roadbuster

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by roadbuster 10mo ago
> Payroll taxes are inefficient I agree, but governments intentionally shifted from corporate taxes (taxes on net, corporate income) to payroll taxes (taxes proportional to employee wages) because businesses were either finding creatives
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
The bill in favour of the Elizabeth Line was only put to parliament in 2005, receiving royal assent in 2008. Construction work began in 2009, faced some delays during COVID, but was completed in 2022 (total construction time: 13 years) Cons
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
You still need an interface which does at least two things: handles incoming read/write requests using some kind of network protocol, and operates as a memory controller for the RAM. Texas Memory Systems was in the business of making l
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
> Thinking of building a small 1TB WiFi SSD that works like a tiny standalone NAS. Step 1: Purchase Android smartphone with microSD slot and 1TB microSD card Step 2: Deploy Samba server on phone
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
> The RAM is unusable as it stands, it's just raw wafer, they'd need a semiconductor fab The wafers are processed. That means Samsung/Hynix have taken the raw ("blank") wafers, then run them through their DRAM li
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
> The implication here is that the primary goal is to corner the market You have no evidence of that. Even at face value, the idea of "cornering the market" on a depreciating asset with no long-term value isn't a war strat
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
> OpenAI isn’t even bothering to buy finished memory modules And? Why should they be obligated to pay for all the middleman steps from fab down to module? That includes: wafer-level test, module-level test (DC, AC, parametric), packaging
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
> It's buying up 40% of all RAM production with the intention to have most of it idle in warehouses They have no incentive to purchase a rapidly-depreciating asset and then immediately shelve it, none They might have to warehouse in
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by roadbuster 10mo ago
> To be clear - the shock wasn’t that OpenAI made a big deal, no, it was that they made two massive deals this big, at the same time, with Samsung and SK Hynix simultaneously That's not "dirty." That's hiding your int
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by roadbuster 1y ago
> all reads and writes go through the leader One of the pain points of scaling Zookeeper is that all writes must go to the leader (reads can be fulfilled by followers). I understand this is "leader of a shard" and not a "g
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by roadbuster 1y ago
Chrome uses the open source PDFium engine to render PDFs. That should let anyone view and use 99% of PDFs https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium
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by roadbuster 1y ago
I used to send inquiries to Google about their policies on political ads. This is partly because, in 2024, they said they were implementing "pauses" on certain types of political content: https://www.cnn.com/2024&#
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by roadbuster 1y ago
> I am pretty damn sure that with a thousand me, we produce more than the founders alone Engineers generally never acknowledge the value of knowing _what_ to build, only whether something is built. As an engineer, I don't pretend to
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by roadbuster 1y ago
What does the backend architecture look like? Heavily distributed, or everything in-memory on a single address space server? How do you handle users writing tight loops which fetch the endpoint in rapid fire?
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by roadbuster 1y ago
Lucky to have an opportunity to chat with him! Did he have any specific feedback on your essay?
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by roadbuster 1y ago
Undergraduate tuition at Duke starts at $65,000 USD/year. It shouldn't come at any surprise that a lot of spoiled kids who are funded by the International Bank of Mommy & Daddy are apathetic and wasteful. From: https:/&#
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by roadbuster 1y ago
I just jotted down your closing sentence. Equally insightful and touching.
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by roadbuster 2y ago
I read this in 1999 when entering university. It was so refreshing hearing a student provide a glimpse into the boots-on-the-ground reality of undergrad life at these world-renowned institution. The closing sentence is also prescient; the a
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by roadbuster 2y ago
> I still feel bad, but at least I've opened-up to the HN collective... You won't find absolution here; shame!
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by roadbuster 2y ago
How does "choreographic programming" differ from the actor model?
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by roadbuster 2y ago
> I was always so frustrated by how slow image viewers were on Windows Irfanview was always my go-to for speed on Windows
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by roadbuster 2y ago
You can add to the list, "Putnam Fellow." And, not only was he a fellow, he apparently trounced the scores of the other 4 fellows: "Anyway, I was among the first five. I have since found out from somebody from Can
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by roadbuster 2y ago
What is the meaning of an "ephemeral visualization" of a carbon footprint when releasing carbon into the atmosphere is rarely ephemeral? Carbon release is a very important problem, but I can't connect with this art project at
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by roadbuster 2y ago
> the thing is when you’re only consuming a collection, > a lot of the types have the same semantics, so they > don’t need separate read interfaces > Most APIs should only consume collections from callers
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by roadbuster 2y ago
> when the biggest companies on the planet will pay you money just to put a script on your page AdTech companies don't pay you to install these on your websites. Their customers install them to help understand if the ads they'r
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by roadbuster 2y ago
Not at all. Tracking pixels are installed by advertisers so they can understand if advertising on platform A, B, C actually drives business outcomes X, Y, Z. In other words, they're primarily a tool to see whether you're getting v
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by roadbuster 2y ago
Can you share the story of how the funding/patronage materialized? Were you already connected or was a more formal introduction & pitch needed?
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by roadbuster 2y ago
Not much tech content here. They racked a dense array of drives in a JBOD. There's no description of a complex or sophisticated ingestion engine, system for distributing data across the array, file system, error correction, nothing. An
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by roadbuster 3y ago
The parent commenter doesn't need to piss on a 17 year old for sharing their work and progress. You could also take a moment to step back and reflect on this.
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by roadbuster 3y ago
> How is this even allowed? Nixon v. Warner Communications (1978) If a company feels the need to reveal their trade secrets in court to make their case, but ultimately wants to maintain protection over the trade secret itself, what optio

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