come close to justify
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by gizmo 3y ago
The equity explanation makes a lot more sense. If sama was "not candid" to the board about being the ultimate owner of OpenAI and his goal is to get unbelievably rich (he's already a billionaire and obsessed with money) they
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by gizmo 3y ago
Advice is all about course-correction. Some people are too timid, others to arrogant. Some too impulsive, others too cautious. Some people should work harder, other people should be reminded there is more to life than work. For any piece of
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by gizmo 3y ago
GPT4 (with decent prompting) provides very accurate and unbiased summaries of complex and contentious political questions. It's by design not a fact-oriented system but it is capable of producing very good factual answers.
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by gizmo 3y ago
Think of AI tools as unbelievably good auto-complete or intellisense. A universal anything-to-anything translator. It's incredibly powerful because it's something humans are not very good at. But it's a mistake to think AIs a
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by gizmo 3y ago
Not disclosing when you have an obligation to disclose is sufficient to establish intent. Businesses disclose all sorts of obscure risks because of this in their SEC filings: earthquakes, health risks, pirate attacks (real ones), terrorism,
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by gizmo 3y ago
It’s a well written article that makes many substantive arguments. If you refuse to engage with text that contains “obviously wrong” statements you will inevitably get stuck in some echo chamber. Open-mindedness is about trying to figure ou
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by gizmo 3y ago
VCs and C-suite are a great deal whiter than the engineers, if you hadn’t noticed.
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by gizmo 3y ago
I don’t think that book has aged very well. Maybe half of it is still good advice, the other half is very outdated or plain wrong.
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by gizmo 3y ago
"Pro" usage doesn't mean docker. There are many "pro" workloads that work just fine with 8gb ram. You can get a lot of real work done with an 8gb machine that has terrific battery life, is great for travel, great sc

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