simgt

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by simgt 7d ago
"Planning" has a very different meaning when referring to what France did, what the USSR did, and what China is doing. Remains to be seen if China is at a disadvantage.
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by simgt 9d ago
> I’m surprised that there’s no domestic chip production either, we don’t have our own CPUs or GPUs, meanwhile China is spinning up manufacturing so they don’t have to work around the Nvidia export restrictions as much. The CCP is able t
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by simgt 9d ago
We're not in a good position on the supply chain needed. Right now it really means pouring billions on American corps, either by renting the compute or by building it. That would be mostly fine if it were only VC money but it's no
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by simgt 13d ago
As he's explaining the battery-electric propulsion isn't the hard part, he's even selling their software at 10:40. I guess the point here is to be bought by an existing aerospace corporation to kick start a new electric divis
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by simgt 15d ago
For me a good portion of the appeal of a nostalgic device like that is the display. Any recommendations?
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by simgt 22d ago
I wish Musk had stuck to bullying his employees instead of going after everyone, because SpaceX is still building a more interesting future. Although that apparently involves pouring concrete in a wetland.
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by simgt 23d ago
I've done that, but I chose a Framework Desktop instead. The latest Fedora is closer to Snow Leopard than anything Apple has to offer. Downside is that I still have my MBP because of the lock-in and occasionally pick it up to do compu
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by simgt 23d ago
> US LLC by default has no corporate tax (unless you opt-in for some reason) while still having limited liability. It's why it's so unique. > There's no other country in the world that has anything like that. That'
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by simgt 23d ago
I wasn't talking about income tax, this one is almost easy. The country you reside in can claim corporate taxes on your foreign business. You end up having to deal with bureaucracy in both places... Otherwise all freelancers would have
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by simgt 23d ago
No one looks at the details of the bill, the wages are included in the cost
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by simgt 23d ago
> It's much easier to just register US LLC instead at this point. However if you want to do anything physical not digital you end up having to register and do taxes in your resident country anyway. How does remaining digital help he
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by simgt 23d ago
Sadly you can't run them as a non-resident afaik. The member state in which you resides will come after you for taxes if you operate a foreign company. In France the micro-entrepreneur status makes you partially liable, and running a S
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by simgt 27d ago
> you absolutely cannot know what it's like until you actually Is probably true for all life changing event. Extreme poverty, wealth, loss of a parent, etc. There's nothing special in that regard about having children. > if
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by simgt 1mo ago
Competition is only one of the ways to keep a corporation aligned. In the case of France, having a state monopoly on electricity even worked very well until we broke it for the sake of competition.
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by simgt 1mo ago
> the only company showing a positive result from all this is NVidia Everyone upstream of the AI labs should be showing a positive result, that includes all the companies needed to actually build the chips and the datacenters around it.
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by simgt 2mo ago
Until he advocates for an independent body akin to IAEA under the control of the UN, I'll call everything he says about AI safety and the greater good bullshit.
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by simgt 2mo ago
> to push to main, not have a CI, not write tests, test in production, commit with one-liners like I'm asking someone if they want a beer All the start-ups and SMEs I've worked at were about as rigorous as that. Maybe I've
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by simgt 2mo ago
No, wait! The increased productivity will lead to a decoupling of the economy from resources consumption and GHGs emission. Just one more data center. /s
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by simgt 2mo ago
ghostty has tabs and splits for instance, alacritty is deliberately minimalistic
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by simgt 2mo ago
I have also lost all sense of pride in my work. As well as all interest in learning anything new related to software, knowing it'll be of zero value to me personally. For many of us our job has always been a craft, being able to perfec
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by simgt 3mo ago
Maybe learn to read comments. Less than a third of the population had running water at home in countries like France before WW2. In 1960 a quarter had a fridge. But sure, commoners had access to the kind of place described in the article in
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by simgt 3mo ago
Yes
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by simgt 3mo ago
I'm in-between two minds. On one end £9 of labour cost for a plate of asparagus seems deeply inefficient and unrealistic, particularly when the cost of ingredients that also include (hard) labour is £2. On the other, just a century ago
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by simgt 3mo ago
That's why we need and have diplomacy. Everyone is aware that violence is the ultimate option if an actor thinks there's an existential threat to deal with. If the consensus becomes that a 50+TFlops datacenter in the wrong hands i
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by simgt 3mo ago
By threatening to nuke their datacenters and chip fabs, for instance.
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by simgt 4mo ago
You really come across as condescending and patronizing.
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by simgt 4mo ago
That's awesome, thanks for sharing.
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by simgt 4mo ago
Cool! I've been wondering for some time if a good low-distraction but pleasant environment could be an old Mac OS on a (good looking) Hackintosh. The UI was baked with UX research at least.
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by simgt 4mo ago
Same here, it has always been a state transition. There's always that snake showing up who forces everyone to watch their back and eventually disband. A tech coop seems like a good option, but it's almost exclusively web dev.
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by simgt 4mo ago
Thanks for that sensible answer, had to scroll down quite a while to find you there. The real problem is that for many people it takes a while to realize you're being abused, in that case it was only a while after. I highly recommend l

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