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But why am I waiting for a standup to raise issues/blockers.

Nearly every company has a team chat now. And even before team chats became popular email lists existed.

And if you’re co-located then you just ask your neighbors.

I never have any issues to raise in standup because I’ve already raised/resolved them.
>Obama "drinking" the water in a publicity stunt

Yeah, they did an equally convincing photo op this time too. OhioEPA forgot to crop out the bottle of smartwater when they claimed to drink from the tap... and everyone immediately noticed.

https://twitter.com/flfitfactory/status/1627443706457427969
https://steemit.com/socialization/@snoreball/oversocializati...
Lower access to hardware accelerators -> smaller talent pool.
That's not how it works in America. The real purchasing power, adjusted for inflation and costs of living, of the middle and lower has been falling for decades. There is a massive increase in income at the top. Also, look at CEO to worker pay ratios. Americans, if not moderately-to-very rich, don't know how bad they have it compared to the rest of the modern world.

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation
You can RTO all you want, your top talent will just find the benefits they value with a different employer.
Here's a link to the court filing from which this article is pulling the texts. https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in...
> do you think its possible that we all said 'yep, our planning process is faultless, all we have to do is wait 18 months and it'll come out exactly as we conceived'.

Yes. I know from direct experience.

> how blind we all must have been

Yep. The industry really was that dumb. Much of it still is.
You don’t wait for the meeting to raise things. You raise them when they happen. We have enough async communication tools that you can raise issues without having to wait for a meeting, and yet without disturbing someone who may be focused on something specific.
Microsoft wants the IP behind Activision/Blizzard.

This is much bigger than Call of Duty - everyone is just so short-sighted. Call of Duty is the loss leader for Microsoft. But, as an IP, it is somewhat limited so it's ok to pimp this out. This will be Microsoft's Madden, because they will lose more money by limiting it to one platform.

Cross-platform support and play will be a keystone strategy, because they get to plaster Microsoft Gaming everywhere.

- World of Warcraft on consoles (work has been underway for a while to add direct controller support). And this gives Microsoft instant access to a competitor to Sony's FFXIV. Plus Hearthstone can compete with Wizards of the Coast, and Heroes of the Storm gives them a League of Legends competitor.

- Overwatch, combined with Call of Duty and Halo, will lead the way for Microsoft Gaming to have an eSport division for gaming.

- Starcraft - eSports. It gives them something to add to their strategy games stuff, and I would imagine that it's not going to be too difficult to integrate aspects of Starcraft into Halo (or vice versa).

- Mobile games division (Candy Crush) - with access to a division that knows how to profit off mobile, Microsoft can bring this to other games (or other games to Mobile while profiting - something Nintendo screwed up royally and Sony has no clue how to do).

- Crash Bandicoot and Spyro will give Microsoft new mascots to work with, on top of Minecraft, and allow them to attract younger gamers. This has always been a problem for Microsoft - they've always managed to appeal to young adults / new adults, but teenagers that are the target audience of Nintendo are hard. This segment of the market is much more profitable, and increases mindshare for Microsoft.

It's not hard to see how this fits in the overall Microsoft Live streaming strategy, because in the future, it will be about streaming games and less about the hardware. In order to stream games successfully, you need IP.
"Fuzzy logic" was the "AI" hype buzzword of the 90s.
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As long as the first and last are good you can kinda figure it out
Sure, but you mentioned H100 machine, and those are about 2.5x more expensive.
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Please refresh on the guidelines. Your comment does nothing but break them. "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. ...Please don't sneer" etc. If you edited out your swipes there'd be nothing left.
I believe they are planning API changes though, with restrictions that make alternative sane apps like Apollo not or barely functional.
In my own experience, the supposed ARM chip superiority claims are almost entirely marketing. I get significantly better performance (15-50%) from nearly all of my CPU workloads on modern Intel/AMD hardware vs the ARM Apple devices.
That's why Google developed and uses protobufs.
To make matters worse, I don't even know on which websites I have my YubiKey registered.

I just checked mine, and it shows my Microsoft credentials and NVidia.

But I know for a fact that I also use it on Vanguard and BofA (which doesn't support keys on iOS in case you're wondering).

So I
1) cannot extract the masterkey from my YubiKey and move it to another one to make an exact duplicate
2) cannot discover the places where I registered my key

For SSH you can have a 'sk' key and a normal one [0]. I went with the normal one and moved it into the YubiKey, at least that way I have a backup sitting SOMEWHERE.

[0] https://cryptsus.com/blog/how-to-configure-openssh-with-yubi... (not affiliated at all)
Easy solution is to imprison more people.
It seems the organisation was flagged. See here [0]

[0] https://github.com/community/community/discussions/48173
Analog computing?
> waterfall is a strawman. any pre-agile organization that signed off on a two-year plan and showed up two years later saying 'where's my thing?' is just as much of an idiot as they would be today.

