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by oivey 2y ago
Your example is a marble soap dispenser. Did you go on Google and search for the most expensive one you could find?
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by oivey 2y ago
It is strange how much apologia there is for Boeing in this thread. Why does it have to be somehow the government’s fault or somehow reflective of the actual cost to make the dispensers? Why should Boeing get the benefit of the doubt, espec
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by oivey 2y ago
That’s fair enough, but you should consider that a news source might be biased toward facts and empathy and still might endorse a candidate.
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by oivey 2y ago
What older journalism are you talking about? Cold War era Cronkite? The era of endless red scares and other very obviously biased behavior? WaPo has been giving out endorsements since the 70s. The era you’re pining for never existed.
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by oivey 2y ago
Why would they want to appear neutral? All news reporting, no matter what, is inherently biased in some way. There isn’t some “ideal” where that isn’t the case. There can’t be some magical font of unbiased information because just selecting
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by oivey 2y ago
It says in the article. Powdering involves further dehydration, reducing weight and size. I’m guessing it also improves shelf life.
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by oivey 2y ago
If only 10% of the workload can be parallelized, then the best case parallelization speed up is only 10%. That doesn’t line up with the GP’s claim that Civ6 benefits from more cores.
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by oivey 2y ago
Yeah, that’s true. CUDA is in large part for big HPC servers, where ARM historically wasn’t a player and still isn’t dominant. x86 got clobbered for HPC by CUDA.
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by oivey 2y ago
The first example plot is a 9950X that includes all threads with AVX512 vs a 4090. The 9950X has a 170W TDP, which doesn’t include any other components like the RAM or motherboard. The 4090’s total max power is ~450W. The chart shows the 40
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by oivey 2y ago
CUDA clobbered x86, not ARM. Maybe if x86’s vector ops were better and more usable ARM would have been motivated to do better.
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by oivey 2y ago
Most of the article isn’t even about altruism. It is only an example. The author doesn’t take any particular position. Quoting from near the end: > The truth is not self-evident. Given this, those who claim to know the truth, including m
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by oivey 2y ago
This is really a great idea. Once we finalize the choice, when can we expect the upload into the hivemind?
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by oivey 2y ago
Even more simply, their goal stopped being making the best product at the best price. Features that were fused off could have made their products better for no extra manufacturing cost. Your business is broken when you view your products as
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by oivey 2y ago
Source on that? That was a crooked vote, but it doesn’t really make sense for the Russians to send people door-to-door threatening people to send in coerced absentee ballots. I assume they instead did the more normal things of local voter i
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by oivey 2y ago
You’re talking about voter intimidation at polling places, right? Yes, that is in fact well documented and not a fantasy. You can send a couple guys with bats to a polling location and coerce hundreds of voters. What you’re describing would
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by oivey 2y ago
Criminals showing up to your house, putting a gun to your head, and demanding your vote is a fantasy. You don’t need to defend against it because it’s a totally unscalable way to steal an election.
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by oivey 2y ago
I guess it’s actually what they want? Like this: > We are a team working on the world's most challenging, ambitious, and technical problems. No, you’re working on a messaging service, not the cure for cancer.
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by oivey 2y ago
Before OSHA, that didn’t work, so why do you think it will work now?
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by oivey 2y ago
Slightly different take than some of the siblings: you can still just build this stuff. If your goal is impact, maybe the best place to do it will be at a cloud vendor or other big corp. If your goal is actually just a big VC exit, then may
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by oivey 2y ago
The strategy for those sorts of groups is to ALWAYS grumble that way no matter what happens it at worst appears like a compromise.
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by oivey 2y ago
Why would they host their own data it Google said they would do it for free? If you’re in IT, how do you even get support for on prem storage if Google has used its monopoly position to provide that service for free?
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by oivey 2y ago
More than likely for the sorts of products they want to make you still need very deep research expertise that random product teams won’t have.
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by oivey 2y ago
Engineering for scalability here is the single server solution that you throw away later when scale is needed. The price is so small (in this case) for the simple solution that you should basically always start with it.
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by oivey 2y ago
Engineers and scientists that can’t write an essay are going to have a hard time writing persuasive presentations, proposals, and other materials. They’re also going to have a hard time participating effectively in democracy if they can’t c
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by oivey 2y ago
There isn’t a market for any of those businesses individually, and they cannot survive alone.
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by oivey 2y ago
It’s a web page.
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by oivey 2y ago
Are you calling just allocating memory you’ll never use leaking? It is not. It is recoverable because for it not to be GC’d it has to be someone accessible. A memory leak means you lost the pointer to the memory, so now you can’t free it.
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by oivey 2y ago
This is a government ban. It is not at all comparable to your perception that private businesses are playing less Russia origin media.
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by oivey 2y ago
I doubt that. You’d need to test taking away one of this person’s non-essential luxuries to find out.
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by oivey 2y ago
They have to make money on those rides for that to be a plus.

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