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aetimmes

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About aetimmes

@NVIDIA. Former employers: Princeton University, Bloomberg, Twitter, SeatGeek.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48881026

    Because exploitation is a two-actor system and poverty is a unary operator.

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    Comment #47796849

    Last I checked, they're on Fastly who already support IPv6.

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    Comment #47553942

    None. Every component is seeing huge demand.

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    Comment #47549353

    I think we're already seeing the operating systems that AI can build, and I don't think they've been an improvement.

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    Comment #47524190

    Only a small fraction of a typical barrel of oil is allocated to energy generation. The majority goes to transportation/industrial use-cases. The transportation usage can be allaye…

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    Comment #47282614

    > is extremely woke What does this mean to you?

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    Comment #47010150

    Datacenters were very automated when RAM was infinite. As the world becomes compute-constrained, the economics may increase the demand for smart hands mixing-and-matching server co…

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    Comment #44550227

    Running ad blockers for me is a matter of principle. The amount of tracking and telemetry that exists on the Internet is 1. massively invasive from a privacy perspective and 2. mas…

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    Comment #44021238

    Jumping into water from roughly the height of the Brooklyn Bridge is generally what people do when they _want_ to end their own lives.

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    Comment #43852082

    It's called "20 BlueStacks instances in a trenchcoat"

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    Comment #43690543

    And under the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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    Comment #43567991

    Optimistic to assume that the US will have voting in 3.5 years.

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    Comment #43522395

    You're free to get your water straight from the ground, then.

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    Comment #43493994

    (disclaimer: I know OP IRL.) I'm seeing a lot of comments saying "only 2 days? must not have been that bad of a bug". Some thoughts here: At my current day job, our postmortem temp…

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    Comment #42748895

    I think the word GP is objecting to isn't "your own" but rather "build". For people who have taken empty lots and constructed new data centers (ie, the whole building) on them from…

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    Comment #42362979

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42233280

    I mean, it's all just quicksort under the hood, right? By extension...

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    Comment #42162331

    > Right before the recent Twitter acquisition, the various bits of info that came to the limelight included the "minor detail" that they had more than doubled their headcount and a…

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    Comment #42162297

    Google search is dying because of business reasons, not technical ones. The ads branch is actively cannibalizing search quality to make people perform more searches and view more a…

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    Comment #41352675

    Care to explain why?

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    Comment #40573000

    Read through Understanding Software Dynamics by Richard Sites and work through the example problems in the book. He discusses exactly what you're describing (L1/2/3 cache hit rates…

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    Comment #40342056

    Even if you're not familiar with the "go brrr" meme (which is the only use of meme-idiom in the article and is used exactly twice), its meaning is easily inferred via context clues…

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    Comment #39924573

    The incidents that occurred were minor but had the potential to be much worse (for instance, if he had figured out how to upload and display one of the items from his personal mult…

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    Comment #39704218

    cmd.exe is a terminal emulator and PowerShell is a fully-formed scripting language (that Windows desperately needed). This analogy doesn't work the way you think it does.

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    Comment #39570396

    Ultimately, in the age of massive cloud compute, the constraining resource in an organization is engineering hours, not CPU/memory/bandwidth. And even then, I've yet to encounter a…