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by abakker 2y ago
Meh, this assumes that there are no other ways for innovators to build businesses than running google x. In fact, most innovations do not come from here. OTOH, a lot of innovators fail to make businesses, so, I think you can't draw muc
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by abakker 2y ago
It seems he is either using ChatGPT instead of talking to experts…or just listening to only himself. Either way, Ilya should have stuck to his guns.
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by abakker 2y ago
Well, you were the one who grouped them. The reality is that EVs wear tires equivalently fast to other similar weight vehicles and wear brakes very very slowly. And reduce carbon emissions. And noise.
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by abakker 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. that was a very interesting read.
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by abakker 2y ago
I’m happy that at least one thing is working. To go from 94 in the wild to 2000 is a good trajectory. Does anyone know how they manage the genetic diversity problems?
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by abakker 2y ago
The reason I’m not as doom and gloom as this, is because it happens with every single cycle. Over promising and underperforming is basically every tech that comes to enterprises, because no technology helps people agree on what to do, what
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by abakker 2y ago
I agree with you 100%. Remember RPA? Well...it's really telling to me how 5 years on from that hype cycle, stuff still isn't automated. Where I am maybe a little more cynical than you is that I'm not sure anyone in corporate
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by abakker 2y ago
A core issue here, though, is that contracts add a wrinkle into the "automate everything" approach. Often, it is the clients themselves who resist adopting the automations proposed by the outsourcers. It's why, when businesse
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by abakker 2y ago
In the surveys I have run on this topic, enterprise tech buyers are split on the issues. CEOs and line of business execs definitely want to see revenue, but almost no companies think of themselves as having successfully made any money on AI
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by abakker 2y ago
Indeed. It's almost like the original article is clickbait :) The problem is that we have a term for what he's describing already - diminishing returns. For some of these "mediocre successes" you may find that your busin
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by abakker 2y ago
Important to distinguish a spiral cut from a spiral ream. It is entirely possible to chip/drill/chisel a hole, and then to ream it out with a spiral tool.
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by abakker 2y ago
well, its been a while, but I remember seeing a study that states with the death penalty actually had higher incidence of violent crime. From that, it was posited that the existence of harsher punishments don't seem to offer much deter
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by abakker 2y ago
its so interesting that in Likert scale surveys, I tend to see huge positivity bias/agreement bias, but comments tend to be critical/negative. I think there is something related to the format of feedback that skews the graph in ge
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by abakker 2y ago
I agree with the meaning and the premise of your question, but, pedantically, it is not always a good idea to go out and admit how effective a secret program is. Think about it in the context of national security and foreign policy - e.g. &
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by abakker 2y ago
lol. Hurray for speech to text, I guess.
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by abakker 2y ago
Indeed. An interesting reference to this is the work Millman Parry did to describe the key phrases in the Odyssey and the queues they gave to help someone memorize the poem. Also, this is maybe a semantic point, but, I am not predicting any
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by abakker 2y ago
Yes, now they both get to begin an 18 month "Synergy Period" where both companies focus on navel-gazing to instead of the clients who are cancelling contracts and buying starlink.
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by abakker 2y ago
Excellent points all around. As a fellow woodworker / CNC person, I will say it often frustrates me how people with CNCs demand that the WHOLE process be done on a CNC. 90 degree corner chisels exist and make nice interior corners with
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by abakker 2y ago
Pay! Expert interviews can be had through expert networks. I know it’s a hustle to get free ones, and worth it, but you could go to GLG, Coleman, ThirdBridge etc and just pay for interviews if you need them done. An interesting alternative
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by abakker 2y ago
I agree with you, but what I was getting at was that if you're just going to print the parts for the entire run, you aren't constrained by the issues like draft, etc. Obviously, if your run is 10,000,000 pieces, then you have no c
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by abakker 2y ago
They also ignore making the mold, so I guess that evens it out? Mold tools are very expensive and commit you to a lot of design constraints as well as lock you in to minimum production cycles that make sense. I agree its not fair, thought.
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by abakker 3y ago
There are abundant portable galvo head lasers out there. A lot of them targeting the hobby market, but also more powerful ones (that are less cheap) meant for marking or engraving parts in situ. Everlast now has a laser welder, too. I think
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by abakker 3y ago
Please, get qualtrics datapoints. It's...crazy.
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by abakker 3y ago
This is awesome. Is there any way to pipe the sound into the microphone channel on your computer so that it works over discord? We play remote on roll20 with discord so I'd love to figure out how to get this into that platform.
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by abakker 3y ago
Classic binary thinking on a definitely non binary problem.
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by abakker 3y ago
You've made me imagine a doormat made out of old cat5 and usb cables, and I'm horrified in an amused kind of way.
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by abakker 3y ago
I don't know. I don't do a lot of job interviews, but I do a lot of research/expert interviews. To me, there is not much distinction and the major takeaway from this post seems to be, "Preparation and objectives are good
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by abakker 3y ago
REAMDE was like reading a movie. Just great stuff. I enjoyed Snow Crash, but agree it had some unfinished-ness feelings to it. like a stronger editor could have shaped it a bit better.
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by abakker 3y ago
"We have just agreed.....that you are not Orcs." - Treebeard
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by abakker 3y ago
I was not clear - I agree with you. I was saying that gasoline might be explosive, but it is not likely to happen. it is remarkably tolerant of heat/spark at STP conditions.

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