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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The currently deployed Waymos have 5 $7,500[...] This price from 5 years ago. How confident are you the unit price is still $7,500?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> It looks impressive, yet I'm not feeling very impressed. The demos was made by nerds (said with love) with a limited time window. Wait until the creatives get a hold of the tool.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If I was a studio exec I'd be worried Counterpoint: home "studio" recording has been feasible for decades, but music execs are not ruffled. Sure, you get a Billie Eilish debut album once a generation, but the other 99.99
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I love it when the answer to a question posed in a headline is provided in the second sentence of the article. > I’m the founder and Barista of the BSD Cafe, a community of *BSD enthusiasts Did the original article change it's title
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by sangnoir 2y ago
IIRC, Apple employed the maintainer[1] of CUPS - which is/was available on MacOS for network printing, and has been available on Linux for even longer. I would be surprised if the feature was not available on Linux for your printer.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
When dealing with ROCM, it's critical that once you have a working configuration, you freeze everything in place (except your application). Docker is one way to achieve this if your host machine is subject to kernel or package updates
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Heck, even the "royal door of XXX king palace" is a 1-meter wooden door with carvings that aren't particularly fine Perhaps your subjective standards are not universal when determining cultural/aesthetic significa
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by sangnoir 2y ago
People who cheat often don't consider scenarios where they get caught.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> In other cases, though, the items could easily have ended up lost to time (or political, economic, social turmoil) That's a hard sell when the country that winds up with the artifacts was also the primary agitator of political, so
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Why? Are these universities facing challenges with funding their humongous endowments? Or is so that every generation of peasants pays the social debt they owe to their betters?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Does it matter if you're paying for it? FWIW, the state is also (indirectly ) paying for this change. Private universities can exempt themselves from this law by not accepting state dollars, but I don't think donors can fill
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I didn't see this amount of bellyaching when race-based affirmative action admissions were eviscerated by SCOTUS. Then, HN was almost unanimous in the opinion that it was a good ruling, because academic meritocracy is a good thing.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Your reply is reductive: Stanford is not some run-of-the-mill LLC - they have a charter legislated into state law, granting privileges not given(!) to most other self-organized groups in the state. Saying this is not authoritarian - that&
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Should university acceptance be meritocratic or not? HN seems to be suffering from dissonance.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The Classic American animated show Spongebob Squarepants is particularly emblematic of western values, particularly on the themes of self-reliance, and the importance of fast food restaurants as the second (or third) space. In this paper,
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> What do you mean it’s not a free market? The state government stepped in to socialize the losses incurred by private companies during the last snowstorm. Perhaps we can call it "Free markets with Texan characteristics"?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Turning off the data center for 2/3rds of the year when the sun isn't shining sure is an idea. reply The logical thing is to place the solar panels where sun shines for more than 1/3 of the year. Additional consideration
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The grid absolutely is a market and should be. ...but generally not a free market in most jurisdictions. The Texas grid is an ongoing experiment, and yet even the Texas legislature had to step in to bail out[1] providers' massiv
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Western industrial culture was based on substance - getting real shit done. And what did that get us? Radium poisoning and microplastics in every organ of virtually all animals living within thousands of miles of humans. Our reach has
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The shares will be diluted - the LLC used to be 100% owned by the non-profit; and now there's no bottom.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Although I know it starts as cleartext on whatsapp's servers WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol[1], so the text is never plaintext on the wire (or servers). 1. https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Simpler packaging formats like pkgbuild and apkbuild do all of that too. I don't doubt it: isn't the breadth of Linux distro flavors and philosophies an amazing thing?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> What does a maintainer realistically do? Debian maintainers have to coax upstream packages to behave like other Debian packages and use supported linked dependencies. This covers everything from log and config file locations, startup s
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Self regulation is much better than actual regulation. This not self-evident, and is very subjective. Also, if regulator has to make san example of someone first before the rest fall into line, that is not self-regulation in my book, j
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by sangnoir 2y ago
There's lot of room to cut margins in the AI stack right now (see Nvidia's latest report); low prices are not an sure indication of predatory pricing. Which company do you think is most likely to have the lowest training and infer
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The weird thing is some do publish the price of 1U/1 Amp along with half-racks and full racks, and nothing in between - not even a formula to estimate costs if one doesn't nearly fall into one of those buckets. The 1U pricing
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by sangnoir 2y ago
PSA: if you're having RPi SD-card-corruption issues, get a higher-amperage power supply (the official power supplies work well). Low-voltage warnings are a telltale sign.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Why are colocation providers reluctant to have clear pricing on their websites? Most of them have some form of "Contact us for a quote" link. I get their target market is B2B, but the additional friction probably prevents many col
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If AI results haven't started affecting our search traffic they will start to soon. Up until now we've had two choices: block AI-based crawlers and fall completely out of that market, or continue to let AI companies train off
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by sangnoir 2y ago
iPhones and iPads too. Valve opening a Steam store on iOS devices is the stuff of Apple's nightmares.

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