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by Breza 2y ago
I'll give Adobe credit for integrating AI features into its products without charging extra. I imagine it's not cheap for them to support that much generative AI on an application that has traditionally run 100% on users' loc
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by Breza 2y ago
Well said. Back when people pirated Photoshop, there wasn't much competition. Here's a newspaper quote from 1999: "GIMP, an Image editing program like the $899 PhotoShop, is free. I must be fair here and say that PhotoShop is
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by Breza 2y ago
> Bitcoin allows me to buy things online without paying extra fees to private companies like stripe, visa, etc Honest question, how do you do this in a way that doesn't cost you any fees to third parties? What are you buying? Here&#
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by Breza 2y ago
I would enjoy it more if the price went to zero. Imagine being able to set up miners with a spare Raspberry Pi. It's rubbish as money but fascinating technologically.
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by Breza 2y ago
That place was great! I have to say that Baltimore has gotten better overall over the past decade or two, but I do miss the Inner Harbor B&N.
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by Breza 2y ago
Agreed. I've taken to uploading all relevant documentation as a text file along with my prompt. Even that doesn't always work.
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by Breza 2y ago
I totally agree with you. I don't mind paying for creative devs to build awesome software. I do mind cash grabs. Mobile gaming is the most frustrating category. It's sad that pay-once-no-ads games like Crashlands and 80 Days are t
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by Breza 2y ago
Apps at the scale of what GP describes were often freeware with no ads or tracking back in the day. I remember when PC Magazine would send a CD-ROM full of utilities like that with the latest issue (not strictly free but I was already subsc
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by Breza 2y ago
OpenAI launched gpt3 on June 11, 2020. That's probably the biggest lead they'll ever have over the competition. Over the past several months, I've gotten to the point where OpenAI could vanish tomorrow and I honestly wouldn&#
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by Breza 2y ago
Agreed. Plus, an interviewer wants to see how you work on a team. If you just had someone else help you understand something, you should say, "That's a great question, and Sally and I just went really in-depth with it in my last i
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by Breza 2y ago
Yes. Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't think doctors are overpaid. The amount of time and effort they invest in undergrad, sometimes additional college after that, medical school, residency, and sometimes a fellowship is
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by Breza 2y ago
People would develop in different ways if they could live to be 1000. It would hardly end societal development. I imagine education would be a bigger deal, since you'd be in less of a hurry to get on with life at 18. Families would be
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by Breza 2y ago
This attitude matches how my friends in medicine think. There's a thing causing suffering. Can we get better at preventing our treating it?
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by Breza 2y ago
Do you have a source for that? Physician salaries do not account for all that large of a portion of healthcare spending. A $300,000/year doc performs a lot of procedures annually, and the amortized amount isn't huge compared to ot
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by Breza 2y ago
My workplace migrated expense reporting from Expensify to SAP Concur and I miss it every month. So glad I don't have to use anything else from SAP.
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by Breza 2y ago
Agreed! Plus they keep raising prices while putting all the major new features into separate subscriptions.
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by Breza 2y ago
It depends. Some niche software is so entrenched that they have no incentive to improve. But other domains are nimble enough that there's still a fight for market share.
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by Breza 2y ago
I've gotten so fed up with Salesforce that I've taken to exporting data and reports using SOQL and displaying them in external dashboards.
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by Breza 2y ago
Well said. Tesla seems to struggle with things that other manufacturers find easy. The Model T had three floor pedals. The Cybertruck only has two.
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by Breza 2y ago
This is an accurate take. I own my house, so GM paid to install my charger. If I were s renter, they would have given me a bunch of charging credits instead. Every year, I'm seeing more chargers. It's rare for me to worry about ch
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by Breza 2y ago
Matt Levine has a great newsletter where he regularly delves into questions like this. He recently wondered, somewhat seriously, if the era of valuing stocks based on fundamentals was a fad that's now over.
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by Breza 2y ago
I was driving a 2016 Ford Fiesta. Last year I decided it was too small for my family of three. I wanted an EV, and my needs focus on exactly the practical stuff you describe. I don't need a car that I can turn into a robotaxi or whatno
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by Breza 2y ago
I wonder if it's because English adapts words from other languages when there's a need for a new or more concise phrase.
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by Breza 2y ago
Good point. When I was first exploring the Bible, I'd get bored with the detailed lists of people who saw things happen. Took me years to realize that the lists were people who were still alive at the time and could provide verificatio
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by Breza 2y ago
Totally agree. I worked at a company where everybody was always paid the full bonus target. We were acquired by a much larger company that was confused. Eventually after much persuasion they just folded the bonuses into our base salary.
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by Breza 2y ago
I've seen the exact same thing! Gemini put together an impressive bash one liner then deleted it.
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I normally love the Pudding (getting a pitch accepted would be a high point in my career) but this one is hard to read. So many of the screens give you different colored groups whose sizes are hard to compare.
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by Breza 3y ago
The foundations of ML aren't changing. The models change, the data pipelines become more sophisticated, but the core skills are still important. Imagine you're trying to predict a binary event. Do you want to predict whether a giv
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by Breza 3y ago
Nope. And the sentencing includes several instances of SBF lying to the court. Judges don't like being lied to.
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by Breza 3y ago
Yeah, I think the guidelines are correct to think about all staggeringly large amounts of money in the same way. If you steal $600 million, you probably would have stolen $10 billion if you could.

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