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by bhouston 5mo ago
I say prove it. If it was a coding bot we would see some metrics on how it did. Have this thing produce a bunch of on demand recipes and judge it against human chefs. Have the people preparing the food cook according to its descriptions
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by bhouston 5mo ago
That does represent 70% or so of the current world population. It isn't 100% coverage but it is most of the many of the biggest groups. It is missing the Italian, Japanese, Greek and Mexican cooking - that are incredibly popular world
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by bhouston 5mo ago
I saw this on X/Twitter. I do not believe that human cooking, and all of its techniques and ingredients and the various ways that things can be prepared in different cultural contexts can be compressed in to 2 megabytes. It is sort of
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by bhouston 5mo ago
You are correct actually, not sure why you are being downvoted. I just checked and the definitions are: "Gross income is that same revenue minus the direct costs of producing the goods or services (such as materials and direct labor).
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by bhouston 5mo ago
GCS and AWS are not competitors with iCloud, DropBox, Box, Drive, OneDrive since they are just raw APIs and storage and not a user facing product. It is similar to saying that most websites are just cloud-hosted SQL rebranded.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
I meant "gross income", which is revenue. Not "net income", which is profit. I was unclear and I apologize.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> Stack Overflow was acquired in June 2021 by Prosus, a Dutch private equity firm., That is great to hear. I am glad that the original creators of StackOverflow got their liquidity event and are well off financially I suspect.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Did the founders have an exit or liquidity from Stack Overflow? I hope so.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Dropbox's stock has been stuck at around $6B valuation for years with flat growth and income around $2.5B per year. It is just stuck. Box.com, which is quite similar, is not that different. Around $3B and $1.2B in income. Similar va
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'Star Citizen' Hits $1B in Lifetime Funding(variety.com)
5 points by bhouston 5mo ago|0 comments
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Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request(twitter.com)
207 points by bhouston 5mo ago|149 comments
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Shopify is such a cyclical stock. Up, down, up, down in quite a dramatic fashion. Peak in the last year was 178$ and it was just as low as 95$. It is likely undervalued right now so it is a good time to invest. Unfortunately, I am waiting
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Node-prewarm: CLI for Node 25's NODE_COMPILE_CACHE(ben3d.ca)
1 points by bhouston 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Oops, I didn't actually mean to post that comment, it was a half thought. Oh well. I'll leave it, it is funny.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
This type of marketing stunt for Claude Code is giving Anthropic value for their acquisition of bun. Bun is a nodejs frontrunner, and it needs constant marketing effort to stay relevant, because nodejs will continue to follow in bun’s foots
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by bhouston 5mo ago
I've quoted a bunch of the article in a separate top level comment if that helps. Haaretz seems to sometimes paywall and sometimes not.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Since it is paywalled, here are some details from the article: During a live demonstration seen by Haaretz, TargetTeam showcased Stargetz's interactive map, showing terminals across the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, Indi
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Israeli Tech Exposes Users of Musk's Starlink Satellite-Based Internet(haaretz.com)
11 points by bhouston 5mo ago|3 comments
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by bhouston 5mo ago
.NET seems to have regularly changed the garbage collector over the years and I do not remember any similar surprises in production. I wonder why they have had better experience? I thought that by now dynamic garbage collection was a known
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Some of this is based on the 1966 Star Trek logo: https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series
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eBay formally rejects GameStop offer(reuters.com)
7 points by bhouston 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> isn't Microsoft forced, by law, to cooperate with the US government and US military? Microsoft and other cloud companies are not forced to do anything the US government or US military tells them to do. You are just making this u
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> then Germany is also to be held liable as it supports Israel Yup you are correct. In parallel to the ICJ genocide case of South Africa v Israel, there is a case against Germany for its action in support of Israel on that exact topic:
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> see how they have to support any war waged by the US government. They would have had to support the Vietnam war, if were were in that era back. Something does not add up here still. I am so confused by these statements. Microsoft and
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by bhouston 5mo ago
For those that do not know, this is part of the fallout of this Microsoft investigation from 2025 into the misuse of Azure services in Israel for military purposes: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025&
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> Yeah but when you read the article it comes across less like 'Microsoft doesn't want its services used for ethics violations' and more 'The unethical genocide Israel is doing uses some servers in the EU exposing Mic
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> Fully agreed, but also a hard sell given that America itself does not recognize what is happening there as a genocide. This has nothing to do with a declaration of genocide. Both Amazon and Google respectively have made commitments to
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by bhouston 5mo ago
> "Wholesale population displacement..." > These are all things that happen during war. You do realize that Israeli government officials openly talk about permanent relocation (expel, "voluntary migration", emigrat
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Not a useful reply btw.
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by bhouston 5mo ago
Yup. Google and Amazon knew their tech could be used for human rights abuses in Israel (their lawyers warned them so) but Google and Amazon apparently value $$$ more than human rights per this EFF article: https://www.eff.org&#x

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