raphaelj

There have been a lot of CEOs that took control of a 2nd company in a totally different field, but have never been so catastrophic. Musk's takeover of Twitter is a total anomaly.

Could you anyone explain how the same person that founded SpaceX could be so bad at managing Twitter?

I mean, he is so bad that a child you'd have managed it better.

On the other side, SpaceX is a pretty well managed company, a market leader that manages to sell its services for 30% cheaper than its closest competitor.

(I'm not referring to Tesla, as it might just happen that Musk took over when the teams were already efficient and the roadmap well defined. Tesla's success might be pure Musk's luck)

Is it really ? It wouldn't be the first time copyright offices would register some nonsense.

I'm using a Nvidia Jetson Nano.

It's basically like a Raspberry Pi, but with a beefier GPU. It's not extremely fast, but is decent as a web and file server.

TDP is extremely low, 3W idle, 8W top.

Related question, what is the best way to handle kernel compatibility for CUDA, OpenCL, etc ... ?

I had to write a cross-platform kernel a few weeks ago, and I ended using pre-processor guards to make it work with the OpenCL and CUDA compilers [1].

[1] https://github.com/RaphaelJ/libhum/blob/main/libhum/match.ke...

It's pretty common to define "higher-order" functions in functional programming. These will sometimes be applied to code blocks.

For example, Python's with statement could have been entirely programmed as a library function if lambas supported code blocks:

    with(open("file.txt"), lambda f:
        content = f.read()
        return sum(int(c) for c in content.split(" "))
    )

Functional languages usually have a pretty limited "core" and implement most of their features through their standard library, usually using higher-order functions, overloaded operators ...

Sadly, Python is a pretty poor functional language.

The core of functional programming is about avoiding mutable states, not much about anonymous functions or passing functions as data.

To do proper functional programming in Python, there should be IMO:

- a way to enforce non-mutable variables/objects;

- non-mutable collections;

- proper support for recursion and tail-recursion optimization;

- a better syntax for anonymous functions than single statement lambdas.

Generators are nice, but do not have much to do with functional programming.

Unless you can prove them wrong, the parent's is still right: these child labor laws have been revoked to benefit a minority's financial interests.

Boomers own a bigger share of the wealth than people the same age 20y+ ago:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charting-the-growing-genera...

Strange, I personally find it very enjoyable on the switch.

Could be better obviously but I really like the art style and the gameplay is way more fluid than almost any other AAA games running at 60FPS on my PC.

Still pretty expensive IMO.

I'm building a GPU accelerated signal processing web-app, and I'm currently planning to deploy it on a $180 Nvidia Jetson. Performances are a little bit low, but mostly enough to make the app usable.

I tried to find GPU instances for < $50/month, but couldn't find any. The only alternative would have been to rent Apple M1 instances at Scaleway, but it's still way more expensive (€80/month) than hosting my 10 watts Jetson at home.

Does anybody know cheaper GPU instances? I don't need much computing power, about 0.5Tflops to 1TFlops

Ask your employer to work Part-Time (e.g. 3 or 4d/w).

That will free a lot of time to prototype and experiment with your SaaS, while keeping a stable income stream. You'll basically an infinite runway to launch your product.

CV-wise, that's even better as the experience you'll get on your side-business (product dev, project management, new techs ...) will add up nicely to your regular job's. There will be no empty line on your CV.

I've been doing this for 4y, taking free time, learning new techs and and trying to launch various SaaS, and my CV would never been as great if I kept working full-time. I'm also significantly happier.

This could be applied to (some of ?) the tech companies as well.

Meta valuation is strongly associated with the network effect of its apps. The value of the actual assets (technologies, data-centers ...) is far lower than the market cap.

Creating a FB and Instagram 1:1 clone would significantly cost less than the current $500B market value.

Luckily for us, petrol will get harder to extract in the next decades, and thus more expensive.

Why couldn't these be cut in transportable pieces and then industrially grinded?

Interestingly, blade waste, when put in comparison to the size of the population, is pretty negligible.

As per the article, the EU will discard about 650k tons of blades between 2044 and 2049, or 130k tons per year. That's less than 300 grams (or 0.7 lb) per EU citizen.

I'm wondering if these waste could not better be reused as construction material (e.g. grinded to pieces and then used as concrete aggregate).

That already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

Well, my bike is insured, and I bought a recently released angle grinder-resistant lock [1].

My workspace is also fairly well located so that also helps.

[1] https://eu.litelok.com/products/litelok-x1

Indeed. Still better though.

Somewhat unrelated to the article, but I live in a mid-size EU city and dumped my car for an e-bike a few months ago.

Surprisingly, it hasn't been that hard (my GF kept her car, and I have a car-sharing subscription):

Pros:

- Immediately stopped having insomnia. Better feel overall;

- about €300/month in additional disposable income. That's basically a free lunch everyday!

- significantly faster if parking is taken into account for most trips. The bike is faster for any < 10 km / 7 mi trip;

- do not have to worry about car maintenance, parking tickets or theft;

- you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;

- amazing when the weather is great;

- (almost) no emission.

Cons:

- might be impossible depending on work or children;

- weather might make the ride unpleasant;

- somewhat dangerous when the infrastructure is lacking.

I'm pretty sure I'll never own a car, unless absolutely required by work. Improving the infra and the car-sharing network would be awesome.

If First Republic goes bankrupt, it's still the same, isn't it?

Why are these putting an uninsured deposit instead of buying equity?

This is part of why the bank appealed to funders and startups. These positions are just marketing to better reach their target customer base, as far as I see them.

You're wrong.

Guy wasn't random, he critically put his life on the line to save 13 teenagers.

An material efficient and cost effective battery recycling industry would be key if we want a somehow durable way of keeping private vehicles.

It's hard to believe we could provide 1 ton batteries to 5B+ people long-term without efficient recycling. The mineral reserves are just not enough.

What would be the impact of such fleets on electricity production management?

As these charge overnight, I'm guessing USPS could easily program them to charge when the electricity is the cheapest (i.e. overproduced), or skip charges when the remaining range is enough and electricity expensive.

Constantly get yourself in new fields, practice your curiosity.

Whenever you can, learn a new tech, a new music instrument, practice a new sport, get into new disciplines ... Soon you'll end up with a brother knowledge of things, and meet people you'd never ever thought to dream of.

The thing is, in most fields, you don't need to get very experienced to develop valuable knowledge or skills. But the combined value of knowing these various things will get exponentially more valuable, socially and professionally.

Is there a reason we couldn't grind the blades to sand-like pieces and use it as concrete material?

The emergence of decent car sharing networks makes it even more cost-effective.

Why would I own a 100kWh car, when I only need that range 2x per year, and I could rent that bigger car with my smartphone in 30 secs, for 1/20th of the annual cost?

That's the correct answer.