solarmist

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by solarmist 27d ago
As for why it matters at all. Besides national pride and prejudices. The dispute is significant because controlling the islets dictates fishing rights and surrounding maritime borders (EEZ) in resource-rich waters.
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by solarmist 29d ago
Bulk discounts are definitely a thing. Even established businesses do that. But the biggest discount people see is subscriptions. You get a few thousand dollars of work from a couple hundred dollars.
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by solarmist 29d ago
As one example: Different access patterns. If you're using the app and have a subscription you get cheap tokens in the hopes you need more at which point you pay API prices which are much more expenseive.
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by solarmist 1mo ago
Nowadays. The last 50 years haven't been kind to people in the US.
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by solarmist 8mo ago
Bullshit. We built a world that constantly exploits human limits, then act surprised when people hit them. No one has infinite willpower.
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FuckItJS uses technology to make sure your JavaScript code runs no matter what(github.com)
4 points by solarmist 9mo ago|1 comments
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by solarmist 10mo ago
I'm an American and I've really never related to Charlie Brown myself, but I've heard Peanuts is huge in Japan and other asian countries.
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by solarmist 11mo ago
There was also a discussion somewhere where they switched off the OSS subtitling software they were using onto a commercial product that doesn't implement many of the features (mostly typesetting features) of the previous software.
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by solarmist 11mo ago
Relevant discussion from a previous post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497900
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by solarmist 11mo ago
I get it and it does make sense. Humans always consider the unfamiliar dangerous by default, but I believe it's deeper and simpler than the arguments you present. This is not a strictly human trait. Anthropologists are pretty sure we r
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by solarmist 1y ago
Do these get posted publicly?
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by solarmist 1y ago
I’m not sure you really can, at least not in the way it’s often portrayed. Founders usually need a high level of skill or a clearly transferable capability in something already valuable. That phrase gets repeated a lot, but the more I think
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by solarmist 1y ago
This is such a good point. People tend to focus on money as the main form of privilege, but that internalized sense of “I belong here” might matter even more. It’s not just confidence—it’s a kind of default assumption that you’ll be taken s
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by solarmist 1y ago
What are you skeptical of? I believe the problem this is solving is a framework that's not CUDA that allows low level access to the hardware, makes it easy to write kernels, and is not Nvidia only. If you watch the video you can write
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by solarmist 1y ago
Yeah, the mic quality was terrible.
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by solarmist 1y ago
Not sure I fully understand your comment, but I'm pretty sure the talk addresses exactly that. The primitives and pre-coded kernels provided by CUDA (it solves for the most common scenarios first and foremost) is what's holding th
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by solarmist 1y ago
I'm really hoping Modular.ai takes off. GPU programming seems like a nightmare, I'm not surprised they felt the need to build an entire new language to tackle that bog.
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Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo and Max Modular HQ(youtube.com)
44 points by solarmist 1y ago|21 comments
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by solarmist 1y ago
Anyone know anything about this or can evaluate this claim? Seems like a major thing if it’s true that would inspire an entire new area research.
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A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by solarmist 1y ago|3 comments
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by solarmist 1y ago
No, where'd you get that impression?
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by solarmist 2y ago
I definitely used to. The work culture and attitudes, particularly of management, passed the breaking point for me a few years ago. I realized work was not my whole life nor did I aspire to that. As I mentioned here ( https://news
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by solarmist 2y ago
I find this attitude baffling. In my time at tier one companies I have worked with the best engineers I have come across in my entire career (even the worst engineers were more than competent) who were working on deep issues that could affe
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by solarmist 2y ago
I felt like I was doing that with what I described. What changes to expectations are you talking about?
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by solarmist 2y ago
It has turned into something similar to what people in trading companies on Wall Street deal with. Constant grind, unrealistic expectations, and projects done in order to get a promotion instead of because it provides value to the customers
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by solarmist 2y ago
Honestly, it was also a red flag for me that they don’t actually know what they want and have bad communication between leadership and engineering. Prior to this interview I was already on the fence about them. They don’t work mostly in Go.
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by solarmist 2y ago
That doesn’t answer the question. For me as a job applicant even in the best case I would need to do 3 to 5 interview interviews. The same is true for companies in the best case it will take at least 3 to 5 interviews to find somebody. Are
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by solarmist 2y ago
I’m speaking as a human looking at the historical context of eating animals. Predators taste terrible because they are high effort, low reward in terms of nutritional value. I am absolutely not advocating that we start eating pets. I would
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by solarmist 2y ago
Sure, that would be even better. But how would that even look? In the best case applicants needs to apply multiple companies. Companies need to interview multiple applicants and have a way to compare those applicants. Those are the most bas
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by solarmist 2y ago
It is obvious, but it’s also very time-consuming. You can’t solve ambiguous open ended problems in a set amount of time while being watched closely.

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