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by silverlake 3y ago
It was Ian Buck @ Stanford, I think. I remember a professor from Stanford gave a talk at my grad school around 2000 about GPUs for scientific computing. Blew me away. One of the few talks I remember.
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by silverlake 3y ago
‘git log —-no-merges’
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by silverlake 3y ago
Stock went up ~18% per year since Oct 2015. Does anything else matter to Pichai's bosses (board & shareholders)?
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by silverlake 3y ago
Making a cheap toaster for the masses is a difficult business today. Making a luxury product for a smaller audience is still feasible. I have a $300 Balmuda toaster that is honestly very good (it’s a steam oven). Previously I had a Breville
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by silverlake 3y ago
My gym charged a cheaper rate for swimming from 10am to 3pm. I swam on my lunch break and saved a bunch of money.
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by silverlake 3y ago
My favorite is double ovens in McMansions. The only use case is for Thanksgiving dinner.
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by silverlake 3y ago
I agree communication is better when everyone is present. If a remote team was required to be available that would solve most of the problems. It’s about the culture of WFH which currently assumes slow async responses.
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by silverlake 3y ago
These are low salaries compared to US tech companies. I made more than all of them as an IC dev.
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by silverlake 3y ago
Garden leave means you get your low base salary but not any bonus, which is the bulk of a finance income.
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by silverlake 3y ago
Baratza coffee grinders. They have a well-deserved reputation in the coffee community for excellent customer service. They sell replacement parts at very reasonable costs. I’ve sent them pictures of my disassembled grinder and they diagnose
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by silverlake 3y ago
There has been plenty of innovation in microwaves. Commercial kitchens use speed ovens, a combination oven + microwave. The oven cooks the outside of food as expected, the microwave cooks the inside faster than normal. See your local Subway
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by silverlake 3y ago
How is this different from AWS Outpost?
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by silverlake 3y ago
Yes, this is the worst. I assume some people glance at the question and answer their misunderstanding.
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by silverlake 3y ago
It is excellent. RAM is more than enough, but heat does cause it to slow down. Fortunately I have an insane build server. However, it’s the same size as my M1 13” Pro, and only slightly lighter. Also, fingerprints really show up on the Midn
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by silverlake 3y ago
You're being willfuly obtuse. Lenovo X1 charges $170 to go from 8GB to 16GB. Surface Pro 9 charges $200. Apple M2 charges $200. All of these laptops use soldered memory. They all start at 8GB. Apple only has 15% market share in the US.
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by silverlake 3y ago
Every Apple product post reliably brings this same tiresome comment. Most people don’t need more than 8GB for browsing and office work. The memory upgrade prices are competitive with high-end Lenovo and Surface laptops. However, if you don’
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by silverlake 3y ago
Motorola Labs had a similar-ish internal programming language around this time. It also died because devs didn’t want to use an internally-developed language. The important things were hiring, training, support, external tools, etc. Being a
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by silverlake 3y ago
Here's a nice chart showing water usage of the Colorado River. 55% to grow crops to feed livestock. Only 12% for residential use. There is no water crisis. Water is mispriced and, therefore, poorly allocated. https://www.nyt
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by silverlake 3y ago
This article talks about debt likes its free money. Getting a loan means convincing a lender that you are very likely to pay it all back. If PE firms had a history of not paying back debts, why would lenders continue to lend to them? Like,
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by silverlake 3y ago
$4.50 for 1 hr, $12 for 2 hr street parking.
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by silverlake 3y ago
From the documentary Idiocracy: Idiocracy director Mike Judge revealed that they went with Crocs both because they were cheap and that "no one would ever wear them." To the surprise of Judge and Idiocracy's wardrobe departmen
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by silverlake 3y ago
I managed several dozen people scattered across Hong Kong, NYC, London and Bangalore. I couldn't even overhear the team at my location because I was often in meetings. Nearly everything was done async, with weekly video calls. The main
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by silverlake 3y ago
This doesn’t work either. The consequence of extinction is infinity (to humans). Likelihood * infinity = infinity. So by hand-waving at a catastrophic sci-fi scenario they can demand we heed their demands, whatever that is.
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by silverlake 3y ago
From what I’ve read and seen, many cookbook authors test their recipes repeatedly in home kitchens. Most have testers or volunteers to ensure they make sense and work. By contrast I have some books that are restaurant recipes they purposely
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by silverlake 3y ago
It’s just luck. In NYC my relative (w/ terrible insurance) got a biopsy, saw a surgeon the following week, was offered a spot for surgery 3 days later. Pretty fast, but the system is confusing and opaque. I complained vociferously to
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by silverlake 4y ago
Adjustable keyboard tray, negative-tilt split tenkeyless keyboard, vertical mouse. The height and angle of your arms and wrists is critical to reduce carpal tunnel syndrome. https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/DEA6510/dea651
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by silverlake 4y ago
Holz sold Leap for $30M, which is less than all the funding they raised. I’m assuming his common stock went to 0. So he’s still motivated to make money on MJ, as he should be.
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by silverlake 4y ago
I also ran some experiments with IF. An interesting note is ReAct, a framework for getting LLMs to solve problems, ran tests within ALFWorld, which is sorta IF. It would be interesting to get GPT to navigate games from IFDB. As a IF genera
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by silverlake 4y ago
I always thought the primary benefit of YC was the brand. It's like an Ivy League school for startups. The article suggested it didn't help much. Perhaps going too big has diluted the YC brand?
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by silverlake 4y ago
Does Cody work with App (local Sourcegraph)?

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