vonmoltke

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by vonmoltke 1y ago
The GGP said, "LLMs have ended the need for white collar junior work". That claim is that LLMs are a "1:1 replacement at an individual level", and this is what the GP was responding to.
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
Sure, but that's margin trading. These bonds have nothing to do with the endowment.
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
Those are standard, unsecured bonds. They're not loans against anything in the endowment.
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
> It doesn't look like the other Teslas, which all look really nice, but are more expensive. No, they're not. The price of a Cybertruck is in line with the price for a Model S or Model X, and significantly higher than a Model
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
> The US hasn't declared a war since WWII since executive privilege allows the President to pursue war without Congress declaring war. That's not correct. Congress no longer passes declarations of war, it passes authorizations
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
It, indirectly, was, because it was the reason the country initially relied on decentralized citizen militias for defense in the first place. Many of the founders were worried that a standing federal army would be a tool of oppression, and
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
> Adhesion and cohesion always fuck up scenes that combine scale models and water. Splashes always look very wrong Like the terrible model work in In Harm's Way .
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
I remember that on a Thinkgeek (RIP) t-shirt.
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
Only within the table of 20 largest point drops. Neither even makes the table of 20 largest percentage drops (which is above).
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
> I have also noticed that e.g. Lockheed Martin (maker of the F35) is not doing very well on the stock market. There's no "e.g." here. It's only Lockmart, and it's because they recently lost the Next Generation
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
Yes, AWACS has limited moving target indicator (MTI) capability. A full-featured maritime MTI radar would easily pick this up, provided the signal processing algorithms don't reject the track for moving too fast.
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
> but I'm less sure about the search part of SAR The article never mentioned the search part of SAR, only the rescue part. The range is still something of an issue with that, though, as you'd need to be fairly close the people
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
> Also I assume radar-proof is just because it's a ground effect vehicle that will never fly high enough to show up on radar it certainly doesn't look all angular like a stealth bomber. In which case my bicycle is also radar-pr
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by vonmoltke 1y ago
The defense in that game was pretty bad. Five of the nine Brewers runs scored due to errors, and it was five separate errors. The game yesterday went much better, defensively.
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
> What? They're giving away cars just to cut in line? That seems a pointlessly costly deal. Maybe I'm not understanding the scam correctly. You're not. As the article notes > Under state law, the profits from sales of
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
You're right, and there were definitely situations where we could have done things better, but didn't, because the impetus wasn't there. It was really frustrating, and I wish I'd been able to get out sooner. > -2000
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
So, this particular contractor was big into efficiency and cost savings, to the point that we were all required to do a project where we made something more efficient and documented how much money we saved in doing so. The whole thing was
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
I spent the first 9.5 years of my career at a large defense contractor. We never had free coffee.
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
> Theres at least two sporting good store is employee run and for some reason my brain can't remember the name (it insists its DEI) It's REI, and it's actually a consumer co-op owned by its members, not employee-owned.
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
The product line was effectively cancelled by the oil crisis of 1973 and severe economic issues in the mid 70s. It had nothing to do with a crash (of an airplane; there was a market crash involved).
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
> Czech Republic is now Czechia The Czech Republic is still the Czech Republic; it is also now known as Czechia. "Czech Republic" is the full official name of the country, like "United States of America". "Cz
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
> UPenn is a land-grant institution The University of Pennsylvania is one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the United States existed. It predates land grant institutions by over a century. I think you are confusing it with
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
> Those companies are breaking the law. If the position requires a security clearance, they are not breaking the law. Language like this is standard on defense contractor postings that require clearances (this from Lockeed): > Secu
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
Here in northern New Jersey there are many chargers that are inside municipal parking garages. Since you have to pay to enter (technically, to leave) you have to pay for parking time to use those chargers. That's obviously not an iss
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
> Not sure if it’s still there but on twitter they had a system where you’d have to click through before you’re allowed to submit a comment. The system did not prevent you from replying, it just added a warning message and a little frict
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Everything you've been told about the 'Chickenpox bomber' is wrong(hushkit.net)
21 points by vonmoltke 2y ago|13 comments
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
The article's math is right. Yours is wrong. 100,000 * 140,000 is 14,000,000,000. 100,000 * 14,000 is 1,400,000,000.
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
Most (all?) public tech companies have policies that prohibit employees from trading the company's stock outside designated windows following a quarterly earnings release.
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
We couldn't at Twitter, which is the only company I've worked at that had a blanket trading blackout policy. The closest we could do was elect to sell all RSUs as soon as they vested (even if outside an open window).
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by vonmoltke 2y ago
> These kinds of similies make less and less sense nowadays because we've got nvme storage nowadays, and that can be as fast as 7GByte/s. That's a lot faster then the RAM in most devices today. And with less latency too. 7

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