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Apple Card responsible for more than $1.2B loss for Goldman Sachs(9to5mac.com)
49 points by samspenc 4y ago|21 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
And first I've heard of Java Grinder, really interesting and cool project, I wonder why I never heard of it before.
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by samspenc 4y ago
I'm just going to leave this here: https://lifehacker.com/why-unlimited-vacation-days-is-a-scam... "A study by Namely found that employees with unlimited PTO took an average of 13 vacation days, compared to 15 day
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by samspenc 4y ago
Doom on Zoom
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by samspenc 4y ago
I remember doing similar things over 20 years ago with games that had poor customization. Open up the binaries, search for strings, and replace strings with custom text (e.g. character names etc). I learned quickly that I had to keep the st
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by samspenc 4y ago
So he sat on it round then.
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by samspenc 4y ago
Same here, my best investment last year was upgrading from a 2017 i7 laptop (with no GPU), to a 2022 desktop with a GeForce RTX 3080 GPU and my productivity difference is like night and day, wish I had upgraded sooner.
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by samspenc 4y ago
Yeah having street car power lines can be a nightmare in densely crowded cities with a lot of pedestrian traffic and tightly packed buildings. It would be a nightmare to implement in a place like New York City, and I'm not surprised th
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by samspenc 4y ago
I've always wondered about the history of eating raw meat. My family personally doesn't eat anything raw because of the news reports we've read of people getting sick (or worse) after consuming raw meat, and we make sure to o
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Tesla Model Y now best selling car in all of Europe(electrek.co)
21 points by samspenc 4y ago|8 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
> Most WP code people deal with are simple loops that people just have saved elsewhere. I wonder if that's how this product got started - "most Wordpress plugin code are simple loops that get and do something on data" - an
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by samspenc 4y ago
If you're looking for a raw "benchmark" style program to measure performance of your CPU and GPU for 3D tasks, I highly recommend the open-source Blender Benchmark https://opendata.blender.org/ . It also has
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by samspenc 4y ago
Just FYI, it also needs 200+ GB hard disk space to install, I believe minimum GPU recommendation is Nvidia 2080 (or equivalent) with 4-6 GB GPU VRAM. I've seen posts online where they recommend higher-end chips and much more GPU memory
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by samspenc 4y ago
While this maybe true for FAANG and other tech giants, it is unfortunately still a lot of money for most startups that are working their way to IPO. Tbh even at tech giants that make tens of billions of dollars, a $100 million investment is
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by samspenc 4y ago
After visiting the website, I came here to post the same comment, and I see others have done the same. Kudos OP! Your website knocks the socks off any other website I've seen, really well done.
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by samspenc 4y ago
Sounds about right. From what I've heard, Meta is laser-focused on metrics compared to other tech companies and FAANGs, and entire promotion cycles are based around how much you "moved the needle" so to speak along some metri
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by samspenc 4y ago
This sounds about right. What I remember reading is that people pay Google Ads to serve their ads to people for around $10 CPM (cost per mille), so that is $10 per 1000 impressions. And if Google Adsense pays you 50%, you end up with $5 RPM
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by samspenc 4y ago
Just want to confirm we are talking about "Brexit" here right?
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by samspenc 4y ago
But the problem is where do they go? Yes, Twitter laid off 3750 people, but Meta just laid off 11000, so the job market -- at least for that pool -- is saturated right now, and I'm not sure if anyone wants to voluntarily walk off their
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by samspenc 4y ago
The thing that bugs me most about the PhD is how much of the final years are controlled by your advisor and the committee. You have a bit of leeway in your first few years to do some "blue sky" research, scoped by the grants your
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by samspenc 4y ago
That's also why Amazon is running out of people to hire, because it hires and fires people so fast: https://nypost.com/2022/06/17/amazon-could-run-out-of-people... "Amazon is sounding the alarm over
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by samspenc 4y ago
I'm guessing most folks who've been working on k8s probably had the same thought.
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by samspenc 4y ago
I wonder if Nvidia is cranking up the performance not for games, but other applications such as 3D rendering and AI/ML. If you look at the benchmarks for Blender [1], a popular open-source 3D software, you will see the 4090 easily beat
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by samspenc 4y ago
Also due to their weak outlook for the next quarter (Q4).
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by samspenc 4y ago
Thanks for sharing some numbers. Assuming 500K MAU, that means around $10000 per month or roughly $120K per year in revenue? And with 50% margin, sounds like you spend around $60K per year to keep the app (and related backend service) up an
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Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B
27 points by samspenc 4y ago|111 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
Fascinating, are there any other similar products in this same category as DALL.E and Craiyon?
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by samspenc 4y ago
The interesting thing is they were operating at more than 40% profit margins for years now. A drop to 29% margins [1] is actually pretty significant and puts it in line with profit margins at most other larger tech firms, and not at the top
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India to surpass China as most populous country in 2023: U.N. report(reuters.com)
2 points by samspenc 4y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 4y ago
Interestingly, this announcement hasn't moved the USD-INR exchange rate that much, looks fairly stable over the past 24 hours, let's see what happens over the long term.

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