When I was in my mid to late 20s I was at a consulting firm and later in government directly. I wasn’t assigned to anything particularly objectionable or anything, but I’ve looked back on it a lot and it’s heavily influenced how I operate in the tech industry now, 20 years later. In government and in consulting I saw a lot of misaligned incentives that led to empire building, duplicative efforts, and treatment of individuals that I didn’t really find to be effective. And today, I’m really good at spotting that and stopping it quickly, because I think much of that was not the best way to operate. But I didn’t immediately get into it and realize it wasn’t how I would run things - and experiencing being part of the machine for a bit first taught me lessons that I would not have learned as an outside observer.
If you made the same assumptions about me based on what I did in my 20s, you’d actually be assuming the direct opposite of what I believe in and how I work today. We’re all shaped by our experiences, but that shaping doesn’t always mean we grow into the behaviors that we experienced during our formative early career. Maybe this guy looks on that experience and knows exactly what he doesn’t want to see happen.
Well back then we didn’t have all of that memory for those fancy abstraction layers. Sticking your finger in the framebuffer probably wasn’t the worst way to do that!
No, it is not.
Instead of allowing the one-time Covid emergency spending to expire, your guy kept spending at that level.
It will take time and effort to undo all that damage.
This sounds like an entry in the garbage can of excuses your side will use once he fails to implement the improvements that his voters were promised. Biden only had 4 years and a very strong opposition, with Trump he has a more "efficient" government full of yes men, having all three branches of government, plus the popular vote, there is no excuse anymore.
That underground vault of yours - where perspective and nuance are apparently on lockdown - must feel cramped in there with you juggling all these convenient talking points and doomsday predictions.
I invite you to finally come out in the sunlight, and get reacquainted with the real world—where things are never quite as simple as picking up a magic wand and saying ‘No excuses’
You may be tempted to keep the treasure trove of recycled grievances handy though. Just don’t be surprised if the rest of us have moved past the idea that entire policies can be passed overnight by waving a presidential scepter.
The rest of us might still be stuck here dealing with pesky details like budgets, compromise, and, oh... reality.
You should try emerging and enjoying a breath of fresh air; rumor has it oxygen can do wonders for one’s outlook.
The irony is, it's sort of a household name on HN for over a year now, being way ahead of what was available commercially on the market - and yet, it seems most people here haven't heard of it.
(The author used to post a lot of insightful comments here about LLMs and other generative models, too.)
> it's sort of a household name on HN for over a year now, being way ahead of what was available commercially on the market - and yet, it seems most people here haven't heard of it.
Can you clarify what you mean? If "most people here haven't heard of it" then it's probably not a household name.
This isn't about evidence. In a court case, discovery and court orders can authenticate email messages even if providers publish their keys; the provider will have a record of having verified the email when it was received. But ATO attackers will not have access to those records.
What if we did what others suggested was the practical limit - 48GB. Then just put 2-3 cards in the system and maybe had a little bridge over a separate bus for them to communicate?
I believe that would need some software work from Intel where they're lacking a bit now with their delayed start. Not sure how the frameworks themselves split up the inference work to avoid crossing GPUs as the bandwidth is horrible there.
If we're being reasonable and say that you're not using a modern HEDT CPU that costs a couple thousand, the best a consumer botherboard can get right now would be 2x 8x PCIe gen 5 at 32GB/s and one chipset x8 PCIe gen 4 at 16GB/s. I'm not sure if a motherboard like that actually exists but Intel's chipset should allow it; AMD only does x4 to chipset so the third slot is limited by that
Fidelity’s brokerage business would be covered by SIPC, which would include its cash management accounts. They also likely sweep cash out to FDIC-insured accounts. More importantly though, Fidelity is large enough that you’re unlikely to need that insurance, and that’s really how I’d prefer to approach this.
Yeah we can look at 2008 and say no institution is safe, but if there’s risk everywhere, I’ve just got to try and minimize that as best I can. Fidelity didn’t give me any sort of scare that year fwiw. Disclosure: I’ve been using Fidelity for basically all of my money for most of my career now, including cash management.
