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by phire 4y ago
They didn't incorporate in the Bahamas. They incorporated in "Antigua and Barbuda", which is a very seperate country. The only relationship FTX has with Bahamas, is the location of their headcounters, and a single wholly-owne
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by phire 4y ago
Buying an atom netbook was what helped me learn about the difference between in-order and out-of-order CPUs. I actually upgrade from the 1.66gz atom to a 1.3ghz ULV core 2 duo, and it was way faster.
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by phire 4y ago
Citation needed. Falcon 9 uses a carbon fiber skin over an aluminium honeycomb. And Wikipedia claims that Starship originally used bog-standard 301 Stainless Steal, and later switched to also bog-standard 304L Stainless Steal. The only allo
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by phire 4y ago
I get the impression that others at SpaceX moderate and "manage" him. Let him get distracted with micro-managing whatever cool project is currently takes his fancy, while they do the more boring job of keeping the company running,
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by phire 4y ago
I was half expecting Musk to "fail to find financing" in a way that had plausible deniability, just so he could use the $1 exit clause. But that wouldn't have saved him from discovery in the court case, and I've also hea
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by phire 4y ago
> I'm not sure what Elon was thinking when he even decided to buy Twitter. The first time? It really looks like it was the result of a disagreement with the Twitter board. They wouldn't accept his advice or help on how to mak
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by phire 4y ago
Yes, that's what's weird. FTX Trading Ltd is "is incorporated in Antigua and Barbuda, and headquartered in The Bahamas", yet the linked statement clearly says FTX Trading Ltd (plus the FTX US entity, and Alameda, and oth
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by phire 4y ago
I can guess: The US has Chapter 11 bankruptcy, while Antigua and Barbuda might only have something more closer to the US's Chapter 7.
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by phire 4y ago
I was thinking more about functions along the lines of this vertex transform function that you might theoretically find as hot code in a late 90s or early 2000s windows game (before hardware transform and lighting). void transform_ver
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by phire 4y ago
In this case, actually coincidental. It was externally trigged event 3 months later that ended up killing the company. Even a healthy company would struggle to navigate such a scenario. But it was absolutely on a fatal path before that eve
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by phire 4y ago
I was at a medium-sized company (~100 employees) that laid off ~60% of their employees. Including 95% of the dev team. Everyone could see just how much of a bad move it was, and that was only the first bad move. Most of the remaining skille
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by phire 4y ago
The key to this optimisation idea is the exponent gets truncated back to 8 bits when being written back to memory. For the example of two fp32s adding to infinity. With 15bit exponent: The add results in a non-infinite with exponent outsi
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by phire 4y ago
> It's also not possible to "fix" things by optimizing for the cases where the x87 unit's precision is set to the same as fp32 or fp64, as the precision flags don't impact the exponent range. I've been mea
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by phire 4y ago
It's important to understand that banks also destroy money when loans are repaid. Everyone always brings up the fact that banks create money out of thin air when issuing loans. Nobody ever mentions that the inverse happens again at the
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by phire 4y ago
Electric Mopeds sit in a middle-ground, with more power, higher top speeds than ebikes but more restrictive licensing rules. For example, an ebike in Europe is speed limited to 25kph, and just small motors that can only output 250W.
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by phire 4y ago
Most users don't care how distributed it is, or what it's architecture looks like. They just want to sign up, and get an out-of-the box experience more or less like twitter.
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by phire 4y ago
That's a really long way of saying "yes it is cryptocurrency related" But it doesn't really matter. You asked why people were downvoting. And the reputation of cryptocurrency has sunk so low that a lot of people aren&#x2
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by phire 4y ago
It's not really a bug. It's just that (unlike the other 3 algorithms) DFS doesn't guarantee to find the shortest path, just a path. Not a problem on mazes with only one solution, but problematic when there are multiple soluti
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by phire 4y ago
> Has there been any definitive reporting on this? I'm not aware of any such reporting, just rumours. But it seems obvious that since they scrapped together this list in just a single week, they can't have done anything much
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by phire 4y ago
Arguably Web3 is two things: 1. An ill-defined buzzword with some vague concepts to try and "fix" aspect of the current web. Nobody can really agree what it is or isn't. 2. The crypto-bros various attempt(s) to implement thei
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by phire 4y ago
They currently have ~3000 satellites. The total plan has ~12,000 satellites. So that's going to basically quadruple the available bandwidth?
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by phire 4y ago
I'm guessing the waste removal program isn't optimised for raw shipping costs. They only do one ship-load per year (deliver all supplies, take all waste back). Overall logistics (including regulatory compliance) might actually mak
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by phire 4y ago
It's not a result of bad management. Twitter is only non-profitable because they choose to spend all that excess revenue on R&D; Partly because, that's what tax law incentives, partly because that's what investors in tech
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by phire 4y ago
The probe isn't about the future "full self driving" product. It's about the current "autopilot" product, or more importantly, the marketing around it. They are investigating if Tesla deliberately oversold the
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by phire 4y ago
I guarantee it has been trained on some of my past code. But it's not like I spend my life simply writing my past code again, and it hasn't been trained on the code I'm about to write, because it doesn't exist yet. Besid
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by phire 4y ago
My understanding is that if you are just doing the exact same work that regular vertex shaders would do, you are better off sticking with the regular pipeline. Might even be faster, since the old pipeline (potentially, depending on implemen
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by phire 4y ago
I've been using copilot for a few months. The advertised usecase where you describe a function with a comment then it spits out a whole function is (in my experience) pretty bullshit most of the time. It's not good enough to prod
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by phire 4y ago
I've always liked to think of the SM83 as an 8080 clone that happens to use z80 assembly syntax (and includes a few z80 instructions) But it's not really accurate to call it a clone of anything. It seems to be more of a unique CPU
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by phire 4y ago
What you describe, is what co-pilot already does most of the time. The examples where people can show it reproducing snippits of code are more the exception than the rule. And they are usually done by people who are trying to manuliptio
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by phire 4y ago
Which actually makes Nuclear a great idea. Take the hydro which is currently doing baseload, convert as much capacity as possible to peak loads. And replace the lost baseload with new Nuclear. That way you can unlock even more capacity for

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