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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
> I don't see what the benefit is for leaving a highway at the last possible second. If anything, this erratic behavior is unexpected and is more likely to lead to an accident. Not worth it, even discounting any feelings you have fo
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
Why do the stores have the coin deposit if leaving the shopping cart, even if you circumvented the deposit, is morally more morally reprehensible than urinating in public? > Is this a US phenomenon Yeah, you can kind of do whatever you w
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
> Promoting cart return might be as simple as setting a new norm Nobody who does this is not aware that returning the shopping card is the normal, expected, and 'right' behavior. There just isn't a moral hazard that preven
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
This gives very strong War of Art (Pressfield) vibes. As simple as it is, just remembering this is enough to make me go do the thing. And on that note, back to the thing.
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
I don't understand this (and I didn't understand the point in the post). When we discuss someone's net worth, we are specifically discussing their assets less their liabilities. We use it primarily to distinguish their purcha
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
> Generally, someone’s wealth level can be inferred from their net worth. > But also, “assets minus liabilities” offers some large shadows to hide behind. > So a better quantity to measure would be: the amount of money someone coul
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
Okay you are correct. If they are going to market FSD as a safety feature and it's just a software update, they need to include it by default and adjust their price. I didn't realize how much they market it as a safety feature.
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
> So Tesla is charging $8000 to activate full safety software features in their vehicles? I think you're being obtuse, but to be clear, many car manufacturers offer trims don't include features that would qualify making the car
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by brettgriffin 11mo ago
> but I'm of the opinion that CEO's don't do a whole lot. Rather, you just don't understand what CEOs in large public companies actually do. You're comparing them to earlier stage CEOs, who can be more hands on.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> Looking to make it to the front page of HackerNews? Nailed it. I read the original post earlier this week and was very impressed with its technical detail. But the point of the the post was incongruent with the post's title. But t
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I'm an optimist at heart, but this subject is dear to me, and my opinion may seem pessimistic: the short answer is, no, it cannot be fixed at any large scale, at least not in a lifetime.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
The problem isn't the 70M people who placed bets, its the ~25M with broken risk aversion. These are mostly men, and a very specific type of men. You can try to curtail their access to gambling but we're missing the underlying prob
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
This would infuriate me. You have to index that guid to something yourself. Why wouldn't you at least give yourself some help (your name, issue number, type of change, area of project, etc). Why make your job harder than it needs to be
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
It sounds like he just focuses on backend/server development. The language he uses is irrelevant. I know plenty of incredible developers that focus on backend development, and despite working in TypeScript all day, couldn't tell y
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> Alternatively, where possible set the server timezone to UTC so that no daylight savings changes will happen at all. Is this what people actually want, though? I'm actually working on a scheduled process right now deployed on a cl
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
source: trust me bro But seriously. I buy a lot of SaaS software. None of it is easy to use. Nor should it be. It's doing extremely complicated and sophisticated tasks. It's used by thousands of companies ranging from SMBs to muli
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
Literally the first line of every line on the site: > PlanetScale is the world’s fastest relational database platform. We offer PostgreSQL and Vitess databases that run on NVMe-backed nodes to bring you scale, performance, reliability, a
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
This isn't a cultural misunderstanding. I asked him to clarify what he couldn't reconcile and he didn't. To be clear, I didn't actually need him to clarify it. I wanted him to understand the fallacy in his position. Here
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> and played with no gloves or mitts on the fielders I've played in several leagues that use 16 inch clinchers and we used gloves. I hate them, but at least as it was explained to me, clinchers don't go as far when they're
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
This is frustratingly accurate. I was just working on something, pulling 16+ hour days for days on end. Not because I had to, but really out of pure obsession. The raw hours of work were certainly noticeable, but it was embarrassing how dif
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
It is, and this is what they will have to do. A lot of left hand turns in NYC - even in the outer skirts of the four major boroughs - cannot be made until the light has turned red, requiring a "New York/Pittsburgh Left". They
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
The world, for sure. But not in America. I've driven in most major US cities and I drive daily in NYC. There really is no comparison in any other major US city to how we drive in NYC.
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
What I find interesting about this article is that the author is the founder of Cloudera. Cloudera was one of the pioneers of the Hadoop ecosystem (and de facto data lake movements). For the uninitiated, data lakes are used to centralize va
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
You are correct. As I pointed out in another reply, I misinterpreted this part: > Generic tools like ChatGPT excel for individuals because of their flexibility, but they stall in enterprise use since they don’t learn from or adapt to wor
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I misinterpreted your intent. Sorry. My key takeaway from my initial comment, based on replies, is how rare it is for someone to build software for money on this forum. Correct, they didn't directly work on these features. These integr
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> Did several domain experts tell you this or are you making it up? It's an assertion among eight other engineers on the project with ~15 years of experience in the domain. They are domain experts. This part isn't up for debate
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> Generic tools like ChatGPT excel for individuals because of their flexibility, but they stall in enterprise use since they don’t learn from or adapt to workflows, Challapally explained. Maybe I misunderstood this, but I took this to m
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
> Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. This summer, I built two very sophistic
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
What is the point of this hypothetical? Why do we care about the outcome of a situation that you conjured up that wasn't reality? Is the insight here that people with resources have advantages?
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by brettgriffin 1y ago
I watched the first half hour of this earlier this week. I was surprised at just how differently two people can view the world. I'm not sure I would be as dogmatic as him, but just using the first few points, I think you can make stron

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