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by mcast 2y ago
I've always liked the SRE approach, where you can alleviate software engineers to build new features without burdening the team with 24/7 on call duties.
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by mcast 2y ago
This seems like a pretty severe point of failure.
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by mcast 2y ago
And IP space.
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by mcast 2y ago
To be fair, the Kindle is primarily used for reading books and doesn't require a fast refresh rate. It also lasts for weeks (months?) without charging.
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by mcast 3y ago
>"it's quite likely that much of what we're seeing is the work of foreign and domestic* adversaries" I think it's naive to assume the same weapons and tools used abroad won't be used at home. We've alre
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by mcast 3y ago
It's a pretty great redundancy design though. Imagine someone driving or doing a life-critical task (augmented surgery?) on the Vision Pro and losing passthrough at a critical moment. And yes, there are already videos of people driving
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by mcast 3y ago
Not all coastal areas have the same strict building code. Homes not built with concrete exteriors and hurricane tie down anchors have a strong risk of being demolished in strong hurricanes. South Florida revamped their building codes after
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by mcast 3y ago
You could build or purchase a prefabricated shed-style office (with AC, power, etc) in your backyard without a permit (<120 sq. ft for CA) in most areas.
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by mcast 3y ago
The biggest advantage of a bunker would be the first year of survival. You can comfortably wait while the population resolves itself, and later emerge with a group of trusted people (agriculturists, scientists, doctors) who are much healthi
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by mcast 3y ago
It was strange seeing how many people with genuine intentions of advancing AI for good were blindly threatening to join MSFT, a company with much less genuine reputation. I think OpenAI's board is even more controversial than ever now.
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by mcast 3y ago
If you wanted to wear a foil hat, you might think this internal fighting was started from someone connected to TPTB subverting the rest of the board to gain a board seat, and thus more power and influence, over AGI. The hush-hush nature of
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by mcast 3y ago
He’s wearing an OpenAI visitor badge, that only confirms he will either return as an employee or never at all.
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by mcast 3y ago
I don’t see any verbiage that implies Microsoft had no idea. If Microsoft was the aggressor, of course they would play dumb and disclose as little as possible.
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by mcast 3y ago
Sam strikes me as the type of founder who would never sell out or accept an acquisition. With $10 billion already invested, what's to stop Microsoft from trying to acquire them?
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by mcast 3y ago
There was a rumor about ChatGPT using libgen for training data, if true, I find it hard to believe Google's legal team would touch that with a long stick.
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by mcast 3y ago
Probably school districts in close proximity to prestigious schools (Boston/Harvard) who can hire new grads who want to stay within the university bubble.
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by mcast 3y ago
Remote work seems like a bigger liability for a company which is expecting future legal battles and anti-trust cases, especially since all communications will be entered into discovery. It's easier for VPs to discuss AI ethics in hallw
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by mcast 3y ago
I really appreciate creators who add chapters to their YouTube videos, especially their sponsorship advertisements, since you can easily skip over them.
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by mcast 3y ago
The first thing I do for any credit card is enroll in autopay. You can always make additional payments and pay off in full, but late fees and late payments are arguably more disastrous for your long-term credit than accruing interest for a
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by mcast 3y ago
The wind farm driving east from LA into Palm Springs is really fun to drive through as well, it has 1,224 wind turbines! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gorgonio_Pass_wind_farm
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by mcast 3y ago
Cybersecurity and internet crime laws are notoriously outdated (created in the 80s). I could see a bad lawyer arguing that cURLing an API repeatedly is “hacking”.
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by mcast 3y ago
The scale of Apple’s notification service must be pretty large. Granted, most notifications don’t have strong SLA guarantees but I don’t remember it having any downtime either.
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by mcast 3y ago
Maybe unless that person was a US senator/congressperson.
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by mcast 3y ago
I'm almost certain the main reason for switching was to bring more cohesiveness between Google apps and/or legacy infrastructure reasons.
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by mcast 3y ago
Is there any valid use case for when it's a good idea to publicly expose a S3 bucket?
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by mcast 3y ago
I wish Apple would return to pre-COVID live keynotes. But that would mean demos would fail, wifi networks would be crowded, audible boos and gasps from price announcements. Yeah, Apple isn't going back anytime soon.
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by mcast 3y ago
I hope Square has some insurance in place to fund merchants any lost revenue. It would be nice to deposit a percentage of average tx revenue per business.
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by mcast 3y ago
I've met many incredibly talented eastern European engineers, who seem to overwhelmingly enjoy low-level programming (compilers, database internals, etc.). I don't see the concern.
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by mcast 3y ago
Google was using CAPTCHA data to train its Street View photos for addresses and street names back in 2012*. https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha...
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by mcast 3y ago
I don't think companies in #4 are safe, mostly because commercial real estate is expensive. Consulting firms will advise them to either not renew building leases or have a hybrid/RTO policy as one of the first cost cutting measure

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