tonfa

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by tonfa 6d ago
And coal is mostly flat, while electricity demand is going up. https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/09/China-Energy-Tr... (Page 14)
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by tonfa 11d ago
> they have near infinite money and others have not Given the very high margins on inference, once volume is large enough the other can also start printing enough money.
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by tonfa 15d ago
> In other news, evangelical christians ask scientists to stop publishing about evolution. not sure it's comparable, but the issue is that for a lot of those mathematical results, they don't really have utility by themselves. T
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by tonfa 25d ago
> And why would it get more traction than Mercurial? There's no network effect headwinds, it's interoperable with git (I assume most people using jj have an upstream repo that's on git).
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by tonfa 1mo ago
Also infrastructure costs might be billed differently between industrial vs retail. (And the marginal cost on infrastructure isn't necessarily paid be the people increasing the demand)
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by tonfa 1mo ago
> Air conditioning in buildings is likely viewed as a threat to gas providers as most modern cooling devices also have a heating mode that competes directly with gas heating. Not sure it makes sense, most of those countries are already p
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by tonfa 1mo ago
In some European countries government (and private entities) isn't allowed to collect ethnicity information.
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by tonfa 1mo ago
I guess ITINs are already pretty cost to this.
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by tonfa 2mo ago
Also wasn't giving them impossible tasks with ~unlimited tokens and unlimited compaction.
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by tonfa 2mo ago
Patch was applied yesterday by Linus: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260804003708.49830-1-luto@kern...
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by tonfa 2mo ago
From https://www.ft.com/content/61d41764-f2f7-4906-a112-ff3073972... > The moves suggest that DeepMind will be absorbed into Google’s broader business. [...] > They added that while Google DeepMind would not beco
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by tonfa 2mo ago
Demis took Jeff former title. (Jeff became Chief Scientist when Brain was dissolved into deepmind) I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :) (Al
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by tonfa 2mo ago
> To be honest, this feels more like a lifestyle business (aka hobby) than a startup They're also incredibly productive and can build/deliver really good stuff, so who knows :)
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by tonfa 2mo ago
Similar to how Sundar was promoted, isn't it more likely to be a promotion from existing leadership (one of the product leads/SVP).
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by tonfa 2mo ago
Google is just an investor, it's not a subsidiary.
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by tonfa 2mo ago
It usually isn't, Chairman doesn't involve day to day supervision and decision making. When Eric Schmidt became chairman or Ruth Porat became president, this was more a transition towards less involvement than an increase of impac
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by tonfa 2mo ago
Jeff Dean became Chief Scientist when Demis took over his org. It's still the typical title as a stepping stone towards something else (often outside).
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by tonfa 2mo ago
> OpenAI and Anthropic are essentially offering Monopoly money in the hopes that one day you can exchange it for real money. I thought employees have already had opportunities to cash out (there's enough funding rounds for that). (T
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by tonfa 2mo ago
> Germany's output is almost irrelevant in this context: it amounts to a mere 1.4% of the global output. Conveniently Germany is about 1% of the world population. You realize that if most countries use the same argument nothing ever
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by tonfa 2mo ago
At a minimum you'd also need to enable runtime bound checking for span/vector accesses (I think chrome did that).
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by tonfa 2mo ago
Against corporate policy, it's against the law only if they trade on material non public information. Once the lockup expire they'll be able to trade (sometimes there's trading window but some tech company don't have any
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by tonfa 3mo ago
Does it work better when using compiler based ecosystem (e.g. https://github.com/llvm/circt )
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by tonfa 3mo ago
Depends on the countries, France has had low carbon electricity for a very long time. That said F-gases would have been an issue, EU only recently banned them. Also most of Europe truly didn't need AC for a long time, growing up temper
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by tonfa 3mo ago
People don't typically get a nice severance package if they're fired for violating company policy. (edit: not saying that was the case here, working on devrel usually makes it part of your job to publish code)
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by tonfa 3mo ago
Not sure if there's more recent stats, but 2020 data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport
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by tonfa 3mo ago
I'd see a lot more "nuclear no thanks" stickers in swiss German side than Romandie. I'd expect the strong anti movement from Germany to have some impact.
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by tonfa 3mo ago
I assume taste was meant in term of coding. "taste" is still often the lacking trait that LLMs have when it comes to code design.
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by tonfa 3mo ago
If the SVP says it, it must be true :) What's their sources? I'm sure they could find a couple of anecdotes, doesn't make it significant.
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by tonfa 3mo ago
More surprising it didn't pass the "majority of cantons" either (both are required for initiatives like this), I would have expected it to pass (there are a lot of smaller/rural/alpine cantons which tends to vote mo
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by tonfa 3mo ago
> The current system permitting freedom of movement across the continent while devolving immigration policy entirely to members creates a fundamental tension the EU needs to resolve. Because otherwise, Berlin can basically dictate EU imm

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