SavageBeast

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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"... all of Harvard’s $676 million in annual federal funding."
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"How soon at this rate of moral turpitude do we have the leather suits in public…" According to my "internet research" on such things, the suits are typically latex but your point is well made
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I think Google, with regard to Search here, is in the Skin The Sheep phase of its story arc. Innovation is done, market dominance is here, no point in innovating because they're making so much money. The total shit state that is Google
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I was having some kind of issue the other day - browser cache corruption issue or ChatGPT hiccuped for a few minutes - but I needed to know an answer for a thing RIGHT NOW. I reluctantly went back to Google and searched for it the old way.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
When theres money on the table you don't have any friends.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Am I the only one who scrolled down and read the full memo? Thats the biggest load of shit Ive ever read - like maybe seriously it is. Thats epic bullshit. I don't even think Zuckerberg could top that with his brand of AW SHUCKS WE CAN
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
In my experience, no they do not. They're waaaay too busy. CEOs are a different story entirely depending on what the sales/awareness model of the business is. CEOs go out and Tell The Story to any industry stakeholder that will li
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Provided it's not going to cost you a fortune in time or money, provided its not going to "wreck your reputation" etc, I'd say go for it as you're "close to being done" (hahaha - famous last words). You wi
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Its only a "prediction" if you call it out before it happens. With that in mind I'll predict that regardless of the election outcome, this will be the year that the not-personally-spoken animosity takes a real form in daily l
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"Well it was MY IDEA so I deserve 80% equity + above market salary and in exchange you can GET RICH by paying to build the product and operating it!" ~The co-founder who in addition to delivering ZERO value of any kind in addition
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
We did pivot to add a more premium, high touch offering and it sold very well. Thats how we came to the second unhappy realization: Despite having what we considered a very nice TAM the industry didn't really want to be scaled. This me
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
We tried to compete on price in a market that really wasn't as price sensitive as it claimed to be. Yes some people wanted to "pay less" but in reality the big players were happy to pay the "industry standard" rate.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Time to buy some Deradicalizer stocks I guess.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Alternatively, the could simply treat abject TERRORISM as 'Terrorism'. Stabbing little girls was already against existing laws. Never let a good crisis go to waste as they say in American politics.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
The single worst thing about engaging in degenerate endeavors is the people you will meet and the impact they will have on your life. Consider that you will likely be making degenerate friends and making connections with others in that spac
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Your comment made me go look at the P/E ratio of Alphabet itself - they're valued at 38x earnings. In this context turning down 65x ARR seems fucking insane at best.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"Americans are being gouged by the fashion eyewear MONOPOLY" said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today... With all the things going on in the country, overpricing frivolous designer eyewear seems pretty safe from attack. They
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Hah! I do this too. When I find myself back in the market after a long stint of not having interviewed I find it usually takes me 3 jobs I don't want to get warmed up. The next one after that I crush.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Start doing the same thing you will regularly as a programmer. Pick a tool chain, download whatever tooling is required, get the tutorial project up and running. Next, start making changes. Use the tutorial project as a template to fundamen
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
For an MVP I'd consider installing the database itself on the EC2 instance backed by EBS volume as opposed to going with RDS. Ive done it and I was surprised how well it performed for zero additional cost. Take care NOT to install anyt
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"AWS backend" can mean sooo many things - you will get better answers if you describe your architecture in a little more detail.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Maybe a Spacex launch? I think they were in Texas in '22.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Consulting 101 training kicks in here - YES is always the answer to any request, followed by "heres how long it will take, how much it will cost and what other priorities will need to be shifted. We can get started this afternoon if yo
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"Don't build your own AI solution - buy one of our products instead!" See: Lucidworks Solutions on the home page.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I know plenty of actual humans who speak with apparent authority and experience on all variety of things they know nothing about. Current AI has copied an existing human behavior if anything.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I always wondered (being a developer myself) how a team at a well financed FAANG could fuck this up so badly. It seemed to me as if they were intentionally trying to ruin the product. Changes for no benefit month to month and this month doe
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
YUP - thats my experience as well - consistently too. The ONE thing we all use this kind of limited tech for and the Alexa team couldn't even do that well.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
What they did in the last 5 years was deprecate to death the Alexa web interface as well as totally ruin the Alexa mobile app such that there was really no great way to administrate my condo full of Echos.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
AMZN execs are watching AAPL stock go bonkers today on yesterdays AI announcement. APPLE IS DOING AI AND WE ALL NEED NEW PHONES TO USE IT! I expect a similar thing to happen when AMZN announces some AI consumer product. Never mind they were
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
My personal favorite is "Alexa! All Hue Lights ON" here - I only trust Siri with important cooking timers.

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