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by sgerenser 4mo ago
It would be worth separating out the “traditional” data centers (which offer things like colocation, and mostly run pretty standard CPU-bound or network-bound workloads) from “AI” data centers (which have racks and racks of extremely dense
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by sgerenser 4mo ago
I think the issue is there’s very few empty existing buildings big enough to house a modern AI data center.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Hey, in 2026 strcpy is still part of the C standard library (much to the chagrin of anyone security conscious).
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
I can't actually find anything that supports a $400M valuation. ChatGPT seems to agree, that there's no public documents supporting that valuation, and an estimate of $6-$10M year in revenue sounds in the ballpark, meaning a value
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
I definitely heard 10% first and only later 35%. For some reason the videos don't have transcripts and the Gemini AI isn't available, so I can't try to search for it. But I'm 100% sure that 10% was the figure mentioned f
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
I head them say 35% at some point later in the videos, but they definitely said 10% first, so I’m not sure which is correct.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
It sounds like the original franchisee doesn’t want to admit that they were losing a lot of money already. Only someone really desperate would take on a $200K lego collection and only collect a 10% consignment fee. It would also explain the
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Somewhere in one of the long videos, they mentioned that there were unique stickers on each of his items that he was selling on consignment. They had to have known which items were his.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Bricks and Minifigs stores are like 2000 square feet, much different than a Target. Their overhead per square foot is almost certainly far higher than Target.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
My wife owns a retail business where some part of their sales is consignment. Taking anything in with only a 10% consignment fee would be laughable, there’s no way that’s a money making deal when you account for all the overhead of a small
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
There actually are legal ways to do that… instead of buying the company, you start a new company, and just buy assets of the old company (e.g. phone numbers, web sites, trademarks, customer lists). Seems shady but apparently it’s pretty com
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Who says Azure devops is on the same infra as GitHub? I mean, sure they're both hosted in Azure data centers, but there's very little else shared between them AFAIK. I used to work for Microsoft and I heard about the grand plans t
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
I don’t think that’s correct, Intel is transitioning to AVX10, which is essentially the instruction set of AVX-512 but without mandating 512 but vector width. Future E cores, afaik, will still only be capable of 256 bit vector ops. EDIT: ok
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Would YouTube really block Gemini? I thought summarizing (or asking questions about) YouTube videos was one of their advertised features.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Yeah AVX-512 is basically dead as a universal target for x86, the future is now AVX-10. But I believe there is a reasonable subset that will work on both.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
I’m still amazed at the people who claim that Apple Maps is as good as Google Maps nowadays. If you live anywhere where there’s lots of development, it’s definitely not. It’s also terrible when businesses or places of interest move. My wife
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Missed this so coming in very late, but wow this is unbelievably off the mark. The airlines do not operate a credit card company, full stop. They sell airline miles, at a fixed rate per mile, to the credit card companies. That’s it. Citi, C
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
I believe the company is based in SF, but the developers are all over the world, so $100/hr is probably in the ballpark. Interestingly one of the senior developers is working from prison so his costs are probably a bit lower: https:&#
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Not yet, sale hasn’t closed yet. They changed their name in advance of the sale though.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Publix in the southeast and Wegmans in the northeast both have fountain drinks.
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
Waiting for the MOASS… it’s coming any day now!
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by sgerenser 5mo ago
No airline operates a credit card company. They just put their name on a card and sell miles at a discount in bulk to credit card companies like Chase or Citi.
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
There’s no back room arrangement, beyond perhaps some amount of marketing from TI to math teachers. But nobody is getting a kickback to recommend the TI-84. Also, since so many people had to buy these things then stuck it in a drawer after
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
It comes with experience, you know it when you see it.
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
Had to be even earlier than that, I graduated college in 2006 and I’m pretty sure someone turned me on to Friendster at least a couple years before.
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
And the X is pronounced like “sh.”
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
It turned into Google Photos quite a while ago, so not really sure how it’s relevant anymore.
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
I assuming he means insanely more efficient than they used to be, not more efficient than ground-source (awkward wording though). I suppose they can also be described as more efficient in installation time, cost and equipment than ground so
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
I was on a trip a few years ago and had only brought my “compact” 45w usb-c charger since the brick that came with my work ThinkPad (one of the high end 16” screen models, maybe p16?) was enormous. When I plugged it in Windows complained th
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by sgerenser 6mo ago
My work has a little power strip with a usb-c and usb-a jack on it at every desk. I can charge my phone and iPad just fine with a USB-C cable into the USB-C port, but when I plugged my MacBook Air into it, it says “not charging.” Going into

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