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by williamDafoe 2y ago
At current rate of once in 1,000 year accidents (3 in 70 years) we will make all the land on rarth radioactive in 250,000 years ...
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Because Sundar loves AI ...
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
2010 - don't be evil 2013 - uhhhhhh never mind! 2024 - be evil!
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
The battery measurement software will never work again with any third party battery replacement. You will never know your actual battery value and the phone may shut off when there is plenty of juice available. Also Apple has software to
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
I don't enjoy these types of lionizing articles, badically these types of articles is what you give $10k-$50k to a PR team and they start to write these articles yo elevate your reputation in the industry ...
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Three reasons for techmageddon right now. (1) USA had a boomer savings bubble 2010-2022 with boomers in the peak savings years of their lives, resulting in the lowest interest rates in a century, never to return, (2) Covid19 created a wor
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
I remember when our neighbor Ken Appel proved the 4-color theorem (together with help from Arnand Haken). He had help from his teenage kids (Andrew, Laurel, & Peter) who helped him to check the output of the computer program that gener
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
AMD basically did not have any money from 2010 until 2020. They were teetering near death. No money for r&d no money for new features in their gpus no money no money no money. There excavator architecture was extremely foolish trying
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Intel went into Rest & Vest mode after Haswell (4000 series) in 2013 - they hardly improved until 2020 - 6 lost generations of relabeled CPUs like 13000 - 14000 series (lots of money paid for innovative new igpu marketing names like 520
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
1995 is too early. I am guessing 1998-2004. Was the 1GB drive the state of the art? I was buying my sons 2GB drives in the early 2010s for about $100 - you just didnt need that much storage before games like flight sinulator and forza ho
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
This is false most of the fuel is gone by the time it lands and most of the payload is up high that's why the latest designs for starship have diagonal thrusters 2/3 of the way up the rocket so they can stabilize the top heavy par
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
We don't have the tech to send astronauts to work on a geostationary or geosynchronous satellites. Its a high earth orbit (22,000 miles) and all our tech is for low earth orbit (shuttle, ISS, 400-800 miles) where the ship and station
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Also you should know that while the terraform language is okay (albeit a little too dogmatic in a functional programming sense for my tastes), the terraform cloud product (runners for terraform executions) is pretty terrible, slow, and over
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Oops you're right its Tim Cook ...
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
First commit in the bug system was in 2008. https://www.ec-lang.org/mantis/view.php?id=1 To be ready for prime time an enhanced C language should be able to compile and run the Linux kernel correctly. Now that rust is
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
TLDR; System/360 was the first true family of architectures that spanned 1000x performance speedup, the smallest models were modest and heavily microcoded. The Amdahl System/470 was dependent on IBM-compatible disk drives and IBM
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
In 1970 Xerox snapped up most of the top engineers from dozens of silicon valley companies, and was roundly hated EVERYWHERE. Thus began a decade of great research but even greater hype ... But after 12 years of failing to capitalize on al
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
No, Lewis argues that SEC is a protection racket! They make a bunch of rules and regulations with the input of Wall Street so that Wall Street can pump and dump legally!! Congress will not touch this radioactive protection racket because
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
The sword of damacles explanation of BSDi's ending is utter bullshit in this article. BSDi knew they were in direct competition with RedHat in the late 1990s. The President, Rob Kolstad, ran a very lean operation with only about 20 e
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Should be retitled. "pyrrhic victory might cover some of the legal costs"...
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
They will lose in court. I am reminded of IBM trying to ban 3rd party disk drive makers for from making disks that fit the IBM disk interface in the 1960s. They lost, too. However, ZLUDA may have to do a clean room reimplementation of all
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Intel GPU performance was totally stagnant from Haswell (Iris Pto 5200) until Iris XE, from 2013-2019. AMD on the other hand was steadily building up their iGPUs, allowing the APUs to work together with external GPUs, and with the 5700g (w
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Epitaths is a Google thing. I had a friend at Qualcomm who wrote a script to sample the employee phonebook every morning before work so he'd know if he were laid off. We used "ph" from UIUC and the company strangely laid pe
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Probably the guy who masters how to make realtime interactive porn with AI will be the first $1 billion sole proprieter ... Don't laugh YouTube already has hundreds of StableDiffusion channels uploading MANY videos a day ..
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
In industry the chance you work on a project that actually makes money is probably something like 10% per job you have EVER had. People making the actual money are truly rare. Most employees are doing speculative side projects, infrastruct
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Unions only work in locations where capital is immobile and the labor to operate the capital is immobile. Tech labor is the most mobile on earth ...
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
It may sound novel and egalitarian to you but the next time there is a layoff you're going to be the most expensive employee at your company...
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
This is false the rockstar salaries in software started in the early 2010s with the rise of the worldwide software (SAAS) company many CS jobs started paying more than doctor or EE jobs even though the barriers to entry were lower. This di
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
In my experience, the USA is shitting on its entry-level engineers. I know 3 junior engineers unemployed 6 months after graduation, from top 20 to top 40 schools. They have 10 total internships among them. One had a zoom, corp job with 24
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by williamDafoe 3y ago
Never found a startup on the premise that someone else's product will be inadequate forever. The recent rewrite of github search has probably made sourcegraph irrelevant. If you may recall, original github search used almost the most

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