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At this point, when you are doing big AI you basically have to buy it from NVidia or rent it from Google. And Google can design their chips and engine and systems in a whole-datace…

It's nice, right? I did it a while ago and I highly recommend it. https://triplepat.com/blog/2024/10/17/how-the-website-works

Any computable function f on one variable x has a program. That function is a program of size p. The input x also has a data size d. BB(p+d) >= f(x), by definition, for all f and x…

It was forcibly funded as part of a consent decree from the US government that allowed AT&T to continue as a monopoly as long as they invested a percent of their yearly revenue (or…

They are a zero-trust networking solution that also traverses IPv4 NATs. Zero-trust networking is a layer above the IP layer. In an IPv6 Internet their capital costs go down, and t…

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Countries can tell companies what the maps of their countries should look like and what things should be called. For example, Google shows different info about the Kashmir region d…

NB: The Treynor Curve is named after Ben Treynor and his ideas. Ben Treynor's name changed to Ben Sloss a few years back, and Ben Sloss is one of the authors of this article.

The Qmodem program, brought home on some random 3.5 inch floppy, allowed me to connect to local BBSes and started my journey into networking computers. Now I have a PhD in CS and I…

They said it was currently worse than it used to be before the EU. That is not true. Netflix engaging in complicated IP rights negotiations does not mean the existence of the Europ…

> The EU single market is largely a myth from the perspective of wanting to start a successful company that can compete internationally. It's not any easier now than it was before …

No. Satellite (except when they use lasers, but nobody is proposing space lasers) is a broadcast medium and wire is point to point. Wires will almost always be cheaper and more rel…

The state motto of Texas is "Friendship". (this is true)

People who have never had it have no concept of how much they are missing. It's so frustrating.

Compared to cars and motorcycles? More e-bike usage means more e-bike accidents - that's just arithmetic. And e-bike usage soared. This is scaremongering without those comparisons.…

It is almost precisely what "network neutrality" means in the EU. The US definition is different.

100% is the way to be. Once you get there, then you can start having useful conversations about how to make the coverage more meaningful. But first, you have to make sure that ever…

They tried to make a better C++ and accidentally made a better Java and a better Python.

And HN said "Yup, he basically deserved it." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802917

And (truth value unknown by Snopes because proving a negative is impossible, but it corresponds with the videos) failed to wear identification or do or say anything that would allo…

Your link marks the claim as "mixed truth", which is different from the "no evidence" in your comment text.

People are getting kidnapped off the street by unspecified federal agencies. It's a pretty sensible time to be nervous about what you publicly broadcast.

That's definitely a clear, strong, and powerful ideology. Pretending it is a minimal one is incorrect. More money (for whom? and by what means?) is not always better.

The best is to get agreement on the design is gdocs and then export it to Github so that the design and code live next to each other.