nixon_why69

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by nixon_why69 5d ago
I loved Sun hardware but I'll deny that they were ahead of their time after 2003 or so. I had a boss who loved his pizza box but Intel/Linux crushed them in the 2000s on a price/performance basis.
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
If your beef is that they are succeeding or at least failing less while America steps on it's dick repeatedly, maybe this isn't their problem? If you're fired up by nationalism but your nation is sucking, getting mad at the C
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
I agree with 100% of that comment but I'm struggling to understand the beef? Of course they're trying to take care of themselves while the US implodes, how can you blame them for that? The whole world has a serious oil problem ri
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
I'm sorry, I'm not following. Is the problem here that China is too capitalist or too communist?
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
It's disingenuous to characterize "don't anthropomorphize the political process" as saying no planning documents exist as part of that process. And, to the point I was responding to originally, we can check those documen
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
That just means your stakeholders argue twice: once when drafting the five year plan and then again, later, saying their policy position is more aligned with the spirit of the plan.
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
It's debatable and impossible to disentangle from living standards going up, but a lot of the economy is built on assumptions of one child, from apartment sizes to personal transit (ebike can do 2 adults + 1 small child).
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
Eh. Industrial policy in a big country is always the output of politics between stakeholders, anthropomorphizing it to a "guy with a plan", especially an "overlord" looking to "annihilate" is probably getting
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by nixon_why69 5d ago
But not the necessity, so it wasn't getting funded with the same urgency as now.
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by nixon_why69 6d ago
> I am having a hard time believing that anyone who uses the word "bro" this much is capable of advising anyone with seniority, because I don't see how they themselves would have the necessary seniority to give such advise
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by nixon_why69 6d ago
Your phone relaying your voice to someone isn't compelled speech on the part of the telecoms. There's an argument that when a platform is big enough, it's a common carrier.
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by nixon_why69 7d ago
That's basically what happened at DOGE, there was a hilarious quote from one of the software engineers he brought in that they thought the government would be full of useless and overpaid people, like silicon valley.
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by nixon_why69 7d ago
Why is it a problem if China and Iran trade?
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by nixon_why69 8d ago
Ok, yeah, B2s flying from Missouri could do it, at great expense, with multiple refuelings. We're talking about putting doomsday cross-planet planes on missions to drop a couple 1000 lb bombs. Economics matter.
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by nixon_why69 8d ago
The scoreboard says otherwise. US jets can't even reach the northeastern half of the country because the refueling tankers can't get close enough to give them the range. Additionally, Iran had deterrence that you're not givi
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by nixon_why69 8d ago
They were serious enough to defeat the US Navy and Air Force..
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by nixon_why69 9d ago
This is Matt Levine's theory of "everything is securities fraud". Something bad happens, stock goes down, angry shareholders sue because they should have been told the bad thing would happen and the stock would go down.
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by nixon_why69 10d ago
I'm sure both of the cases I'm thinking of could have been tuned better. Just saying that it's a default case that I've seen 2 places land, both of which had a lot of smart engineers following best practices. Maybe its
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by nixon_why69 10d ago
It's not about how good or bad the AI writing is. It's about the human interaction, if someone outsourced their thinking to AI then they are bullshitting me and I will rate their thoughts appropriately at the human level.
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by nixon_why69 10d ago
It's about effort into thinking. If no effort went into either thinking or writing, then I'll plead guilty to sweat of the brow doctrine. Again, just send me the prompt and I'll feed it to AI myself.
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by nixon_why69 10d ago
That's a little metaphysical for my taste. If its the same bytes of text, provenance is destroyed anyways, so who knows if the tree fell in the forest. "Substantially" to me would mean not your ideas and not your writing. I
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by nixon_why69 10d ago
If its substantially AI generated then it's definitionally rubbish, even if it was a good answer to the prompt. I can send a prompt myself, don't waste my time republishing AI answers.
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by nixon_why69 10d ago
Speculative decoding is software, though. How do you work around the memory wall when you're going to have to stream all weights, no matter what? Latency-hiding tricks don't matter when you're bandwidth constrained.
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by nixon_why69 10d ago
A couple data points, I like Java but I've seen metrics of container fleets at multiple companies that were memory constrained with low CPU usage sitting around underutilized. The reason in both cases was a bunch of memory-heavy yet CP
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by nixon_why69 12d ago
Soviet Russia and early communist China both went from mostly-illiterate peasant economies to mostly-literate, partially industrialized, with home-grown heavy industry and weapons technology in the span of like 15-20 years. Then the soviet
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by nixon_why69 13d ago
KV cache is per conversation, I'm getting 100% hit rate on my single tenant local set up. The benefits of scale are on the token generation side, you can batch rounds and generate tokens for multiple conversations per pass instead of j
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by nixon_why69 15d ago
It's not even a person, it's a system. There's a million people behind you who will take your job if you don't grind, and that goes for your boss as well.
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by nixon_why69 15d ago
The usage of Neijuan as I understand it isn't about a complete lack of results, Chinese test scores are really good, but there's only 10% in the top 10% so competing even harder just means everyone is miserable competing for the
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by nixon_why69 15d ago
In China, one could look at hours of homework, work hours etc and conclude there's a reason the term was coined.
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by nixon_why69 16d ago
Numbers aside, SpaceX has a technological lead. They're not strangling competitors in a commodity business with monopoly practices. I wouldn't call ASMR or TSMC monopolies either, anyone can compete with them in theory. Standar

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