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by varelse 5y ago
Okay if you trust that buying an unspecified stake doesn't lead to an acquisition once the smoke has cleared you have a very different worldview than I do. We will have to agree to disagree. It does seem like the next 100 years is just
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by varelse 5y ago
We seem to be OK with only two players in mobile and on the desktop for now. Interesting the battles we choose to fight.
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by varelse 5y ago
An inappropriate release of market influencing news that was exploited improperly by 10 employees of a 500 employee organization is your definition of significant insider trading on par with Enron? $1.7M in profits total. Those employees we
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by varelse 5y ago
That seems awfully esoteric to me. Compare and contrast with Intel taking Altera off the map and AMD taking Xilinx off the map. At the time, FPGAs were erroneously seen as a credible competitor to GPUs in artificial intelligence. They absol
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by varelse 5y ago
Between Intel and AMD there are two competitors here. Strange that the government didn't raise a similar concern when AMD acquired ATI or anytime Intel acquired just about anything but you know how these things work and I guess Apple i
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by varelse 5y ago
Our government continues to show how corrupt and bad it really is. It'll be super funny when Qualcomm buys ARM instead because that's a-okay and all that. Edit: you know Qualcomm has already said that's exactly what they&#x27
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by varelse 5y ago
I find one exception to what you're saying. If you had a large role in building that legacy code base you are carrying around all the tech debt and repairs in your head. And if you're mindful of that, you can rebuild guided by wha
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by varelse 5y ago
As someone just barely past past the affluence event horizon, VCs are now actively courting me to lead startups to develop their ideas or to invest in their funds. Previously, they just dismissed me as hella smart but clearly not leadership
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by varelse 5y ago
Amazon's search engine was systematically destroyed from within starting 5 years ago. It's entirely driven by revenue now and not at all by their faux customer obsession tenet. Just try searching for a high-end appliance and watch
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by varelse 5y ago
That would probably get renamed the pooh variant.
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by varelse 5y ago
Maybe less dumb and more easily repairable? Microcontrollers are great, just make a standardized component for all the things that can be unplugged and replaced and have at it. Why must we late-stage capitalism everything?
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by varelse 5y ago
Seems like a PID could do all this and more personally. I suspect someone kickstarts exactly that in short order and then I buy one down the road after it ends up in e-tail because I never got that PID espresso maker so no more kickstarters
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by varelse 5y ago
I'll say something constructive. While the text to image functionality is terrible, the segmentation based on arbitrarily drawn images is kind of fun. They should have just gone with the latter.
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by varelse 5y ago
The other lost game that I played around 1977 on a PDP 11 at General Electric Research Lab is called bloodbath. It was written entirely in Pascal and I have snippets of the source code across multiple files but not the whole thing. We manag
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by varelse 5y ago
I believe on a PDP-11 at Clarkson college in New York state.
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by varelse 5y ago
The very first computer game I played in 1971 was called Colony. Colony was someone's attempt to turn the secretary problem into a computer game. Except instead of trying to hire one secretary, you were piloting a starship full of colo
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by varelse 5y ago
One of the smartest guys I ever met, a professional magician by trade, learned calculus in the sixth grade. In an age where advanced applied math skills are the shortest path to six and potentially seven-figure salaries, by all means dumb d
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by varelse 5y ago
Derrick Soo, the homeless candidate for mayor of Oakland, has solar panels on his tent to charge his devices. And good on him!
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by varelse 5y ago
Are you kidding me about AlphaFold 2? That was the solution to a 50-year mystery in science and there's going to be a Nobel prize in it somewhere. That would be like finding a grand unified theory in physics. No big deal there amIRight
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by varelse 5y ago
You deeply deeply deeply overestimate these models but I also give up trying to make that point. Go ahead and unleash all this fear uncertainty and doubt and see how that goes. It's tiring even to read this nonsense. There is nothing t
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by varelse 5y ago
But that's the system we built. Starting in college you're going to spend a decade and a half studying to be a world-class expert researching a topic of your own choosing. And as soon as you become a professor you stop doing resea
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by varelse 5y ago
When someone today complains that solar power is still too expensive, or that cell phones and flat screen TVs in the hands of poor people proves they aren't really poor, they immediately flip my Bozo bit. To be fair people who hate nuc
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by varelse 5y ago
As skeptical as I am of the AGI and even full self-driving, successes like AlphaGo, AlphaFold 2, and Deepfakery from video to voice all demonstrate the technology can do things we never really could do before. But in all of those cases huma
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by varelse 5y ago
I had to go to the ER in Hong Kong and I got better service uninsured for $35 US than I've ever gotten in the United States fully insured. And no surprise bills afterwards whatsoever.
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by varelse 5y ago
That's going to be very task dependent but probably okay for matrix multiplication and streaming kernels which is most of AI.
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by varelse 5y ago
Almost every programming model is Turing complete therefore you can do just about anything with them. But unless OpenGL shader language has equivalent concepts of the warp and the syncthreads instruction, you end up having to do a global sy
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by varelse 5y ago
So 130,000 households in the United States, mostly in Pennsylvania, heated their houses with coal in 2019. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/03/699325560/for-the-few-who-hea... And for those 130,000 households
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by varelse 5y ago
Because people are cheap and they don't like spending money and as soon as coal and oil are expensive they'll stop using it just like when you tell them they're fired if they don't get vaccinated most of them get vaccina
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by varelse 5y ago
But at this point you don't actually need to subsidize solar with respect to coal you just have to discontinue all coal and oil subsidies and the free market does this organically. There are places where nuclear makes more sense but no
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by varelse 5y ago
Because that's the way a lot of people want it just in case they become less embarrassed millionaires some day. You can never be sure! Silicon Valley is a nexus for this kind of thinking but at least there's a decent chance of doi

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