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by protastus 3y ago
I have a 16-core Ryzen 7950X that I run in "eco mode 105W". This delivers performance close to an Intel 13900K but at less than half the power. It's also much easier to cool and get a quiet PC without water cooling and enthus
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by protastus 3y ago
That usually means the business model is exposed to disruption. How is this sector siloed against a newcomer that undercuts every incumbent while remaining profitable?
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by protastus 3y ago
I have yet to see evidence that it's out of whack. Vets are are doctors, have to employ staff, and have training, processes and tools analogous to human medicine. There's no vet industrial complex, so no administrative/insura
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by protastus 3y ago
The camera manufacturers don't make the silicon and the silicon makers don't care about any specific camera manufacturer. Not even Google can get Qualcomm to upstream their drivers. Let that sink in. And it's not because of c
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by protastus 3y ago
That's the rotten situation with embedded Linux. Nearly all silicon vendors ship a highly modified kernel with proprietary drivers and firmware. Nothing gets upstreamed. The code quality is low and the changes are not architecturally s
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by protastus 3y ago
Also not saying it's illegal. The non-zero mean and relatively small standard deviation (0.4 sigma) make all the difference here. I'd say the ethics and legality are entirely determined by how this distribution was determined and
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by protastus 3y ago
Traditional automakers largely got trapped in the innovator's dilemma. China had no attachment to ICE technology and skipped straight to BEV. Dieselgate was a blessing to VW because it forced them to discuss BEVs to save face. Europe l
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by protastus 3y ago
A workload that only needs 24GB of VRAM will be faster on the 4090. It has higher TDP, same die as the RTX 6000 Ada and nearly the same number of cores (the difference being irrelevant). The price difference is for the VRAM.
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by protastus 3y ago
I believe the idea is that these individuals are expected to develop themselves through a combination of self-awareness, autonomy, ambition and an environment that promotes growth. Executives are expected to be mature enough to not need han
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by protastus 3y ago
"Why would you ever put a tenured engineer, writing code for years, sometimes decades, through a 40-minute process writing code in a collaboration doc or a whiteboard…" This keeps coming up, and I can only assume the author has no
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by protastus 3y ago
Word for Windows 6 was a proper version of Word -- far more capable than Wordpad. An image search will refresh your memory. Wordpad is very basic in comparison.
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by protastus 3y ago
Your analogy with big tobacco is on point. Big oil and big tobacco share a strategy of promoting false skepticism, shifting blame to consumers, using the legal system to harass and intimidate scientists, and lobbying to get support from ele
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by protastus 3y ago
Very interesting framing for tension I experience as a manager, but never saw formalized. At work, ask culture puts higher burden on managers. Especially when requests cross the line into unreasonable territory, and the manager has to study
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by protastus 3y ago
It's not rhetorical. Emissions have to be cut and deadlines need to be set. I am challenging you to provide a proposal, because anyone can be a cynic or a critic.
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by protastus 3y ago
You didn't answer the question.
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by protastus 3y ago
The author claims that "America's top environmental groups have lost the plot". This is an incredibly serious and broad accusation, and the author is throwing away the baby with the bathwater with a few cherry picked examples
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by protastus 3y ago
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ Imagine you're 15 and look at the graph above. What deadline do you set for humanity to fix the issue?
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by protastus 3y ago
Attacking or blaming environmental groups in a time of environmental crisis seems like an absurdly misguided strategy. The author should re-evaluate their priorities. Oil and gasoline are some of the most subsidized products in history. Too
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by protastus 3y ago
The SNR of this saga is very low. A speck of something floating under a magnetic field on a blurry video is not proof of room temperature superconductivity. We've seen memes, jokes, shitposting, bravado, Soviet fan fiction, play-by-pla
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by protastus 3y ago
Her methods were improvised and lacking, by her own admission. There are several world class labs working on this today. There's basically zero chance a junior researcher doing amateur chemistry in the kitchen is going to outperform th
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by protastus 3y ago
If you're a researcher from academia applying for a job in my team, the quality of your GitHub repo makes a huge difference in how you are perceived before we even talk to you. If you believe in your work and would like to see someone
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by protastus 3y ago
> But what I've seen in San Francisco has made me think differently. Most people who use drugs eventually end up not being able to live like normal adults. And no one willingly goes to get help or treatment. The U.S. healthcare syst
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by protastus 3y ago
The CEO allegedly wants them to be an external foundry. His direct reports may not be as enthusiastic.
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by protastus 3y ago
> So maybe there is a plan, or maybe they just designed the system in such a way that they could convince themselves that it would not go down unless things were so severe that loss of the phone system would not be your chief worry. My
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by protastus 3y ago
The system is the cult of academia, which indoctrinates students to go down the funnel of becoming a tenured professor, even though most won't make it to the end. It hides career alternatives because those in the cult are largely ignor
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by protastus 3y ago
The reasonable and ethical engineering approach is to do one's best with models, simulations, first principles analysis and design something that works on paper. And then built prototypes, test the hell out of them. Without people insi
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by protastus 3y ago
> Who would invest in a Reddit IPO now?! Moreover, what will be the short interest should this company go public? I become more confident with every week that the CEO is holding back the company. And so is the board by allowing executive
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by protastus 3y ago
I disagree with this interpretation. If Bill Gates took this advice he wouldn't have dropped out of university to run Microsoft. That's fueled by ambition and initiative, not arrogance. Arrogance is telling OP or young Bill Gates
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by protastus 3y ago
Reddit got half a billion people addicted to candy and now CEO Steve Huffman refuses to sell it because he thinks they're eating it wrong. There's already an API and an ecosystem of third party apps. I'm amazed at the failure
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by protastus 3y ago
The person sending the message is accountable for its content, no matter how it was authored. Maybe I want to be tactful around a delicate issue, but am struggling to find the right words. An LLM can help me. Alternatively, someone who want

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