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by brandall10 11mo ago
I had idea that was a 'thing' in the Louvre when a went a couple years back. Was wild competing for space at the front of the line with a half dozen kids taking selfies.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
I dunno... I really enjoyed walking through the Hall of Mirrors. Obviously that experience alone is no where near the entirety of the Louvre, and I wouldn't suggest heading out to Versailles if you're only in Paris for say a 5 day
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by brandall10 11mo ago
Lovely to hear this about Infocom and SOL. The former was my obsession throughout the mid-late 80s on my Atari 800XL, and then the latter for the next few years after getting a 386SX in '89.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
The sedation is psychological - soma suppresses discomfort and boosts easy pleasure. It’s not introspective at all, which makes it much closer to MDMA than to cannabis.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
I meant the psychological role in the book - soma as a tool to melt away discomfort or disturbing feelings, not its literal pharmacology.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
Soma in BNW is more analogous to MDMA as it's about sedated pleasure, not mental clarity/performance.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
Meta hiring researchers en masse at $100m+ pay packages is fairly new, as of this summer. I don't know if that's indicative of the market as a whole though. Zuck just seems really gutted they fell behind with Llama 4.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
FWIW, the designer behind these also created Job's turtlenecks.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
I was addressing the 'enjoyment' factor, when at the end of the day, esp. at scale, it's a job to produce something someone paid for.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
Historically, many master painters used teams of assistants/apprentices to do most of the work under their guidance, with them only stepping in to do actual painting in the final details. Similar with famous architects running large st
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by brandall10 11mo ago
> ...it took 10 hours to write close to 10000 lines of code... So there couldn't have been much in the way of planning, process, review, etc.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
Unless they're super successful. Bezos, Zuck, Bloomberg, even Gates & Altman break that rule sufficiently well.
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by brandall10 11mo ago
Otherwise known as Betteridge's law of headlines.
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by brandall10 1y ago
Also, the Meta AI 'team' is currently retooling so they can put something together with a handful of Zuck-picked experts making $100m+ each rather than hundreds making ~$1m each.
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by brandall10 1y ago
"Bound by real data" meaning not hallucinations, which is by far the bigger issue when it comes to "be an expert that does x" that doesn't have a real capability to say "I don't know". The chance of d
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by brandall10 1y ago
The great thing is the models are sufficiently different enough, that when multiple come to the same conclusion, there is a good chance that conclusion is bound by real data. And I think this is the advice that should always be doled out wh
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by brandall10 1y ago
I was addressing the "people who run a successful and enjoyable business" comment, not you specifically.
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by brandall10 1y ago
"Building in public" is a reasonable marketing tactic, I wouldn't discount it entirely.
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by brandall10 1y ago
Attention is all he needs.
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by brandall10 1y ago
I have hundreds, possibly over a thousand hours on mine and it is significantly more delicate and expensive than the Uniqlo one, which I had owned previously. To me packability and efficiency reign supreme, and I just reflexively know I’m w
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by brandall10 1y ago
I grew up with a cocker spaniel obsessed with tennis balls to the point of covering his food with them and letting it rot. Looking into his eyes conveyed no emotion and he didn't seem to care much for affection. He was a tennis ball tr
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by brandall10 1y ago
When it comes to ultralight hiking gear, don't think durability is a major issue if it just sees occasional use in urban environments and you take good care of it. I've travelled w/ a Montbell Versalite and Arcteryx Cerium LT
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by brandall10 1y ago
Could you please share the original post that you made that has 130k views? Obviously if a product/idea is good enough it can go 'viral' on its own with little prodding, but I'm curious about the discussion behind that p
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by brandall10 1y ago
Just a note that he continued on his path of innovation w/ Ken Parker Archtops, which he was still involved in building until just before the end. These are $20k+ custom orders so there aren't too many in the wild. The neck '
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by brandall10 1y ago
So sad. One of the few people who really innovated in the guitar space. I was just watching YouTube videos last night of his incredible archtop. I never owned one of his original Fly series guitars but I played many back in the 90s and owne
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by brandall10 1y ago
As I mentioned a bit further down, the blind spot here is they really only cared about the user list. The product itself was immaterial, so they might have overlooked or simply not cared about some of the shadier tactics to acquire it.
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by brandall10 1y ago
For this deal, sure. What about others? Many times your competitors will come out ahead. Risky decisions happen all the time in business, as long as the risk is outweighed by the perceived reward.
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by brandall10 1y ago
Of course, but this is basic human psychology when power asymmetry is at play. Frank "held the cards" in this deal, so to speak, and was helmed by a CEO that demonstrated sociopathic tendencies willing to do whatever it took. You
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by brandall10 1y ago
That's not what I said. JPMorgan thought they were getting legitimate users of the product at some point in time - they didn't care whether or not they were currently active, hence vetting ops didn't really matter much.
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by brandall10 1y ago
The problem here is this wasn’t about MAU. JPMorgan wanted a verified student data asset they could market to, so stale accounts were fine. Diligence focused on whether Frank had “records” (name, email, DOB, etc.), not whether those records

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