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by gricardo99 25d ago
you could make this same argument about any business and any mechanism that raises outside capital to expand. If McDonald’s restaurants were profitable, they wouldn’t sell franchises. Except it’s been an incredibly successful way to raise
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by gricardo99 29d ago
Incredible. I was curious to see what I could find for one of the business card: Dr. Ronald Moskowitz, FerroFluidics (cool name). Took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Turns out the guy was a bit of a fraudster and was sentenced to 8 years
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by gricardo99 1mo ago
It was such a joy to read something clearly written by a human, for humans, by someone who takes pride and spends effort in their writing. Reading this article felt like a breath of fresh air, like a vice had been released from my head. No
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by gricardo99 4mo ago
it’s open source now so presumably it’s harder to outright lie about how their system works.
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by gricardo99 4mo ago
you can disable this feature by going to Settings > Privacy > Smart TV Experience.
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by gricardo99 5mo ago
An incredible, lucid, and beautiful depiction of the burgeoning, inchoate world of cyberspace at the time — voicing an anxiety that echoes even louder today: We humans would be liberated into an Elysian condition of permanent leisure.
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by gricardo99 5mo ago
there’s a move now towards 24/7 trading. I guess we’ll see how the rigors of the trading environment mesh with zero down time. I’m sure the rollout will be slow and steady.
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by gricardo99 8mo ago
bad at identifying business trends I think you’re being unduly harsh on yourself. At least by the Shopify/COVID example. COVID was a black swan event, which may very well have completely changed the fortunes of companies lik
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by gricardo99 8mo ago
not to mention that radiation hardening of chips has a big impact on cost and performance
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by gricardo99 8mo ago
That’s what I thought and did this for years. However, the major carriers do offer promotions and incentives that make the phones cheaper, sometimes significantly. e.g. of recent deal from major US carriers: iPhone 16 deal for $16&#x2F
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by gricardo99 11mo ago
iOS safari same issue. can’t get passed the terms
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by gricardo99 1y ago
archive https://web.archive.org/web/20250930162317/https://newyorkto...
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The AI Kids Take San Francisco(newyorktoday.net)
3 points by gricardo99 1y ago|2 comments
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by gricardo99 1y ago
actually you do need another participant to take the other side of your trade. That’s not a middle man. Market makers, liquidity providers, are a key component of these markets, taking risk with their own capital (no systemic risk, no to
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by gricardo99 1y ago
archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250930162317/https://newyorkto...
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The AI Kids Take San Francisco(newyorktoday.net)
1 points by gricardo99 1y ago|1 comments
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by gricardo99 1y ago
archive https://web.archive.org/web/20250930162317/https://newyorkto...
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The AI Kids Take San Francisco(newyorktoday.net)
3 points by gricardo99 1y ago|2 comments
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by gricardo99 1y ago
he’s clearly commenting on how the “maga gang” is characterizing the murderer. There’s no statement directly about the murderer.
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by gricardo99 1y ago
With all the code syntax highlighting support as a feature, I feel it will become tempting to put code in configuration files (which some of their examples show). That just feels wrong. Code should go in code files/modules/libr
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by gricardo99 1y ago
nice concept. fyi, search feature doesn’t seem to work
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by gricardo99 1y ago
The one thing pulling me towards VS code, and away from terminal workflows is Copilot and the Agent workflows. Being able to seamlessly chat with AI models and then see/review its code changes is the biggest change to my workflow and
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by gricardo99 1y ago
since you work on pytorch, what would you say is the best place to ask questions about general usage, trouble shooting? I’ve been struggling with a, what I would consider, a simple torchrun elastic training example, and haven’t found any
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by gricardo99 1y ago
My favorite Tcl story is a little side note about how Tcl could have been the language of the web[1] the founding of Netscape occurred at the same time I was deciding where to go in industry when I left Berkeley in 1994. Jim Clarke an
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by gricardo99 2y ago
from the abstract By incorporating DyT, Transformers without normalization can match or exceed the performance of their normalized counterparts, mostly without hyperparameter tuning.
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by gricardo99 2y ago
Getting to 7 is notoriously difficult What am I missing? 2 * 2 * 2 - 2/2
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by gricardo99 2y ago
Try Pivot or Prof. G. podcasts.
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by gricardo99 2y ago
Interesting ideas. I think in any practical system, you'd still need some central authority that determines: a basket of basic, thickly traded commodities should be chosen; perhaps a basket of specific amounts of basic elements,
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by gricardo99 2y ago
And this is the architecture as designed and recommended by the KX consultants that you end up having to hire to “scale” I think this hits on one of the major shortcomings of how FD/Kx have managed the technology going back 1
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by gricardo99 2y ago
Get a free version out there that can be used for many things… I think this has been the biggest impediment to kdb+ gaining recognition as a great technology/product and growing amongst the developer community. Having used kdb

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