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As the famous saying goes: If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.

> - "Prefer New" seems almost useless. You've already spent all this effort doing the job, why are you cancelling it and throwing away the results? The obvious use-case is if the r…

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Which model and how can you achieve that speed, if you don't mind me asking?

Usually, yes. There are a few exceptions, such as serious misconduct, tax fraud and not declaring insolvency when necessary. But as long as you're following the law, you're fine.

> I hope there's always someone willing to make this bet and release better and better open models. What would this bet be? Training is expensive and open weights mean that for hos…

> Unless you have a “every commit must build” rule, why would you review commits independently? Security. Imagine commit #1 introduces a security vulnerability (backdoor) and the f…

What was the issue with the Nord line?

Each of our devices spents a lot of energy dedicated to encryption. By now, all disks you did not set up manually are most likely encrypted and hardly any unencrypted package will …

Usually, it will be where the passenger side is in the cars home market. That is left for Japanese and British vehicles and right for US and German ones. Fun fact, for single exhau…

> Probably because actual time required to manage a db server is really unpredictable. This, and also startups are quite heterogeneous. If you have an engineer on your team with ex…

I dislike those black and white takes a lot. It's absolutely true that most startups that just run an EC2 instance will save a lot of cash going to Hetzner, Linode, Digital Ocean o…

It would be more correct to say that most _payments_ happen off-platform. They still use the Steam API for trades, but it's just bots trading with players for nothing and payment i…

> Always, always log in through bookmarked links or typing them manually. Never use a link in an email unless it's in direct response to something you initiated and even then exami…

> There's no proof that your catastrophic imaginary scenario would actually happen. There is, just read TFA. > Financial transactions happen all the time and are plenty cheap, they…

> They know what works - threaten executives with prison. The problem is that it works too well . As you can clearly see, the solution basically everyone individually applies is to…

If you need a lot of (not so fast) storage, 3,5" drives are still by far the best TB per €. For a lot of NAS solutions (backups, video/movie/music storage etc.) their performance i…

It could be made harder, yes. This depends a lot on how the text is hidden and what kind of noise you use, though. Also, this would quite likely also impact legit usecases - you'll…

> and successfully avoided using Llm development these last few years. I'm not sure that's much of an achievement, to be honest. If you tried it and it turned out to be not useful …

> And I think that then leads to calls for: > - Redistribution of wealth We can talk about excessively wealthy individuals all day, but I'm pretty sure that most knowledge workers …

> but you can also run most Windows and Linux applications (in a VM). This is really just a cheap rhetorical trick. Linux [0] can run just as much software, if you include VMs, but…

An NFL football field is 120 yards, according to WolframAlpha (which I used for the calculation).

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> "all crypto is fraud" stands alone just fine. It might, but in this case it is preceded by "This is why", which makes the sentence as a whole simply wrong.