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I understand your logic ("the high CapEx is the moat"), but on the other hand, isn't it be a bit like multiple high speed railway systems trying to connect San Francisco to Los Ang…

> Obviously Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize IIRC Photobucket actually made a good amount of money through their advertising business unit ("Give free storage and…

Can I ask what is your opinion about their core CapEx, i.e. model training? The general trend I observe is that the "shelf lives" of large language models are really short. It cost…

I found more details on how this particular attack worked: https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-... https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3148 So the ext…

It seems that the battery lasts 35 hours with heart rate tracking, 1 month with no HR, and 11 months with power saving. Run Time Using activity functions (heart rate): Approx. 35 h…

That makes a lot of sense! > The x86 server CPUs, like AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon, have a lower range within which the clock frequency may vary and their policies for changing the cloc…

Reading the article, it seems to boil down to the following two observations: 1. ARM64 is actually less "smart" than x64. While Intel's Core i9 tries to be clever by aggressive boo…

> How do you use your 45 seconds? There is actually a clear, concise and actionable answer to this question: - Hide under the nearest table or desk (if you are at home or in the of…

There was a similar case in Japan recently: alt.ai This company purported to sell AI transcription service. Raised capital from notable local VCs. Did IPO in Oct 2023. It turned ou…

Bank of France "transported" their reserve by selling the gold held in New York, and subsequently buying the same amount in European market. They opted to do so because it's just m…

PE is a very broad practice. It's kinda hard to make a single-blanket argument for it (it's like asking "Is Software good for society?" Yes, maybe?). So here are some positive thin…

I'll sketch a few points to illustrate the inner workings here: - It's hard to buy a decent company at 5x EBITDA today. A typical EBITDA multiple nowadays is like 10x-15x. (e.g. EQ…

Here is a user manual of xv that contains prenty of screenshots: https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pd... I think the "Miscellaneous Ramblings" on the final …

I listened to the podcast linked in the article, and my understanding of the timeline is: - The owner originally had two dogs. Both disappeared from her backyard one day. One dog r…

To fill in the details, here is the code used for the measurement: https://github.com/lemire/counters/blob/main/include/counter... It fetches the number of mispredicted instruction…

> There is no caching of a "utf-8 representation". No there certainly is. This is documented in the official API documentation: UTF-8 representation is created on demand and cached…

Internally Python holds a string as an array of uint32. A utf-8 representation is created on demand from it (and cached). So pansa2 is basically correct [^1]. IMO, while this may n…

Coincidentally, Chi-kawa is a very popular anime character in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiikawa It's a portmanteau of "Chiisai" (small) and "Kawaii" (cute).

The evolution of software engineering is fascinating to me. We started by coding in thin wrappers over machine code and then moved on to higher-level abstractions. Now, we've reach…

Among the interviews, one with the former engineering director was the most eye-opening for me. https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17236880&Fi... It appears that all …

> No data with a timestamp after May 16th was found on the camera, so it is likely that none of the data recorded on the SD Card were of the accident voyage or dive. Evidently the …