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by blue11 3y ago
The article hints at a special relationship with NVIDIA, but it goes back a long time. They didn't move recently to be close to NVIDIA's HQ. They have been there for 30 years. For example, back in the 90s Supermicro was selling
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by blue11 5y ago
I'm very glad to hear that your son had a happy outcome! "Ear infection" is often not even a heuristic. Pediatricians sometimes say that when it's not obvious what's wrong with a small child that has a little a bit
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by blue11 6y ago
It's not about traveling. It's about staying as long as he wants to and whenever he wants to. American citizens are limited to staying 90 days (in any 180 day period) in the EU as tourists. An EU passport would allow him for exam
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by blue11 6y ago
I recently bought an Epson Perfection V600 based on online reviews and I've been pretty happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002OEBMRU/ (I used to have a CanoScan 8800F.)
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by blue11 6y ago
At Harvard and MIT "need-blind" means that all admitted students receive a financial aid package, adjusted for the student's financial means, to make it work somehow. It's a combination of grants, loans, and presumed in
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by blue11 6y ago
Yes, most "top" schools do not have Harvard's endowment, so they have to work with a limited budget. Still, their motivation is quite different from GP's suggestion that they are admitting international students to boos
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by blue11 6y ago
> International students usually pay a much higher effective tuition rate. That might be true for other universities but not for Harvard and MIT, whose admissions are aid-blind and most international students there receive huge financia
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by blue11 6y ago
The whole thing is optimized for maximum cruelty, but the suggestion that students should transfer to another school that has in-person classes is just mockery. In normal times transferring to another college is a process that takes 9-10 mo
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by blue11 6y ago
FD orders come from their warehouses. With Amazon WF, a shopper goes around the store picking your items. The last time I was in a WF almost half of the people in the store were Amazon shoppers. That's why their inventory is not up
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by blue11 7y ago
Lots of negativity in this thread and comments from people that either have not had children or have had them so long ago that they don't remember what is age-appropriate for a 3-year-old. I'll just second some of the common recom
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by blue11 7y ago
It's called adverse selection. You don't want to be on the other side of an order from an informed trader, because the market is moving against you in the short run. In the longer run, if the big fund is more often correct than
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by blue11 7y ago
Making a reservation or ordering food from Bloomberg Chat actually sounds like a feature that would be used by a lot of traders. I doubt that there are many restaurants that have a Bloomberg account though (there is no need for a physical
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by blue11 7y ago
As a tourist, crossing from the German-speaking to the French-speaking part, the differences were quite noticeable. I was told that something like 30% of the population never cross the language line. "Never" is probably a hyperbo
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by blue11 7y ago
Supa has western European etymology, and chorba was the word brought by the Ottomans. Not sure about Romania, but throughout the Balkans the difference in meaning is mostly in the connotation of a degree of sophistication (supa:chorba is a
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by blue11 7y ago
I was disappointed to find out that the ex-WOW developer in the title was Mark Kern. Sometimes the messenger can undermine the message. Reading his Twitter thread seemed like he is rewriting history. He took The9's money after spend
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by blue11 7y ago
I'm wandering what services and price structures you are referring to. Examples? While there are vast differences between what's available to low income vs., say, upper middle-class people, the differences on the other side of t
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by blue11 7y ago
Streeteasy started employing the same dark pattern a few months ago. It seems like companies who have an effective monopoly just cannot resist the temptation. They replaced the listing agent's number with a number that takes you to on
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by blue11 8y ago
The ports of LA and LB handle something like 40% of the US-China trade. There are "clean trucks" requirements, but that can be enforced only in the immediate vicinity of the port. I don't have a source but there have been r
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by blue11 8y ago
The benefit is decoupling the timing of setting funds aside for charity and the timing of donating to organizations. For example, let's say that your income this year was unusually high (you sold your company, you received a bonus, or
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by blue11 9y ago
Frankly, I don't remember with certainty. But Wikipedia seems to agree with what my memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit " The term GPU was popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who mark
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by blue11 9y ago
From what I remember, the term GPU was invented by NVIDIA's marketing team for the GeForce campaign. It sounded a bit weird in the beginning. In hindsight, it was a strike of genius.
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by blue11 9y ago
I have heard from ex-Bing engineers that Microsoft had deprioritized search R&D a couple of years ago. Since then there has been an exodus of engineers from that group.
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by blue11 10y ago
Babynests seem to be a Nordic thing, I guess? Personally, I had never heard of them until I read your comment. For what it's worth, the US market seems to be quite unexplored, something you might want to consider. They look really c
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by blue11 10y ago
"Could have gone for citizenship, but didn't. I was never seen as an American." Perhaps you were not seen as an American because you yourself didn't feel that way? I would think that someone who feels American would app
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by blue11 10y ago
I have really enjoyed watching this show but the last few episodes it seems like the writing has went downhill. There were a number of cringe worthy scenes like "tabs vs spaces".
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by blue11 10y ago
It depends. The admissions committee at Caltech might care if a PhD candidate from another country won the contest. However, Caltech itself doesn't care that much about its team's performance.
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by blue11 10y ago
People do it for fun and bragging rights. It looks good on the resume, especially if the person reading the resume has been to that kind of competitions too.
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by blue11 10y ago
As a former participant in these types of competitions, I can confirm. The teams that win are the teams that practice extensively. Universities like St.Petersburg care a lot and have official programs for preparing for the ACM competition.
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by blue11 10y ago
OK, so what is it? The announcement neither says what a TPU actually is nor what it can do. It's a magic black box. No specs. No price.
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by blue11 10y ago
I've worked at places where we maintained a dual build, VisualC++ and Linux gcc, because we wanted to be able to develop and run in multiple environments. That forces you to write clean standard-compliant code, although in some cases

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