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by master_crab 4d ago
They aren’t; the parent comment is incorrect. It’s safer to say Nvidia is encouraging the money that already exists to be deployed on AI buildouts. But everyone is now chasing the same opportunity (AI and its dependencies like hardware and
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by master_crab 4d ago
“as long as it’s cash flow continues” is doing a lot of optimistic heavy lifting. The whole premise of the circular financing worry is that Nvidia sits in the middle of all the guarantees made to companies like OpenAI. If any of those com
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by master_crab 4d ago
No such thing as wrong year nor wrong model, or even wrong brand as long as it works! Or even make! Many manufacturers use the same supplier for various parts. The lock actuator on my 2010 dodge pickup is also used in Fords.
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by master_crab 4d ago
This is the way. Take it with a grain of salt (as the author mentions) but we have gotten much better results and less token usage after we hooked up our codebase to an indexing service’s MCP (in our case sourcegraph). But any indexing serv
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by master_crab 5d ago
DO NOT DO THIS. It is 2026, just buy a 6 or 7 A/micro/mini adapters and just keep a handful of usb-c cables. It takes up less space and is easier to organize. And your cables are now mostly up-to-date and useful PD carriers.
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by master_crab 6d ago
Economic embargoes are the least of Putin’s worries if he nukes a country. More than likely Russia is ostracized to the point that other countries will treat it with active hostility. And the most likely possibility is Putin is assassinated
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by master_crab 13d ago
Using a large database of (deidentified) medical records, the researchers compared the outcomes of people taking a GLP-1 for their type 2 diabetes to people taking other common diabetes drugs between 2017 and 2025. GLP-1 users were signifi
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by master_crab 13d ago
I work in tech (like most of us on this website). But I’m originally from Northern VA. If you travel down Route 7, Route 50 or any of the numerous Parkways in the area you will see mile after mile of double height buildings just blighting w
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by master_crab 22d ago
I had the same view recently. For the past year I’ve been using my iPad to remote into both my MacBook Pro M1 Max and my racked Linux workstation at home using Jump and moonlight/sunshine, respectively. Never looked back
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by master_crab 1mo ago
I’m even more confused by the economics of the frontier model businesses. Even if they got preferential prices, they are still paying an inordinate amount for their infrastructure. If it wasn’t economically feasible without VC/Nvidia m
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by master_crab 1mo ago
That’s the correct usage. Revenue includes gains and losses. Profit will take that number and subtract out the operational costs (salaries, market data subs, etc).
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by master_crab 1mo ago
No net revenue is still the top line number (just minus some things like allowances or some other artifact or exception). Profit is the bottom line.
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by master_crab 1mo ago
That merely pushes the valuation onto the hardware makers, not the companies that have the temporary preferential access to their hardware.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Yacht Refused to Help Ship in Distress(nymag.com)
48 points by master_crab 1mo ago|27 comments
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by master_crab 2mo ago
It can be the case that everyone in “a fight” is wrong.
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by master_crab 2mo ago
That’s not good either. It’s the same with poultry, many types of fruit, etc. This just makes the case further.
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by master_crab 2mo ago
They don't have a monopoly on any meaningful product category. By that reasoning I could have a monopoly on peanuts and it’s alright because consumers can choose from hundreds of other foods.
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by master_crab 2mo ago
I wonder what happens to that gas price once the SPR can no longer be drawn from? https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...
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by master_crab 2mo ago
Apologies. Not trying to come across as a prick. But at least we both agree private dns =/= split brain. :)
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by master_crab 2mo ago
Bless your sweet heart if you think private DNS servers are split horizon. :)
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by master_crab 2mo ago
Because I was responding to this comment you had made: So what's your solution when you have a wholly private service that will never have a public v4 address, nor a publicly routable v6? How do clients get the address for a nice doma
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by master_crab 2mo ago
The M-series are ARM chips based on the A series from the iPhones. Therefore Apple had ten years of chip design (plus the prior decades of ARM history) to rely on. The GPUs and modems were a much more recent effort. (My take. happy to be co
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by master_crab 2mo ago
100%. Orchestrating multiple sub agents is a key requirement for many workflows. If only because it minimizes context sprawl (amongst multiple other reasons). There is probably a middle ground though. Something like a main thread agent (say
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by master_crab 2mo ago
You don’t. You avoid split horizon because of the silent (usually failure) mechanics it introduces.
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by master_crab 2mo ago
A lot of these are visual-heavy tests that often require first person sight to confirm results. Considering GLM isn’t multimodal, that might explain why it did better on the calculator question and not much else.
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by master_crab 2mo ago
Wait…what? You have a fully internal service and you dont have an internal DNS server? I guess those exist in theory, but not in practice. :) If you have a heavy enough tech stack to run fully internal services, than you can also run an int
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by master_crab 2mo ago
Split brain =/= done right. This introduces all sorts of aberrant behavior. Most notably that clients will get different responses depending on their query and route that you now have to test for. It also is a “silent” deviation for au
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by master_crab 2mo ago
He’s a lightning rod only because some people get unnecessarily triggered by facts that don’t fit their world view.
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by master_crab 3mo ago
So short meta?
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by master_crab 3mo ago
Containers is often the reason. You start a container and you are immediately pulling in a quarter to half a gig or more (often the latter).

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