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China AI and Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed(semianalysis.com)
5 points by kamaal 3y ago|2 comments
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by kamaal 3y ago
This seems to be the problem with all the developing countries. Economic growth requires, men and women both prioritising jobs over marriage and family stability. Divorces happen because there is immense incentive for women to look for be
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>>Yes because I know Java (hypothetically I haven’t touched Java since two years after it was introduced) I can become an efficient Android developer “in a few days”. You can become whatever you want to become. Hiring is a totally dif
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Did tail call optimisation make it to the JVM so that we can have it in Clojure?
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>>and gets 15km further away every second >>I beg anybody to rephrase it understandingly with using some units similar to football fields. More like it can go from Earth to Moon in like 8 hours(or so).
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by kamaal 3y ago
Sometimes the secret is in the open, but seeing it takes a series of long slog steps which most people just can't get themselves to do(for many reasons). If you see the most fitness and nutrition advice, and you go through it, most o
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>>Can the masses stick to simple buy and hold long term? This statement here is the key. This is why many times real estate investments work. You more likely to pay monthly payments on a loan with discipline, than have discipline to D
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>>Technical analysis is the ultimate dumbification of market structure and dynamics, which in itself is a major dumbification of the formal economy, which in itself is a major simplification of the stuff-that-matters(TM). So basically
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>>I know people that have been explained repeatedly with absolute patience and love that correlation was not causality, with simple examples. They agree on the moment, but wait a week and they still mix it up again and again. You just
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>programming is about learning syntax. It indeed is, how do you communicate meaning without words/symbols? Make an attempt to reply to this very comment by any means apart from using words/symbols.
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by kamaal 3y ago
Actually everybody needs it, they just outsource it to somebody who can do it better than them. The real problem is you can cannot find a language which you don't speak, useful. The only reason why things like Addition, Subtraction, Mu
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>>But math reasoning really filters out people in a way nothing else does. Learning Math is just like learning a language, the issue is the script/alphabet/symbols used to communicate, its dictionary, its grammar are all com
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>>If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well. Toxicity is Twitter's moat. Its like people going to watch UFC fight, or boxing or something like that. Niceties aren't addictive. You need c
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>>but it can't 'teach' them to us I always thought you could ask GPT to illustrate the steps it took to arrive at the answer. I mean it can take your through the process it went through to arrive at the answer. Its as c
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>>Because these are inherently lethal activities, that a reasonable participant engages in despite knowing the risks. One can as far as say they indulge in it for the 'kick' this sort of risk brings. The ordinary is boring f
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by kamaal 3y ago
I had a colleague who went scuba diving in Los Angeles. Newly wed. Husband and Wife, decide to spend their 4th of July weekend doing water sports. So they go scuba diving, the wife's mask breaks down, he comes up, she panics she doesn&
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All the more reason to not compromise quality for other reasons. Nobody owes their life to you.
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I think every one stands for thinks like diversity and inclusivity until they have to put some thing very personal on the line to lose. At some point in time you just have to be ok with the best people to the job, doing their jobs. This doe
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>>For the same reason I've seen lots of instances of people complaining about leadership decisions, thinking the work could be done differently or more efficiently, questioning priorities, etc. They don't have the executive
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>>In office jobs, by contrast, productivity remains rooted in notions of busyness and multi-faceted activity. The most productive knowledge workers are those who stay on top of their inboxes and somehow juggle the dozens of obligation
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Can you write the anecdote here for us. Reading the whole book for just the anecdote might be a daunting effort.
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While the book is awesome. And I guess there is a story some where that a programmer working with Aho even build CAD software with awk. Its often not an effort for the faint hearted, even to maintain. Without unit tests, exceptions, and myr
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>>If you're disciplined, you can write complex systems pretty much as well as you could in Python or any other dynamically-typed language. Python is today's Perl. It ditched the philosophical sermons of simplicity, minimalit
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>>Bitcoin solves this. Bitcoin also loves this. Lots of people will use the coming fall to make money shorting this. Then eventually as BTC stabilises they will make money going long as well. In short a lot of BTC doomers will celebra
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by kamaal 3y ago
All of these depend on the individual. I've never had a wrist watch since I finished college(used for timekeeping in exams). Mostly because never needed it. Mobile phones were out by then, and you had a watch and much more in it. Its j
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Tamils mostly take pride in the age of their language and its continued use till date. They also make their identity around this. They don't claim that every language originated from theirs or that computers need to be programmed with
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>>Surely that runs counter to their goals, right? Power is always in comparison to something. You are powerful compared to somebody. So as long as they have enough to exercise control over minorities of India and feel nice about it th
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>>It's also like bragging that you were a highly advanced civilization and got conquered/occupied by a bunch of dumb savages. They explain that part by using the idea of 'traitors'. They are often the minorities of
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As a backend developer who didn't 'get' web development for many years. Learning react changed all of it. React was revolutionary, and just clicked for me. Combine this with frameworks like Material UI, Patternfly and many ot
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Spending your money is a way of spending your time(expended to acquire the money), so you want to spend as much as you can leaving 0 or at least keep towards 0 as you age. Anything else and it would feel like you are dying early. Im guessin

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