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by samspenc 3y ago
Actually you can get NVidia's top consumer GPU today, the RTX 4090, for $1500-1600. Go back one generation and you can get a RTX 3090 for $750 which still packs a punch. So it's quite possible to build a well-performing gaming PC
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Salesforce is luring staff back to office by donating $10 to charities per day(fortune.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|3 comments
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Is React Having an Angular.js Moment?(marmelab.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
The only issue with that is the original link has its content redacted at OpenAI or Sam's request, which is why this post has a link to the archive.org version with the original contents.
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Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran says Musk is right about commercial office space(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
My first question upon seeing the title was "What are Kaspersky iPhones?" Answered in the first paragraph: "Kaspersky has been hit by an advanced cyberattack that used clickless exploits to infect the iPhones of several dozen
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by samspenc 3y ago
Slightly off the main topic - but this is the first time I've seen codeberg.org (where Teddit is hosted). Looks like a serious competitor to GitHub, curious if anyone has worked with Codeberg and can list its pros and cons compared to
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by samspenc 3y ago
I wonder if it was just a matter of them getting that GitHub handle way before OpenAI was a real thing. Update: per Wikipedia, looks like OpenAPI was founded in 2010-11 so that would make sense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Discovery of 2000-year-old 'computer' leaves scientists baffled(indy100.com)
6 points by samspenc 3y ago|10 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
And ... stock is up +20% after earnings.
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by samspenc 3y ago
This is the only option now since it looks like the original Youtube link (the Build livestream) has been made private.
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by samspenc 3y ago
This was my main takeaway from the article as well. While he does sound like a terrible businessman, he might have actually been 'profitable' and made a profit for his investors had he taken out a 30-year fixed rate mortgage inste
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Neeva, would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine(theverge.com)
46 points by samspenc 3y ago|34 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
I just asked ChatGPT and this is what I got: "Imagine you have a really smart computer friend that can understand and talk to you just like a person. This computer friend is called a language transformer. The language transformer is li
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Epstein Assisted Noam Chomsky, Botstein with Financial Transactions(wsj.com)
31 points by samspenc 3y ago|26 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
My guess is the allure of FAANG is the same as that of Ivy Leagues - people who haven't gone to either think there's something special about those institutions or the people who went there. Part of it is certainly media coverage a
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by samspenc 3y ago
> A group of creditors could buy Vice for $225 million. So I guess the $400M acquisition bids that were reported didn't go through?
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by samspenc 3y ago
Possibly some server load due to new engine / version release? Though I would be surprised given Epic Games' size.
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Unreal Engine 5.2(unrealengine.com)
5 points by samspenc 3y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Fascinating, per the post, they were struggling in most of 2021 and 2022, and there were some last minute contributions in December 2022 that bumped up their 2022 numbers. Curious what outreach or activity they did in Dec 2022 that led to t
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by samspenc 3y ago
Google and Facebook ads support folks do the same thing, I'm guessing they have some incentive and some metrics to hit, such as number of people who they actually talk to etc.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Yeah in addition to the 10% headline fee, they always charge an additional 5% to the buyer, so it's really at least 15% in fees.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Getting an occasional "Error generating response" but pretty cool overall :) great work.
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Microsoft’s Bing gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, more(theverge.com)
2 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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H-1B Visa Shortfall Starves the Economy(wsj.com)
2 points by samspenc 3y ago|1 comments
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Meta workers have lost faith in Mark Zuckerberg(sfgate.com)
41 points by samspenc 3y ago|19 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Good idea, but looks like ChatGPT has already Cheggmated them.
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Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Came to Be(wired.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
I think investors don't care about this and past results because they are forward-looking, it looks like the optimistic guidance for Q2 is helping with the stock price.
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by samspenc 4y ago
Maybe poor sales? And why they cut prices so significantly on all their VR headsets.

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