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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Did you face any actual bugs or regressions? This is a terrible argument; I didn't need to have had secrets exfiltrated before applying row-hammer mitigations. If rsync is the cornerstone of my backup strategy, and has been for ye
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by overfeed 4mo ago
You can stop after the first one. Choosing to repeat the process is on you, and probably because you see some benefit in using the variant(s) you build on top of.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
One is quantized, the other one is Quantization-ready.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
The context at the root of the discussion, where potential acquirer's plan b is to hire the team instead.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
There's also the issue of participating in a funding round is neither a merger nor an acquisition. VC investors are not covereed
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by overfeed 4mo ago
VC funding rounds don't quality as an acquisition, AFAIK.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> They could of also pulled an Oracle , claimed the APIs are copyrighted and sued. They did, well - not the suing part, but everything else in your sentence; including helping Oracle "pull an Oracle". In 2013, Microsoft filed a
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by overfeed 4mo ago
Thanks - I wasn't aware about the M&A carve-out, which makes sense. It reads to me like clause (c) is the most relevant: (c) all of the ownership interest of any subsidiary, may agree with the buyer to refrain from carrying on a s
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by overfeed 4mo ago
The husk of a company would still be bound by whatever contacts were signed by its officers. However, non-compete enforcement against individuals have been declawed in California, where VoidZero is headquartered, and (I assume) where its in
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by overfeed 4mo ago
It has happened in the recent past (2-4 years ago?); I can't remember both the acquirer and the hollowed-out startup, and searches are returning chaff, but it got to the HN frontpage. IANAL, but at-will employment cuts both ways- thr
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Must be a pretty nice sum for them to agree to it Not necessarily: if the investors don't agree to a reasonable amount, the wanna-be acquirer will simply hire the entire team with generous sign-on bonuses, and the investors will b
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Can you name a service that charged companies thousands/seat/month that turned out to be almost or completely useless? The Concorde turned out to be fad (not "useless" - which was your reframing.) Touted as the futu
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> this is the new playbook. Same as the old playbook, just scaled up. Tesla got billions from state subsidies and selling carbon credits.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Transformer demand is real, but what percentage of your electricity bill do you think goes to spending on those transformers It's not just about the price of transformers (which have gone up!), lead times have gone up too - any in
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by overfeed 4mo ago
The big 3 are the only ones capable of bringing forth a glut, IMO. Of the Chinese challengers, CXMT is the frontrunner, there's also JHICC and others, but I don't think any of them will have sizable volumes in the next 2 years, de
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by overfeed 4mo ago
"AI-laundering" is a moral judgement, based on not being a dick. Regarding the footnote: pick any of the litigated cases, then consider if AI rewrites meet the bar of a clean-room.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Most commodity shortages like this end in a glut The 3 RAM manufactures know this too, from painful experience. There won't be a glut this cycle because there are no capacity build-outs. Instead of increasing capacity, some OEMs
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> Who is going to maintain all these forks? "Claude" would probably be the response of a typical tokenmaxxer. I have no desire to use software that was drive-by forked by someone who doesn't understand the trade-offs made
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by overfeed 4mo ago
Are you preserving the original software licenses, or AI-laundering the code in the manner[1] of https://malus.sh 1. AI-rewrites are not clean room implementations.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> I mean even the lawyers are subordinate to them at this point They could all be in jail by this time tomorrow if Todd Blanche - a lawyer - wills it. Riding the authoritarianism tiger is risky business.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
What I've seen is visitors loving Chinese high speed rail and endless markets, but not loving the Great Firewall. An average tourist visiting a country - any country - has a much rosier experience of the country than the average pers
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> There is a ground-level appeal of the China-style panopticon because it delivers public order and clean streets Clean streets and high speed rail are not a bundled deal with the panopticon - there is no causative linkage. Surveillance
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by overfeed 4mo ago
The wrong lessons were were learnt in 2008 after no individual suffered any negative consequences for their part in causing horrible losses for a lot of people.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> There is no reason these companies, even if massively overvalued, have to "pop." This is a wild thing say without any qualification.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> i try to be fairly reasonable about the time im taking and no one has ever questioned it or pushed back In other words, it is roughly the same way as regular PTO except "unused" PTO doesn't accumulate, and you won&#x27
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> now same machine is 2.5x the price 2.5x?! I have a bunch of older Haswell servers I got for free that are rotting away in my garage. I had initially thought of stripping out the ECC DDR4, but now I'm wondering if I'll get tak
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by overfeed 4mo ago
That entirely depends on one's threat-model. Also, containerization is 100x better than rawdogging.
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by overfeed 4mo ago
I'm more worried about my `~/.aws` and `~/.ssh` folders. People who use IDE-based AI tooling with IDEs that support dev-containers have no excuse for not leveraging dev containers, both for preventing agents losing your data
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by overfeed 4mo ago
> What was Disney thinking? "We continue to make a shit-load of money off toys and merchandizing"
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by overfeed 4mo ago
This would be congruent with Damon's retelling of how a studio exec walked him through how the math of a traditional theatrical release wouldn't work out for the movie.

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