It's not a strawman. Those organisations are very real.

> yes, making plans that you indend to continuously adapt to the situation at hand doesn't conflict with agile. but that still leaves one wondering what agile really brought to the table. time boxing everything at a fixed 2 week interval?

Agile emphasises that you need to deliver something working to the customer, every 2 weeks. Without that it's very easy to call something code-complete or tested but not released or whatever, and you get further and further behind where you think you are because none of the stuff you thought you'd finished actually works.
Go peaked in 2017. Rust is the new hotness. 3 years from now, it will be something else.
How long would you need before you admit you’re potentially wrong?
Cloud hardware will be part of the strategy but not a primary one. It's not about cloud-only, but gaming as a service. In order to sell your service, you need games.

When people have to choose between Sony's version of the service, Nintendo's (paltry) offerings or Microsoft - who do you think they'll choose?

The one with the most games, but more importantly.. the one with the most multiplayer/online games.

Imagine World of Warcraft and Diablo being bundled into Microsoft Xbox Live.
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Yis, wjat eef al teh tekst inn mie coment waz aproximetly tha corekt sett ove letres iyn eech worud?

For many things, like neural networks, it's probably good enough.
It has always been a buzz world, since 2014 or so. But AI has real world applications, unlike the vast majority or all of crypto.
nVidia's DLSS works somewhat like that: the game engine generates a low-res/noisy/low framerate image, and the GPU refines it with an ML model.
> Google killed of Stadia not because it thought that game streaming is a dead end but because it calculated that it already has lost the fight to Microsoft

Agreed on this. What IP did they actually own? Google did the math and decided it wasn't going to be successful.
For the most part the stock market goes up, and part of this rise is caused by inflation. If the market overheats then there's a correction, but the long term trend is steadily upwards. Thus the stock market is a good hedge against inflation, but should be balanced with cash to guard against short-term fluctuations.

There are certainly products and markets where supply does not meet demand. Housing in some local areas (SF etc) can be climbing steeply, whereas in other areas its flat or declining. This is not inflation. This is market-driven-economy.
When visiting a website to purchase an apple iPhone - chrome could insert an ad about android.

It’s not illegal, should they do it?
Lossy text compression has been done

http://compression.ru/download/articles/text/witten_1994cj_l...
Infiniband was mostly displaced by 10, 40, & 100GbE due to costs per port.

With costs so high, adoption is reduced.

The vendors would've been smart to give away one part of it.

Our prod environment doesn't use it because millions of servers would be cost-prohibitive. Corp uses it here and there for experimental clusters.
If you take a Zen 3 running at optimal clocks for efficiency (such as the 5800U) the difference between its computing performance per watt is competitive with the M1 if you account for the difference in node size (which TSMC claims gives 30% less power consumption at the same performance). As the article points out, the real efficiency gains will be domain specific changes such as shifting to 8 bit for more calculations.
I switched to the latest and they didn’t seem very good.

Maybe I’m too critical.
They aren’t miles ahead. That’s a myth. That’s why their stock dropped so much.
Generally the concept of hybrid algorithms is:

- Half "hard maths" algorithms. i.e. cominbatorics, geometry, etc.

- Half "fuzzy maths" algorithms. i.e. heuristics, approximation, machine learning.

The idea being to solve the parts that can be easily solved by hard maths with those hard maths so that you can reduce the problem space for when you apply the fuzzy maths to solve the rest of the problem.

In other words, it's taking the problem, breaking out discrete pieces to solve with well established hard maths, using heuristics & numerical solutions to tackle the remaining known problems without "easy" analytical solutions, then using ML to fill in all the gaps and glue the whole thing together.
> And with Microsoft having a cloud gaming service already NVIDIA fears that the money train might stop.

When I used Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service about 8 years ago, I was blown away. Where is it?
but online reviews are valuable because they democratize evaluation and help people make informed decisions while also providing feedback to businesses. at least in old time, it's possible to sift through the noise and get a sense of the general consensus.
tbh, Agile as preached and Agile as practiced is not exactly similar.

I think there is even a good video describing that, from 7 years ago[0].

agile does not at all mean backlogs, or sprints, or specific tooling or even CI. Agile boils down in essence to “deliver often, do the minimum needed, prioritise prototyping”.

[0]: https://youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M
Resolve One was on my radar at the time because I was deep into building ERPs in Python.

All our clients had stacks of sedimented business rules and know-how, lying around in a mess of unreliable, unmaintained and un-versioned Excel files.

