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by crote 3d ago
Because it isn't a simple loan, and the value of the equipment itself as collateral is highly doubtful anyways. Nvidia is investing in their customers by buying their stock. Nvidia is directly buying compute from their customers. Nvidi
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by crote 6d ago
> When autonomy is solved, they could put a bed or office or dining table in the car. Have you ever tried reading a book while being driven around? You get car sick really fast, because your vestibular system does not like constant
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by crote 8d ago
The internet has been around for quite a while now, and is absolutely critical for a lot of applications. Most people would never give up the internet. Yet there are still many applications without explicit mandatory internet tie-ins li
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by crote 9d ago
I did not, that's the "you can squeeze them for a couple of years" part.
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by crote 9d ago
Broadcom has absolutely zero interest in the long-term future of VMware. Their only goal is to squeeze as much money out of it as possible before it goes bust. Let's say that VMware had a $10B revenue with a $9B operating cost. If 0.1%
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by crote 9d ago
A huge part of that was fearmongering by people selling compliance consultancy services and people trying to find loopholes allowing them to keep abusing their users' data. For a lot of companies it really wasn't that big of a d
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by crote 9d ago
Contrary to popular belief, the EU is not very fast when it comes to enforcement on requirements like these. We already saw this with the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR: those scary hundreds-of-millions-of-euros fines are only handed out after
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by crote 11d ago
There have been rumours like this about the US gold storage for decades . Its audits only look at a tiny percentage of the holdings at a time, any kind of weighing or purity inspection is the exception rather than the rule, and third-party
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by crote 11d ago
> You can't quickly trade with the gold that's in their own safe storage facility in Zeist, because you would need to physically transport it. More specifically: very few people besides the NL government have any gold stored
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by crote 11d ago
Russia is going to have a very hard time directly attacking the Eurozone without also hitting NATO home soil - which through Article 5 would also pull in plenty of non-Euro countries, including the United States. Besides, shoveling never-
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by crote 11d ago
The US has been suffering from late-stage capitalism for quite a while now. The obvious example is Citizens United allowing corporations to make unlimited political bribes. We just pretend it is okay by calling it "lobbying", but
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by crote 12d ago
Obviously. Every projection will be off. Unless you are a 15th-century sailor, there is no reason to favor the Mercator projection over any other one. Sticking with it is also a political choice.
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by crote 12d ago
The "3rd world" is huge. Anyone who thinks otherwise is clearly in need of a less-misleading map. On a traditional Mercator projection Africa looks to be smaller than the United States and Canada combined. In reality Africa is 5
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by crote 12d ago
How many of the apps you use on a daily base have some form of AI integration? In my experience, outside of FLOSS software it is approaching 100%. How many of those did you intentionally enable it? In my experience, basically 0%. Even wor
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by crote 13d ago
A huge chunk of the demand is already fake. It's why there are so many auto-enabled "helpers", blinking nag buttons, and popups begging you to pleasepleaseplease use their new AI feature. The vast majority of people are s
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by crote 13d ago
You're forgetting about dividend, and off-market trade. If a company is worthless if it isn't public, then IKEA would be absolute garbage. Quite strange for a company making hundreds of millions in profit for its owners.
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by crote 13d ago
Seriously? The "you can't knowingly lie in your financial statements, and you have to make an actual effort when compiling them" section? If that's a "100% dealbreaker" to you, nobody should ever invest in yo
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by crote 13d ago
> Use-after-free is still possible in Rust with unsafe Of course! But in practice all potential bugs are neatly wrapped in small and easy-to-audit "unsafe" blocks, rather than silently lurking all over your codebase. You coul
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by crote 13d ago
It isn't very extreme, in my opinion. I am only making one claim, and it's a rather modest one: Memory safety bugs aren't any different from other bugs. The "you're holding it wrong" crowd has been claiming
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by crote 13d ago
Qantas has never had a hull loss in the jet age. Its last fatal accident was with a 10-passenger propeller plane, back in 1951. It is widely regarded as the world's safest airline. Being able to keep this "never lost a jetliner&
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by crote 14d ago
That's also what mostly happened in this case. 59 tonnes was sold in the US and bought back in London, 27 tonnes was physically transferred from the US to The Netherlands, and 27 tonnes was physically transferred from The Netherlands t
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by crote 14d ago
Its vulnerability overview page[0] also helpfully lists which were caused by the use of C. The fact that even an extremely-high-quality codebase like Curl is still encountering things like use-after-free issues is pretty damning for the p
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by crote 15d ago
In my local area Google Maps is still missing some rather crucial elements of a high-throughput road, which were added to OpenStreetMaps almost two years ago.
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by crote 15d ago
But "whatever your local country calls it" isn't always clear! There are plenty of places where the official name differs from the commonly-used name. For example, in The Netherlands the official name for The Hague is &#x27
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by crote 16d ago
Yeah, no. Working around NAT was trivial for the people who actually cared about it. I was adding port forwarding rules to my parents' router at age 12. Turns out exposing a poorly-configured Windows XP box to the wider interwebs is
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by crote 16d ago
The Stuxnet PLCs weren't touching either, though. The worm was designed to jump across network air gaps via USB flash drives, and spread across isolated networks to other hosts. Finally, it targeted what was likely going to be a servic
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by crote 16d ago
Yeah, but deliberately rooting a machine you have no business touching means you are instantly getting fired. Having an actual password prevents people "borrowing" a key to the equipment broom closet from "optimizing" so
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by crote 16d ago
You're assuming that it'll be noticed at all , and that the person noticing cares enough about it to make a big deal out of it - likely involving several layers of management. In reality it'll likely first be noticed ten yea
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by crote 16d ago
I will be very surprised if it doesn't start switching over to USB-C over the next decade or two. Having a single port capable of doing the entire local KVM dance using readily-available hardware is just a no-brainer. Some switches h
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by crote 16d ago
Yes. Genuinely smart people don't feel the need to get tested.

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