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by rb2k_ 2y ago
There's differences. e.g. MOSFET vs TRIAC Zooz (popular zwave manufacturer) has some interesting tidbits on their homepage. https://www.support.getzooz.com/kb/article/1103-zen72-vs-zen... "The ZEN77 Dimm
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by rb2k_ 2y ago
The readme mentioned H20 GPUs. Nvidia's "China compatible" card (41% Fewer Cores & 28% Lower Performance Versus Top Hopper H100 Config)
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by rb2k_ 2y ago
Some Llama3 400B numbers for the April 15th checkpoint are listed at https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/ Direct image link: https://scontent-atl3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.2365-6/439015366_
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by rb2k_ 3y ago
In the past (with h265 / h264 at least), hardware encoding always ended up with visibly worse quality (and often even bigger file sizes) compared to a software encoder like x264/x265. Do you happen to know if that's still the
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by rb2k_ 3y ago
Last I talked to people about Apple's internal tooling, it was still pretty fragmented between different organizations. I was told about e.g. multiple internal CI/build systems because one org didn't want to rely on the other
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
Did you base your router config on some existing template or did you just built it up from scratch?
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
There should be a difference between applying critical thinking and being borderline hostile though.
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
I think one of the problems with large parts of academia is that the system thrives by finding flaws within things other people have created. Criticism is certainly helpful and necessary for advancing the state of the art, but without somet
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
Nah, a dedicated "code review team" is not a thing. Often the suggestion featured does suggest a whole team as a review based on code ownership.
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
> Some companies hire dedicated tech people whose only job is to be oncall, handle alerts, and improve the oncall infrastructure. This role is called ‘DevOps Engineer’ at some companies, SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) at others, and may
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
One thing that this article is also kinda missing is the base compensation. Some companies (e.g. FB) are in the top 90th percentile or so of the industry but then don't pay on-call compensation.. But that means that in one case you mak
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
The website mentions: "Funkstandards / Frequenzen EnOcean (868 MHz), Low-Power-Funk (2.4 GHz) WLAN (802.11 b/g/n 2,4 GHz)" So that's neither of the two major protocols (zwave and zigbee) nor any of the up and c
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by rb2k_ 4y ago
It's 7 years old by now, but there's some literature: https://research.facebook.com/publications/holistic-configur... You can see that there's a common backend ("configerator") that a lot of ot
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by rb2k_ 5y ago
Interesting. That almost sounds like mania/hypomania. (Not saying that it induced a hypomanic episode, just that all of those fit the description)
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by rb2k_ 5y ago
> A hundered thousand years of safe storage is not part of the calculation of the energy price People always mention that as an argument. I'm pretty sure that we could figure out a solution if we actually worked on it. Given how far
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by rb2k_ 5y ago
> without the government subsidizing child care costs Why not though? They'll be tax payers soon and I'm sure we'd get more of them if we made it easier to rear them. There's probably a lot of subsidies that are curre
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by rb2k_ 5y ago
> In the USA, it is common for unions to be industry-wide A lot of the ones in Germany are as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trade_unions_in_German...
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by rb2k_ 5y ago
my two cents as someone that worked in Europe and the US: > time off I get 21 days in the US, but any holiday that falls on a weekend I am guaranteed to get on a weekday. Ultimately it ends up somewhere around 30 paid days off I would gu
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by rb2k_ 5y ago
A lot of these providers are part of the Open Compute project [0] that Facebook created in 2011 and all the hardware is open source. At least for FB, all the new hardware is part of that. [0] https://www.opencompute.org/
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
Agreed. I've seen thousands of mac minis in CI farms writing 1+ TB / day (all day, every day) and they're slowly starting to die 4 years in. It's hard to write flash to death with that kind of write load. I wouldn't
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
It has 4 Cortex-A7 cores with up to 1.2GHz. Given the kind of stuff e.g. OpenWRT usually runs on, I would say it has more than enough power. For simple workloads (e.g. serving static files via HTTP) I'm pretty sure it could saturate a
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
This one has a gigabit port, Orange Pi Zero is just 100 MBit/s (but adds wifi). The Orange Pi also seems to be a bit more expensive (close though).
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
This is sadly 'just' homekit, but I was pretty impressed with the polish of the solution: https://hochgatterer.me/hkcam/ I agree on the comment for rtsp though. Most solutions have multiple seconds of latency
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
Another set of mirrors with decent network infrastructure can be found at: http://mirror.facebook.net/ (Not holding my breath for the kind of responses this comment might get ;))
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
Don't a lot of the bigger schools have billions of dollars in endowments that can easily cover fixed costs with their returns?
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
Same in California. For people that want the details: https://california.public.law/codes/ca_bus_and_prof_code_sec... . California Business & Professions Code section 16600 makes clear that any non-compete provision
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
From my (German moved to the US) perspective: 1. Stop putting college kids with a bachelor degree in business in charge of software development teams. "Management" is still seen as something very 'fancy' in Germany. Bein
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
Yup, moved from Germany to the US. Would never be able to earn in Germany what I earn here without going into management.
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
Most PhDs I know that are doing research in labs are on a F1 or J-1.
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by rb2k_ 6y ago
We've had no issues getting same Whole Foods deliveries via Amazon in Menlo Park. We just had to refresh a few times over the course of 15 minutes or so and always got a slot.

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