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by jmyeet 5mo ago
So there are a few versions of this. The most common in the US is the strip mall. This is a largely American, soulless construct of commercial space with parking out front, typically on a major road. There are lots of reasons why this flour
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It's a bandaid and not a particularly good one. Spotify reserving a ticket allotment is really no different to American Express doing the exact same thing. Amex uses their allotment to attract premium members through concierge services
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
I looked into the M3 Ultra 512GB Mac Studio before it was discontinued and the as best as I could determine it just wasn't worth it... yet. The GFLOPS and memory bandwidth just arne't there even though it can hold a much larger mo
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
Cloud servers have cheaper electricity, the scale of industrial-level cooling, no issues for you (as a user) with hardware failure (ie you just use a different server; it's not your problem) and can amortize their cost by running 24x7.
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It's comparing laptops to dedicated GPUs in a server environment. The best comparison would be the Mac Studio but the current release is almost 2 years old at this point. We'll see what a likely M5 Ultra Mac Studio looks like, pro
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
So some things have changed since this rig was first built (2024). The most relevant is that $6800 RTX 6000 Ada 48GB has arguably been supplanted by the $9500 RTX 6000 Pro 96GB. The Ada has a memory bandwidth of 960GB/s. The Pro has 1.
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
We're entering an era of "tech nationalism". China has been completely vindicated for esssentially not allowing their country and economy to be held hostage to foreign tech companies. It would be an era of "tech colonial
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What's funny is the Meta, Twitter, Google, etc are doing everything China gets accused of doing. Trillion dollar companies move in lockstep with US domestic and foreign policy. My position is that these companies are already violating
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Remember in the late 2010s when the hack Ajit Pai, then fCC Chair, said that the FCC couldn't or shouldn't enforce Obama-era Title 8 net neutrality? Remember how states like California then said "OK, it's not a federal i
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Polling, particularly in US elections, is hard. A lot of people, particularly tech people, got very excited about Nate Silver and 538 after the 2012 presidential elections but they shouldn't have. When you look at any polling or electi
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There are essentially three forces shaping society going forward: 1. Everything is great. You either own a lot of capital or you think you will one day. You're fully in support of the current system; 2. There are problems but they can
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
Can Apple “unveil” Touch ID as a “new” accessibility feature because Face ID is an accessibility nightmare?
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Agreed on the potash but I was referring to the impact on food prices, which is still to come. Although Canada still exports almost all of its energy via the US so this street goes two ways. The nature of trade is a complex web of many inte
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
It was clear from very early on that this war was (IMHO) the largest strategic blunder in US history and it's not even close. Prior to this, closing the Strait was an untested threat. This war forced Iran to prove they can in fact clos
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
Obligatory Isaac Arthur reference [1]. I still think humanity's far future is in orbitals in space, not on planets and certainly not on planets as hostile as Venus is. I'm not sure how well living at 50km above the surface would w
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There are several legal principles in play here. Note that these are civil trial issues and when you're talking about "robbing", you're likely talking about a criminal issue. These are: 1. Estoppel. If a party relies on
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For people unfamiliar, generally speaking in trial courts the jury is the finder of facts and the judge is the finder of law (yes, there are bench trials where the judge does both). As an aside, appeals courts deal in legal issues (ie sta
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
The majority of people believe something fake about Covid [1]. While the number of people who think it was a hoax or otherwsise completely fake is pretty low, I've seen figures that it was as high as 13% in the early pandemic, which is
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
I just have to respond to this: I'm not sure how you meant this but, to be clear, horseshow theory is BS. For one thing, there's nothing remotely left wing about Starmer's Labor government. Labor is firmly a center-right part
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The China example was such a massive blunder (from the perspective of US soft power). Like you say, it created a captive market for Chinese chips where Chinese companies might've otherwise bought foreign chips. That's inbuilt dema
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First, we still don't know the origins of Covid-19. The most accepted answer is zoonotic origin but there are problems with that, namely that Wuhan is far from the suspected bats and there is no documented case of Covid-19 in any wild
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The world is bigger than the US. Also, not everybody in the US is an underpaid service worker with no benefits. Also, if you limit yourself to just the US, you're still just wrong [1]: > Approximately one-quarter (26%, n = 303/
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First hantavirus now this. Look, there's valid reason to be concerned here but people who are fearing a repeat of the Covid-19 pandemic are seemingly missing why Covid was a pandemic. Covid spread so much for four main reasons: 1. It c
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I've dug into this previously for one simple reason: NVidia segments the market by capping VRAM and Apple silicon uses a shared memory model that could challenge that but it currently doesn't. And I really wonder if Apple realizes
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My principles on this are: 1. If a game no longer works then the publisher loses copyright protections. This would often apply to online-only games. There are other games that are a mix of online and offline play that should be treated slig
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These companies will likely comply too [1]. Defenders will say "they have to comply with the law" but there's compliance and then there's compliance . For example, an adminstrative subpoena has no power. Companies can a
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Bad manager: "I have to give you a bad rating because of the company-wide LoC metric." Good manager (to good engineer): "can you please churn some code to update your LoC metric so I don't have to give you a worse rating
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You mean like using lines of code as a metric to rank engineers [1]? Managers love metrics. Bad managers particularly love metrics. Tokens used was almost the obvious bad metric that was going to be used. I would argue that tokens used has
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I like to quip that any sufficiently sized US company eventually becomes a bank, a landlord, a defense contractor or some combination thereof. Another way to put this, in the author's framing, is a tool of empire . We've seen how
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We've been through this before. The GFC in 2008 wiped out entry-level jobs for millenials who did everything "right" (or, at least, what they were told to do) by going to college and accumulating student debt [1]. Those gradu

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