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by mandevil 11mo ago
I'm sorry, you want to get into an IP lawsuit with the Walt Disney Company, by choice ? You think that starting a fight with the most fearsome collection of IP lawyers on the planet is the right thing to do? (Fox, one of the possibl
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by mandevil 11mo ago
They would need to prove that they have the rights to it to win court, yes. The chances of Activision actually pulling the trigger and suing if you made a remastered version are definitely less than 50-50. They'd have to actually have
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by mandevil 11mo ago
My experience with LP is that they went way down in quality after Red Ventures (who own CNET, Bankrate.com etc.) bought them in 2020. I stopped trusting them completely after the CNET AI scandal- wikipedia no longer considers CNET to be a r
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by mandevil 11mo ago
This has a connection to the way the British have lionized "Some Guys in a Shed" as their main source of industry and innovation. Their shipyards were dominant at merchant ships, but were all capital light work by skilled manpower
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by mandevil 11mo ago
This is what has crippled the Nuclear power plant building industry in most countries (ROK, China, Russia excepted). France built dozens of reactors in the 1970's and into the 1980's, then that slowed and then finally stopped for
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by mandevil 11mo ago
I don't know you, don't know your situation, but this does not seem to match the experiences of many of my friends who left for a while and then came back. "Spent two years starting a restaurant" and "had to take ca
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by mandevil 11mo ago
One thing I meant to add: this extensive testing- and the enormous amount of documentation/training materials necessary to take an 18 year old with average ASVAB scores and produce someone who can cook meals for 200 other soldiers on f
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by mandevil 11mo ago
I spent a dozen years as a US defense contractor across a broad spectrum of places (from R&D for the future to working with E3's today), and worked at internet scale and start-up B2B stuff in the other dozen years of my working car
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by mandevil 11mo ago
Interestingly, it looks like there is a move away from financing these data centers with tech company cash-on-hand and moving to Special Purpose Vehicles over the past 18 months or so. So now there is a lot more debt involved in funding DC&
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by mandevil 11mo ago
Merit is from Latin, and cracy is a Greek suffix, so combining them together is nonsense. Aristo has the advantage of actually being Greek for "the best." The word meritocracy was actually popularized (1) by British Labour Party p
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by mandevil 11mo ago
While that is true in the general case, OpenAI was founded as a 501(c)3 to whom all donations were tax-deductible, which is why I used non-profit and charity interchangeably in describing it in particular. There was a for-profit subsidiary
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by mandevil 11mo ago
Because of the unusual history of OpenAI, the Government had far more of a say than normal for a company. Remember, OpenAI was originally created as a California non-profit (a charity doing work to create a better AI future). As a charity,
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by mandevil 1y ago
I'm glad this worked for you, but if it were me at most I would have asked Claude Code to write me an Ansible playbook for doing this, then run it myself. That gives me more flexibility to run this in the future, to change the commands
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by mandevil 1y ago
There are a million different tools that are designed to do this, e.g. this task (log into a bunch of machines and execute a specific command without any additional tools running on each node) is literally the design use case for Ansible. I
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by mandevil 1y ago
I don't think it's enterprise deals. I think it's communication at scale, internally . Imagine a company of m employees as a giant m*m matrix of communication slots, with a 1 for regular close communication, a 0 for no commu
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by mandevil 1y ago
Almost 30 years ago I went to a Penn and Teller magic show. They did their bullet catch (classed up but basically the same trick people have been doing for a century) and other stuff I don't really remember. The trick I vividly remembe
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by mandevil 1y ago
The consistent emphasis on the value of speed and mobility over the other parts of the combat triangle (mobility-firepower-survivability)- to the detriment of them as weapons systems- is a sign that there was a coherent influence and direct
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by mandevil 1y ago
The reason that Rumsfeld's second term as SecDef marks him as the worst to ever hold the position (1) is that at least the other guy who oversaw the US getting into a decades long morass (McNamara) delivered some effective weapons. For
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by mandevil 1y ago
If you have done the out-of-band safety number verification, then impersonation attempts will give you a warning that their safety number has changed. I know this because I got that error when my wife replaced her cell phone. I believe (tho
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by mandevil 1y ago
Waymo does not believe that remote drivers are responsive enough to be able to safely operate. Safety drivers communicate with the self-driving system, and can set waypoints etc. for the navigation system, but the delays inherent make it un
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by mandevil 1y ago
So, the main reason for the historical separation (in the European tradition) between doctor and pharmacist was profit motive- you didn't want the person prescribing to have a financial stake in their treatment, else they will prescrib
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by mandevil 1y ago
I used to think this sort of thing too. Then a few years ago I worked with a SWE who had experience in the trucking industry. His take was that most trucking companies are too small scale to benefit from this. The median trucking operation
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by mandevil 1y ago
My wife is a clinical pharmacist at a hospital. I am a SWE working on AI/ML related stuff. We've talked about this a lot. She thinks that the current generation of software is not a replacement for what she does now, and finds the
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by mandevil 1y ago
WebObjects was demo'd in 1995, and Version 1.0 was released in March 1996, by NeXT (Steve Jobs and crew). In 1997 when Apple bought NeXT and made Jobs its CEO again, it became part of Apple who open sourced it in 2006 and maintained it
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by mandevil 1y ago
That is a (relatively) new thing, however- at least in the US. Prior to the September 11th security reforms there no ID checks against tickets, and you could resell them. This was so commonplace that one US airline (People's Express) b
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by mandevil 1y ago
Oh, the integrated players (now pretty much just Intel and Samsung, but in the past people like AMD as well) have other things they make on these older fabs- modems, OOB managers, USB controllers, all the other chips that go on a motherboar
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by mandevil 1y ago
The key for getting (financial) value out of fabs is their time after they are the overtaken by the next node. The ability to keep the order book full after you have a better node is what pays off the fab. So its all the other chips- the
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by mandevil 1y ago
This is a big ask for a shrinking market- with the pressure that the Chinese government is putting on their domestic companies to not buy H20's, I'm not sure how big this is going to be going forward. 5 billion (plus whatever it c
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by mandevil 1y ago
Weirdly, there is an exception to fraud if the jury/judge believes that in that situation, no reasonable person would believe what they are saying, it is "mere puffery". This is why some famous, wealthy and powerful people in
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by mandevil 1y ago
The USSR split up into 15 smaller states 35 years ago. But those 15 smaller states combined are exactly the same territory as the former USSR- none of her (many, many) neighbors took the opportunity to reach in and fiddle with borders, to r

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