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by isignal 3y ago
The claim wasn’t that chat gpt doesn’t know what a frisbee is. The claim was that recognizing frisbees is different from a fundamental understanding of frisbees. So it was an example rather than a specific claim about chat gpt.
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by isignal 3y ago
Individual corporate entities have their own flaws but the competition between them is a structure that eventually forced inefficient entities out. So Intel eventually finds themselves overtaken by a TSMC. But with govt entities, no such st
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by isignal 4y ago
Companies can already buy recurring 3 month treasuries to hold their cash.
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by isignal 4y ago
Did you consider buying us treasuries instead?
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by isignal 4y ago
Banks do not park such a big fraction of their funds in such a long term investment. They should have chosen a ladder of differently maturity timelines to trade off between yield and availability. For example, they could have invested more
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by isignal 4y ago
Just buy us treasuries. There is no rule that you have to have cash at a bank.
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by isignal 4y ago
You can just buy short term us treasuries instead of trying to spread out 250k everywhere.
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by isignal 4y ago
Majority of folks in Los Altos are workers in those jobs.
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by isignal 4y ago
Their latest generation chips are comparable in value to the AMD equivalent. Power per watt is getting better but not as good as Apple chips. Is the revenue loss mainly because they also seem to be slashing prices to attract market share ba
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by isignal 4y ago
The point does seem relevant. Most of the non chemical ingredients are recognizable natural or naturally derived (rice/pea protein). methylcellulose is the only odd one out.
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by isignal 4y ago
For logs, Windows has a standard events mechanism that many apps and the kernel itself uses. So windows event viewer is the equivalent of journalctl logs for specific services. But the gui is kind of heavy and not at all like opening a text
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by isignal 4y ago
If your work already uses tailscale, you can use enclave to achieve the same thing. Enclave and tailscale seem to coexist fine.
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by isignal 4y ago
It is unlikely that Meta is able to decrypt the messages on their side. The WhatsApp desktop client is actually very crippled by the fact that it can’t just ask someone for the messages, it is another participant in end to end encryption an
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by isignal 4y ago
That doesn’t work for python extensions used by the application. These extensions may include or link to other dynamic libraries.
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by isignal 4y ago
There wasn’t that many D services at Facebook. There may have been more outside buzz about its usage than reality.
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by isignal 4y ago
1. Breaking this down by country doesn’t make much sense. Per capita emissions makes more sense, from a humanitarian point of view. 2. India/China are ramping up solar and wind but it is a relatively poor country. Such investments shou
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by isignal 4y ago
What if Ford operates their own stations? Would they still have two plugs? (see: Tesla superchargers)
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by isignal 4y ago
Doesn’t wsl2’s docker rely on the windows docker desktop? Because there’s no systemd in wsl2, the regular docker service wouldn’t run anyway.
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by isignal 4y ago
can you clarify why you feel this way, plenty of companies use confluente Kafka or mongodb with VPC peering? Would AWS private link make you feel better about network security?
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by isignal 4y ago
Very good points. I’m not sure if there’s something Netflix could have done honestly. They had a technology moat with video streaming tech at a time when everyone else focused on cable but video streaming and streaming apps became a commodi
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by isignal 4y ago
Yugabyte’s lower level supports cross shard transactions as a fundamental primitive. This allows consistent reads and acid txns similar to what you would expect from a single node postgres.
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by isignal 5y ago
Quality of life for the same pay is different though. In India, labor is much cheaper. However, rule of law, open space etc are not as good. Working temporarily in the US to save money for India could be a good arbitrage.
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by isignal 5y ago
I was in the market for both vehicles. On ground prices for the Bolt did not approach Msrp. You had deals lowering them to 25-30k. And Tesla sales were typically not its cheapest models.
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by isignal 5y ago
It is not so simple. The engineering in a Chevy Volt is equally impressive. You are partly correct about amount of focus but you cannot compare a budget Nissan or Chevy to a Tesla that costs twice or thrice as much. For example, GM can add
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by isignal 5y ago
Folks in the windows ecosystem have had the benefit of Fiddler for more than a decade now. Glad to see a more universal solution.
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by isignal 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. Relying on bursting for a core service like a db would be too much risk - it would make sense for batch compute or similar workloads. From a systems viewpoint, I can’t understand if there’s an actual technical challeng
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by isignal 5y ago
Definitely impressive. However, EFS perf oriented pricing is confusing. It seems to be quite expensive if we ask for throughput comparable with EBS. 100 MB/s costs $600/month. I’m not sure why the pricing for disitributed file sys
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by isignal 5y ago
The problematic tech is not AirTags. It is that every iPhone unwittingly participates in a global network to help “stalk” the AirTag. The ubiquitous distribution of iPhones is the part that makes this successful and scary. Tile or samsung
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by isignal 5y ago
Agree that that kernel can handle many sleeping threads fine. The main problem with a million threads is that they all take up some fixed memory for stack. 1 MB/stack as a rough estimate. Go’s green threads use some kind of dynamic sta
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by isignal 5y ago
This is incorrect, cost of vaccines is not the only bottleneck. For example, India is currently manufacturing more vaccines than can can be sold to other countries. The bottleneck is apparently people on ground to get shots into arms. Most

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