ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I'm sorry for your loss.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I had this discussion with Jerry Pournelle and he had a similar take. I think William Gibson was famous for saying, "Nobody is going to pirate you book or steal your work, hell if they read a chapter while sitting in the library you ar
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The article seriously downplays the role of luck here but it isn't wrong. If you live judiciously and save as much as you can by doing so, you reach a point where you can live judiciously without going into the office every day. The co
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Something they should be able to do now, but do not seem to, is to allow you to train Siri to recognize exactly your voice and accent. Which is to say, to take the speech-to-text model that is listening and putting it into the Siri inte
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Thank you for this, I was thinking something similar and I'm not even a lawyer! That said, I have been a competitor[1] to Google in the past. What is missed here in the comment and in the article is that the "monopoly" part
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Not sure on #1, definitely mitigated SEO sites and blogspam (on an individual basis, if you added a spammy blog to your personal spam list it stopped showing up in results). As a result on slashtag searches there was very little spam. Would
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Thanks for that, I wondered if it had been confirmed. I am always in awe of folks who come into the lab every day and work on figuring out the one thing. I envy that level of focus.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Yeah that doesn't quite work. I agree that the cost of tooling has gone to nearly zero in most cases, but not giving it away will limit the people willing to even try to develop code for your platform.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Ultimately, lack of traffic. During Blekko's lifetime Google went from paying people less than $10M/quarter to send their search traffic to Google to over $4B/quarter to do that. If you are ad based you need traffic to serve
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Just want to say Cody this is a super write up!
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That it is, but a more apt comparison would be Duck Duck Go which was a contemporary of Blekko and definitely out performed relative to Blekko's success. DDG still going strong and even buying TV ads, so yeah. That said, how Blekko and
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I was suggesting that they fire all the engineers that work on things that don't make money. It was only last quarter that Cloud actually made a profit. That said, I think you make a reasonable restructuring case; Now you just have to
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
#E#M#A#I#L#I#N#B#I#O# :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't think so. At one of the Sun Reunion events a bunch of us sat around and talked about it. I suggested someone should write a companion volume to "Sunrise: The first 10 years of Sun" called "Sunset: The last 10 yea
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't disagree, chess is much more algorithmic and predictable. Maybe it is more like seeing your best mate of the last 20 years getting into their fourth or fifth relationship with the same kind of partner they failed with before an
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Did I mention I was more pessimistic? :-) I expect that today they could layoff 150k, keep the 30K that are involved with search and enough ads that are making business and that husk would do okay for a long time. I don't suppose you
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
People would add sites for a particular topic (aka slashtag) to their list. That would build a virtual custom search engine within the search engine. And topic specific searches thrown at it would consistently out perform Bing and Google in
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
You know how a chess player will say something like "mate in 6" because their experience of all the options left to their opponent are both easily countered and will not prevent them from losing? Companies, and tech companies in m
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I'm really glad the article came out though, it fills in some gaps that I was fairly confident about but didn't have anything other than my sense of the players and their actions to back up what I thought was going on. I and a num
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Okay. To deconstruct your argument a bit, as I understand it to be this: "This car costs a lot of money and has been delayed several times, thus during that time a 'professional' car making company would have found, and fixed
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Actually it does :-). I get that being pedantic can be fun but if you actually forcibly misinterpret things base on pedantry you might find it doesn't serve you nearly as well as actually thinking about what was "meant".
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Absolutely, its good they are proactively fixing things, this particular issue with uncontrolled acceleration was particularly dangerous. In the US, consumer liability laws make these fixes mandatory but it is always better when a manufactu
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I was teaching one of the local highschool kids how to program in C and they asked "So why does everybody use i,j, and k for their indexes in loops?"
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
As a followup to this, in this Techcrunch article[1] it says that all 3,878 Cybertrucks shipped to date have been recalled. That isn't a lot of cars. Apart from what it says about sales of the Cybertruck, that suggests they haven'
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I'd agree with this. I was at Intel early on and as they expanded they were very careful about exactly replicating fabs because they didn't want an increase in defects. For most (all?) manufacturers bringing a new factory online t
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Gives all the baristas a good alibi :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't think it is an unprofessional error, there are many reasons that changes get introduced on the manufacturing line which benefit production speed and/or reduce errors. What they missed was the after action surveillance and
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
It took 30 minutes to cure you?!? One of the first things I did when I got my PiDP-11 which can run RSX-11M and the DEC fortran compiler. I spent many many hours programming in Fortran when I was in college and thought wow I could relive so
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Many of these recent forks are being done because people won't want AWS/GCP/Azure to slap a UI on top of their free open-source product and resell it, making tens of millions of dollars per day in the process. I can't r
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This. As Borg it is a thing to behold but when people think they know 'scale' but don't really, well then it seems very over engineered.

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