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by trhway 1y ago
At the end of 90-s some parts sent to the Russian Mir space station were found and bought at flea market - these parts had been pinched from work and their production ceased during those years of collapse in USSR/Russia.
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Bug or feature. Could it have been a transfer of funds organized to look like a hack?
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HTTPS to you own proxy on a foreign VPS.
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Our guys in St.Petersburg 20 years ago were pulling $3-6K. Granted the life there comes with some risks and inconveniences :) You're probably working in a domestic company which usually pays less than offshored jobs by a large transnat
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by trhway 1y ago
Poland? Sometimes ago i looked up salaries in Warsaw - it were like $10-$20K/month which as i understand is pretty high by EU standards.
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by trhway 1y ago
Offshoring was similar - i.e. companies discovered that expensive labor here can be performed inexpensively there while senior laborers/PMs here would perform the overseeing role - and we can look at it how long it took to digest it an
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by trhway 1y ago
Both remind some of those built in the "3-body problem". My pet peeve is that even at Antikythera times they could have, if they had knowledge, built electronic devices - copper wire needle contact with crystalized molten sand gi
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by trhway 1y ago
And all the managers working remotely were replaced with their Gemini versions, and so far nobody has noticed it :).
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>True, but the next thing, will VPNs be forced to age verify eventually ? it is like age verifying current generic access to the Internet. Sure, we'll come to this too (the anti-utopias aren't fiction, it is future :), yet we s
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by trhway 1y ago
it is just a new better Internet era - everybody to use VPN. Thanks to the conservatives for facilitating such a progress. For example, these days in Russia awareness and usage of VPN is well beyond any normal country. With Facebook and IG
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>There won’t be a startup to fill Intel’s place. That’s Intel management’s FUD building a moat against such startups with the government’s help. Several billions of dollars is not a scary level of funding these days for such startups t
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by trhway 1y ago
yes, sure. We'd not be such red meat eaters if it wouldn't be an efficient source of various stuff, at least in some moderate amounts. And our body is like a large enterprise software monolith - you touch something here, and it w
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by trhway 1y ago
quick reading on that protein suggests to me, a layman, that more aerobic exercise and less red meat should be helping here against such a brain aging. Sounds so familiar.
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>Waymo should add a thin layer of "assertiveness" well, just couple weeks ago here on the intersection of Middlefield and Shoreline, half-mile from Google headquarters - 100 million times driven by Waymo cars, thousands by us -
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AI-snake charmer.
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The article doesn't mention the elephant in the room - iPhone. The fall of ringtones and the rise of iPhone isn't a mere coincidence. The feature phones had too little features, everything on them was controlled by the provider, a
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A high Chechnya bureaucrat was several months ago stopped by Dagestan police for reckless driving that happened to be DUI. Before Chechen SWAT came to rescue the police had managed to check the car, and it happened to be stolen in Canada. T
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by trhway 1y ago
>..and in a dystopian future there will be an agency to remove any unauthorized knowledge (gained from pirated sources) from ones' brain. as a preview - the similar is going to happen to the LLMs soon. Actually with growth of LLMs i
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We’ve seen it to many times already- a bit of blatant populist propaganda appealing to the lizard brain of the populace easily removes the need for the mental gymnastics.
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Actually, more than that. They are proud to be cleaning up the society from "scum" (to the point of that "Superman" joining the ICE recently). It is a very desirable and comfortable mental state - to be a part of such a
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Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games open with hip-hop and martial arts(apnews.com)
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There was https://sortbenchmark.org , and now we need a similar for AI - best per joule, per 1 cent, per minute.
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And these days many Russian ultra-patriots are proudly accepting the representation of Russia as Mordor and its soldiers as orcs in the war in Ukraine.
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i'd not rule out some approach like instead of training directly on the data, may be they would train on a very high dimensional embedding of such a data (or some other similarly "anonymized", yet still very semantically rich
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A similar, though at much larger scale and in more grotesque way, thing in Russia these days - SWAT raids bookstores and publishers and arresting and filing felony charges against them and removing books for any hint of "propaganda of
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>We live in an interesting time where embedded development has become so accessible and powerful that we can interface with multiple wireless protocols and state of the art sensors with not a lot of capital investment. Even on Amazon the
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Well, I don’t see much difference between $1B and $100M, and none of these companies would hire me “to do stuff they haven't got time for or don't like doing.“
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yep, one-person billion dollar company is less than 10x of per-employee valuation of NVDA, OpenAI, PLTR, etc. - a bunch of companies where per-employee valuation has crossed $100M. That is tens of thousands of people, not just one individua
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And if i were a lawyer i'd use the legal system - specifically i'd start by challenging OSA on the undue burden grounds for say BitTorrent - bringing in some experts, etc.. If not successful - such ruling would effectively prohibi
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Does Online Safety Act covers only HTTP? I mean does it cover say bittorrent? Or any outgoing TCP connection?

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