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by WJW 3y ago
If that were true, Microsoft would not need a salesforce because Windows and Office are already so dominant. But MS has about 25k people in the marketing department so I don't think that the connection between dominance and not needing
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by WJW 3y ago
WeWork comes to mind. Probably Tesla and most of the other electric car makers too. The key differentiator between these and "true" tech is whether the business has: - Very high margins. If WeWork wants to grow, they need more bui
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by WJW 3y ago
There's only three possible outcomes that have any chance of being true and none of them are good: - It was the Russians, and the demands by the public to respond might escalate the current situation from a nice contained proxy war int
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by WJW 3y ago
Well at least for the first 1.4 GW, yes. Also there is some nonzero transmission loss so that needs to be taken into account. The cable can move electricity from the UK to Denmark too btw, so some of the price surges in the Danish region co
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by WJW 3y ago
Up to 779 MW now, maybe they're ramping it up slowly?
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by WJW 3y ago
Comparing "typical" vs "ideal" is always going to tip in the direction of the "ideal" case. There are plenty of companies, SaaS or otherwise, in which a single "whale" customer makes up so much revenu
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by WJW 3y ago
Is infinite even or odd?
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by WJW 3y ago
This comes up pretty often in (well-designed) video games. Say you have colored doors that can only be opened by keys of the same color. If you put the blue key on the path to the blue door, then players will never learn that you need the c
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by WJW 3y ago
The real ease of saying no to bosses of any kind comes from financial security, no matter its origin. There are certainly plenty of small business owners who are struggling enough that they can barely afford to so "no" to any cust
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by WJW 3y ago
His business seems to run on AWS Lambda, which is about as far away from running on cheap (unreliable) hardware as possible? The laptop he mentions is just for working.
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by WJW 3y ago
> but it would have no economical value. Because it is a commodity. This is trying to redefine the word "commodity". Normal commodities like oil, grain and electricity very much have economic value.
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by WJW 3y ago
Yes that would work, but why stop there. Having hundreds of different spoken languages is wasteful, so why not standardize everyone on Esperanto while we're at it, unify all electric plug standards to the one used in the EU and change
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by WJW 3y ago
> In fact a lot of 30+ year old systems are both better and more maintainable than things developed within the past 5 years. Just would be true just through survivorship bias, no? The systems that were already unmaintainable 30 years ago
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by WJW 3y ago
- It works well enough. - It scales up fine for 99+% of companies, and for the ones that need to scale beyond that there are battle tested solutions like Vitess. - It is what people know already so they don't have to learn anything new
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by WJW 3y ago
The problem with video game bots in games like Civ is that "playing well" is not actually the core goal of the devs. Rather, it has to be enjoyable to play against and easy enough to build and debug in the limited time available u
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by WJW 3y ago
Don't play against bots then. There's plenty of people online to play against at any moment of the day. Maybe I read the wrong forums but this particular hangup ("machines can do it better so what is even the point?") se
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by WJW 3y ago
Well there are two countries each with at least four times the amount of inhabitants of the USA and both are non-English. It's not really surprising that the most popular channels would be non-English tbh.
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by WJW 3y ago
No offense but this is one of those "programmer thinks they can find an edge case in a complex social scenario" cases. First of all your suggestion is directly against the Treaty of Constantinople, at least so long as Egypt and Is
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by WJW 3y ago
Sorry but have you read the news lately? Because the attacks have been rather indiscriminate, EVERY big shipping company is now refusing to sail their ships through the Red sea and by extension cannot use the Suez canal anymore. Rather, the
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by WJW 3y ago
I think Israel should do that, yes. But I also think that the Houthi wouldn't stop shooting at western ships even if Israel fed and housed every Gazan in an actual palace. Their flag has some hints as to the goals of the movement, afte
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by WJW 3y ago
There are broadly 3 ways this can end: - The Houthi rebels back down. - The West backs down and accepts a minor rebel group disrupting global shipping . - The Houthis get their shit kicked in. There is technically a fourth option where the
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by WJW 3y ago
They state these things in their quarterly filings with the SEC, in which to my knowledge it is not legal to knowingly misrepresent facts. If you have actual proof that MongoDBs auditors are lying to the SEC, you can probably get a pretty g
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by WJW 3y ago
They're apparently still growing quite rapidly, though the company is not yet profitable.
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by WJW 3y ago
Some of these are really nice: - Tired of having to use "random forest"? Why not "irregular woods" to confuse every single one of your colleagues. "Random woodland" also sometimes comes up apparently. - When wr
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by WJW 3y ago
It has a happy ending for the protagonist, and IIRC only because he inherited an Australian passport. Everyone else in the USA was completely stuck into being meat robots for the overseer AIs.
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by WJW 3y ago
It would be cool if we eventually develop the technology to send out a probe to go out there and fetch the Voyager probes, so that we can put them in a museum. (Presumably with one of the siblings of the fetching probe going further and fas
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by WJW 3y ago
Signal processing algorithms can pull out a signal from well below the noise floor these days. Even the small and nondirectional antennas on your phone are good enough to receive GPS signals even all the way down at -125 dBm, which is WAY l
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by WJW 3y ago
The article is entirely about tooling for safely changing wheels mid-journey. In that context, it's not weird to expect the database to remain available during updates. Yes, it will require more work and time than just taking the datab
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by WJW 3y ago
It was for a little bit though. That is why this thread is here!
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by WJW 3y ago
Fear/panic is not known for inducing rational decisions.

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