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by jnwatson 3y ago
CVS doesn't sell tobacco products for that reason.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Microsoft tried the Kinect for 13 years. How long are they supposed to let a product run? It was a cool tech solution in search of a problem.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
A bunch of companies went to White House and promised they'd watermark their stuff.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
CXL for CPU access to DRAM is overkill. Plenty of server mobos allow you to directly attach 2 TiB of DRAM.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
If scalpers can get that money, why shouldn't the artists just charge more?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It comes down to transparency. How would an external observer tell that the RNG wasn't rigged?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Private equity is taking over vet clinics. In areas where they have the market locked, they raise prices
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I really don't understand why anyone would become a vet. I love animals as much as the next person, which is why i don't understand why one would volunteer for this life. When having the cat put down, my first thought was for the
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by jnwatson 3y ago
SBF isn't Madoff. He didn't leave a streak of bereft retirees in his wake. Woe to the hedge funds and HFT firms that lost money to SBF. FTX was just a particularly fetid pool in a massive swamp of an industry. This isn't to
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by jnwatson 3y ago
3 billion parameters is a bit large for most smart devices, is it not? Do they use some smaller quantization?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
AOL and Yahoo are still kicking. The question isn't whether Twitter will go out of business, the question is whether it will remain relevant. Its relevance has declined significantly in the last year.
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The cynical take about the West's slow titration of giving weapons to Ukraine is that it maximizes the amount of time that Russia throws its men into the meat grinder. Once Russian loses most of its fighting age men, it can't enga
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The open source tools listed are quite basic compared to commercially available tools.
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There's a very important chip in the Pixel that isn't made by Google.
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The entire devices division of Google has to use Pixel for their daily driver...
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Setbacks, parking requirements, and permits are some of the imposed fixed costs that a developer would have to pay to make a 0 square foot apartment. Then you have natural fixed costs of design, engineering, acquisition. Still, it mostly c
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The "forced to resign" is just corporate propaganda. More than likely, this is constructive dismissal. If you don't move, at least make them fire you.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I have yet to figure out how Europeans treat minor ailments. Those green-crossed "pharmacies" (only open weekdays during business hours) have 4 or 5 OTC drugs and the rest of the store is just pseudoscience.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The AI seems to understand 4/4 time but doesn't understand groupings of 4 measures into phrases. It definitely doesn't understand ABABACA or even the basic parts of a song. It is the musical equivalent of a meandering paragra
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I have a very complicated script and Act didn't work on it.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The only part of the Earthly pitch that resonated with me was the ability to run the CI locally. When debugging your CI, it is just faster to find problems when you can run on your own box. I have a gnarly GitHub Actions script that took f
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by jnwatson 3y ago
You win the Internet today. Still, there's a deeper analogy here. Very much in the "enshittification" vein, today's tech companies are about making something cool, getting folks to use it, and then monetizing while grad
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I've heard that too, but I can't imagine anybody in a city administration having enough juice to make a CEO care at all. How would that conversation go?
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Many, many folks that come into the office are not really working. WFH didn't change that.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
You can't fire your SoC vendor especially once the product ships. And their are all PITA about security updates.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
It is actually a crime in most US jurisdictions and can lead to suspension of liquor license.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
2000 sq ft is bigger than the vast majority of world housing.
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Almost 2 years ago.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I’m personally not a fan, but lots of folks report that factorio works fine on the deck.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I got 2/3 FAANGs to double their total comp. One was 2.8x. It is indeed a worthy exercise.

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