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by mlsu 3y ago
Any instance of an individual person, at any level, deviating from the mandate of the corporate machine is eventually removed from the machine. A CEO who puts the environment before profit, without tricking the machine into thinking that it
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by mlsu 3y ago
10 pct of 10 billion is still a billion ;)
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by mlsu 3y ago
I've often struggled to really "grok" how complex chips are. They all kinda look the same. I write software, so I know how complex that is, but like the device itself -- it's this little black box. What's the differ
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by mlsu 3y ago
California, with a population 4x that of Seoul, recieved 25 billion dollars in federal highway funding (plus 2 billion dollars of its own money) for a single year (2021). Highway funding. Not counting roads. That figure, of course, does not
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by mlsu 3y ago
Yes, this is what I'm worried about. The US ought to treat this malaise as an issue of basic national security.
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by mlsu 3y ago
Well, no, I'm not talking about education. I'm talking about research. I'm saying, can we create a research university that would displace Harvard, MIT, etc. by allowing our brightest researchers to actually do fundamental re
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by mlsu 3y ago
The idea is that these would point to space, right? I wonder if you could create a ground antenna as well, with a pair of these -- one acting as receiver and the other as transmitter, at a very high altitude, pointed at two different locati
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by mlsu 3y ago
Wow, the matchstick image is so striking (literally, ha ha ha). I looked and the same photographer took 6th in last year's competition for this: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrogra... Such
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by mlsu 3y ago
Reading the comments here, it seems that even very prestigious universities are full of academic pettiness and dysfunction which deny all of us the output of brilliant people like Katalin Karikó. It leaves me wondering: why do we not create
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by mlsu 3y ago
It cuts the other way, too. A cost for one is revenue for another: In this case, AWS or Microsoft. Your cost of revenue is their revenue! There will be big growth in the "make it easier to manage on prem deployments" sector. Obvio
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by mlsu 3y ago
The 5-second test: - look at "latest commit." 4 years ago is not good. 2 days ago is good. The 30-second test: - total number of commits. number of active branches. number of PRs. The 5 minute test: - are there PRs? How many open
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by mlsu 3y ago
"Goodwill" is fungible only in one direction. Goodwill turns into money but money never ever turn into goodwill. (Can you think of an counterexample? A small, beloved indie business that was bought out by a megacorp and had consum
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by mlsu 3y ago
If your energy truly comes from solar, you would have no problem. When solar is on, your energy is very cheap. It's if you are using that electricity at the "dirty" times that you should pay for the externalities. Right now,
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by mlsu 3y ago
I would like to see a way more aggressive price scheme for power. Want to charge your Tesla, mine crypto on your 4090 setup, and have the AC running when you get home from work at 6PM? Good for you -- you'll pay $2.00 per kWh for the p
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by mlsu 3y ago
It's a British-ism for "used in actual practice, rather than academically/theoretically" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/in-anger
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by mlsu 3y ago
I've noticed that a lot of people hardly know what a desktop PC is anymore. Every PC they use at work is a laptop, and if they buy a PC for themselves it's a laptop. Most people, when they imagine "Computer" -- a laptop
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by mlsu 3y ago
Absolutely. I am well aware of this, as are most tech people, that's what I'm saying. It's not us that are trying to convince our orgs to build a rack in the basement "to be more secure" just because we want to hear
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by mlsu 3y ago
Gah, this is just not how it works. You are probably right that e.g. patient information, private conversations, proprietary code, etc would be safe with OpenAI. But it's not the on-prem team that needs to convince the rest of the orga
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by mlsu 3y ago
I am in need of a processor upgrade, but am really interested in an ECC RAM setup. I read this thread of 2 people arguing on /r/AMD about whether or not the AMD processors and/or their motherboards actually support ECC or n
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by mlsu 3y ago
That must be why walkable areas like Manhattan or London are so inexpensive, right?
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by mlsu 3y ago
Has anyone here ever lived near a freeway or even moderately busy road? I made the mistake of renting next to the freeway. Noise was perfectly tolerable, but I could not use my back porch, because after just a few weeks, everything had a fi
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Complexity Explorables(complexity-explorables.org)
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by mlsu 3y ago
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it,
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by mlsu 3y ago
I know that there's the "5x rule" -- BOM cost is supposed to be 5x less than retail. Is there such a rule for fulfillment and delivery? Of course, 56% seems monstrously high to me, but then again, so did 5x BOM cost before I
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by mlsu 3y ago
To add a little bit to this: ControlNet. If you are actually a visual artist, I think the leader of the pack right now is controlnet, because you can exactly determine the visual structure of your image. While MJ or Dall-e may be better a
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by mlsu 3y ago
I recently listened to the Darknet Diaries episode about the PirateBay: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/ Great episode, he interviewed one of the founders. Goes through the whole history of the piratebay and
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by mlsu 3y ago
Some executives are as you say. In general, those companies which are lead by executives like that are leaders and produce high quality and innovative products that people love. But many execs are not. They work just as obsessively as the f
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by mlsu 3y ago
This is a sort of transformation of the bathtub curve.
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by mlsu 3y ago
Pardon me for asking a bunch of consumer-gpu questions: 1) is there any architectural difference between the 3090 and the 4090? Are there models that will run on 3 series that will not run on 4 series cards due to feature incompatibility? o
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by mlsu 3y ago
I don't necessarily mean that Socrates is a totally fictional character. Just that basically everything we know about his "character" is made up. Like, he did exist, but the Socrates that we know doesn't talk like that,

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