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Modeled reverb yet no modeled compressor, hrmm, is compression not used on kick drums (or not a big part of the sound)?

They can rent out their AI infra to The Hyperscalers.

Too big to exhaust... the concluding sentences of the article contain the details. "Hybrid search with pruning" is the current state of the codebase.

Paper mentions Parquet, ORC, Nimble, Lance, TSFile, Bullion, and BtrBlocks.

A 100-bit bloom filter holding 100,000 keys is saturated instantly. Every bit is set. It returns “maybe present” for every key you ask about — which means it filters nothing, and every read falls through to a full file scan.

Hahaha. (Seems like the bloom filter library isn't set for maximum false positive rate and/or to autoexpand.)

Edit: Actually there's a BloomFalsePositive setting, maybe it never gets used? Also maybe it's not a library and it's a custom implementation.

Marketing might help at some workplaces, presumably that are dedicated to Microsoft, for example our network blocks Claude (and DeepSeek) and is slowly rolling out Codex team by team. They should encourage Amazon/AWS to market for them.

Let’s imagine the owner lowers the rent by 30% to fill the building.

Thought I'd comment with some concrete numbers. New buildings near me (West LA) are at $4100/month for a studio, where average rent in the area is $2300 for a studio, $2650 for a 1-bedroom. To fit in with "average" rent they'd need to lower 44% however 30% might be about right. Otherwise at 4% inflation wait 9 years? 1.04^9 = 1.42 ~ 100/(100 - 30).

Any denoising?

https://github.com/Twinklebear/oidn-rs

Thread.sleep(100000) everywhere until it breaks. Then lo and behold you have fought fires longly and bravely until midnight on Friday after the release. Don't ask me why it's rewarded, and, of course every now and then they switch to rewarding different things.

If the rule change goes through then SpaceX could be added to an index such as the S&P 500, where many (most?) pension funds invest. "S&P 500 has been considering a rule change to waive the earnings requirement and shorten the seasoning period for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX." "Pension funds allocate 30% to 50% of their total portfolios to broad U.S. equities [in the form of index funds.]"

Revenue. (Or forecast revenue, take your pick.)

No mention of any of these!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089396591...

OpenAI contract, "Sept 10 (Reuters) - OpenAI has signed a contract to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years from Oracle".

Just wire neurons (human or otherwise) to computers, and see what happens.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-05/cortical-labs...

Any niche? I mean, possibly large-scale data processing, yet I've seen people go more niche than that. In other words if your resume has 5+ years in one particular industry then that might be whom to target.

You're perhaps forgetting Waymo at $30B

diskless laptop with a USB live distro with no RW filesystem

Which distro? One known problem is that browsers still transmit their location. If the network and the laptop are hundreds of yards distant, that's an instant red flag. Once that problem is corrected, there may be unknown problems to deal with.

Have an upvote. The "Note: It is allowed to cost money." reminds me that the $5 charge on MeFi filters out alot of noise. However, this doesn't necessarily promote an increase in quality. Much of the discussion can be, like Reddit, cute or snarky one-liner comments.

You're right about the pay for teachers. However if you look at the way it's worked out for adjunct professors at the college level, the part-time pay is even less, plus they miss out on benefits. If there's any high school teachers' union involved, I'd bet they'd be against allowing part-time teachers.

Once I chanced upon an ad for high school comp sci teacher. They were willing to waive the Master's degree requirement as well as the teaching credential requirement. As you note, the pay was ridiculously low, about 30-35% less than industry salary for a fresh-out-of-school graduate. Would have been nice though, for someone eager to teach but wanting to skip the 2-4 years of extra training.

they're getting paid the same or more than existing software devs.

Ha. Look at some writeups of the SoCal Edison outsourcing, for example. U.S. citizens making $95K were replaced with H1-B workers earning $60-65K, and that's generously estimating the lower salaries. Tata and Infosys might pay their workers closer to $40-50K.

https://www.google.com/search?q=socal+edison+h1b+wages

There seems to be a major issue with cost-of-living adjustments

Yep yep. Otis College of Art and Design "overperforming" for $42k salary is ridiculous. The title Junior Graphic Designer pays around $40k* in Los Angeles, where Otis is located. Therefore, the average for graduates is as-expected. *Source: Glassdoor.

I tried the Metro, but it didn't go where I wanted to go somehow.

Metro rail is not complete coverage, however the extension out to Santa Monica (West LA) is opening early 2016. As you say, the buses get mired in traffic all too often.

I wish this were the law everywhere. It varies by jurisdiction. "Each city in California has its own rules about riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. Some cities allow sidewalk riding, some don’t. Check with your city’s municipal code." (http://la-bike.org/resources/california-bicycle-laws)

I'm a little leery of articles like this that are so demonizing

Particularly when the article avoids comparison to either modern military drug usage, or allied military drug disbursement at the time. "British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the second world war and the RAF used so many that "Methedrine won the Battle of Britain" according to one report."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alertness

I saw racist and sexist posts personally

Honestly Reddit in general could be taken as "racist and sexist" by an outsider. By an outsider. The humor tends to be sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top, and in-group. For example any references to /r/pyongyang can be written off, 99% of the time it's part of a dedicated running joke that's not intentionally malicious. Pao as Hitler is jarring? You seem naively unfamiliar with Reddit.

you won't see that money for 8-10 years

Amen. Not such a good notion to trade salary for options, when that extra salary could have been invested all that time. $10k in 2005 is equivalent to $17k in 2015, $21k if you consider dividends reinvested.

On Windows, Microsoft Security Essentials warns when a hosts file change is detected. Fortunately it's a simple click to decline any further action. Related, I've witnessed AdBlock Plus spontaneously removed from Firefox, I assume due to anti-virus software, but possibly also due to MSE.

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Look at Salesforce, Workday, Amazon, etc. They are all negative or razor thin. Oracle and SAP are used to 85% gross margin on software.

Workday has a profit margin of 62% versus Oracle's profit margin of 82%. It's less but it's not that big of a gap.

How do I go about valuing myself in the market without wasting a ton of time?

It takes a ton of time, but interview people. Seriously, you would not believe what the applicant pool is like, even after resume filtering and phone screening. After interviewing 20-30 people you may have a very different perspective on which decile of value that you fall into. If you are in the top 10% of developers, then your value is the top 10% as well.