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flybarrel

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About flybarrel

Desperately hope the world sucks less

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48994080

    Sir, given what's happening in the world these days, I cannot really tell which nation you meant by your statement :D

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    Comment #48664221

    doubt Trump would accept that pronoun

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    Comment #45576289

    mmm by that definition, which market is truly free market again? I'm not sure you can find one tbh

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    Comment #45576282

    and that action is perfectly fine. But it is then hypocritic to claim one is more justified than the other

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    Comment #43324534

    For some reason I read "edible games" and was super duper curious...

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    Comment #43225332

    > In the digital age, almost impossible. Documentation, process automation, and knowledge transfer mitigate this risk. Are you sure you really work at AWS? Dude, how often do you r…

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    Comment #42870546

    Oh this post...calling out DeepSeek's T&C but not comparing it with OpenAI's is really disingenuous IMO.

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    Comment #42868392

    OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation...lolllllll

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    Comment #42859280

    I would not be super surprised if they intend to do, but I felt that's going to be very hard to implement. The censorship very likely comes from another layer.

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    Comment #42847818

    There's a thing called "local laws and regulations" that you need to comply with to be able to operate in China. It's plain and simple - without this level of limitation, once the …

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    Comment #42739588

    | meet the interests of the majority of people I wonder how do you know "the interests of the majority of people" is to ban Tiktok...

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    Comment #42739531

    Back in the early stage of social media, US companies had the choice to operate in China as long as they comply with the censorship and local laws. Had they chosen not to quit Chin…

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    Comment #42649067

    | I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end. Please do not plan based on anyone's goodwill only, especially in this one you have such a high stake. I'd at least…

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    Comment #42239947

    $7.25 minimum wage per hour at fed level. 40 hour per week and 50 working week you have 14,500 USD, or 105K RMB roughly based on exchange rate today. 105K RMB yearly is close to or…

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    Comment #42078064

    You are likely right the code is not audited, or deployment is not verified. This is a design-level review. You are inaccurate on "they only interviewed engineers". There are docum…

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    Comment #41330546

    I work in EBS. I had no storage background when I joined 3 years ago :)

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    Comment #41324927

    Yes throughput for EBS is also relevant to the instance type. It is all published here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-opti... EBS connects to EC2 via a se…

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    Comment #40681744

    > Product managers had little motivation to act fast, if at all, since compensation was tied to the release of new, revenue-generating products and features Only if I get rewarded …

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    Comment #40466009

    Depends on what volume types you are using. For random access - with io2 you can get 256K IOPS per volume, and if you do RAID0, on the largest instance you can get 400K IOPS. Direc…

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    Comment #40383260

    loll Spanish people must be very pleased hearing this...

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    Comment #40359938

    Not sure what you are talking about. Garman was in product since joined AWS till 2020, then to Sales / marketing.

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    Comment #40170537

    Exactly. It's the risk management system that a company implements. Tech companies also serve customers who are in competition with each other. No company is above this. It's all a…

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    Comment #39673988

    buddy you are mixing availability and durability

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    Comment #39673977

    1MT will take out the infrastructure to make the data not Available. However the data is still in the 3rd datacenter, making it still accessible therefore no compromising on Durabl…

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    Comment #39630606

    Newbie question - What happens after when an LLM training job experience a hardware failure? I don't suppose you lose all the training progress do you? Then the pain is mostly in t…