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by blagie 4y ago
I'd like to see globalization for everything non-essential. I'd like food, medicine, weapons, and everything needed to keep those industry running at a basic level as close as possible.
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by blagie 4y ago
Oddly enough, decades later, I can say: yes it does. People I came through for before seem to pop up in my times of need now. And people who helped others when we were younger now have amazing support networks, which makes a huge difference
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by blagie 4y ago
I'll mention one more thing which helps: Concrete offers of help. Depending on the circumstances, those can be practical (e.g. cooking and bringing food, covering part of funeral expenses/logistics) or supportive (e.g. making your
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by blagie 4y ago
This is almost the exact opposite of what I want. A lot of screentime is not healthy, and I don't want an interface which encourages that. This is based on the model of a TV running. I want to be very deliberate about what I watch, whe
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by blagie 4y ago
... I'm not sure about that. Most of my problems with Youtube have much more to do with me being a niche customer than anything. I honestly believe most of the world most wants to see stupid cat videos, videos of people embarrassing th
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by blagie 4y ago
I suspect curated creators would be interested in managing their content. Youtube is a bad experience on both sides. And I suspect they'd need to, if nothing else, to do quality content-tagging. Some of this could be crowdsourced too.
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by blagie 4y ago
95% of the Youtube content I want to see is either educational or created by friends/family. I don't want TikTok-style algorithmic content. At this point, I think there's a business model in making a Youtube front-end which i
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by blagie 4y ago
No, that's the point. The people do exist, and aren't even uncommon. What doesn't exist -- at least replicably -- are the organizational structures around those people.
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by blagie 4y ago
> Or, third option, this isn't reality, and you're missing some understanding of the issues involved. Or the fourth option is that my post exactly outlined the issues involved, and you somehow missed that part. Hint: They'
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by blagie 4y ago
Kinda. Here's the problem. Let's say I'm managing a business with $1B in revenues and $1.1B in expenses. Am I doing well? On one hand, those are astronomically high revenues. Great! On the other hand, I'm losing $100M pe
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by blagie 4y ago
I understand your point. As I said, I would have made the same point when I was half my age. I understand it all too well. Younger me would not have believed older me either. I'm not overestimating my own prowess. I've done it bef
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by blagie 4y ago
While your comment is sarcastic, it is correct. It's also not specific to me -- there are trainloads of people who could build trillion-dollar companies if magically freed from human issues, such as trust. When I was young, I thought t
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by blagie 4y ago
"Managing" wasn't meant to imply "direct reports." I don't think I've ever met anyone with 100 direct reports (although I can see completely routine roles where that might happen -- Uber/Turk/etc
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by blagie 4y ago
1) Raising funding is easy for me. 2) Self-funding is hard for me, because I didn't take into account human, political, and organizational issues. I proposed and built an awesome technology, but that doesn't mean I was compensated
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by blagie 4y ago
Been there, done that. It turns out throwing money at problems doesn't generally solve them. People will be motivated to keep getting paid obscene salaries. Keep their boss happy isn't the same as being aligned and focused on a co
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by blagie 4y ago
I disagree with this link. Give me 10 motivated, aligned high-quality people, 5 years, and all of us room to focus, and I'll build you a better Google, almost guaranteed. Including Arabic, a11y, spam filtering, and all the other messy
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by blagie 4y ago
My experience -- having been near the top of organizations with standard politics -- is that one of the goals of every executive is to maximize headcount. For example, if I am managing 100 people, I am far better off than if I am managing 1
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by blagie 4y ago
The cynic in me says that Intel is the only vendor of the three who has thought about security before. I am willing to bet that NVidia and AMD's GPU unit have floodgates of vulnerabilities along the lines of Spectre, which they simply
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by blagie 4y ago
I think the problem NVidia has is that it has a massive low-level high-performance computing infrastructure written in C. Things like WebGL are a thin veneer over it, which is terrifying. Their use combines the proper use of C (low-level dr
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by blagie 4y ago
This seems useful. Thank you! However, not for the purposes I described. Can I send you an email, or would that be excessive. I could describe what I'd like to build someday. Perhaps it might inform architecture, or perhaps not, depend
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by blagie 4y ago
I don't want a stand-along backend server with an AJAX API. I want a clean Python API on the back-end I can `pip install` (and, now that you mention it, a corresponding JavaScript on the front end). That should be wrapped in a thin lay
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by blagie 4y ago
<== This is the answer. The MIT license is wrong for this, as is proprietary. You want AGPL.
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by blagie 4y ago
I'll make a suggestion before you go too deep: Integrate coding. I have a hundred ideas of things I'd like to build with SD for cool drawing. There's a mile-long gap between doing things in Python and in GUIs. I'd like t
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by blagie 4y ago
"Extremely sophisticated" has many axes. An "extremely sophisticated" car might mean the engine is sophisticated, or the dashboard electronics are. The two are rarely correlated. NVidia clearly has spectacular software a
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by blagie 4y ago
It was mismanaged according to *me*. I posted my opinion. It may be incorrect. That's true of most posts on the internet. Twitter has 7,500 employees. It doesn't take that many to run a Twitter. Most Twitter employees I know use t
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by blagie 4y ago
Ho boy was Twitter mismanaged up to now. I think that's why he bought it.
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by blagie 4y ago
AMD + ECC is nice. That's how I'm set up. Also, RAID. I've been very happy with general system stability.
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by blagie 4y ago
That strategy works well in a lot of places, but it's not what's going on here. This is just plain old incompetence and mismanagement. It's a mess, rather than a strategy. For Intel, it just results in most buyers buying the
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by blagie 4y ago
I agree. I think a deeper problem is it takes a Ph.D in Intel / AMD branding to understand what to buy. An 80486 was faster than an 80386, and 33MHz was slower than 66MHz. It was simple. Intel's i7 line-up goes from 2 to 16 cores,
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by blagie 4y ago
Thank you!

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