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simne
3y ago
I few times touched with subject, must say, this is mostly comedy or parody. Because, regulators are extremely conservative, devices have extremely long lifetime. Example, people asked me, where to buy USB flash with two tails - they used o
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simne
3y ago
And yes, when found weakness in WP/Django, in many cases you will just need to transit to patched version, or recreate (if different major version). As I said, recreate for WP much cheaper than any other you asked. But when found weakn
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simne
3y ago
They are totally different axis. WP is mostly small business workhorse, nearly all included in package (admin, editor, lot of third party addons), which is good enough for small scale, cheap and simple (most things could be done without dev
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simne
3y ago
In civilian planes, sometimes, standard ADS-B tracker turned on automatically. But in military planes, it must be turned on explicitly, because, depend on target of flight, it is possible, it must be OFF. In general, this is very frequent c
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simne
3y ago
Greetings from Ukraine, European country with real Great war just now. I must say, we see extreme grow of cyber-crime as part of modern war. I think, in nearest future, cold war will guaranteed have huge cyber-crime part. And, hacking of Io
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simne
3y ago
We in exUSSR joke about this, and recommend two books: Bible and criminal legislation. In reality, to run a company is not a chess. Most important you will see constant need to make decisions, without have enough information, so criminal l
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simne
3y ago
Impossible. 1$ per chip is for large batches, tens of thousands chips. You must know few things. Theoretically, all digital chips could be defined in verilog, but in reality exists few ASIC types. For simplicity, I begin with FPGA - they ar
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simne
3y ago
This is classics of embedded jobs.
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simne
3y ago
I said, beware of give access to internals of your technology. Because, this is your value NOW. Later, when you will have many customers, they will be additional part of value. Sure, you should decide yourself, to whom you could trust, but
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simne
3y ago
I think, now books only approach unfortunately impossible, I have study some things by videos. But books+videos, I think absolutely real, if student could self-learn and have good enough mathematics background. For example, I think very rea
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simne
3y ago
Sure, no. As I estimate, there are few terabytes of books in library of Congress, and this considered largest books collection in whole world. Fortunately, many books in LoC already public domain (copyright expired), so could use without li
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simne
3y ago
At this moment only acceptable structure for you, is to give to other people big seller discounts, if they could do large volume sells. All other models are not viable for you at this time at this market, because you are too weak to struggl
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simne
3y ago
You should visit Russia, as they claimed themselves as prophets of material economy. For example, they think, SaaS is not what people imagine, but in reality, non-material economy don't exists, it's just imagination, only really e
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simne
3y ago
No. Marketing is not just ads, it is your compass, which give you direction, where your great product should be. Without compass you will just lost, and throw resources to make something which is not need.
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simne
3y ago
You could add other address (nearby, which work right) and tell people to get there.
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simne
3y ago
Nothing to discuss. Use local working models, don't depend on others cloud.
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simne
3y ago
You remembered me, founder of startup where I worked talking with cofounder: Co: "what we can do, we a really close to be bought!" F: "understand me right, I have not additional money to pay, so when cash will end, I will im
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simne
3y ago
Looks like this is list of embedded chips, not desktop. On desktop already was Pentium.
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simne
3y ago
I'm shocked - before I seen it working myself, I was not believe, so large (smart) LLM could run on desktop cpu. - core i7, 4 cores, 3.3GHz, 64G ddr4-2400, 70b model, ~0.5 tokens/s; 30b model ~1 tokens/s.
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simne
3y ago
You are wrong, thinking that skills are main limiting factor. In reality, to create PRODUCT for MARKET economy, you need something more: 1. Idea. 2. Must admit, some guy who have skills, to implement idea (for simpleness I prefer to call th
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simne
3y ago
This is not just engineering case, but this is really large project where involved lot of management, and management in Russia is just hell. So I think, even with best engineers, this is impossible task for Russia, because lack of good enou
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simne
3y ago
Very impressed, how obvious looking high level design flaws of Z8000. And these are not technical flaws, but sure C-level decision flaws. Only one question decided it's fate - why SMALL startup decided to make CHEAP design? - It was ob
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simne
3y ago
From first look, yes, and for more or less modern engines, which really don't need lead. But for planes, normal age more than 20 years, even exist workhorses with 70 years. They have very old engine technologies, some literally spread
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simne
3y ago
From my knowing of Soviet system, it is surprise, they reach so far, not stuck on LEO. From Soviet experience, they don't use benches, all discovered on production, and as budgets limited, progress extremely slow. For example, what Eur
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simne
3y ago
It's extremely hard, to convert free users to paid, when you have not attached them tightly to needle of your service. My friend tried to do similar thing in his startup (very much like Disqus), but he have not success in converting sm
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simne
3y ago
I could agree with Paul Graham only in one - current AI systems use too much energy when doing really interest tasks, and make too little value. For others his words, they are against Capitalism, because this is it's typical way - Pare
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simne
3y ago
I'm not sure about GPT, because this is visual task. Good examples are typical courier service, or FedEX. Or companies like Amazon make their own delivery services. They usually have standard boxes/envelopes with standard barcode
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simne
3y ago
As I know, in US for large corporations, considered normal customers lost rate ~5% per year, and it is impossible to totally stop. If you don't consider to invest into new product(s), you should invest into retention and into classic a
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simne
3y ago
Interest thing. Before Ukrainian war I have very critical view on Great_man_theory, but during war my opinion changed. What I really see, at calm time, great man is not important, because just free market work good enough. But at tough time
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3y ago
Look, if Jobs and Gates thinking about ethic, instead of make their own cheap and easy achievable clones of Xerox Alto, we would live in other world, and I'm not sure which is better. On other side, for example BSD has very special vie
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