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by mhuffman 4y ago
From the perspective of salespeople and managers ... maybe!
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by mhuffman 4y ago
A few obvious ways: 1. Russia starts "testing" nukes and a deal is brokered that pisses off both Ukraine and Russia but allows them both to claim "victory", save face and not start a thermonuclear war (this is Henry Kiss
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by mhuffman 4y ago
I think the eventual common use for WASM will eventually be DRM and related types of page code "security" and obfuscation. Basically a way for companies to "protect" their tech/IP from easy duplication while not ha
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by mhuffman 4y ago
But alas, highly paid graphic designers that are hired by executives do not like your locally selected style and insist that it does not fit with their "corporate branding".
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by mhuffman 4y ago
This is a really well-done article! Very approachable for a non-math-expert. If it is useful at all, I noticed while reading that there are two misspellings. "moives" for "moves" and "tht" for "that".
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by mhuffman 4y ago
My favorite is when they do that, then take the incorrect made-up answer to a question that was not asked to close the question due to: Duplicate of..., Off-topic because..., Needs details or clarity, Needs more focus and Opinion-based ...
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>We're talking about software developers, not wizards. It's not like you have to offer a dram of blood and draw a pentagram with salt before you approach the ancient grimoires. Back then, it seemed a lot like that!
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by mhuffman 4y ago
lol, this was the pre-Internet problem. It usually went like this... >"Why would you want to do that?" because it seems like the right thing to do? Is there a better way. >"What's this for?" the boss wants it
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by mhuffman 4y ago
I actually take this different. I take it to mean that machines can "think" in the same way that submarines can "swim" ... which is to say that they both can only do it at the pleasure, command, or creation of a human.
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by mhuffman 4y ago
44W is a secret way to tell you that they are Canadian! (... it is a steel grade)
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>In those days, we would usually read the manual when we needed to dig past a surface-level understanding of how things work. The manuals are dry and dense, but they're much easier to read with modern niceties like "Ctrl+F&quot
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by mhuffman 4y ago
Very sadly many of these businesses are structured as subscriptions, even when unnecessary, because investors currently LOOOOVE MRR. It is a sad situation when people shoehorn unnecessary "features" into a product or intentionally
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by mhuffman 4y ago
There is a more modern rewrite that does away with the 4 gigabyte limit of the original[1]. I am not sure if the performance characteristics are the same. [1] https://github.com/gstrauss/mcdb/
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by mhuffman 4y ago
I am not some "ancient aliens" kook, but many comments above seem to overlook the fact that until relatively recently we thought that people 10k years ago, world wide, were fresh out of caves/hunter-gathers and some of the mo
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>I wish it had more data I mean that really seems to be the wish, and the problem, with a lot of historical and archaeological research.
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by mhuffman 4y ago
I have a ML infra that does between 1 million and 2 million inferences per day (granted it is not a chat bot or code generator, but it is legit ML inference in a similar mode) and it only cost $120 per month for the server (also runs multip
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by mhuffman 4y ago
Well this is usually what people do. It usually is some company that has a dated or not great app, but has sector capture because they were first or were wise enough to spend on sales and marketing. After that, bigger (non-tech) businesses
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>Whether it's FOSS or corporate, people won't use your stuff if it's not documented properly. At best they'll use it reluctantly and complain about it. Maybe FOSS, but there is plenty of corporate SaaS and desktop app
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>You sound out of touch with society. Many poor people don't have time to cook. They might have multiple jobs that take up all of their time. Transportation is a big issue as well. And any disability they may have. This is not been
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>They looked at what we had put together and said, "My kids won't eat that." This is very common for people I know these days (including my own kids, sadly). It is interesting that when I was young (and we were very, very
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>Sometimes I think that half the reason why some fields don't have a replication crisis is because literal lives are on the line if you get it wrong, so people actually do the work to make the testing gear and align the incentives t
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by mhuffman 4y ago
Also a person that doesn't care about ever being published in "approved" journals, magazines, etc.
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>If anything the SD weights will be increasingly ubiquitous as they start embedding it into consumer electronics. I suspect for similar liability issues as SD 2.0, that they will not strt embedding sub-2.0 weights into consumer electron
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by mhuffman 4y ago
I don't know why you are being down-voted. Premateralized flat files pushed out to heavy-duty CDNs would get you very, very far. I would think that dealing with CSAM, death-threats, and other things that would get your platform into t
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>This avoids employee knowledge and experience from leaving, Amazon is very specifically optimizing their company to get rid of the need for both of those things!
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by mhuffman 4y ago
>Tip our wait staff for not spitting in our food? I know people that worked in the industry and mention up-front they are good tippers to the servers ... just in case!
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by mhuffman 4y ago
Good luck explaining sunken costs here! I have had many, many discussions about this on this very site and I think that since it is so non-intuitive to anyone that has not taken business courses they just do not believe it.
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by mhuffman 4y ago
The problem that Amazon has is that it is very, very easy for people to compare pricing. So they will have to be very clever to come up with some pricing segmentation that people will accept. They already do this to some extent with a &quot
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by mhuffman 4y ago
I agree with your stronger opinion and have for a while since I read [1] (he was calling it hell-banning but foresaw the same problems that emerged) One problem I see with your end-goal of changing moderation tools for a better (and more op
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by mhuffman 4y ago
Holy shit! That is interesting. So then would one still be bombarded with all the info that they don't want to see from those that they haven't been able to block yet but are topic-similar to those blocked, or can you more or less

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