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by sfifs 6y ago
In my data science org, virtually NO ONE joining new prefers MacBook Pros because of the lack of CUDA. Yes production workflows run on cloud and you can spin up notebooks on the cloud but having the flexibility of CUDA in your laptop for de
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by sfifs 6y ago
I wonder if the image, video and audio processing software vendors will make of this - I would assume a lot of optimizations are tied to the underlying hardware and written in assembly? This seems to be a golden opportunity for Adobe pay ba
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by sfifs 6y ago
nowadays it's usually cheaper to use a microcontroller. That actually wasn't true if you go back further than a decade. 555s heydey was when MCs were relatively expensive.
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by sfifs 6y ago
Look it's a magazine with long form read intended for people who like such things. You can always skip it and read the abstract of the paper it references :-)
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by sfifs 6y ago
Whenever key management is centralized, there is basically no security from the legal authority in the jurisdiction that the messaging vendor is located in. The vendor can always push you an MITM key. They can even show you the "correc
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by sfifs 6y ago
Maybe you missed the part where I said I was Linux exclusive for a decade plus. For me the trade-offs aren't worth it anymore - I'm mainly interested in a Linux programming environment. I'm sure the trade-offs are different f
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by sfifs 6y ago
After being Linux exclusive on my personal laptop(s) for over a decade, I just went back to Windows + WSL 2. With WSL 2, there's very little reason to use Linux desktop any more. The windows cleartype, touchpad driver and sleep work a
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by sfifs 6y ago
Let's say we have a product master. Something looks fishy and we want a brand person or product supply person to check... Push a CSV and it's trivially easy for them to open in XL and check, make corrections and send. In a busines
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by sfifs 6y ago
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. It's definitely where I feel our modern tech world is heading... We're halfway there with ubiquitous mobility, personalized medicine and every year, I see AR heading there. While the plot is somewhat
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by sfifs 6y ago
This is a foolish own goal. Publishers will simply implement a login based wall - possibly with federated logins of Google and FB with consent in the sign up giving even more accurate personally identifiable information. Cookies are at leas
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by sfifs 6y ago
One important distinction that often gets lost in these conversations is the difference between "linking" and "de-anonymization". In general, the bigger players in the analytics space are extremely careful about avoiding
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by sfifs 6y ago
If you were an insider, yes. If you are an outsider and especially if you disclose the position, no.
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by sfifs 6y ago
No but they do have liability to perform background checks as per law before selling the firearm. If they do so, they are ok. If not, the law will go after them. This is not dis-similar to how GitHub has safe harbor as long as it follows th
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by sfifs 6y ago
Bulk of business analytics and modeling in the world happens in the zone between "regular business laptop" and "82 Core Xeon machines". Laptops with Xeons and reasonably powerful NVIDIA GPUs thrive in that environment.
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by sfifs 6y ago
Ref: recent trade war and in particular the action against Huawei. Going overboard on Huawei sanctions in particular underscored the strategic and economic threat to the Chinese leadership (who are by and large pretty competent technocrats)
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by sfifs 6y ago
In my experience, one of the the problems is that Macs are hilariously underpowered for many modern dev and analytics use cases. So the workaround is to work off remote machines/clusters over web interfaces/SSH but for many develo
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by sfifs 6y ago
Isn't that a good thing for US if it creates a breakthrough and an industry it can dominate? US has a few years of lead and it's best to maximize when it can. Other large countries' governments are definitely funding their ow
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by sfifs 6y ago
They're not a startup. They're a giant owned by some of the richest business families in the region that essentially kicked Uber's ass out of South East Asia because they execute a lot better in a market where BOTH legacy Tax
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by sfifs 7y ago
You're getting downvoted but GAAP treatment aside it's actually an interesting business question. It's often useful to think of marketing expenses on a continuum between "upper funnel" and "lower funnel".
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by sfifs 7y ago
I think the problem emds up being that visual programming implementations I have seen over the years don't really make a moderately skilled programmer more productive or efficient. So the value ends up being in giving more people who a
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by sfifs 7y ago
Well it's a b2b business and YOU could vote with your wallet to take your business elsewhere. As an aside, Amazon competitors like Walmart typically require their suppliers to host data on a platform other than AWS if they want access.
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by sfifs 7y ago
No the reason for these types of structures is simply to prevent passive leaks of information which is a far more common occurrence. Any large business is frequently visited by vendors and agencies who also work with others in the industry.
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by sfifs 7y ago
> It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. That's a good thing! I can't wait for Deb installers to stop mucking about dumping random files all over my system. I also can't wait for the whole ppa nigh
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by sfifs 7y ago
They're very well paid relative to the home country depending on seniority. One of my uncles who was a ship's engineer essentially retired at 50 to settle down in a tier 2 city in India while having enough money to put his child
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by sfifs 7y ago
If you disallow grouping openly, people will group surreptitiously and the impact will be much the same. Some form of power structure always develops in any grouping of people, whether it is open or hidden and this has been widely documente
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by sfifs 7y ago
I didn't study in the US, but having studied in college faculties staffed by professors who are at the cutting edge of their fields in my country, I can confidently say that the experience was unparalleled vs. my friends who didn'
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by sfifs 7y ago
I just wonder why an electron like chromium library isn't just provided by default by Windows and Linux. Then it could be updated by the system vs. each app updating individually and be much more secure.
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by sfifs 7y ago
No longer binding if the company breachs the arbitration clause. They're going to be sued if the issue is real.
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by sfifs 7y ago
Possibly Teams video chat which seems to work better more consistently than Zoom or Cisco Webex for small groups. At least in my organization, we've seen a lot of folks move to it in the last two-three weeks.
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by sfifs 7y ago
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/singapore-claims-fir...

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