torginus

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by torginus 1mo ago
Yeah, why are they always going to the right?
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by torginus 1mo ago
I don't really have an special insight on India, but some of the biggest tech CEOs are Indian born and raised (Google, MS...) Surely they have the resources, connections and experience in how to build tech companies. In fact I'd b
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by torginus 1mo ago
Isn't this standard in Europe? There exists a layer of well-connected and impenetrable managerial class, shielded by a glass ceiling. The entire company is BS, and they use some folks with clout and credentials to access grants and han
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by torginus 1mo ago
It's not like people in other places couldn't solve this problem. Yes, the US pays more, but a lot of people would still prefer staying home, and it's not like they wouldn't be paid very well compared to the local salary
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by torginus 1mo ago
The question was 'how can we get rid of Ursula von der Leyen as the president of the commission' Interpreting this as an assassination plot is quite the leap of logic. Edit: Oh,it's the AfD
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by torginus 1mo ago
I just wanted to say I haven't been doing C# dev until as of late, and I forgot how flipping amazing the tooling is. One of the things the C# compiler (which is used for IDE tooling) can do out of the box is it can compile multiple ver
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by torginus 1mo ago
What you said doesn't contradict me, and doesn't refute my point. For images and audio, you still need to predetermine an encoding, then pretrain to learn an embedding. This embedding will try to replicate the input distribution -
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by torginus 1mo ago
> This is about as far from "tweaking their numbers" as you can get. It's a standard way infrastructure-heavy industries structure their investments and people would be asking questions if they didn't do this! Well, i
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by torginus 1mo ago
I find it ironic, that one of the most memorable articles Dan Luu has written imo is about how futurists faked 'exponential scaling' about semiconductors, and we ran out of the 'good kind' of scaling, Dennard scaling a w
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by torginus 1mo ago
Are they? These companies have been caught tweaking their numbers. One example, not sure if cited by Zitron, or others, is that they build data centers through holding companies, who have to absorb the costs and massive capex based financia
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by torginus 1mo ago
Hasn't AI been horrible for FAANG fundamentally? - They've all been compelled to build the same horribly expensive AI infra, to serve similar models that have no ability to lock-in customers - Google Search has to compete with LLM
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by torginus 1mo ago
My understanding is that current LLMs aren't really well suited to do this - tokens are predetermined, and while embeddings are learned, they are learned from an existing corpus of text, which presumably comes from a human language. Af
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by torginus 1mo ago
There's also a bunch of Western stuff you can buy off the shelves. MIMO tech is standard in every Wifi 5+ router, Cars have pretty sophisticated electronically steered radars nowadays, boats even more so. 5G towers also have phased arr
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by torginus 1mo ago
I hate struggling. I hate the realization that comes after the struggle about how easy was the problem I tried to solve. I hate realizing that I only reduced the number of problems from infinity + 1 to infinity, and have to do it again, for
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by torginus 1mo ago
Antenna tech has moved way beyond what was possible in the days GPS was invented. Planar arrays and MIMO are ubiquitous and cheap. These antennas have a very good idea of where the signal is coming from, due to delay measurements and can de
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by torginus 1mo ago
I think Starshield (Starlink for the military) is going to use lasers as the means of communication (and location). Those are highly directionaly, and likely not possible to jam. Though I'm not sure how resistant are they to atmospheri
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by torginus 1mo ago
If I was a concerned boss, I would likely use GSM cell info to track my drivers. While not good enough to do turn-to-turn navigation it certainly is good enough to tell where people are. Btw, don't smartphones have this built in? I rem
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by torginus 1mo ago
What about terrain following? I would guess decent topographical maps of the world aren't that hard to come by today, to get a good idea of where you are. Although that approach depends on you being able to see the ground neither o
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by torginus 1mo ago
Haha. I used read a lot of books when I was younger, then slowly stopped, and found getting back to reading quite hard as well. Armed with the knowledge that I used to be able to do this, I just forced myself to. And after a while, I found
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by torginus 1mo ago
What I don't get is that VS Code has solved this perfectly via the command palette - you just bring up the prompt and start typing and it will find you the command you actually need without having to memorize anything.
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by torginus 1mo ago
I've noticed after I've switched to audiobooks that my retention is horrible compared to reading. For actual complex topics, it's even worse.
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by torginus 1mo ago
I thank my concerned parents for locking down my computer as a young teen, for giving me motivation to study computer security in detail :)
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by torginus 1mo ago
Androi might be legally exempt, but the Android phone you buy at the store with a locked bootloader technically won't be.
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by torginus 1mo ago
Personally I'm quite sure this is super interesting, but I don't really have 3 hours to listen to this, even 1.5h at 2x speed is too much. I would very much prefer something written down, so I could absorb this at my own pace. I k
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by torginus 1mo ago
I was thinking along the lines of Ikea-style furniture from scratch. Most local hardware stores carry these giant CNC routers, and the technicians there can cut particle board sheets to requirements. How cool would it be if they offered a s
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by torginus 1mo ago
Any workable management approach relies on not managing down further than your direct reports, and believing what they say. Otherwise you've eliminated that layer of middle management, and have to do their work. It might happen that th
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by torginus 1mo ago
I have a friend who works a high-level management position, who told me that as long as results are delivered, management is doing their jobs 'by definition'. So if a manager is either horribly abusive or totally incompetent and h
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by torginus 1mo ago
afaik Plan9 already solved this issue - you had 'layers' of filesystems, not unlike Docker images/OverlayFS, with each process getting its own view of the filesystem. The last layer was non-persistent scratch. Of course you&#
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by torginus 1mo ago
I guess it's to Tesla's advantage that unlike most manufacturers, they don't make a million different models which end up dividing sales.
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by torginus 1mo ago
> That means a side-channel, or some gap in this proof, would allow learning about what lives in processes! This is true, but outside of the scope of the kernel (which is a theme with microkernel). Side channels are unfortunately a side

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