lambdasquirrel

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by lambdasquirrel 3mo ago
Also worth noting that not all muscle mass is the same. Too many people read these things and lacking context, they get swindled one way and then another.
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by lambdasquirrel 4mo ago
Volvo is complicated. Basically a lot of these smaller companies and countries realized there was no way they could make the economics work with the cost of electronics and software-related R&D being what they are. So they sold to large
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by lambdasquirrel 4mo ago
I used to have aspirations to move to Canada and I know folks who have tried to hire SREs in Toronto. While that post may sound hyperbolic, it is for all intents and purposes accurate. You can’t build an SRE team in Toronto because the tale
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by lambdasquirrel 4mo ago
In my first job we worked in a room full of 4Us and it was always refreshing when we powered them all down for the weekend. So quiet. It’s almost like there was a reason why consumer-grade hardware existed.
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by lambdasquirrel 4mo ago
I don't think this is even just an AI denoiser problem. Rain effectively looks like haze for the parts of the scene that are at sufficiently long distances. Therefore it's difficult to use dehaze with rainy scenes. The harder the
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by lambdasquirrel 6mo ago
There are still processes that we haven’t replaced petroleum for, like Haber-Bosch. China has already banned the export of fertilizer for this reason.
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by lambdasquirrel 6mo ago
I wouldn't be that cynical. From the interactions I've had with people from mainland China, particularly those in the educated classes, I can say for certain that it was soft power that drew them towards the West and the US in par
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by lambdasquirrel 6mo ago
Would that necessarily be a bad thing? I remember how that would drive short-termism on the part of regular employees. Since stock comp was a major part of many companies' salaries, people would hope for a bump in the earnings report
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by lambdasquirrel 7mo ago
Depends on how you look at it. In terms of overcoming fundamental limitations, I would argue it has indeed hit a wall. ChatGPT is how old, but LLMs still can't actually count? But then, to your point, what does it matter, if they'
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by lambdasquirrel 7mo ago
Yup, if you haven’t heard first-hand (i.e. from the source) at least one story where some exec was at least using AI to intimidate his employees, or outright terminating them in some triumphant way (whether or not this was a sound business
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by lambdasquirrel 7mo ago
That only means that the UK government doesn’t have access to the backdoor.
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by lambdasquirrel 8mo ago
Do you want to go up against whatever patent portfolio AMZN has?
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by lambdasquirrel 8mo ago
People in China know. Believe me they know.
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by lambdasquirrel 8mo ago
Well that’s the kicker right? Mao gave way for later leaders who lifted China out of poverty. The normalization of all this craziness is what led the USA to where it is today. Two quite different trajectories.
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
And yet it all circles back. We used Peano arithmetic when doing C++ template metaprogramming anytime a for loop from 0..n was needed. It was fun and games as long as you didn't make a mistake because the compiler errors would be gnarl
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
Yeah you can't really have a foliage map without a drought map to accompany it. The fall colors are a fickle thing. Last year's was pretty drab in lower NY. The year before it was quite good.
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
We can hope that they both fail. :o)
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
> This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'. At first, I didn’t know what to say about the article other than to agree to something about it that I couldn’t put a finger on. But now it mak
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
Yeah, and it’s an interesting problem because for a lot of casual photos, most people won’t care. But once you do care, there’s suddenly no recourse. Folks will say it’s just the focal length. But can you crop when your sensor is already th
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
By the numbers, the casual cameras are having a quiet turnaround. Fuji and Ricoh can hardly keep their X100 and GR cameras stocked. Fuji added extra production capacity in China because it exceeded their expectations. I brought them up spec
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
This does not address the detrimental parts of computational photography.
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
> but the Canon takes a modicum of skill, which my wife is not interested in And so, the reasons why Fuji and point-and-shoots are popular. Lots of “serious” photography enthusiasts don’t really get this and call Fujis “hype” cameras but
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
A thousandth of an inch would do it? They couldn't give more margin-of-safety to a critical part like that? A thousand of an inch isn't such a theoretical number. It's about 25 microns, and I've shimmed one of my back-fo
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
Do we know what reducing solar irradiation will do for plant growth though? We might actually make the root cause worse if it decreases carbon fixation.
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
Eh... you should read the article. It sounds like a pretty big deal.
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
Reminds me of a line that Philip Glass co-opted for his 5th Symphony: “Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.”
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
I don’t think WASI is going to make k8s (and its ecosystem) go away. All the other problems tackled by docker and k8s were not solved by things like GraphQL and protobuf.
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
The problem with this thesis is that there’s no other easy way to make microservices composed of different language stacks work well together, even if they are distributed-first. What happens when you jump from Elixir to Scala actors? It ca
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
Yeah this is not what I pay the Apple premium for.
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by lambdasquirrel 1y ago
If you want to speculate about that, then how about the bamboo die-off cycle? Imagine if you lived in the PNW or Appalachia, and every 120 years the entire side of a mountain launched an army of hungry rats at you. Starves all those cute sm

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