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by panarky 2y ago
Sounds like your issue lies with your ORM, not with query latency.
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by panarky 2y ago
Since there's no public reporting of AI revenue, what would be the point of artificially inflating it?
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by panarky 2y ago
1.) Waymos are safer than human-driven rideshare vehicles 2.) The vehicles are standardized, comfortable and clean 3.) You can play your own music or none at all, roll down the windows or leave them up, while an Uber driver's preferenc
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by panarky 2y ago
Another bad way to check for non-coincidences is to use a value like g which changes depending on your location. Pi is the same everywhere in the universe. g on Earth: 9.8 m/s² g on Earth's moon: 1.62 m/s² g on Mars: 3.71 m&#
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by panarky 2y ago
If I had to replace my old Chromebook, I'd probably go with this: https://www.amazon.com/Chromebook-2560x1600-i5-1240P-LPDDR4X... Decent CPU, 16gb RAM, 256gb SSD, quality screen with a thin bezel. I like the extra memo
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by panarky 2y ago
Insurance, whether public or private, is inherently a form of collectivization. People pool their resources to socialize the costs of catastrophe to protect the unfortunate few. If Florida was a nation, "nationalized" might be a b
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by panarky 2y ago
Clearly they should close those expensive warehouses, sell the real estate, fire 99% of employees, and just sell the memberships.
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by panarky 2y ago
My daily driver is an Acer Chromebook I bought used in 2018. Web and SSH are 80% of what I do, and it runs Debian in Crostini for the other 20%. Six years later it's still fast, still secure, updates guaranteed through 2028. Acer conti
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by panarky 2y ago
Yes, hedge funds were selling (borrowing) yen which had positive carry, to fund purchase of US tech stocks. The carry is gone so now they're closing their positions, which means buying yen (which makes the yen stronger, which hurts Jap
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by panarky 2y ago
You should be very excited indeed because the future of your dreams arrived two years ago! Since early 2022, the US central bank has been "unprinting" money. Their balance sheet is shrinking and the money supply is falling. https
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by panarky 2y ago
If an expanding central bank balance sheet means debasement, what does it mean when the balance sheet is shrinking? Because the opposite of "debasement" has been happening for some time now. https://fred.stlouisfed.org&
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CrowdStrike, Antitrust, and the Digital Monoculture(eff.org)
5 points by panarky 2y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 2y ago
The rate of improvement of AI capability is remarkably predictable, while public perception and investor sentiment wildly overshoots and undershoots depending on the animal spirits of the population. Back when GPT-2 was released, you could
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by panarky 2y ago
It doesn't presume that shareholders are altruistic. It presumes that shareholders' only objective is to maximize the share price. From Wells Fargo's reports to investors, it's clear that management believed that investo
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Hate the Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty(eff.org)
12 points by panarky 2y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 2y ago
So for the companies you're talking about, the ones that can't or won't retain profits from good years to ride out bad years, it doesn't really matter whether the shareholders are employees or not, the employees are stil
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by panarky 2y ago
Sometimes it's that simple. Sometimes it's a thread that can't be read unless you're logged in. Sometimes the interesting bit is in the comments which may or may not show up if you're not logged in. Sometimes it&#x2
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by panarky 2y ago
When a company's shareholders are employees, their wages don't stop just because the company loses money two years. Just like a company whose shareholders are pension funds and index funds doesn't stop paying its employees wh
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by panarky 2y ago
I take busses, Bart and Caltrain every day in SF and San Jose, and I'm in Seattle a week per month and use busses and trains there extensively, and I've never been attacked by psychotic violent people.
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by panarky 2y ago
Promises from a serial breaker of promises somehow justify triple the multiple of actually delivering a real product that does exactly what it says it does.
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by panarky 2y ago
To the extent these are incremental units that wouldn't have been sold absent the government program, it's difficult to see how NVIDIA is "harmed".
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by panarky 2y ago
I hate the relativistic argument "if you stop doing evil thing X then something even worse than X might happen". Because that argument is always used to justify doing evil instead of doing good. And the even worse thing might not
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by panarky 2y ago
> litigated into non-existence There's a long list of incredibly damaging fuckups by software companies, but I can't think of a single example of an existence-ending judgement from litigation. The biggest reason why billion-d
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by panarky 2y ago
https://archive.ph/FByL6
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Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage(nytimes.com)
371 points by panarky 2y ago|121 comments
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Facebook Is the 'Zombie Internet'(404media.co)
44 points by panarky 2y ago|15 comments
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by panarky 2y ago
Isn't everyone as curious as I am about what the pi-quadrillionth digit of pi will turn out to be? The suspense is killing me.
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by panarky 2y ago
The title says you generated 70k audiobooks. You didn't. That's a lie. Most people don't like to be lied to.
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by panarky 2y ago
There may be no "good" telcos or big tech firms, but some are absolutely worse than others. AT&T is actively hostile in a way others aren't.
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by panarky 2y ago
Passwordless logins where the session expires after a couple hours of inactivity are good for services that are prone to password sharing. For example, if you subscribe to Anthropic's claude.ai you can only log in with a magic link del

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