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dj_axl

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    Comment #49246752

    FWIW I know of a pharmacy network that's implementing AI. Not only does the AI make egregious errors like speaking in Spanish when the conversation is in English. It also has a lim…

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    Comment #48937629

    Modeled reverb yet no modeled compressor, hrmm, is compression not used on kick drums (or not a big part of the sound)?

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    Comment #48910072

    They can rent out their AI infra to The Hyperscalers.

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    Comment #48649550

    Too big to exhaust... the concluding sentences of the article contain the details. "Hybrid search with pruning" is the current state of the codebase.

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    Comment #48648805

    Paper mentions Parquet, ORC, Nimble, Lance, TSFile, Bullion, and BtrBlocks.

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    Comment #48590553

    > A 100-bit bloom filter holding 100,000 keys is saturated instantly. Every bit is set. It returns “maybe present” for every key you ask about — which means it filters nothing, and…

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    Comment #48578206

    Marketing might help at some workplaces, presumably that are dedicated to Microsoft, for example our network blocks Claude (and DeepSeek) and is slowly rolling out Codex team by te…

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    Comment #48575929

    > Let’s imagine the owner lowers the rent by 30% to fill the building. Thought I'd comment with some concrete numbers. New buildings near me (West LA) are at $4100/month for a stud…

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    Comment #48575514

    Any denoising? https://github.com/Twinklebear/oidn-rs

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    Comment #48496564

    Thread.sleep(100000) everywhere until it breaks. Then lo and behold you have fought fires longly and bravely until midnight on Friday after the release. Don't ask me why it's rewar…

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    Comment #48374225

    If the rule change goes through then SpaceX could be added to an index such as the S&P 500, where many (most?) pension funds invest. "S&P 500 has been considering a rule change to …

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    Comment #48374158

    Revenue. (Or forecast revenue, take your pick.)

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    Comment #48250068

    No mention of any of these! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089396591...

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    Comment #45214787

    OpenAI contract, "Sept 10 (Reuters) - OpenAI has signed a contract to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years from Oracle".

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    Comment #43549190

    Just wire neurons (human or otherwise) to computers, and see what happens. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs...

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    Comment #43355175

    Any niche? I mean, possibly large-scale data processing, yet I've seen people go more niche than that. In other words if your resume has 5+ years in one particular industry then th…

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    Comment #41699820

    You're perhaps forgetting Waymo at $30B

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    Comment #12427720

    > diskless laptop with a USB live distro with no RW filesystem Which distro? One known problem is that browsers still transmit their location. If the network and the laptop are hun…

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    Comment #12415415

    Have an upvote. The "Note: It is allowed to cost money." reminds me that the $5 charge on MeFi filters out alot of noise. However, this doesn't necessarily promote an increase in q…

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    Comment #10719760

    You're right about the pay for teachers. However if you look at the way it's worked out for adjunct professors at the college level, the part-time pay is even less, plus they miss …

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    Comment #10543138

    > they're getting paid the same or more than existing software devs. Ha. Look at some writeups of the SoCal Edison outsourcing, for example. U.S. citizens making $95K were replaced…

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    Comment #10479643

    > There seems to be a major issue with cost-of-living adjustments Yep yep. Otis College of Art and Design "overperforming" for $42k salary is ridiculous. The title Junior Graphic D…

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    Comment #10446186

    > I tried the Metro, but it didn't go where I wanted to go somehow. Metro rail is not complete coverage, however the extension out to Santa Monica (West LA) is opening early 2016. …

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    Comment #10388389

    I wish this were the law everywhere. It varies by jurisdiction. "Each city in California has its own rules about riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. Some cities allow sidewalk riding…

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    Comment #10355733

    > I'm a little leery of articles like this that are so demonizing Particularly when the article avoids comparison to either modern military drug usage, or allied military drug disb…