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by gpapilion 2y ago
I think the main problem is the investment in gpus delayed the adoption of ddr5 based platforms for servers.
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by gpapilion 2y ago
https://archive.ph/JCfqU To deal with the refresh loop.
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by gpapilion 2y ago
At the core of this article is that these platforms are setup for you to make a living off them alone. You see more successful influencers shilling vpns, and setting up newsletters on YouTube to stabilize revenue. TikTok has the same proble
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by gpapilion 2y ago
But why?
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by gpapilion 2y ago
What’s the significance of UIPath?
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by gpapilion 2y ago
> The intercity rail part is the easy part. Getting people to actually use it requires a pretty decent city transit network on each end. I don’t think this is true. People take airplanes and rent a cars all the time. The same could be tr
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by gpapilion 2y ago
This is someone who was on disability or at the very least was entitled to protection under federal or state law. They are trying to limit liability, hence the very straight forward language. I would be surprised if everyone got these email
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by gpapilion 2y ago
I think there have been two major drivers to inflation in fast food: - wages - delivery apps Wages is pretty obvious, and the article cited the changes in California. It is important to keep in mind that we’ve seen wages jump in the golden
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by gpapilion 2y ago
This all has to do with how commercial real estate is valued; rent determines the valuation. If companies are unwilling to pay the rent the space sits empty waiting for a tenant willing to. The reason for this is if you take lower rent than
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by gpapilion 2y ago
I’d be happier with 93% of PyTorch but works on multiple gpu manufacturers.
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by gpapilion 2y ago
This is the most reasonable solution as far as I’m concerned. There are still challenges related to this he electrical service the building is provided. For example you may find the building doesn’t really have enough energy to provide ever
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by gpapilion 2y ago
I think this is exactly right. If you have a job, it less important. If you want to change jobs it still valuable. More and more employers want folks near by.
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by gpapilion 2y ago
> Is there a decent marketplace for used Lithium packs yet? I feel that BYD has taken steps to enable this. The replaceable battery and swap system they developed makes it orders of magnitude easier to get the battery pack out of the car
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by gpapilion 2y ago
It’s basically their minimum cluster size for a reasonable model requires 8ish racks of compute. Semi analysis did some cost estimates, and I did some but you’re likely paying somewhere in the 12 million dollar range for the equipment to se
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by gpapilion 2y ago
I have lots of questions about how important latency is since you may be replacing many minutes or hours of a person’s time with undoubtedly a quicker response by any measure. This seems like a knee jerk reaction assuming latency is as impo
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by gpapilion 3y ago
But then you'll get GDDR6 delivered via HBM5 or whatever. I don't think CPUs will ever really keep up with the memory bandwidth, because for most applications it doesn't matter. MCR DIMM is like 1/2 the memory bandwidth
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by gpapilion 3y ago
So... I was struggling with this for a while. I would says anywhere from 2x to an order of magnitude faster with a GPU. (I've been looking at a lot of GPU benchmarks lately, and they are REALLY hard to compare since they are all so spe
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by gpapilion 3y ago
This is a feature large csps we’re looking for to improve their unit economics. There are a lot of issues that the author points out, but first and foremost it’s not a clear TCO win.
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by gpapilion 3y ago
I really struggle with unikernels. Great idea, and love the security context, but I feel like you loose so much. Logging for example, is it all syslog? How do you manage them? What if you need them in splunk, how does that work? I love the
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by gpapilion 3y ago
Reddit and Twitter shared a very similar niche, people who prefer their information in text form. Both face growth challenges since things like instagram require less effort to consume, and have wider appeal since they are based on images &
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by gpapilion 3y ago
This reminds me of a situation at Twitter where someone was communicating fearlessly to build trust, but learned as the CEO put it there were still consequences. US companies are going to be weird about this for the next few years. They wan
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by gpapilion 3y ago
One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is whether there is the possibility of a frozen Denisovan or Neanderthal falling out of the permafrost somewhere in Siberia. The oldest mammoth found is around 30000 years old, so maybe a bit out of
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by gpapilion 3y ago
Thanks for the sheet this was super enlightening. I was comparing my pacifica phev with my polestar, and the pacfica has a green score of 57, vs 53 for the polestar. This really seems like a methodology issue likely related to hours of oper
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by gpapilion 3y ago
Any string interpolation would open you up to sql injection without a lot of care. It generally recommended to used prepared statements. I guess the q part is the query parameter for the prepared statement. I’d still be a bit antsy here giv
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by gpapilion 3y ago
I keep thinking this is a sign of a larger failure coming. The consolidation masks a financial problem at one or both of the companies.
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by gpapilion 3y ago
Seems like the estimate for an adult is $12.5m in the us according to dot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
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by gpapilion 3y ago
Headsets break any bit of social components from a shared screen. There is something to be said for 2-5 people sitting around and consuming the same content and (almost) the same view simultaneously. Maybe overtime we'll get used to it
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by gpapilion 3y ago
Taiwanese companies run most of the major hightech manufacturing in China. For example, Foxconn is a taiwanese company. Most of my dealings with these types of manufactures has been in discussions of how to circumvent tariffs, not in really
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by gpapilion 3y ago
| TSMC lost the Chinese market, because their government went along headfirst with US trade war policy(similar to what Japan did in 1986, but worse in fact). Taiwan is definitely caught between a rock and a hard place. They watched what hap
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by gpapilion 3y ago
Remote management carries with it the same overhead as outsourced management. Outsourcing has slowed because the coordination costs are quite high and difficult to figure out. I think the backlash to remote is largely due to this being a ve

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