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> Imagine how many millions would drive a Ferrari if they gave them away for free 0. Ferrari is a luxury sports brand. What's the point of it if it flooded the streets?
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> Tons of articles posted here talk about economy topics but not inflation or GDP or unemployment There are tons of articles about movie stars too - often 80% rumors and not true. It's just noise and ways to get you clicks so has no
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> internal memos at Oracle indicate they're losing money on their hardware That doesn't mean much does it? Oracle is a huge company. Not just a cloud either. Companies often offer discounts or promotions; so? There could be ple
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1y ago
> Inflation is easily gamed by manipulating the basket of goods used to determine it. Just turn the tariffs on and off again.
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> The money's just moving around and around There's nVidia that we know (primarily graphics cards) and more like an investment firm "nVidia" these days. The stocks have grown so much that they are trying to turn their
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> it's probably a bubble because realized profit from these overvalued stocks is too far out in the future to buffer the inevitable liquidity shocks inherent in modern economies You just need to save the bubble with an even bigger b
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1y ago
> If you remove AI then what is left? AI
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1y ago
Means not enough GPUs. Keep making them!
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> why anyone would ever choose this technology What are the alternatives? There aren't many. Those that are potentially have worse documentation and/or issues.
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1y ago
Government, retail, etc...
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1y ago
You go in, have a chat to the manager or hiring manager involved. They think you're "nice" and you're in. Many years ago some tech roles in non-tech companies worked like this too.
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Unlimited PTO = never waking up?
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1y ago
Time for Vercel to hire the lead dev of Better Auth next?
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> And if you truly have 24/7 use then just 2 regions won't make sense as the latency to get to those regions from the other side of the globe easily removes any caching benefit. Tell that to Github or HN or many other sites? So
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1y ago
> Can you specify in which scenario you think Redis is cheaper than caching things in, say, dynamodb. When not hosted on AWS? Who says we have to compare dynamodb to AWS managed Redis? Redis the company has paid hosted versions. You can
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> They found that Postgres, without tuning, was easily fast enough on low level hardware Is that production? When you basket it into "low level" it sounds like a base case but it really isn't. In production you don't
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> All of this at a fraction of the cost of HA redis This depends on your scale. Dynamodb is pay per request and the scaling isn’t as smooth. At certain scales Redis is cheaper. Then if you don’t have high demand maybe it’s ok without HA
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> I don't think it matters whether it is SA or NSA, the end user doesn't know the difference, the important thing is to see if there is an improvement It does. It could be a hardware issue (need a new phone), software issue (e.
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Probably not. The market moved on. Giving such involved in depth articles for free was no sustainable compared to clickbait random articles.
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> What does this mean? > to invest up to i.e. 0 to something something
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> there is a clear failure of management and rolling those heads It's more a structural issue. Whilst it is a large chunk of assets, there's lots of competition so not really exciting. AUD has weakened, which makes it worth les
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> and its managerial class either doesn't know or doesn't care They never had a say. Their parent Singtel were always effectively calling the shots.
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1y ago
Go back to pen and paper.
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> They are very close to TSMC state of the art. They're not. Most have tried at 1 point. Apple had a release with TSMC + Samsung and users spotted a difference. There was quite a bit of negativity.
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> But other people are literally getting their things fabbed by them. Sure, but in my example Apple got access exclusively for a few months to a newer node, which would make a world of difference if you compete in the same space.
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AMD, Broadcom, Huawei, etc
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> Their multiples don't seem sustainable so they are likely to fall at some point but when is tricky. They've been trying really hard to pivot and find new growth areas. They've taken their "inflated" stock price
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> If there's orders, why would they prefer NVIDIA? Customer diversity is good, is it not? Money talks. Apple asked for first dips a while earlier (exclusively).
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> by several large engineering organizations, which made the move The problem with this type of trend is it's often hype and you never know what actually happens or how does it evolve over time. I've seen organizations make cer
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> I think Java is the best language for most medium to large projects With this in context... > I think Springframework is dragging Java's reputation down. I know Spring boot is better but it's such a monstrosity. Is that re
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