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by sofixa 2y ago
> Bear in mind, it justifies the very steep membership fees (for the countries that have high enough GDP to pay) by tying membership to free trade. The EU keeps quite high external tariffs on a lot of things, especially in order to prote
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Our military is absolutely failing to live up to their oath to defend us against enemies foreign and domestic. A good portion of them are probably cheering. That being said, even for those with humanity, empathy and a conscience, a cou
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by sofixa 2y ago
Euro to start with, it's quite stable (and even appreciates against the dollar). Depending on risk profile, desire for diversification and acceptance of variability, swiss francs, british pounds, chinese yuan, indian rupee, japanese ye
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by sofixa 2y ago
It's also because it's low impact. How much textile or eggs are really getting exported from the US to the EU? The EU isn't dumb, they don't want to sabotage their economy just to retaliate.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> That a country whose currency is world's reserve currency somehow concluded that they're cheated on Thankfully there are alternative currencies that can be used for that nowadays.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> If my doctor tells me I need to take a certain pill to get better when I am sick, I don't grapple with the lack of free will. I really don't want to take my chances by choosing medications myself. What would be the point of t
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Grozev felt safe holidaying in Bulgaria While there are lots of pro-Russian people in Bulgaria at large, and specificaylly in politics (including the president), and significant Russian operations in the country, it's not like it&
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by sofixa 2y ago
> forces people to adopt anti-patterns to limit costs The previous pricing model, per workspace, did the same. Pricing models are often based on "value received", and therefore often can be worked around with anti-patterns (e.
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by sofixa 2y ago
No. It's practically impossible to scale them to the required level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADpsUhdIO4w a video by a pilot on SAF and why it just won't cut it.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> I grow so tired of people simping for hydrogen when batteries just win in every metric aside from the initial build cost, which when amortized over the life of the battery, will beat out hydrogen Batteries suck in energy density and w
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by sofixa 2y ago
> are there Nikola trucks on the road right now Importantly, under their own power, and not going downhill.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> the European version (IVECO) of the Nikola truck on a daily basis across Europe That's a wildly misleading way of wording that. Iveco make trucks and vans and buses. Nikola bought some of them and rebadged them and tried to pass
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by sofixa 2y ago
> When that third-party app embeds the Facebook SDK which tracks me, I don’t know about it and do not have the ability to consent to Facebook tracking me. With sensible data protection regulations, like GDPR, you must be informed and con
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by sofixa 2y ago
Every accusation is a confession with these people.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> For windows or mac, 1 or 2 files each cover all systems from the last 10 years or more. Utter nonsense. What about code signing? A 10 year old installer won't be signed, and Windows/mac will scream at you about malware and yo
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Why is software any different? Because software is living, often online, has various types of your and others' personal data, and usually runs on devices that you use for other things as well. The attack surface is massive , and
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by sofixa 2y ago
Have you tried Mistral's models? They're explicitly trained on a bunch of languages, not only English.
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by sofixa 2y ago
The issue with Macs is that below Max/Ultra processors, the memory bandwidth is pretty slow. So you need to spend a lot on a high level processor and lots of memory, and the current gen processor, M4, doesn't even have an Ultra, w
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by sofixa 2y ago
> I am not clueless and don't like beinf treated as if I am. You made a clueless comment which I tired to (constructively) dismiss. If you don't want to be treated as clueless, don't recommend the equivalent of using a ham
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Did you know that you can use YAML and provision actual cloud provider resources with boring tech? Welcome to Ansible Anyone using Ansible for cloud infrastructure management is not to be taken seriously. It's among the worst tool
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by sofixa 2y ago
They have published a lot of information on their blog[1]. It's piecemeal, and around other articles about optimisations or security fixes or failures/postmortems, but it's there. Stuff like: https://blog.cloudflar
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by sofixa 2y ago
They had $50 billion cash on hand as of December 2023 (last time they've reported that). Net income is always positive and in the low single digit billions. They're nowhere near bankruptcy. Sales are falling for a variety of reaso
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by sofixa 2y ago
SUVs, besides being more deadly to everyone, have higher profit margins, which explains why manufacturers (in the US) focus so heavily on them. $90k is absurdly high, but everyone will take out a car loan anyways. Stellantis are really stru
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by sofixa 2y ago
Amazon weren't making money because they were expanding rapidly and had a lot of capex. OpenAI don't make money because they're losing money on inference. If you remove their capex - training costs, which you can't becau
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by sofixa 2y ago
It would have been easier to Google him, or ask Claude/Mistral to write you a summary of his article. I hadn't heard of the author before that article, but all the math and logic in it is sound. There is some guesswork on exact nu
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by sofixa 2y ago
Musk deadnames his own child, I think it's fine to not be considerate to him.
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by sofixa 2y ago
According to this analysis from a few months back: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/ OpenAI are kind of fundamentally unsustainable as a business.
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by sofixa 2y ago
Even on the contrary, this is very important information to have, in order to understand your customer base and how sticky you are with them, what features you need to focus on, etc etc
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by sofixa 2y ago
It's pretty clear, and has been for years, that Trump is mentally impaired. He rambles, is incoherent, loses his thought all the time, and generally his sentences don't make much sense. It's more or less normal for someone of
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by sofixa 2y ago
Screw especially unpopular, it has multiple downright illegal and unquestionably immoral ones. But the gender ratio preference is fascinating. There are multiple ones I would have never guessed (e.g. cannibalism is much more interesting to

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