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by jpgvm 8d ago
Depends on how well they translate that effort into promotions or company switches into better positions. I averaged around 18mo to either a promotion or a move in my 20s, mostly off the back of working harder (to get the promotions/co
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by jpgvm 11d ago
They are slow walking it because you simply can't build the generation fast enough anyway. It's also why you are seeing a lot of project with their own generation plants on site, either stuff like the SpaceX/X/AI (I dunn
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by jpgvm 11d ago
I actually happen to know a lot about this! I have been in and around datacenters for ~16yrs and I work on direct liquid cooled hardware at $DAY_JOB. Back when I was running my own startup I moved to Mascot, Sydney to be near Equinix SY3 th
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by jpgvm 11d ago
NIMBYs are the enemy of all that is good in the world. No datacenters isn't about AI or even resources like water or power, it's mostly about real-estate and housing prices as usual. If we listened to NIMBYs we would have no new i
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by jpgvm 13d ago
I vastly prefer Sol. It does what I tell it to almost exactly, pretty much every time. I work on very low level stuff (think RTL/FPGA, firmware, software where optimising for nanoseconds is just normal). For me Sol is the only cost eff
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by jpgvm 14d ago
The plane was a significant factor but you really shouldn't look past the calibre of expertise in the cabin on this particular flight. > 5 pilots were in the cockpit of this flight. In addition to the normal crew of pilot-in-command
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by jpgvm 16d ago
We would probably be fine, but much slower. However if everyone else stopped using AI we would be broke, so please don't do that.
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by jpgvm 16d ago
Hiring middle-management from large companies has to be the biggest startup killer. Doubly so if they are mediocre to start with and triple so if they bring with them their legion of yes-men.
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by jpgvm 20d ago
Can't manufacture anything in America if all your inputs are tariffed out the wazoo.
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by jpgvm 20d ago
The so called "visa runs" are for getting around not having the appropriate visa. I was on a proper employment visa 8 years, never needed to leave the country.
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by jpgvm 22d ago
Usually what happens is you make the choice to do a Rust port or rewrite, you maintain the C++ for a while and then eventually the Rust port matches it on perf then the will to maintain the C++ version falls off a cliff. Seeing this at $DAY
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by jpgvm 29d ago
It's actually both. DRAM manufactures operate on a boom bust cycle and by 2023 there was significant oversupply. This meant even leading up to that they had already decided not to invest in further capacity explicitly to recover profit
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by jpgvm 1mo ago
I built my first "real" GUI app recently with the help of Codex, as in actually looks and feels good. I used GPUI and the one-dark theme from Zed and it's super smooth, the code is super easy to understand and I love the way
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by jpgvm 1mo ago
It really isn't. Poor correctness guarantees, especially w.r.t concurrency. Nil pointer. Why. LLMs are like a magnifying function. Whatever you put in you get back 10x over. In the case of Go, in goes verbosity, Nil pointers, poor conc
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by jpgvm 1mo ago
Iran is on a level so much worse than even Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, there are some mountains, but they are in the middle. The Taliban fucked off into the mountains and they couldn't do jack. Iran on the other hand is a plateau fort
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by jpgvm 1mo ago
> harder to do on other architectures that themselves aren't fully deterministic though The TLDR here is that Groq LPUs are completely deterministic hardware, including for floating point. Disclaimer: Formerly of Groq, now of NVIDIA
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by jpgvm 1mo ago
They can be deterministic. We did this at Groq, if you sent a request with exactly the same input token, seed and temperature value you would get precisely the same result every time. This is harder to do on other architectures that themsel
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by jpgvm 2mo ago
If you do good work you should at least take the time to review the slop that details that work for slopiness. Otherwise it's hard to take it seriously. Especially the prefill section.
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by jpgvm 2mo ago
Damn I am not the only one then. Also entirely on STM32 now too which is rock solid and the easiest embedded programming has ever felt. probe-rs, defmt, embassy w/async HAL. Life is good man.
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by jpgvm 2mo ago
Definitely wash the panels. However if you are using a string inverter you will want to wash all the ones on the same string in one go if you can, you don't really want them generating different voltage or you will miss out on a lot of
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by jpgvm 3mo ago
If you want a massive MacBook anyway then it's great. They are decent for local LLMs, awesome for local image models and it's a MacBook so AppleCare+ has your back. IMO it's a no brainer if you wanted a MacBook anyway but it&
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by jpgvm 3mo ago
So from what little I know of the history there were some serious personal issues going on in the team that led to ~7 of the 11-12 folk on Quake eventually leaving. Sandy has gone into it on various podcasts and mediums. It's pretty cl
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by jpgvm 3mo ago
This is honestly the biggest battle with AI driven development right now. You have these extremely potent tools that can output a ton of really great code if they are wielded correctly but there is simply no way to keep up with their output
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by jpgvm 4mo ago
So I would say the most important thing is that the APIs these are using as in mlx5 DevX (essentially direct fw access) or ibverbs are exactly the same regardless if it's CPU or GPU talking to it. So with that in mind the source of rdm
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by jpgvm 4mo ago
Yeah pretty much this. I would separate the knowledge into maybe 3 distinct buckets. The baseline: device/host boundary, SIMT programming etc. The intermediate: kernel architecture, CUDA graph vs persistent kernels, warp specialisation
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by jpgvm 4mo ago
This is a fairly crap post and the reasoning isn't sound but somehow the conclusion is still somewhat correct. You do want to use Rust with LLMs. The reason you want it is simple, it's more constrained. LLMs thrive on constraint a
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by jpgvm 5mo ago
Don't worry though guys, climate change isn't real. /s 1200 years is a serious timescale, I think humans generally struggle reasoning about long durations or very vast distances. Which leads to them instead postulating how al
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by jpgvm 5mo ago
Github Actions is a decidedly unserious product, used largely by unserious people. It's always been poo, the YAML is bad, the reliability is bad and the cost is bad. So there is really no redeeming features because even if you tout for
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by jpgvm 5mo ago
No. They have been able to destroy much more important and hardened targets, i.e multiple AN/TPY-2 radars, the extremely valuable AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar, $Bs worth of aircraft on the apron at Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi. Not
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by jpgvm 6mo ago
Pre-war views were very much the status-quo was better than starting a war. Now that a war is started it has to be finished or the GCC is left far worse off with Iran in a much stronger strategic position in the region despite a decimated m

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