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by pmb 5mo ago
At this point, when you are doing big AI you basically have to buy it from NVidia or rent it from Google. And Google can design their chips and engine and systems in a whole-datacenter context, centralizing some aspects that are impossible
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by pmb 8mo ago
It's nice, right? I did it a while ago and I highly recommend it. https://triplepat.com/blog/2024/10/17/how-the-website-works
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by pmb 11mo ago
Any computable function f on one variable x has a program. That function is a program of size p. The input x also has a data size d. BB(p+d) >= f(x), by definition, for all f and x. If you think you might have a (function, input) pair (a
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by pmb 1y ago
It was forcibly funded as part of a consent decree from the US government that allowed AT&T to continue as a monopoly as long as they invested a percent of their yearly revenue (or profit? I forget) in research. AT&T, having no int
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by pmb 1y ago
They are a zero-trust networking solution that also traverses IPv4 NATs. Zero-trust networking is a layer above the IP layer. In an IPv6 Internet their capital costs go down, and their product remains valuable for their paying customers.
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by pmb 2y ago
plonk
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by pmb 2y ago
Countries can tell companies what the maps of their countries should look like and what things should be called. For example, Google shows different info about the Kashmir region depending on whether you are in Pakistan or India or external
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by pmb 2y ago
NB: The Treynor Curve is named after Ben Treynor and his ideas. Ben Treynor's name changed to Ben Sloss a few years back, and Ben Sloss is one of the authors of this article.
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by pmb 2y ago
The Qmodem program, brought home on some random 3.5 inch floppy, allowed me to connect to local BBSes and started my journey into networking computers. Now I have a PhD in CS and I spent more than a decade deeply caring about the Internet,
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by pmb 2y ago
They said it was currently worse than it used to be before the EU. That is not true. Netflix engaging in complicated IP rights negotiations does not mean the existence of the European Union is pointless.
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by pmb 2y ago
> The EU single market is largely a myth from the perspective of wanting to start a successful company that can compete internationally. It's not any easier now than it was before the EU existed. [citation needed] because I think th
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by pmb 2y ago
No. Satellite (except when they use lasers, but nobody is proposing space lasers) is a broadcast medium and wire is point to point. Wires will almost always be cheaper and more reliable and faster on a per-customer basis and have less inte
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by pmb 2y ago
The state motto of Texas is "Friendship". (this is true)
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by pmb 2y ago
People who have never had it have no concept of how much they are missing. It's so frustrating.
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by pmb 3y ago
Compared to cars and motorcycles? More e-bike usage means more e-bike accidents - that's just arithmetic. And e-bike usage soared. This is scaremongering without those comparisons. The tell here is that somehow e-bike usage in NYC is b
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by pmb 6y ago
It is almost precisely what "network neutrality" means in the EU. The US definition is different.
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by pmb 6y ago
100% is the way to be. Once you get there, then you can start having useful conversations about how to make the coverage more meaningful. But first, you have to make sure that every line is run at least once without crashing (except for the
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by pmb 6y ago
They tried to make a better C++ and accidentally made a better Java and a better Python.
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by pmb 6y ago
And HN said "Yup, he basically deserved it." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802917
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by pmb 6y ago
And (truth value unknown by Snopes because proving a negative is impossible, but it corresponds with the videos) failed to wear identification or do or say anything that would allow the person being taken by unknown people into an unmarked
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by pmb 6y ago
Your link marks the claim as "mixed truth", which is different from the "no evidence" in your comment text.
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by pmb 6y ago
That's definitely a clear, strong, and powerful ideology. Pretending it is a minimal one is incorrect. More money (for whom? and by what means?) is not always better.
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by pmb 6y ago
The best is to get agreement on the design is gdocs and then export it to Github so that the design and code live next to each other.
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by pmb 8y ago
"Characterizing People as First-Order, Non-Linear Components in Software Development" knew why in 1999.
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by pmb 10y ago
It's at the southern end of the box canyon that is the Willamette Valley (the end that abuts the mountains), and to the north is Linn-Benton County "the grass seed capitol of the world" ( https://www.google.com&#x
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by pmb 10y ago
Type-checked container interfaces is the reason for protocol buffers.
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by pmb 12y ago
It certainly could be either side of the interconnect that's causing the problem. The important insight is that no ISP is uniformly bad at either end, which means that the problem is not at either end, but in the middle. So this stud
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by pmb 12y ago
Original title was something like: US ISPs are failing to provide broadband speeds during peak hours. If I could make it longer, I might have said "Due to neglect of relatively cheap interconnects, US ISPs are and were measured to be p
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ISP Interconnection and its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance(measurementlab.net)
47 points by pmb 12y ago|28 comments
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by pmb 12y ago
LaTeX habits.

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