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721.
by tgma 2y ago
If you are paying the cost of a TLS handshake, which you will have to anyway, why not just use client certificates to authenticate (mTLS) instead of hand rolled and rudimentary auth tokens on top. gRPC has built-in support for mTLS and it c
722.
by tgma 2y ago
Used to be more like 40% US. I suspect it is closer to but still less than half now with stronger USD and US GDP growth relative to RoW.
723.
by tgma 2y ago
Most of Google revenue is not made from US consumer. Telecom revenue on the other hand is mostly attributable to the US consumer, whom FTC is responsible to protect.
724.
by tgma 2y ago
I think the reduction is not trivial. There are various ways it can be meaningfully different: 1. Conversation trail will be present for the human to investigate how we got there and leave some promises and commitments behind. 2. It could i
725.
by tgma 2y ago
> not having to pay the employees more cash I acknowledge there is an effect on employee compensation. How it actually plays out is not a simple linear one though (esp. since the comp decision is made at grant time and the impact is seen
726.
by tgma 2y ago
I suppose that might be some special amendment in your specific RSU plan electing to pay some cash on top, not inherent to the nature of an RSU, which is certainly not a stock (i.e. on the corporate financial reports that payment would not
727.
by tgma 2y ago
When RSU vests, it is no longer an RSU. Not sure why you would call it “dividend-equivalent” as they are regular dividends at that point (unless your broker lends them out in which case you might get substitute payments in lieu.)
728.
by tgma 2y ago
The question has a flawed premise. An option/RSU holder is not a shareholder before they exercise their options or vest their RSUs, thus should not be getting a dividend allocation (i.e. a non-zero allocation to an option holder is a
729.
by tgma 3y ago
Haha sure, that's assuming Google's starting baseline is 9-5, mind you, which is not even close. Many people barely work at Google and "work-life balance" is really a euphemism for not really working. Google used to be
730.
by tgma 3y ago
Meta is clearly driving most of CPython efficiencies. The projects listed are mostly stable so it's smart of Google to let the community drive it forward and they just use it ("we had managers that were extremely good about work l
731.
by tgma 3y ago
Tha analogy was far off and exaggerated to the point that it was meaningless. At this point you're continuously making up things using phrases like "overwhelming majority". Unless you are able to substiate your claims with so
732.
by tgma 3y ago
> They are objectively, literally fatally confused as to the abilities of their vehicles. Citation needed. > Deliberately and intentionally operating such a system without your full attention because you think it will safely drive you
733.
by tgma 3y ago
They are doing it for content not to train Tesla. Isn't that obvious? People have doing performative moves with their bikes motor vehicles since the dawn of its age. You can find tons of those for drifting BMWs. No ADAS there.
734.
by tgma 3y ago
The aspirational claims are not about Autopilot, but FSD (and I agree that having people pay for FSD in 2015 is borderline fraudulent. It is a consumer protection matter, not a safety matter.) Again, the statements to California DMV or SEC
735.
by tgma 3y ago
I can see you can potentially argue (unsuccessfully IMHO) that it is marketing fraud in inducing purchases of the vehicle, but I don't buy it that a single person who actually owns the vehicle and have driven on Autopilot for more than
736.
by tgma 3y ago
Does it have proprietary microcode? If not, RMS can finally upgrade his machine from 2010 era to 2020.
737.
by tgma 3y ago
I'm fairly sure if Google Google you can't hide — we charge you with genocide is part of your chant you would be promptly terminated regardless of the causes you listed above. Rightfully so.
738.
by tgma 3y ago
The issue is virality, i.e. derivative work of the AGPL software should also be AGPL, so it's unlikely that serious companies would be willing to take the risk of potentially exposing their entire non-auth stack to AGPL and having to a
739.
by tgma 3y ago
Realistically no one will be able to touch the AGPL code without paying the vendor, so "no vendor lock-in" claim is quite BS.
740.
by tgma 3y ago
Fun fact: 3DES is slower than modern standards, namely AES.
741.
by tgma 3y ago
Either https://lmstudio.ai (desktop app with nice GUI) or https://ollama.com (command-like more like a docker container that you can also hook up to a web UI via https://openwebui.com ) should be super str
742.
by tgma 3y ago
I concur; in my experience Mixtral is one of the best ~30G models (likely the best pro laptop-size model currently) and Gemma is quite good compared to other below 8GB models.
743.
by tgma 3y ago
If you have an >=M1-class machine with sufficient RAM, the medium-sized models that are on the order of 30GB in size perform decently on many tasks to be quite useful without leaking your data.
744.
by tgma 3y ago
Strictly speaking that is manifestly false (the "only" part). At the very least, in practice they usually enable a bunch of unnatural markets/behaviors (usually falling under "corruption") that enrich many ancillar
745.
by tgma 3y ago
Intel could have (and has) funded building fabs themselves, but if we are advocating for a free market solution, why would they build it in the US vs somewhere cheaper? Forcing their hand to do it inside the US does not seem like a fair fre
746.
by tgma 3y ago
I suppose at least the theory is $100/person invested in chips will collectively benefit us more as we will not lose the strategic advantage in chipmaking. Surgical planned economy to cover the gaps in market economy and tragedy of the
747.
by tgma 3y ago
One anecdote I remember was when the release of iPhone OS 1.1 broke jailbreak and I was on the IRC channel: one of the tricks found was to downgrade to 1.0.2, jailbreak the phone, symlink the `/root/Media` directory (reachable thr
748.
by tgma 3y ago
Windows did not invent the concept. "Window Systems" predated Windows by quite a bit and applications ran in "windows". Quite obviously the name was not originally coined by Microsoft.
749.
by tgma 3y ago
This shows Steve Jobs was not exaggerating to claim personal computers wouldn't have had proportionally-spaced fonts had it not been for the Mac. Windows 1.0 and 2.0 font was a horrendous-looking fixed-width thing.
750.
by tgma 3y ago
Building White-Box Abstractions by Program Refinement[1] [1]: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/suz/publications/onward16.pdf

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