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by asah 3y ago
consumers have an easier solution: they just don't answer the phone unless it's a someone they know.
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by asah 3y ago
Apologies, I was making a deeper point, which is that search is going through a period of disruption and the endgame will be something more like ChatGPT and less like a lost of 10 links. To address your concern, yes [low quality content] wi
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by asah 3y ago
Sorry for the flippant comment - I wasn't just referring to the code and apps running on your phone, but the servers and cell towers that collect tons of details about you. Plus, the physical emanations as your phone connects and respo
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by asah 3y ago
the cyclist left the scene “reporting only minor scratches.” I'd never considered it before, but perhaps the endgame is humans getting used to automated taxis like potholes, animals, nails and other road hazards ? And then learning to
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by asah 3y ago
(repost after every Google-bashing...) Alternate perspective as a longtime googler, ex-googler, mostly-happy user and shareholder. Please hear me out. As user, I'm pretty ok with Google. Websearch is sputtering sure but that's nor
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by asah 3y ago
yyy we're in violent agreement! interesting re reddit, that's really tiny! but again, I'm even more curious about how many underlying TPS this turns into, net of rules firing, notifications and of course bots that read and a
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by asah 3y ago
Given the topic, I would disappointed if this article were written entirely by a human.
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by asah 3y ago
There's "housing" and then there's $5+MM manhattan apartments, which are so inflated above their value as functional housing as to effectively be NFTs. People whine about the pencil shaped buildings but they shutup fast
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by asah 3y ago
minor nit: 9K TPS for Visa are business transactions - TBD how many database transactions are generated... (still, modern postgresql can easily scale to 10,000s (plural) of TPS on a single big server, especially if you setup read replicas f
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by asah 3y ago
So the world needs 1/5 as many attorneys ? or 1/100 ? How will 6-figure attorneys replace that income?
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by asah 3y ago
Clean tax writeoff, zero hassle, no talent locked-up.
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by asah 3y ago
Xoogler as well - arguably, you could see this coming in the late 2000s. but also: it depends a LOT on which division/group you're in and especially who your manager is - I know a lot of happy googlers who continue to knock-out ki
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by asah 3y ago
agreed! PostgreSQL is the wrong tool for large data without indexes. It's also the wrong tool for ultra low latency access. And small, non-persistent data. And and and... That said, over time PostgreSQL has wildly expanded the range f
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by asah 3y ago
> What if I have a billion or more embeddings? Can Postgres + pg_vector support a billion records with 1000’s or 10000’s concurrent users? Even if pg_vector is an easy add-on to Postgres, it might not be suitable for real-time similarity
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by asah 3y ago
fun! but who's the target market for this?
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by asah 3y ago
Google Video was killed after the YouTube acquisition and YT flourished under Google.
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by asah 3y ago
bummer. I haven't had trouble with their 2FA solution and in fact they were one of the first to implement (working + practical) FIDO support. IIRC, I turned that on even before Google. that said, I haven't tried them for key recov
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by asah 3y ago
Is replication a big problem in computer science? If anything, I'd think replication has gotten easier with the advent of open source and the expectation that top papers will include git repos which make it easy to reproduce. The adv
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by asah 3y ago
The sell size has all sorts of tricks, including bundling these bonds with better looking ones. 2.75B is 0.002% of the $133T worldwide bond market.
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by asah 3y ago
I wonder how this might work with bit-dense systems (e.g. databases like PostgreSQL) where every bit has meaning and it's wildly impractical to reassign bitpatterns like this.
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by asah 3y ago
and improved intelligence, so nations hopefully don't underestimate each other... ?
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by asah 3y ago
I'd be ok with a phone-form-factor device that lacks cellular and just uses apps over wifi for calls and messages. Kinda like the old iPod Touch.
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by asah 3y ago
Nice! Super timely for a friend's startup, whose CEO was getting all confused about dilution. Thank you!!
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by asah 3y ago
emacs. Totally free and open source since 1976. oh, sorry, you asked for an IDE and not an operating system... /s seriously, budget a day or two for the ergonomics and a week for wrangling plugins, but some of the most productive devel
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by asah 3y ago
One thing nobody's talking about is the loss of the R&D tax credit - engineer salaries must now be amortized over 5 years (15 for overseas) driving $billions in taxes being sucked out of the tech industry. Fortunately, this maybe r
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by asah 3y ago
LOL it was probably an n% experiment that OP got into!
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by asah 3y ago
true, but let's not paint the bike shed here: you can have all the best policies, and hackers and inside threats ruin all of it. If I'm going to trust a cloud provider with (say) multimedia, I trust YouTube and Google Photos a lot
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by asah 3y ago
Alternate perspective as a longtime googler, ex-googler, mostly-happy user and shareholder. Please hear me out. As user, I'm pretty ok with Google. Websearch is sputtering sure but that's normal after a challenge like chatgpt. I t
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by asah 3y ago
meh - no status page is perfectly in sync with reality, even if it's updated automatically. There's always lag and IRL, there's often partial outages. Therefore, one should treat status pages conservatively as "definitel
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by asah 3y ago
tl;dr: orders of magnitude difference in storage density by using a dirt cheap, high density, easily pumped medium (water) that finds its level automatically and uses existing geographical features to create big height differences. Thoughts

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