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by jnwatson 2y ago
Importantly, dividends devalue issued unvested RSUs.
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I've been looking for a home with the new spouse for about a year now. Together, we make about 6x median income, yet we are still looking at the bottom end of the market.
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The article specifically calls out home vacancy rates. We're at an all time low in cities.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Very cool! I've had this idea for 20 years. I'm glad I didn't get around to making it.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
You can make millions in only a handful of careers. Even in software development, making it to principal at a FAANG is much harder than simply meeting expectations at 3 senior engineering jobs.
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This is a great reminder of the pox that was Microsoft of the early part of the millennium. Besides an allergy to investing in web standards, they were woefully behind in their language support. Their non-adoption of modern C++ standards he
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It means that Bluetooth is doing its normal thing.
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The best VPN provider is one you control and is hard to ban. I set up an OpenVPN server on DigitalOcean for a friend visiting China. It took 10 minutes with the template in the DO marketplace. It even allows downloading a client with the pa
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The problem with the safe C subsets is that it means you have to write new code. But if you have to write new code, why would you do it in C?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Presumably the state actors are looking for other state actor's bugs, and would try to fix them, or least fix them to only work for them. That's quite a game of cat and mouse.
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We understand it completely. However, since determining the private key that corresponds to the public key embedded in the backdoor is practically infeasible, we can't actually exercise it. Someone could modify the code with a known
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The real problem was doing expensive math for every connection. If it had relied on a cookie or some simpler-to-compute pre-filter, no one would have been the wiser.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Lawyers essentially have a guild. They set up systems like the Bar to prevent outsiders from plying their trade. It has similar functions as a union but predates it by several centuries.
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The $60 million a year that Google is paying amounts to 7% of 2023 revenue. Perhaps they could get 3 or 4 more customers at that rate. There's just not enough juice there.
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It is a variation of the principal-agent problem [1]. It is extraordinarily hard to perfectly align the long term interests of shareholders and employees. It requires a level of oversight that most boards can't manage. 1. https:&#x2F
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Check out Google's AI Studio. It makes it easy to fine tune. Disclaimer: I work for Google.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The judge provided a good counterargument: if a thief burgles a bank, goes to Vegas and doubles his money and gives the original amount back to the bank, does that deserve punishment?
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It is trivial to fine tune these days. RAG is already irrelevant with large context windows.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
You're assuming the West's goal is ending the conflict. Their behavior is consistent with only one goal: a grinding down of Russia. Regardless of the final war outcome, Russia will emerge as a tertiary power: its male population
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Goto is the means of creating new flow control mechanisms. C doesn't have labelled break, so you use goto. C doesn't have RAII or defer so you use a goto ladder.
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Does any of this matter when you have 5 million token input and can just shove everything into the input?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
In the context of the article, it makes sense. If you have a choice to sell a bunch of stock on either December 31 or January 1, and selling the stock would put you into a higher tax bracket, it makes sense to sell enough stock on December
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The example of a VC that hires a typist even though he can type faster is apt. Today almost nobody hires typists because information technology has advanced to the point that it is faster to do it yourself than have to communicate to anothe
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by jnwatson 3y ago
In Houston and Dallas 30 years ago these were common. When I moved to the East coast 20 years ago I was surprised it wasn't a thing here. The first Flagship car wash arrived 10 years ago, and they are always busy. Still, how many can a
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by jnwatson 3y ago
One doesn't need a professorship to do research, or go to conferences, or publish papers. There are plenty of folks that do private research on their own time. This is the right choice for the vast majority of folks that have the &quo
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by jnwatson 3y ago
To be fair, that's going to happen with most non-ruggedized laptops.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
After the success in Ukraine, there will be a burgeoning market in low cost cruise missiles. This may for the bill.
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In most situations, we don't get paid to make code "done'. We get paid to get it close enough to work most of the time.
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Theoretically, the same trick could be used to double map addresses coming from an external master via an IOMMU.
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For only $300 plus shipping from Ali Express you get a high accuracy inertial navigation system. Only weighs 10 grams. The future is scary. It is now straightforward and inexpensive for lots of folks to construct jam-resistant Shahed-style

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