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by mike_d 4y ago
> We are in a state that every emission is a problem. Some things will forever burn dinosaurs, like a diesel generator keeping a hospital going in a grid down situation for example. While cryptocurrencies might not rank as important as a
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by mike_d 4y ago
> You can't make matrix multiplication crash by feeding it any sort of strange numbers Matrices don't multiply themselves. You need hardware and software. As I pointed out the LLM is effectively just data that is being process
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by mike_d 4y ago
Some people are really good at writing software, other people are really good at running systems. k8s/cloud allowed the former to pretend to be good at the latter.
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Every company that I have been at that uses k8s at scale ends up having an internal team to manage the complexities and build internal tooling to make it work. It sounds like they left behind a lot of the cruft and just built a tool that do
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by mike_d 4y ago
> language models themselves can't "crash" That is like saying the Excel document didn't crash, but Excel did when it tried to parse it. As far as I know there is no proof that you can't cause a LLM to crash with
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by mike_d 4y ago
Here is a great thread that might clear up some of your misconceptions about nuclear waste: https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856?lan...
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California is already on track to test this and determine how feasible it is. https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering...
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Kali used to run everything as root. Kali now has you run everything as root.
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> Why are they calling it purple if it's really blue? Because they plan to offer a purple team training/certification. Kali Linux isn't a $color security distribution, it is a set of open source security tools that act as
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by mike_d 4y ago
An advisor once told me "never build a business where your customers don't know they have the problem you solve." Aside from the Apple and Googles of the world, how do you convince engineers and their managers that your solut
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$3.3B of USDC Reserve Risk Removed, Dollar De-Peg Closes(circle.com)
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> It seems that the solution might be stablecoins like USDC implementing a policy that you are guaranteed one USD for every USDC you redeem within a maximum of a few business days That is how USDC works. You can redeem USDC for USD 1:1 f
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by mike_d 4y ago
Crypto has roughly $70 billion a day in total transaction volume. Visa's credit/debit processing network by comparison does about $34 billion a day. (The Visa number is from 2020, I couldn't quickly find a more recent number)
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by mike_d 4y ago
> it's threatening the quality of life of a certain class of people. Like the jerks who chose to work for a company that picked a specific SaaS payroll provider. Or those entitled Etsy sellers that expected to get paid. The absolute
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by mike_d 4y ago
> I'm far from a crypto expert so could you clarify what I'm missing? USDC isn't an algorithmic stablecoin or backed by non-cash assets. It is a coin that is redeemable 1:1 for cash, always. They have approximately $40b in
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by mike_d 4y ago
You mean trading assets for other assets to turn a profit, literally the entire point of Coinbase Pro?
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Almost all failed banks (including SVB) in recent history held more assets than deposits. Liquidity is the issue. Imagine you take your $10 million fortune and convert it all into gold bars and hide it under you bed. Then you order a pizza.
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by mike_d 4y ago
This is all you needed to know to short SVB a month ago: https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1634246217226919937
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All cars have seat belts. It isn't effective policy to require them.
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California labor laws are extremely powerful. "Not receiving agreed upon wages" is wage theft, full stop. They don't care if your bank collapsed or your great aunt ran off with contents of the cash register. All you have to d
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by mike_d 4y ago
Atempa v. Pedrazzani is what you want to Google for. "Rejecting Pedrazzani’s argument, the Court of Appeal relied on language of the applicable California statutes: Cal. Labor Code § 558 (West 2018) and Cal. Labor Code § 1197.1 (West 2
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by mike_d 4y ago
You just need to tell your brilliant founder friends to get spun out of Netflix.
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by mike_d 4y ago
FDIC is in receivership of the bank, so they can sell off assets or do whatever they need to do to recover money to pay out depositors. If you had a million dollars and they are able to recover 90 cents on the dollar - your $100k "loss
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by mike_d 4y ago
Because corporate financial education isn't part of the YC curriculum and most small companies don't have CFOs. Large companies and smart individuals keep cash reserves in pass-thru depository products like CDARS which do exactly
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by mike_d 4y ago
If this were the Bank of Omaha and a bunch of cattle ranches and soy farms were at risk, would you still feel the same way? It is in the governments best interest for people to have faith in banks, regardless of what industry they serve. Th
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by mike_d 4y ago
All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull
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by mike_d 4y ago
Yeah, and I think that is an incorrect view based on a limited perspective of elements where the user is directly interacting. What I was talking about using the feature for is passive content. Watch any TV news broadcast, popular Twitch st
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This wasn't as much a browser feature, but an artifact of Microsoft using the same mshtml library to power as much of the system as possible in Windows 98 (IE, Explorer, the Office suite, etc). If I remember correctly one of the sellin
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by mike_d 4y ago
Basically, yeah. Welcome to the struggles of being a late 90s/early 2000s sysadmin. When you were doing your job perfectly people hardly recognized you existed and they wondered why they even keep you on the payroll. The only time peop
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by mike_d 4y ago
> You make the change and DOM elements from before can still be visible during the animation. Based on my reading of the docs the API gives you a static screenshot of the old DOM and the live new DOM. So if you have any dynamic content o

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