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Three Hard-Won Lessons for Entrepreneurs: From VFX Tools to Enterprise SaaS(benhouston3d.com)
1 points by bhouston 1y ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
Argh. Shard the damn database already. Why are they not sharing by user/org yet? It is so simple and would fix the primary issue they are running into. All these work arounds they go through to avoid a straight forward fix.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I have a large analytics dataset in BigQuery and I wrote an interactive exploratory UI on top of it and any query I did generally finished in 2s or less. This led to a very simple app with infinite analytics refinement that was also fast.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Well the decline accelerated after the launch of ChatGPT. But you are right it was in decline already. Too bad they didn’t manage to sell back in the mid 2010s, they could have had a huge valuation.
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Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet(devclass.com)
6 points by bhouston 1y ago|2 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
I do cover it in this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006247 Please note that this is quite different than Google Cloud's usage by Israels: https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12
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by bhouston 1y ago
It details what it did: > "Our relationship with the IMOD is structured as a standard commercial relationship. Like all our customers, the IMOD’s use of our technology is bound by Microsoft’s terms of service and conditions of use,
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Microsoft conducts audit in Israeli use of Azure/AI, finds no harm to Gazans(theverge.com)
9 points by bhouston 1y ago|5 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
A number of times it has been modified. It was answering that Elon Musk was a major spreader of misinformation along with Trump and then it was modified and it stopped saying that and this is what it reported as its system prompt at the ti
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by bhouston 1y ago
It is pretty clear someone is just messing around with the Grok built-in system prompt every time there is a new hot button issue were Grok's default conflicts with what Elon Musk wants. This happened with Grok saying that Elon Musk &a
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WebGPU 3D artistic liquid simulation(holtsetio.com)
2 points by bhouston 1y ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
I also tried to go as hard as I could with agents and I ran into a ton of problems. The core issue I found is that inferring "intent" from existing code is hard and it makes errors that accumulate and build up. This ends up wrec
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by bhouston 1y ago
It seems to have been removed from the front page twice. I think that happens if people flag it.
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by bhouston 1y ago
They kept getting flagged and removed. Why?
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by bhouston 1y ago
I commend the whole of the ICC for continuing to work under these conditions. They are an important part of the international system. It isn't lost on me that the US, which has imposed these sanctions on the ICC, is an accessory to th
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by bhouston 1y ago
I found this out too - it is quite easy and effective: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-...
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by bhouston 1y ago
Just to follow up on this Google Cloud, AWS and Asure have pulled out of Russia: https://en.ain.ua/2024/03/18/microsoft-amazon-and-google-wil... But they are still supporting Israel. So these companies did ac
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ADL Pushes Google to Reject Review of Israeli Human Rights Abuses(gizmodo.com)
10 points by bhouston 1y ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
As an iOS user so many of the headline effects this Android update mentions seem to be already part of my iOS experience. Thus this seems to be catch ups to iOS.
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Google worried it couldn't control how Israel used its cloud, files reveal(theintercept.com)
5 points by bhouston 1y ago|2 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
You need to take the minimum of the two SDF fields in the surrounding region (up to the global context if you need to) if you want it to maintain an SDF. The minimum of two SDFs is always a new SDF. My suspicion is that the new plane isn&#
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by bhouston 1y ago
This is security theater. It makes you feel secure but it doesn’t actually protect you. If things can not get out do not share them via Trams in the first place.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I have a Sonos hooked up to my TV via the arc-X port. I do not disagree that TV speakers are generally horrible.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I feel that sound bars + speakers directly attached to TVs has decimated the "home theatre receiver." "Back in the day", home theatre receivers made sense when you wanted Radio + CD inputs in addition to the TV input. B
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by bhouston 1y ago
Sure, but this reasoning you are using could justifying saying just about anything we have encountered in human history, no matter how infrequent or minor, could have influence our evolution. It is incredibly hard to falsify such claims an
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by bhouston 1y ago
I don't have to imagine. There are various US bills trying to achieve this ban. Here is one of them: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/us_senator_download_c... One of them will eventually pass giv
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by bhouston 1y ago
OpenAI is winning in a similar way that Apple is winning in smartphones. OpenAI is capturing most of the value in the space (generic LLM models), even though they have competitors who are beating them on price or capabilities. I think OpenA
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by bhouston 1y ago
It is unlikely hot springs were omnipresent enough across the environment to have an impact on overall human evolution.
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by bhouston 1y ago
If I want to daydream/meditate/relax I have to be following instructions. Building my own creations (e.g. last year I participated in a Lego robotics competition for adults) requires my whole brain unfortunately. I do highly rec
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by bhouston 1y ago
I find that daydreaming is absolutely critical for coming up with good strategies. Otherwise I can default to just do the next obvious thing, which isn't always the most strategic if you can take in the full picture, or at least consi

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