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by rwmj 6mo ago
Chip manufacturing is insanely hard, it requires know-how, that's the moat. It's not money, otherwise the EU and China would have leading edge fabs. Machine learning has no real moat. There's no network effect, it's no
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by rwmj 6mo ago
He's stating the obvious, but perhaps it needed to be said.
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I remember when .com went down, in July 1997. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/we...
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Maybe because it would compete with IBM mainframes / 3270 terminal emulators?
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Epic Semi RISC-V server products(epicsemi.com)
3 points by rwmj 6mo ago|3 comments
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True, but hx8 isn't to blame here and was simply trying an interesting experiment. Blame the system instead.
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Is that a physics thing, or just jet engines are hard and RC budgets aren't very big?
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True, it isn't complicated. With everyone rushing for the doors the price will rapidly tank.
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Less room for error, can't build extra runway(s) to cope with increasing demand. The current Mentour Pilot video actually discusses this issue in some depth re one of Washington DC's airports.
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If anyone votes for this idiot they deserve what they get.
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Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition struggle to clear their names(theguardian.com)
4 points by rwmj 6mo ago|0 comments
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This study is so cool. A while back I wrote a simple simulation of a spinning hard disk, with the idea being you could tweak the parameters to exaggerate (eg.) track to track seeking and then work out if your filesystem/database/b
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But the algorithm still isn't practical on existing quantum computers, or ones that are going to be around any time soon, so there's no reason not to publish in full.
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The multiprotocol QoS routing thing was what we worked together on back in '98-ish.
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Your engineering focus is exactly the problem! Salesforce as software is a piece of crap, no one is arguing that. But companies continue to buy it because (a) it's familiar to all their sales & marketing people, (b) SFDC is all s
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by rwmj 6mo ago
None of them because those who think SaaS companies are just a bunch of bad code that is going to be quickly rewritten have no clue what they're talking about. No sane company is going to vibecode a replacement for Salesforce, because
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by rwmj 6mo ago
Did you know Chris ("Xris") Martin? I worked with him eons ago and then I think he went to AskJeeves around 2000-ish.
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by rwmj 6mo ago
The best part of FIRE is the Financial Independence bit. When my boss asks me to do something, I'll do it if I think it's a good idea, and ignore it otherwise, because what's the worst that can happen?
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by rwmj 6mo ago
In reality changing defence and welfare spending is pretty hard here in the UK. Most of the welfare budget is spent on pensioners, who vote in droves. And defence spending is non-negotiable and in fact needs to be greatly increased if we&
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He was known informally as the Venterpillar.
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Meta shares slide as plan to spend billions more on AI spooks investors(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by rwmj 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rwmj 6mo ago
> “I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008,” How do you find out what "github user #" you are?
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Maybe, but on the other hand, modern hardware is fantastically powerful so you might not need to scale, and github likely has an even and predictable usage pattern which allows them to plan expansion.
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The Rise and Fall of 'Petty Tyrants'(noemamag.com)
2 points by rwmj 6mo ago|0 comments
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It's entirely possible the move to Azure has made the availability problems worse. Dedicated hardware is much more predictable than cloud. "Let's not move to Azure and instead buy a few more racks" was likely a decis
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Getting a large customer is a great win for them, but setting up a cloud service isn't that hard? The most complicated bit would have been financing.
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Imagine that paper is insanely expensive because it is very labour-intensive to make. People reused paper ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest ). Cloth is also insanely expensive. People wore clothes long after
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by rwmj 6mo ago
I wish that was the case where I live. I'm looking for a new laptop and the mainstream ones still come with the Windows Tax.
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There are a lot of parallels: It has a janky set of buggy drivers. It has backslashes in paths. It has a shell that is "inspired" by COMMAND.COM. And it's basically a program loader where every program immediately replaces it
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by rwmj 6mo ago
Time Enough for Love. IMHO much better than Stranger in a Strange Land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love

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