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by ragall 2mo ago
> Even the original ones are actually made in China Wrong.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Consider that it used to be said that nowadays there is not much class difference in consumption between low, middle, and upper clases in the US, in that the same items are practically available to all. Well, that won't be true shortly
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by ragall 2mo ago
I studied mathematics, and can attest that the attitude of the professor mentioned in the article is very representative of an older generation of mathematicians. Maybe the younger ones are different.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Some mathematicians certainly did, but there's a very large undercurrent in CS, as well as Mathematics more in general, of utter disinterest for applications as well as the idea that the more general a solution, the more "worthy&q
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by ragall 2mo ago
> Saying it's overrated is like saying calculus is overrated because most people don't need to use it every day. You should stop thinking by analogy. The article was showing the difference between mathematicians and engineers.
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by ragall 2mo ago
The infra expansion of the hyperscalers is predicated on, and financially justified by, the presumed future growth of OpenAI and Anthropic, and their projected revenue. If the latter is not going to happen, I expect OpenAI and Anthropic to
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by ragall 2mo ago
It's not ingrained in the Wst Coast people, but very much in the Midwest and a bit lesser on the East Coast. Basically proportional to the Nordic heritage of those regions.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Jantelagen is also deeply ingrained in American culture due to the large amount of cultural influence from German, Dutch and Scandinavian immigrants.
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by ragall 2mo ago
This is the Nordic self-effacement which is so ingrained in American culture due to the high number of German and Scandinavian immigrants of the past. Let's just say that not everyone thinks highly of it.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Self-managed open models hosted on GPU clouds.
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by ragall 2mo ago
This isn't a conspiracy, which requires coordination between the co-conspirators: it's just old-fashioned common interest in propping up a bubble.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Juho, you have a well known blog and enough people would read it, so please go ahead and write a rebuttal.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Here's from a VC: https://x.com/bryce/status/2080766415716692385 "Have lost count of the number of CEOs I’ve talked to this week that are planning to be moved off OAI and Anthropic entirely by years end.
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by ragall 2mo ago
On the contrary, he's more obviously right every day passing.
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by ragall 2mo ago
I'd be happy enough if Nvidia decided to launch an update to the now dated (2019) Shield streaming box, which is still the best on the market as to codec support and image quality.
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by ragall 2mo ago
> General lang benefits from everyone understanding it and all the standard debug/test methods applying, which I'd much rather have than easier static analysis of the dynamic part. Perhaps. I consider that a very narrow view th
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by ragall 2mo ago
At the low end, where the vast majority of people are, even in the US, an extra $120 will double the price.
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by ragall 2mo ago
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216714 . The hatred of BCL was due to people not understanding the benefits of a restricted language with carefully chosen semantics, and stubbornly insisting in &quo
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by ragall 2mo ago
> But it's almost a general-purpose language, so why not just use one? The usefulness of not being a general-purpose language it that it makes static analysis very good; that's what made the BCL-based tooling so useful: being a
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by ragall 2mo ago
Indeed, those doing frontend work would not interact with Borg or the SRE tools directly, but they would use Blaze, Critique and all the development toolchain, which is still much above anything available on the open market.
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by ragall 2mo ago
You have no clue what you're talking about.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Angular is not a developer tool, it's a UI framework. Closure might qualify, but it was not a general tool used by the entire company. The developer tools we're talking here are Critique, Blaze, Forge, Sigma, etc...
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by ragall 2mo ago
> GCL is a whole nasty programming language. They came so close with Piccolo and Gmon but still made it not Python. The GCL designers made several mistakes in its design, but the worse was the lack of a versioning that would make languag
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by ragall 2mo ago
> I think the internal web tooling was pretty good compared to anyone but AWS circa 2016 but by 2020 when I left it felt a bit antiquated. In 2015, the SRE org started project "Prod 2020", with the goal of unifying the SRE stac
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by ragall 2mo ago
The process was, as we were informally told during orientation, that "Preview" means some SVP thinks this has a chance of going over the minimum threshold of 200M worldwide users and is willing to put his weight behind that produc
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by ragall 2mo ago
Sure, a privacy screen makes things a bit more difficult for surveillance, because the camera would need a line of sight at a low angle, but once the code is known, the attacker can force a fingerprint and input the code.
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by ragall 2mo ago
Reputation is collective prejudice.
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by ragall 2mo ago
I used to think that way when I was young and with plenty of free time. Nowadays I want stability more than anything else and I'm fine with software that's 1 year old. The only problem still present is how to buy a new laptop and
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by ragall 2mo ago
I vecchi hanno così tanto potere politico ora, al punto tale che stanno facendo chiudere i campi di calcetto degli oratori, lamentandosi del rumore. I bambini non hanno più dove andare all'aperto senza infastidire qualche adulto.
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by ragall 2mo ago
What you call "reputation" is just your prejudice.

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