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by woooooo 1y ago
The conflict was settling into a "war of the cities" scenario with both Israel and the US exhausting interceptors rapidly. What happens when it turns into a contest of rocket production and absorption against a country with 10x th
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by woooooo 1y ago
Internationally recognized by zero nations.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Literally no country has ever recognized Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank or Gaza. Even Israel hasn't annexed them just yet.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Eclipse and IDEA are just different tools for managing text. Yes, they run in GUI windows instead of a tty but that doesn't change their nature, they're not "visual programming".
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by woooooo 1y ago
Noob question, is there an in-between where people sell spectrum bands on a shared fiber without going up to L2? Or is that just too complex compared to using off the shelf ethernet and sharing that.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Carbon is made for companies like Google with millions of lines of C++ using very C++ interfaces. They can't incrementally rewrite without refactoring everything to C-style headers, and that would probably involve a ton of void-pointe
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by woooooo 1y ago
Europe spent like a thousand years losing Christian territory to the Arabs/Turks, at one point they pushed from Spain into France. Istanbul is called Istanbul and not Constantinople, no Greek royalty in Egypt, etc etc. From the fall o
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by woooooo 1y ago
Why is everyone equating "best and brightest" with "rich by 30"? Were Kernighan and Ritchie rich by 30?
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by woooooo 1y ago
No, i think what the allies did worked out pretty well. It's just not at all comparable to the currently ongoing genocide. Notably, the end goal was a sustainable self-governing state rather than expulsion and annexation.
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by woooooo 1y ago
What government? Do they collect taxes and run any government services? Is there a single standing government building? Look, eventually the dust will settle on this and it will be clear how many people Israel killed and what little it ac
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by woooooo 1y ago
There were dead-ender Nazi partisans in Germany, too. The USA actually occupied/governed in good faith instead of just slaughtering civilians randomly. What's the plan here? Kill 10% and the rest will start liking Israel?
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by woooooo 1y ago
From your wiki link, the US Army forbade sharing rations and this led to incidents like destroying 20 lbs of cocoa at a time. By early 1946 foreign aid organizations were let in. They weren't bulldozing entire cities a year after the
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by woooooo 1y ago
Having some difficulty establishing food infrastructure after WW2, in a situation where the whole continent is ravaged, is totally different from deliberately destroying an existing and working aid system.
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by woooooo 1y ago
"Think of the children" is a political constant. If you only see it on one side then that says more about you.
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by woooooo 1y ago
> West dominated global policy via a more or less liberal democratic model This model only ever applied to Europe. Fruit companies and oil companies were more important than democracy elsewhere. South Korea and Taiwan were both autocra
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by woooooo 1y ago
Flooding on either of the two big rivers also caused mass casualties by wrecking the farming infrastructure.
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by woooooo 1y ago
There's also a bizarre need to simultaneously downplay them and fear them in other Americans. If they're so weak, why the fear? They have high speed rail connecting the whole country, and lots of other stuff which is real and not
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by woooooo 1y ago
Maybe its before your time, but hackers used to have a strong anti-authoritarian bent. This story is a periodic check-in on where we are.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Maybe we need to normalize bullshit consulting gigs then? There's plenty of those around anyways. "Optimized 100k HTTP requests per day".
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by woooooo 1y ago
Not to mention, build a car with all that cash they have. Xiaomi makes awesome cars, Apple branded electric could scoop all the brand equity that Elon passed away.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Well, CUDA gives you a whole programming language where you have to figure out the optimization for your particular card's cache size and bus width. I'm saying the API surface of what to offer for LLMs is pretty small. Yeah, opti
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by woooooo 1y ago
Because in the context of LLM transformers, you really just need matrix multiplication to be hyper-optimized, it's 90-99% (citation needed) of the FLOPs. Get some normalization and activation functions in and you're good to go.
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by woooooo 1y ago
True but if they need 25-50 percent to be unprofitable.. why are we so mad at the previous cartel again? I thought this was progress?
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by woooooo 1y ago
In the classical economic sense, Lyft/Uber should be competing to drive prices down to razor thin margins for the facilitator service. Is that happening? Or are they pocketing fat margins? And it wasn't much of a cartel in NYC
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by woooooo 1y ago
Cultural inertia IMO. If youre growing headcount like gangbusters, the PIP quota is arguably reasonable as a forcing function for bad hires. When youre holding steady or shrinking it's much more toxic in terms of incentivizing polit
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by woooooo 1y ago
Meh, sure it's up to him but if his management chain isn't interested, then it's basically impossible. Best to recognize the reality and plan accordingly Signed, a guy who saw this happen to talented L5s like you.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Your manager and skip probably barely understand what you do, and then can't sell it to the director. You get put on the bottom of the list and then the manager trawls their email for a weak-sauce justification. Also, depending on yo
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by woooooo 1y ago
Social event.
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by woooooo 1y ago
You're missing the distinction. I met my wife at work but any and all propositioning happened outside the office, and not at office social events either.
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by woooooo 1y ago
Ah, yeah. I guess as we venture further into SoCs that will be more common, I was just thinking "it's whatever the memory controller can do".

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