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tormeh

8,368 karmajoined 12 tahun yang lalu

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Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue

revswap.ai
182 points·by tormeh·2 bulan yang lalu·164 comments

OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output

tomshardware.com
5 points·by tormeh·7 bulan yang lalu·2 comments

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tormeh
·5 jam yang lalu·discuss
There are areas where the bureaucratic hurdles to changing anything and the incentives for changing anything work out to nothing ever changing. I assume in 20 years most of Berlin is still going to have 50mbit/s max. I hear residents of New York have completely given up and are using 5G modems because putting up new cables just isn't practical. On the other hand, these cities do have a significant minority of flats with gigabit internet, so if you care you can pick a modern building with modern cabling. Maybe the segment who both live in old apartments and also are willing to pay for fast internet is too small to bother with.
tormeh
·21 jam yang lalu·discuss
Is this the first court system you ever hear about? Judges are never democratically elected.
tormeh
·kemarin·discuss
I bet it's being organized by project rather than product. Conway's law ensures such an org will create code around projects, not products, and that always ends horribly.
tormeh
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Woah! AGPL? That's interesting. I think Postgres has shown an open source SQL server didn't need a copy-left license to develop sustainably, so I'm not entirely aure about that, but I do like the license in general.
tormeh
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
This ought to do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynex . It is a real issue, though. Not because it's hard to protect any given target, but because protecting _all_ targets is more or less impossible.

Let's say you could protect yourself with the same model of drone, which you probably can't, but let's say you can. Where do you put those defense drones? The attacker gets to choose where the attack happens and you can't be ready _everywhere_. The real answer probably involves going on the offensive yourself.
tormeh
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Microsoft is focused on AI and enterprise sales. I don't think they're institutionally capable of making a good end-user experience. You might just as well ask why SAP makes bad UIs - it's because the executives just don't really care.
tormeh
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
Maneuverability and cost. Why this specific stunt? Marketing, presumably.
tormeh
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
Maybe, but the budget for an interceptor drone is much much smaller. Unless it fails at its job an interceptor drone is only going to be used once.
tormeh
·7 hari yang lalu·discuss
(Health)care work is mostly shift work, and as society ages more and more people are going to be working in that sector.

Also if you live in a tourist destination like a major city there's going to be lots of people with time off walking around everywhere.
tormeh
·8 hari yang lalu·discuss
Are we talking windows here? On Linux and Mac I believe you can install Podman via a package manager like anything else.
tormeh
·13 hari yang lalu·discuss
The purpose of good writing style has always been to signal education and class. Well, your style no longer does. The future is now.
tormeh
·13 hari yang lalu·discuss
And it's my impression the code is often in assembly, which is even less structured.
tormeh
·14 hari yang lalu·discuss
If it has the "security" architecture of Linux (it's really more of a multi-tenant architecture) then that's a complete deal breaker. Wouldn't want it if it was 1000x faster/betterer than Android.

Our desktop OSes are just incompatible with running untrusted software, and you're gonna want to do that.
tormeh
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
Everything I've ever heard about railway and train software suggests AI cannot possibly make things any worse than they already are. Conservatism causes no changes to be possible, which means many changes have to be made via workarounds and virtualization wrappers which cause a giant mess over time which create breakage which creates a conservative culture/laws.
tormeh
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
To me, installing software from the AUR sounds a lot like downloading Windows software from .info sites and torrents. It's mostly fine, but it's not exactly a surprise when things go wrong.
tormeh
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
I think it's more that Google and Meta have the surplus engineering resources to implement IPv6 for what is essentially no reason.
tormeh
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
> apart from the chicken egg problem

"But other than that, Ms. Lincoln, how was the play?"
tormeh
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
This stuff is obvious now, but I think back then this was probably quite clever.
tormeh
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
I accidentally became the user of an IPv6-only device a while back for some obscure reason I never could figure out. Let me tell you: There are no IPv6-only users. Absolutely nothing except Google, Facebook, and YouTube works. Any website not in the top 20 are IPv4-only. It was so bad I briefly thought I didn't have an internet connection at all. Anyone stuck on an IPv6-only connection would immediately cancel their contract on the grounds that they don't have de-facto internet access.
tormeh
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
Windows where you just download .exe and .msi files from random websites. Not a Linux distro, but the closest security model I can think of.