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by zamnos 3y ago
It trades punches just fine. What do you think people use computers for? Punches like "has access to the Internet" or "runs Google Docs". Other ones too, like "runs Candy Crush" or "lets me watch Netflix&#
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The mistake you're making is in assuming that the price of something has anything to do with the inputs. It's a fairly common mistake. But looking at loss-leaders, door-busters, sales, and verblen goods, hopefully you're able
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MQTT hub for my house to glue various IoT devices together and tailscale endpoint.
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by zamnos 3y ago
Hats is an internal motivational thinking device. Publicly, he'll always be the founder of Oculus, and his comments filtered through that lense. For better or worse he doesn't get the luxury of taking that "hat" off so w
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> Vegans and meat eaters both have their fair share of healthy and unhealthy people. I don't take that as a given. Of course there are vegans who are unhealthy, but eating vegan is not straightforwards. You do actually have to do so
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by zamnos 3y ago
Sorta. It's that Netflix didn't want to pay more for something someone else was getting for cheaper. If I sell hot dogs for $3, but charge you $6 because you're you, wouldn't you raise objections? The problem with your
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by zamnos 3y ago
Netflix couldn't know what the outcome was going to be, so they hedged by creating a technical solution to the problem. They still pay the ISPs, but for colo services instead of the net neutrality ransom. The problem with paying ransom
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by zamnos 3y ago
But the question isn't "can I do better than teams of quants who do this 100 hrs/wk and are supported by institutions with effectively infinity dollars", but "can I make money on this"? If I buy NVDA at 283, wi
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by zamnos 3y ago
What model weights is the Google's A3 supercomputer supposed to come with? It's an announcement of new hardware available in GCP.
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26 exaFlops sounds pretty super to me! My laptop only has 2.6 TFLOPs.
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The problem with calling it hype is the broad stroke that's painted about all discussions of its abilities, simply by using that word when it's not all hype. A key part of the definition of hype is the exaggeration of importance
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by zamnos 3y ago
You forgot step 1a and 1b (which the article touches on). 1a) say it's incapable of thinking/reasoning/learning/understanding/etc 1b) argue about it's ability to think/reason/learn/understand&#x2
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by zamnos 3y ago
That's an overly pedantic use of the word "exact". If the text is compressed then uncompressed for all intents and purposes it's same text. Is this text you're reading what I wrote? No - it was copied many times bet
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(X - Z) is not necessarily < (Y - Z) for a given individual's choice of X vs Y though. If a vegan is judicious about picking nutritious food, (X - Z) > a lazy junk food-eating person who doesn't understand nutrition, only wh
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Pedantically, Instagram stories and Facebook stories are two separate things.
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implementing error handling and features
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by zamnos 3y ago
What attributes of "computer" are you looking for? The Remarkable 2 is definitely a "computer", but lacks many computer attributes, so it may not be what you're looking for, so it really depends on what you're
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That's what you, as an engineer would do if you were to do layoffs starting from first principles, but that's not who's doing the layoffs.
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What do you mean by "better"? There's room for lots of people to have jobs off the field. Think about all of the support staff we never see on TV during the game. Or off the field even during the game. The announcer/spor
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by zamnos 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm right there with you! My career as an on-call SRE dealing with incident response wasn't chosen by accident. If the website's on fire, suddenly I can move mountains, but if I have the luxury of wai
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by zamnos 3y ago
That would be sad if why. Apple was really late to the mp3 player game with the iPod, but if you're Apple, it's not about when you do it but that you do it really well. See also: iPhone.
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by zamnos 3y ago
You mean like this? https://www.fidelity.com/crypto/trading
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by zamnos 3y ago
You were born with a damaged brain. I'm very sorry, I was too. It sucks. If World War III starts tomorrow, you're right, I'm going to have problems. But a lot of people are going to have very many problems in that case. But W
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by zamnos 3y ago
As long as we're making up numbers though, I'd rather pay $3 for surgery and $3 for road taxes and then have the state pay me $50k in unemployment while I'm recovering from surgery. The reason we have to make people miserable
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airborne aids isn't the doomsday scenario, airborne ebola is.
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Mind explaining how it's petty when life-changing amounts of money are on the line?
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Mimi https://apps.apple.com/app/mimi-hearing-test/id932496645
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It's the question because the fact that Spotify has to buy from the three big labels has a friend - the big three labels have to sell to Spotify. Tidal's lack of success tells us that.
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Yikes. In case you were wondering why you were let go, it's clear from your response here that it was not about Firefox and VS code and that was just an excuse. Your point of view isn't enough. If it were, you wouldn't be ask
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by zamnos 3y ago
It might! I don't know what's in Apple's closed source blob that implements the "am I being stalked" behavior and what parameters actually trigger it. Maybe you need to rotate between 60 tags, or 600.

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