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by ptero 1y ago
AMD has great hardware, but its software still leaves a lot to be desired for AMD to be a major AI hardware player. It takes years of unwavering leadership focus and hundreds of millions (probably billions) of dollars to get the software th
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by ptero 1y ago
> After speaking with Russians living in there, day to day life hasn't been affected that much Did you speak with folks from Moscow or St Petersburg or from different regions? Life in the top 2 cities is kept as normal as possible a
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by ptero 1y ago
Using another pretext to target someone for their views is definitely a thing. This is not new (e.g., the Assange case) but its frequency is increasing. I am going to offend both sides with what comes next (and curious how many downvotes it
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by ptero 1y ago
Freedom of speech is doing not great, but still OK in the US. The government is not prosecuting for speech, which is what the free speech protections can and should guarantee. What now happens more is that big private companies, having
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by ptero 1y ago
Walking through an unlocked door that has a sign "private property, do not enter", searching for sensitive information, finding it and exposing it surely could. Or not, depending on how the party who owns what's inside that d
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by ptero 1y ago
IMO it is better to keep the barriers to entry as low as possible for prototyping. Letting domain experts build what they have in mind themselves, on a shoestring, is a powerful ability. Most such prototypes get tossed because of a flaw in
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by ptero 1y ago
I see belt and road as orthogonal to the above. This is an initiative focused on a mix of PR and economy. While there are likely many layers of the intent behind it, I think the main one is to establish resource access as well as access to
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by ptero 1y ago
China has many internal problems and is not looking for the world dominance, at least not in the medium term. It wants to continue building up its economy, not get involved in conflicts on the other side of the world. Rapid expansions lead
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by ptero 1y ago
As a US citizen I wish Canada well. US needs serious competition and IMO the ideas of economic world group hugs, globalization benefiting everyone, etc. are no longer working. They may have been net positive initially, but are not anymore.
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by ptero 1y ago
He is saying that miles you get for cc purchases allow you to buy free airfare and hotels. Although you can find cards that give you 1.5-2% back that you can use on travel or anything, as you please.
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by ptero 1y ago
Undefined behaviors -- yes. But being able to trigger undefined behavior is not a huge foot gun by itself. Starting with good code examples means you are much less likely to trigger it. Having a good, logical description of supported featur
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by ptero 1y ago
Are you willing to name the company? Shame them here. This sounds wrong. I do not know what the details of the situation were, for example was the offer contingent on additional background checks that you failed or on something else, but if
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by ptero 1y ago
It is not black and white. There is a continuum of difference between my whole life being discoverable by a targeted effort of a major state (for which there were always very few defenses) and "we have no privacy" world where my w
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by ptero 1y ago
That would be a rare case where I would reach back for more information. Rescinding an offer is, in my book, a huge black mark against the company and I would consider shaming them in a blog post as well. Was this your first polygraph? I ne
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by ptero 1y ago
For a different perspective: the world today is not perfect, but when I compare the current state of the world with how our ancestors lived from the Roman empire to the last century I think my kids have a high chances to do much better tha
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by ptero 1y ago
Agreed on both the definition of the optimal assessment and on the fact that the humans are bad at it. I actually think this (humans being bad at it) is good for the civilization as it helps people try things they would be too scared to do
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by ptero 1y ago
In this definition I think virtually no one assesses the risk correctly. It is a human nature to overreact (post-factum) to an unlikely event to the extent that most languages have a dedicated saying ("having burned yourself on hot mil
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by ptero 1y ago
Not necessarily. Having a painful accident often leads people to a position of "even if I know a mishap is very unlikely I am not doing this again".
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by ptero 1y ago
But truly realtime translation is rarely (never?) critical. For streamed media there is usually enough of a buffer to handle word order swaps without delay (although one can make contrived counter-examoles), and for human interactions that
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by ptero 1y ago
One local pub may have a face scanner, the other may not and I am free to choose which one I go to without fear of reprisals. Refusing to follow a government mandate can land me in jail.
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by ptero 1y ago
Indoors. There were decades of research leading to the recommendations of mask wearing when symptomatic and only indoors . All that fell by the wayside when mask wearing became a covid-time cult. A friend (with a degree in epidemiology)
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by ptero 1y ago
I'd further refine "aircraft surveillance" to "air traffic control". On the defense side ADS-B can provide a baseline air picture of cooperative traffic, but does not otherwise help with detecting non-cooperative ai
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by ptero 1y ago
> I am literally using Claude opus 4.1 right now On HIPAA data? HIPAA systems at any sane company will not have "a straight connect" to anything on Asure, AWS or GCP. They will likely have a special layer dedicated to record
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by ptero 1y ago
> Interceptors being more expensive is a big problem. Yes, but they do not have to be. Shaheeds are slow, easy to detect and track and not maneuverable. They could be intercepted by very cheap short range systems. What makes interceptors
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by ptero 1y ago
That access is over a limited API and usually under heavy restrictions on the healthcare org side (e. g., only use a dedicated machine, locked up software, tracked responses and so on). Running a local model is often much easier: if you alr
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by ptero 1y ago
Likely nothing once the stock is actually trading with some history. But for initial placement wall-street-bets action could be very disruptive. The company wants to avoid sharp drops after the IPO, as those encourage employees to get out A
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by ptero 1y ago
Yes. But Google being Google it got top notch planning advice from world class auction experts that Goldman pulled in to advise them on the IPO. Most companies without such expert advice could step into some pitfalls. Just a guess, I am not
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by ptero 1y ago
An auction for IPO price is much easier to manipulate and can lead to much volatility. Pre-allocating to the entities that are not expected to sell quickly or participate in pump-and-dumps (pension funds, etc.) is considered a better long t
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by ptero 1y ago
Some equal access policy that it was worried about. Do you have kids? If so, what age(s)?
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by ptero 1y ago
No, teaching what the local parents believe is best for their own kids. While there are certainly a few of those who will want bibles, most in my experience put much higher value in the extra STEM unhindered by ideology. My kids high school

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