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Right - so it makes sense that Nvidia wouldn’t do that, and instead pass that risk off, diversify across multiple vendors, and return earnings to their investors as dividend and buyback? And that the…

The argument goes that if prices were unbounded above, demand would drop, and suppliers would move heaven and earth to deliver more to take advantage. No one fills their tank ‘just to be safe’ if the…

Aren’t the generators already selling into a spot market that saw a multi thousand percent price increase in this demand peak, and are thus so incentivized? Providers AIUI are not responsible for any …

> unable to raise the money I think Nvidia could borrow or raise basically any amount of money if they had capital-intensive projects to invest in that would solve current or future supply constrai…

> ‘long run’ That’s on the order of years for this problem. I would imagine that Nvidia doesn’t think it could survive the reputational costs of charging market clearing prices for their cards for…

It gets points for being a novel form of broken!

> truly high performance requires tuning your code to linux, to the network interface cards, and a deep understanding of what your code is doing With absolutely no snark intended: what alternative …

Turn off your work VPN!

Apologies, off base there. Edited with a pointer to Flight :)

Not GP post, but it might have been better stated as 'eliminating serde overhead'. Arrow's RPC serialization [1] is basically Protobuf, with a whole lot of hacks to eliminate copies on …

Speaking fees turn prestige into money, and money into prestige. People that are more famous than rich get a little richer; institutions get to associate themselves with those people, and be the kind…

The batteries are going to be a consumable if users continue to demand a wireless experience, which most of them seem to prefer, regardless of whether that’s delivered as a dongle or integrated into t…

Wayland folks generally, and ddevault in particular, have built the software they wanted to build, with the tradeoffs they wanted to make. That's good! Users don't have a right to demand t…

The implied volatility isn't insane if the underlying is, you know, insanely volatile.

No. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDhTjE0XmkE

Some trades are strategy and some are tactics. This is the latter.

One buys a stock on the premise that someone else will pay more for it in the future. Most of the time the future is years down the road, because you made a good bet on what business would be profitab…

It’s an interesting observation, and a shocking title, but the applicable lesson seems to be “don’t use an aggressively quantized network if your application is sensitive to quantization errors”

A refatoring tool might want to offer semantic renaming. If 'x' occurs in many places textually in the source, the only way to be sure that a rename operation only acts on the same variable…

At the risk of contributing my own probably-subtly-broken advice to the collection already present in this thread, I would note that there is a relatively sane system python3 on Catalina/Big Sur…

There’s a good quote in the recent Increment issue on remote work, of a manager’s email signature: Received this email outside of my standard working hours (ET)? That means I’ve chosen to do som…

The fine-grained classification work associated with her thesis isn't an _easy_ technical problem. The dataset, labeling, and architecture generated a few other first-author conference papers fo…

I think the point was reciting the (true!) 'biased datasets create biased models' argument at best avoids, and at worst actively undermines those bigger questions. Someone in another thread …

> In practice, we often treat the bias as an exogenous factor when it is not, moving it outside the scope of our responsibility Thanks the comment and this explication, you clarified the conflict t…

Sure, but the terminal point of that logic is _an exodus of healthcare workers in the middle of a pandemic_. Seems like something to avoid?

Installing R through conda is a PITA esp. for packages that aren’t in conda-forge yet, I’ll give you that. Installing through homebrew or using the R project builds is very smooth in my experience

Interesting, all of the transactions with Coinbase as contributor have memo fields like x.yyyzzz BITCOIN SOLD VIA COINBASE - PURCHASER UNKNOWN and are followed subsequently by transactions wi…