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woosh indeed

Financial wfh disadvantages?

The IRS wanted a full 3d scan of my face to prove identity AFTER I already had a working account used every year for the past 3+ years. They asked for feedback after I canceled the…

Dropped my Gemini pro sub yesterday, the new quotas make antigravity unusable.

I'm curious why they wouldn't opt for Mac studios - Smaller size = more efficient cluster layout? RAM is the only care so skip the beefy studio CPUS and max ram on something cheape…

It'd be cool to fork HN and show only the flagged posts

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I REALLY struggle with Gemini 3 Pro refusing to perform web searches / getting combative with the current date. Ironically their flash model seems much more likely to opt for web s…

consider this for addtl cost savings if local doesnt interest you - https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/m...

Because they have the right to

These aren't telescopes, but it is quite similar to what you're describing otherwise: https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalabl...

Since you're in industry, any thoughts on the Rellis "test bench" at Texas A&M? "SMR Four" Consortium: In early 2025, Texas A&M selected four other major SMR companies to deploy re…

Source?

Public ownership of public services hmm?

To my knowledge Amazon never debt financed their ops like this

It's more like you're installing the dishwasher and the dishwasher itself yells at you "I told you so" ;)

I'm surprised this hasn't been been automated yet but I'm pretty naive to the space - the problem of "when?"/"how often?" seems like a fun one to chew on

I always chuckle when tech writers take a stab at financial statements

Its also plausible that the research field attracts people who want to explore the cutting edge and now that transformers are no longer "that"... he wants to find something novel.

It becomes more important with each repost

I have in my possession a chunk of one of those graphite bricks. Very neat piece of history.

Probably the Intel CPUs in Macbooks before Apple made the push for the M1 - circa the Intel quad core era where their laptop chips had major heat issues... ~2012 IIRC?

That is true, but I'd rather deal with a busted solar farm than a busted nuclear reactor

Can you expand on the coffee portion? Why would that be beneficial?

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