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by mnau 2y ago
> I promise you, we don't need bad people to lead technological progress. We could have good people... Where are they? EM (as far as i know) didn't crash and burn other EV startups or rocket companies.
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by mnau 2y ago
Hell, .net is basically loss leader at this point (significant offloading to bunch of volunteers) and that is their ramp to Azure spending.
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by mnau 2y ago
Number of coal plants is irrelevant. It's a misinformation. What matters is how much coal they do burn. Their coal plants have capacity factor under 50%. Chinese consumption of coal is roughly as ~10 years ago (82EJ vs 88EJ). That is w
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by mnau 2y ago
The positions of two parties are different, they are not symmetric. Person who is asking someone else to spend time on his problem should be aware of his tone. Unless bug reporter send report to RedHat or some other company he has business
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by mnau 2y ago
Having a different API from CUDA is not the problem. Having working and performant product is the problem. AMD made a nearly clone of CUDA API with HIP (the implementation is garbage btw). The API mostly changes prefix from "cuda"
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by mnau 2y ago
Sure, but Tesla is down 50% from all time high. I don't see durable moat for nvidia. They have best stuff now (and likely for a few years), but it's design for relatively predictable workloads with known best solutions. Everyone
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by mnau 2y ago
Just a reminder: Tesla also offered Full Self-Driving (FSD) as an upgrade option to EA in 2016. Here we are, 8 years later and despite flashing crossing lights and the train, it failed to detect "train crossing ahead - stop" situa
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by mnau 2y ago
And it was an excellent decision, see rationale: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/03/strategy-letter-ii... TBH, they should have dumped during switch to OOXML, that was a wasted opportunity. On the othe
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by mnau 2y ago
TBF solar powered flashlight are pretty cool. Charge during day, light during night. World has made a massive leaps in efficiency of LED, solar panels and batteries.
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by mnau 2y ago
Not the OP, but I sometimes get rather disgusting/distressing "you might also like" in search results (not home screen). Think thumbnails for diseases/injuries/gore, with shock thumbail and so on. No, I do not want
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by mnau 2y ago
Isn't CUDA basically hidden behind pyrorch and others? I know that it's touted as the key competitive advantage, but it seems to stem from the fact it actually works, unlike others. Still great advantage, but not a lock in. If com
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by mnau 2y ago
Nuclear is dead in EU. It's a capital intensive project that should run 24/7 to recupe the cost. What will happen when solar is cheaper than nuclear 50% of a year(that is going to happen, we can charge batteries for a day and sola
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by mnau 2y ago
Is cost of machines really barrier? I can get MRI for $400-$500 as a self payer (Eastern Europe, i.e. if i just wanted it, not that doctor would say he wants it). I read a paper few years ago about utilization rate, machine/service cos
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by mnau 2y ago
> It's not though. Unicode-only is not just imperfect, it's an outright regression for Japanese. Unicode has variant selectors which can deal with region variants (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/syMcWNO ) to deal
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by mnau 2y ago
Wasn't it solved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Ideographic_Va... ? Kind of a band-aid (it's necessary to stuff a variant selector after a CJK codepoint), but should work. These decisions we
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by mnau 2y ago
> implement this imaginary font selection functionality We are already doing GSUB/GDEF tables and a lot of horrible stuff to display pretty glyphs on the screen. Hell, there are literal instructions for VM in TTF files to help with
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by mnau 3y ago
Sure, but that was something that was always going to happen. So it's better to have it at least for one generation instead of no generation.
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by mnau 3y ago
> doesn't really help if it takes six weeks for the clerk to actually react. Neighbouring country here. The clerk has to react within six weeks, but to satisfy the letter of law, the reply is "we received your requeat and it&#x
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You Are All on the Hobbyists Maintainers' Turf Now(softwaremaxims.com)
5 points by mnau 3y ago|1 comments
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by mnau 3y ago
"Supported" I watched geohot streams and if he can go for an hour with a need to restart the computer due to crashed kernel driver/locked up card, it's a miracle (various computers, one or multi-card setup). And he is no
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by mnau 3y ago
Is it? I would wager that many people who read torrent freak weren't even born back then. I personally have very limited knowledge what happened before i was born, other than what i learned in history class and it wasn't much. ht
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by mnau 3y ago
> bigger foundations like Apache or Mozilla What bigger foundations? Apache foundation has yearly revenue $2.1 million. Why do you think they reacted as they reacted to log4j? There are no resources. Open source is running on fumes.
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by mnau 3y ago
For people who don't get raccoon in a dumpster reference: https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
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by mnau 3y ago
Any library that works with file formats needs binary files. A lot of them malformed (or output is slightly different than standard output), because they need to ensure they can work even with files generated by other programs . Bugs like
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by mnau 3y ago
44% of active open source projects have only one maintainer. Out of all maintainers, 60% would describe themselves as unpaid hobbyist. They already are BDFL for themselves or one other person. The problem is a chronic deficiency of maintain
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by mnau 3y ago
Good luck finding him/her. GitHub probably already gave feds all logs and IPs, but I would bet 100:1 that it's all going to be a VPN or something like that.
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by mnau 3y ago
Probably depends on criminal code a country. Mine does (EU country): > Section 231 Obtaining and Possession of Access Device and Computer System Passwords and other such Data > (1) Whoever with the intent to commit a criminal offence
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by mnau 3y ago
It's not about being good for shareholders. They are far away and generally know nothing about what is good or bad decision in long run. We have replaced human QC with computers in many industries. C-suite cares about company profit, m
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by mnau 3y ago
I haven't lost any money, I avoid crypto. The difference is consent and malicious behavior. When I invest into stock market, it can always go down. When you move your customers money to save your other failing company, it's fraud.
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by mnau 3y ago
As far as I am concerned, when you steal from me, you robbed me of piece of my life. The time I spend earning that money, instead of being with friends or just pursuing a hobby or just wasting it on HN. How many lifetimes worth of time were

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