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sakex

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    Comment #48813422

    3% profit margin means you're better off selling the business and investing the cash into US bonds at current rates.

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    Comment #48740806

    Another thing in that vein is features that were built because the previous approach was obtuse. For instance, find it harder to explain async/await in JS to people who never exper…

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    Comment #48548051

    Too much immigration too quick, people got fed up from what I gather

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    Comment #48483899

    I worked at google for 3 years and can confirm what you've heard. Obviously, every org is somewhat different.

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    Comment #48453910

    While I agree we need to keep our immigration under control, this is not the solution.

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    Comment #48232961

    Is this based on paged attention with hashing of the pages?

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    Comment #47828657

    Incredible to see my high school mentioned here

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    Comment #47672451

    Gaming GPUs only which are those we are all nostalgic about, but hardly the ones that matter now for Nvidia.

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    Comment #47130998

    I also bought a laptop with an RTX 5090 (mobile) in New York last month. I paid half what I would have paid in my country. Especially when you consider how low the USD is trading a…

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    Comment #46381380

    Levels in big tech are just a way to keep you motivated. You'll work harder to get a promo. In the end it doesn't matter, you'll make more money by either leaving or getting a rete…

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    Comment #46381278

    Exactly like Trump is doing to you.

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    Comment #46374807

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45899434

    I'd be surprised if they didn't scale it up.

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    Comment #44428811

    There are new things being tested and yielding results monthly in modelling. We've deviated quite a bit from the original multi head attention.

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    Comment #44053115

    Maybe add the date to the title, because it's hardly new at this point

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    Comment #43692708

    What about MRI? Just had one. Sorry if it's a stupid question, I don't know much about this

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    Comment #43612427

    The anomaly here are AI researchers

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    Comment #43126336

    > They won’t notice those extra 10 milliseconds you saved Depends what you're doing. In my case I'm saving microseconds on the step time of an LLM used by hundreds of millions of p…

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    Comment #43088687

    The point you're missing is that people were making the same kind of comments about Amazon and Uber not too long ago

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    Comment #42841738

    I was laid off from Google in January last year alongside 150 people in my extended team. I managed to find a different team in Gemini, so now I'm part of Deepmind. I have very con…

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    Comment #42778445

    > I have some doubt about #2. Weren't Big Tech companies paying senior engineers $300K+ - in 2025-adjusted dollars - back in 2013? Yes but big tech got bigger. Google had a 4th of …

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    Comment #42710518

    Such an accurate description of what I went through in Switzerland. Kids are mean, and I had to be mean to survive too. It stained my character in ways I am still trying to overcom…

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    Comment #42661661

    Name and shame