I was thinking of using Resolve One as a conduit that might be helpful to absorb all of that. A UI similar to a spreadsheet would be a clever trojan for adoption, as I could win the hearts and minds of the users that were not seeing themselves as developers. While bringing better software engineering and QA in the enterprisey world of organically grown, ad-hoc solutions.

Neptyne seems to revive that grand vision, so it would be interesting to study how and why Resolve One failed. Too soon perhaps, as the market wasn’t as big as it is today? Or maybe by the time you reach the critical point of the messy pile of Excel docs, you consent to invest into your core business and hire internal developers. I’d love to read a post-mortem of Resolve One.
i as well.

i thought it was the principal behind the site. yiu can rip the face off of a model and retrain just the last bits.
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> Microsoft on the other hand doesn’t see NVIDIA in the same light they much more worried about SOE.

What does SOE stand for in this context?

Edit: worked it out. Sony Online Entertainment.
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They absolutely DO mess with it if you have an ad-blocker installed on your browser.

Of course, the user explicitly installed the ad-blocker; the user didn't expect MS Edge to screw with the way the web page looks.
I liked Soylent for a little while, but something about the mixture of fiber and liquid was something that my stomach very much did not like in terms of indigestion. I eventually gave up on it, and haven't heard much about it at all over the past 2-3 years.
Being "competent" is not sufficient.

Are they doing anything useful besides telling clueless CEOs what they want to hear?

Is there any difference between a stupid person and a smart person doing something pointless?
> So you think it’s reasonable to have no idea what it will cost, or when it will be done, when building software? You think it’s possible to run a successful business that way?

It absolutely is; look at some of the biggest and most successful software companies in the world. No-one has any idea what facebook will cost or when it will be done (Zuckerberg has said that he was off by at least 5 orders of magnitude IIRC). No-one has any idea what google will cost or when it will be done. No-one has any idea what amazon will cost or when it will be done. No-one has any idea what netflix will cost or when it will be done.
The article is about energy efficiency. Do you get 15-50% better performance per watt from nearly all of your workloads?
The answer to that in the short term is requiring a submission fee.

The answer to that in the long term is to create AI editors who have good taste and can nudge writers to deliver.
I'm sure I could easily win a fight with any of these animals. Assuming, of course, I have a large gun, and enough distance between myself and the animal that it can't hurt me before I shoot it.
They won't spring for a system to apply the brakes on all cars at the same time. They sure aren't going to wire every axle up with sensors and network the whole train.
I have always felt that my system wants to go into low power mode in the winter. It feels very unnatural to work full time in the winter. And working longer hours in the summer feels natural as well. I think you are on to something.
I agree. American employers have failed to raise wages and American workers have accepted this as OK. That's not the fault of inflation its the fault of a passive workforce.

Contrast to France where workers are organised, and motivated, and the slightest sign of pain leads to rioting.

While it's easy to "blame inflation" for the decline in real wages, that's not the root cause of the problem. Of course every employer keeps talking about inflation as the cause - it deflects from the real cause.
I don't understand. You agree that labour is the biggest expense. So why do you think it's bizzare that companies trying cut costs are laying off people?
There's no loss of manual skills, only the transfer of time and energy from a now irrelevant historically necessary executive action to a higher space of creation. You wouldn't demand that a sculpture loses all meaning if the sculptee didn't excavate the block of marble from a cliff with their bare hands, nor that a graphics artist's work is invalid unless they place every pixel individually (though that's a specific subgenre, pixel art).

No clue what you mean by 'menu'. Artists have always chosen from a selection of available possibilities - colors of paint, size and shape of canvas, notes of music, words to write... A book is no less art just because the author had to pick from a menu of 26 letters. Nothing stops you from hacking and molding and mixing the results down to the finest details of every atom if you feel so inclined.

Maybe you can't envision any future for AI in art, but that only says something about you as an artist, or lack thereof.
> The reality is that the product isn’t yet mature enough to close big sales without making sales commits. I dislike sales commits, but we’d legitimately lose every big RFP unless we commit to adding the ~2-5 features they really, truly need that we don’t yet have. And sales commits come with real, external due dates, that you need to be able to meet if you don’t want to piss off your customers.

That's just pushing the issue one level higher. Most likely both the customer and you would be happier if you were able to iterate with them rather than building the thing they thought they would want however many months back. (And while it may be harder to set up that kind of contract, it's absolutely possible)
Mirror to a backup service you like (or a local disk) and it's still cheaper and more available than filecoin/ipfs.
That article is whitewashing. There were demands for 8 hour work days decades before Ford. 10 hours had become widespread, sure, and some only asked for 10, but Robert Owen's slogan "eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest" dates to 1817, and had been picked up by unions and socialist groups over the following decades.

