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I watched some explain how deepseak got good and the Chinese approach to LLM training.

I distinctly remember reading a big pantie twisting from Sam Altman and Co that Chinese took their stuff, the stuff OpenAI and Co spent billions to create, and used that as the base for $0.00

Correct. To get to the staff engineer level you probably spent at least 10 years in the industry making gobs of money. You did save some, right? Right?

I read it as saying you should fire someone because of their age. Not stupid, malicious.

One does not get the title of "Staff Engineer" for age.

One also does not get fired for age. One gets fired for sitting on their ass doing virtually nothing. The "Staff Engineers" and above tend to sit on their ass, doing virtually nothing. Any sane company would do well by firing them.

When Google was a young company the idea of someone in engineering with a fat title sitting on his ass doing nothing was not tolerated. That's when Google was doing amazing things, was innovative and actually gave a s!it because every single person in that company wanted to get s!it done. Right now Google is a standard issue sh!t company because its upper echelons are full of people who are just warming their fancy chairs, talk about their amazing work life balance and count the days to their next options package vests so they can take yet another multi-months vacation.

So you suggest firing people based on their title alone? Sounds pretty damn stupid.

You can look through the threads in this comment section and in other comment sections of threads that touched on Staff Engineers and Senior staff engineers. People perfectly illustrate why the companies would do well firing them - people describe that as their dream "retirement" job.

Yes, I suggest firing every single one of them. They are non-performing group eating enormous compensation packages.

Continue to perform or live off the savings.

I worked closely with a few during my career in a few companies. It is a retirement plan of people who neither can nor want to perform after they "put in time". These days as someone who gets to give my couple of cents to folks in the upper echelons of promising companies I tell the newly minted CTOs to either not hire them or if they are already hired, fire them.

Staff engineer and above = 45 year old soccer player bench warmer getting the pay 22 year old striker.

There's nothing great about small towns. All of this is waxing of people who don't live in small towns that think it is oh so nice to be able to go to a cute little store on vacation at 11:30am to get a muffin on Saturday. Never mind that the store itself is closed Monday to Friday.

The reason IF works is because it over time restores insulin sensitivity. Calorie restrictive eating without IF does not do that. Any style of eating that restores insulin sensitivity becomes a baseline lifestyle as you aren't fighting hormones. Any style that does not means you are going to constantly fight hormones. At the end, hormones will win.

I've tried ChromeOS Flex on all kinds of gear. It just works.

Use ChromeOS Flex - it works great. I'm running it on a ChromeBox that was out of support in 2018. Perfect video conference setup.

But when the volunteer labor you need in order to function started complaining because this is going to kill the modding tools they need - you should have immediately, like next day, apologized for the oversight and promised free API credits to them until you sort this out.

Nope. The value of being a reddit mod is clout. Clout does not matter to me hence I would not want to skip $$$$ for a clout of one. It matters to them hence they do it for $0.00. As they do not want to do the work, they get no clout. I applaud reddit for nuking them.

Good for reddit. Subreddits aren't moderators personal fiefdoms.

Yup. This thing is done.

It has fixed the issue. I got the March update with the fix a few days ago.

The last Android fix for Android 13 for Pixel 6 is March 5, 2023. That's before the fix.

As of today Google still has not fixed the vulnerability on Pixel 6 a device that Google promised it would provide security fixes for 5 years disclosed by the Project Zero which is a Google suborg.

Today is March 23rd. There has been no pixel 6 update since March 5

Around 1995(?) Erol's Internet used a static RAM based ram-drive device to process email for its tens (hundreds?) of thousands of users. Its larger brother was used to handle Usenet. Unfortunately the Usenet feed was growing like crazy and soon that large drive could not handle it.

... In 2010 some slightly nutty young engineers who heard about that story from the grey beards they worked with at a future very well known company on a very large mysql instance used a monster ramdisk as a single master to achieve a crazy boost in performance. The hard data persistence was achieved via replication to the regular spinning rust slaves. While it worked really well for their application no one ever battle tested bad crashes in production...

... that led to a product around 2013(?)-2014(?) from Violin Memory which combined the ramdisk with if I recall correctly spinning disks to dump the data in case of a power loss. The devices were absolutely amazing but did not create a foot hold in the market. I think they sold a few hundred units total. The product was abandoned in favor of flash arrays

This is literally the primary job of the CFO:

Making sure that if there's X in cash or cash equivalent at noon on March 9th, 2023 PST there's still X in cash or cash equivalents at noon on March 10th, 2023

Demand Deposit Account - the kind of account that allows for cleared funds to be withdrawn without advanced notice. Probably 99.999% of accounts such as checking and savings one can write checks/do ACH payments/send wires/transfer money from fall into this category.

What @htrp said - payable on death.

Per account.

Per account "type" and structure. For DDAs if you are married it will be:

You: $250k

Your+your wife: $250k

You POD your wife : $250k

Your wife: $250k

Your wife POD you: $250k

No, because if they happened to own a small place they won't be able to rent it for a wishing price as there's a price pressure from above thus anyone with a smaller place will pay smaller taxes.

There's a very simple solution to this problem:

* any and every landlord immediately pays taxes based on the asking rent, no matter what rent it is.

If a landlord is asking $2500/mo for something, the government immediately values the property based on whatever the formula is based off the asking rent, even if the landlord cannot fill the space.

Vertical integration right next to consumers.

Wait. You folks think they are investing it to grow lettuce or tomatoes?!

It is not. It is grow pot!

The reason they are folding is that it is taking too long to pass the legislation allowing it on both state and federal level. They were just too early.

We increase the human population by another 100x in the never-ending quest to increase GDP, then we run out of resources and die.

As Musk likes to point out, Japan already has adult diapers outselling baby diapers. I don't think running out of resources is a risk.

What happens in the next 100 years?

This practice of requiring /24 subnets may have made sense in the past to preserve router memory, but with today's technology, it's nonsensical and only serves to artificially deplete available IPv4 addresses.

You should be surprised about how much of the internet still runs on gear from late 1990s

Open source use we will, pay for development we won't, paywall for our "reporting" we have

Long term (18 months) this zapped my energy and I lost a lot of muscle. Yes, weight loss was phenomenal, but I gained all of that back in the phase of exhaustion that followed.

Muscle loss is an adaptation to loss of load on the muscle. Internet trope of "you lose muscle when you lose fat" is just that - a trope. If you were 100lb heavier, your muscles were loaded with extra 100lb. Should you lose the 100lbs, if you do not engage in the appropriate resistance exercises to provide equivalent of additional 100lb load, your muscle mass will decrease