nostrademons

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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Fabrice Bellard.
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
Angular was an acquisition and isn't all that commonly used within Google. Closure was the homegrown framework that's everywhere. It is a different flavor of bad than Angular. Angular was basically "You too can make your Ja
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
There wouldn't be a product. Consumers would just use the underlying foundational models directly to solve their problem. ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini are the products, not your business. Products are only viable when you do a lot o
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by nostrademons 2mo ago
These are basically all fixed costs, not unit costs. You buy the GPU once and use it for as many calls as you have traffic for, and depreciate it over a fixed lifetime. You have to power it regardless of whether it's fully utilized o
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Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification(arstechnica.com)
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Sad but true. Many libertarian options are comfortable being on the fringes, though, and just build for other libertarians. They lack economies of scale, but software's natural economies of scale (zero cost of reproduction, combined
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
You're referring to various strains of anarcho-libertarianism, correct? I'm more familiar with geolibertarianism as a left-leaning libertarian faction, which doesn't have these stability problems, but does have a huge initia
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Home server is a perfectly fine term for that. NAS brands show up on Google/Amazon searches because they're cross-advertising, just like how for a while "Bing" would be the top advertisement when you searched for "
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
The libertarian technologist space specifically prefers technological solutions because they don't depend upon fallible and corruptible humans implementing the laws. This is the ideological wing that gave us the PC, encryption, the Gn
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Price is the derivative of position changes - it reflects supply & demand in the market at that moment , which is often highest when everyone is entering the position. When people are buying an asset speculatively, they often all enter
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
It's because you don't see any of the ones that didn't turn to extreme. They're just extremely forgettable, by design. When was the last time you saw Craig Silverstein or Steve Wozniak or Urs Hoelzle or David Cheriton o
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
I just served on a jury and in our case, the cop was a lying scumbag, the prosecutor's expert witnesses were people milking the taxpayers to provide the evaluations that the state wanted to hear for thousands of dollars per hour, the d
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Lack of visual hierarchy. Lots of use of bold text to make numbers stand out, without bolding the corresponding labels. Reliance on heavily-saturated primary colors. Limited attention paid to alignment. LLMs in general are pretty terrib
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
> The Skynet stock rallies. Interestingly, a lot of people are looking at LLMs or automated drones as "AI", but I think that capitalism is a better contender. It's a self-healing, self-organizing system that has its own
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Down $13+ (about 4%) after hours, and the drop was apparently after they mentioned the search revenue miss on the earnings call because it was flat when I looked an hour ago. So not entirely priced in. IIRC there was a search revenue miss
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
I had an LG TV for work because my team developed some of the software on it. Similar experience - it got progressively worse (including the software my team developed, which in true Google fashion was deprioritized, discontinued, team lai
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
It's really refreshing to see someone publish a null result.
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
I think the point of the article is that that is your life, so embrace it. There's no sense struggling against or resenting it; instead, find the joy in what you have, so you can enjoy the moments you get. A good pop-culture analogu
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
All you have to do is promote policies that make the problem more palatable but don't actually solve it. Treatments instead of cures. As long as the problem needs treatment, the organizations dedicated to treating it will still be
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
It's quite a bit more than that. I get total taxes paid of: Federal: 1240 + 0.12 * (50400 - 12401) + 0.22 * (105700 - 50401) + 0.24 * (201775 - 105771) + 0.32 * (256225 - 201776) + 0.35 * (640600 - 256226) + 0.37 * (1200000 - 640601)
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Don't forget taxes. In that bracket, in California, you're paying 50% of your income in taxes, and so $100K/month is actually $50K/month. I think OP is overselling the point, but not by nearly as much as people think.
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Not OP but also worked on Google Search once upon a time. I'm not sure if I'm remembering the same issues as OP, but basically the two biggest issues are: 1.) What they do to your 95th percentile latency. Users are often very se
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Interesting to watch the interplay between the AI bubble, rate expectations, and the Straight of Hormuz crisis. Higher interest rates could absolutely deflate AI capex. Indeed, other than CIOs deciding en masse that AI doesn't actuall
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Note that Amazon has some cultural misfeatures that require unlearning at other employers. I've hired ex-Amazon engineers at Google who believe that your job is to fuck over as many other teams as possible in the name of delivering you
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
I've noticed that Google Maps has started sucking a lot lately, routing us onto routes that take 2-4 minutes longer when a faster route is clearly available or taking us on nonsensical detours, and I wonder if this experiment is a reas
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Steve Jobs has a classic interview where he addressed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1WrHH-WtaA
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
When the war started, it certainly looked like it. Russian soldiers were in Kyiv at one point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kyiv_(2022) It was the failure of Russian logistics and the triumph of Ukrainian
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
Before that. Her breakthrough album was 1977 and Total Eclipse of the Heart came out in 1982, so it was more the 8-track era. It remained a staple of radio plays (remember those?) through the 80s and 90s though, and was remade by Nikki Fr
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
If you like meta-songs, you may be interested in "Title of this song" by Da Vinci's Notebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmUgFEFzco&list=RDHgmUgFEFz...
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by nostrademons 3mo ago
It's not really analogous. One of the hypothesized ways that microplastics are harmful is that they disrupt the immune system; there has been evidence found of this in bivalves. Another is that they cause inflammation, which is also

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