May 1st as an international day for workers demonstrations even came about as a result of the aftermath of the Chicago Haymarket Massacre in 1886 during one of the demonstrations for the 8 hour day. The then AFL proposed May 1st demonstrations as part of relaunching the fight for the 8 hour day.

That some employers saw the writing on the wall and cut it to 8 with less pressure applied than others was in large part because the multiple decades long, sometimes bloody, fight for earlier cuts had shown it did not affect production anywhere near as much as opponents had claimed.
Funnily enough, I find myself the exact opposite. Give me a really hard engaging problem and I can work 16 hours and barely realize any time has passed, but spending even 1-2 hours on something rote saps my energy for the entire day. My tolerant is even lower for the particularly challenging combination of tasks that are both uninteresting but also tedious.
An internal google employee told me this
I would say that technically the US invaded Ukraine by installing a subservient government after the ousting of Yanukovich. This is why Hunter Biden's laptop was buried as much as possible, it would reveal the connections and the financial interests. If Putin truly wanted to conquer Ukraine, he would have taken out the electricity and water supply, things of that nature.

This is not Ukraine vs Russia, this is the US/NATO vs Russia
Re. The “hybrid algorithms” bit:
I was at this talk. The example she gave was a physics sim like CFD, iterating between a fast/approximate ML-based algorithm and slow/accurate classical physics algorithm, with the output of each feeding in as the starting point of the next round. But this was just an example, clearly there are lots of area you could apply a similar approach.
I've been using this for breakfast for years now. Hope the acquisition doesn't mess up a good thing. And, hell, congratulations are in order I suppose. I will credit Soylent with helping change the way I thought about food.
that +1000
They drifted from their stated purpose early. It’s little more than a brand now.

Makes sense to finally finish selling out. They let down their core audience a long time ago.

It used to be a powder, exclusively.
The blue Yubikey Security Key only has WebAuthn (FIDO). The 5 series does have GPG.
Honestly I don't understand why there's not something like a 256 core ARM laptop with 4TB RAM.

The benefit of ARM is scale of multitasking due to not requiring the same kind of lock states that Intel's architecture requires, and can additionally scale much better than only one physical+virtual core pair.

I guess the only thing that's holding back ARM is Microsoft, as laptops are expected to run an desktop OS that people are comfortable with. Windows RT wasn't really a serious desktop OS and rather a joke made only for some IoT enterprises instead of end-users.

I wish there was more serious hardware than the standard broadcom or MediaTek chips, I'd definitely want some of that...be it as a mini ATX desktop/server format (e.g. as a competitor to Intel NUC or Mac Mini) or as a laptop.

With the ongoing energy crisis something like solar powered servers would be so much more feasible than with x86 hardware.
Then you would be comparing with the X models of the same size, which start at 0.9kg

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Nano-Laptop...
Leather seems like it would be much more durable. Sure you need to pump it, but it's less wasteful
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Seattle! We have them, don’t get me wrong. But nothing like the swamps of northern Virginia I grew up in.
You can do this without blockchain.

At a fundamental level it's pretty simple:

Have account A in currency Y. Have account B in currency X.

When account A receives funds, release funds from account B.

This is how companies like wise.com work.

The complicated part is the regulation and reporting needed for cross-border transactions.

To be fair to crypto, it does offer one way of disconnecting the two accounts - rather than having any trust between them, you can simply use a trusted distributed ledger. This in theory creates a marketplace. (Keeping in mind that any trusted system could achieve the same goal, just happens that you can do this with crypto). Of course, it does so by adding cost, complexity, and maybe making your transactions public.

The real 'benefit' is that because crypto is new, and wild west, is that there's no guarantee that accounts A and B are complying with regulation and reporting needed for cross-border transactions (or even banking in general). As such on the surface it can seem like this is a cheaper and easier alternative - but only because it's avoiding the problem, not solving it. Given enough time and countries will likely crack down on this.
Ohh Yes..You are spot on. It's there in our upcoming release.Stay tuned please.
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I agree that a lot of AMDs wins have come from TSMC. That being said, I feel like the biggest win for them over the past 5 years (well 6 now)... was moving to chiplets, which all started at Global Foundaries. Having the same chip, from the lowest end consumer chip all the way to the top end server chip means that they can spend less time and cost developing up processors for every segment, and they just bin the chips in terms of quality.

Intel is starting to make changes towards this structure but they haven't fully committed to it yet.
That is really interesting.

NX has been on my "to learn" list for a long time and high enough that I have given it a few stabs with personal project but something have failed every single time. I chalked it down to my setup or my inexperience but maybe it just isn't as good as I thought.