melbourne_mat

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   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   There's an easy fix for AI transforming the output of the Internet giants into useful content for us: just block those AI apps/services. They are determined to be the interface between humans and machines because that is where you
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   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   Silicon Valley is not the only place to find engineers who know what they're doing. Some of us want to stay in our home country and/or don't want to jump through the hoops that American tech companies demand.
3. 33.▲
   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   I know AWS - and I would guess the others too - discourage hybrid by setting the egress traffic costs to extreme levels
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   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   Total salary bill: $20m. 50 staff so average salary: $400k. I'd be happy with $200k USD - that's more than I get paid in my country at current exchange rates.
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   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   She's a competent leader there's no doubt. But to say she saved AMD is just more mindless leader worship. TSMC saved AMD, because they gave AMD the ability to produce CPUs that could finally compete with Intel.
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   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   Yeah I also don't sleep well. I wonder if lack of deep sleep has a causal relationship to Alzheimer's or if it's just an association?
7. 37.▲
   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   I've seen the phrase "uncanny valley" thrown around a bunch of times. Who are these people who have emotional reactions to CGI which is not quite real looking?
8. 38.▲
   by melbourne_mat 3y ago

   I can imagine AI academics are in a tough spot. However what about the existential angst the rest of us - who don't even do anything AI related on a day to day basis - are feeling? I think big changes are coming and it's not gonna
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   by melbourne_mat 4y ago

   "we are expanding the distribution of our Apex Legends testing team" Goodbye US employees, welcome Asian and Eastern European employees. It's definitely not about costs though (wink) "They will be provided 60 days severa
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    by melbourne_mat 4y ago

    How to save some cash: 1. Fire your staff, 2. outsource their work to the general public. Brilliant! But seriously folks: Twitter is rubbish. Find something more useful to do with your time.
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    by melbourne_mat 4y ago

    Saw the big, hard to exit pop-up and clicked away :-(
12. 42.▲
    by melbourne_mat 4y ago

    Funny how similar our days are! There is however the weekend for stuff like this. I assume an interested employer would be willing to allow that.
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    by melbourne_mat 4y ago

    Gdrive
14. 44.▲
    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    The alternative - which I did 2 weeks ago at work - is to use Hive through AWS EMR. Then it's just SQL all the way instead of reinventing the wheel like this article recommends.
15. 45.▲
    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    You have a clothes dryer?
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    As a physics layman my first thought when reading that is special relativity: things happen more slowly (ie. decay) the faster something is moving. Not sure how fast the beams are moving though.
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out - I feel dumb recommending Brave now
18. 48.▲
    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    Brave has ad blocking built in - you don't need extensions.
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixYVFZnNl6s&t=1 From my son's favourite YouTube channel. These are American Ravens but probably similar to the Aussie variety behaviour wise.
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    It's springtime here. The birds get a bit aggressive this time of year. https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/goodliving/posts/2017/08/m...
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    I think you're barking up the wrong tree, mate. The story is "law enforcement and conservative government work together to bring in new laws that makes law enforcement's life easier". I don't see how tech companies,
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    The top thread which I think you're referring to mixes up the new digital surveillance laws and one state's digital quarantine phone app. I don't think anyone from Australia is going to defend the new digital surveillance law
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    There goes my Bitcoin investing brother's sanity
24. 54.▲
    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    I'd like to check this out but that web site kills my mobile browser every time. What are they doing?
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    Two questions: - are they talking about prediction? I assume yes because they talk about time series but it's not explicitly stated - how does it compare quality wise to Amazon forecast (and the other cloud vendors services)? By the wa
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    I'm Australian. Your argument seems to be "If only the tech sector in Australia had some smart people". That's nice but I don't think that's what is going on. Most of the general public is apathetic to this kin
27. 57.▲
    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    I'm angry and ready to switch. Who's the best alternative?
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    I'm also a proton mail user. It sounds like you have privacy as long as you don't break any European law. That's certainly not the "Swiss bunker" style of service I was expecting
29. 59.▲
    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    Agreed. Duck Duck browser on Android has a very prominent "burn" button next to the URL bar which deletes everything. It's great!
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    by melbourne_mat 5y ago

    I'm privacy conscious but would not consider looking at such detailed information. For me it's delete all site state on exit. Do people actually look at this stuff?