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by canvascritic 3y ago
SPACs, in theory, democratized access to late-stage private markets, aiming to give retail investors an early seat at the table. but like many financial innovations, they're tools that can be wielded wisely or poorly. the high failure
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Not to dismiss the effort here, but wondering if this should go even further than bridging natural language to SQL. With recent work on LLMs showing promising capabilities in handling complex data structures, maybe the real play is to cut o
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by canvascritic 3y ago
kind of an aside, but i've always been curious about how different DNS server implementations handle TTL outliers, especially given the discrepancies between recommended values and real-world configurations. particularly re D103900 in
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Having been in the trenches of various startups and bigcorps, and having interfaced with multiple consultants along the way over the decades, there's an insidious pattern I've observed, especially over the last 10 years. Consultan
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by canvascritic 3y ago
This reminds me. One time on vacation during winter break back in college, I was in a second-hand bookstore in the heart of Vermont. I was bored to death waiting for my bus back to school and aimlessly navigating the aisles and came across
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by canvascritic 3y ago
My partner and I run a handful of small internet side businesses. One of our content-driven D2C businesses heavily relied on bespoke illustrations for our display ad creatives. we found that our ctr was decent, pretty average, but the CPC w
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by canvascritic 3y ago
I read this fun anecdote about him, I think in Klausenmeyer. Not sure if this is apocryphal but the story goes that Benjamin, during one of his many stays in paris, developed a certain ritual. Every evening, before settling into his writing
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Haha I love this, great read. The concept of llms serving as a fourth generation compiler is not really novel. I think we saw Databricks in here talking about LLMs as the new compiler and Python as the new bytecode. Anyway if we're to
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by canvascritic 3y ago
The rise of open kitchens feels like just another facet of our panoptic tech age. Everything and every job and every person is under surveillance, every task monitored, every move assessed against metrics, every act rateable. there's h
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by canvascritic 3y ago
I think my strategy diverges somewhat from the norm but this is what I do: instead of trying to perfectly predict annual medical expenses, which is pretty fraught especially in my case, i come up with a conservative estimate using a heurist
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by canvascritic 3y ago
I battled chronic pain for the better part of a decade. Every morning it felt like a weight was pressing down on my joints, muscles always tensed up. nights were the worst, with sleep interrupted by sudden jolts of pain. the days became a b
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by canvascritic 3y ago
I've been to an onsen during a trip to Japan. The entire process, from the washing ritual to immersing oneself in the hot spring, is an experience that's hard to articulate Whether it aligns with the marketing or is part of the &q
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by canvascritic 3y ago
The shift in valhalla's direction reminds me of the initial challenges i faced when experimenting with its early prototypes. i distinctly remember grappling with the introduction of q-types and v-bytecodes and trying to align it with m
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Oof, this hits close to home. during my tenure as a principal engineer at a certain startup, well known and loved in these parts. Anyway I was new to engineering leadership and this big initiative came down from above to migrate to k8s. tea
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Indie game development and startups share similarities in risk and reward dynamics. but i'd argue that the indie game scene often comes with a more personal touch and artistic expression, while startups primarily pivot around solving a
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by canvascritic 3y ago
i'd lean towards the idea that while our memories can be imprecise, language patterns might not be just a byproduct of how memory is formed or pieced together. perhaps the environment, upbringing, and even personal experiences interwea
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Interesting take on the indie game development scene. i've always felt that while passion is vital, there's a tangible undercurrent of economic realities are often glossed over. the mention of "time travel" was cute, but
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by canvascritic 3y ago
oh, the memories of trying to optimize stripe sizes in the pre-zfs days! i can totally relate to the struggles with solaris disk suite and linux md. the pain of fixing poor decisions and the nail-biting backup processes are all too familiar
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Nice. To liken it to computers, memory is a bit like storage, while recall is the act of retrieving what's stored. The concept of memory being JITed is intriguing. it's reminiscent of the dynamic nature of human cognition. I alway
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Oooh this looks promising. Seeing helidon nima's take on java microservices with virtual threads is certainly a different direction. Way way back, while working with a java microservices codebase, we were stuck with OJ (ObscuraJ, to be
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by canvascritic 3y ago
this is a really neat addition to raid-z. i recall setting up my zfs pool in the early 2000s and grappling with disk counts because of how rigid expansion was. Good times. this would've made things so much simpler. small nitpick: in th
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Man this reminds me of this trip I took to the Maldives as a kid. While spending time with locals, I learned the word "feyli," a term unique to their Dhivehi language. "Feyli" describes the feeling of sand between your t
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by canvascritic 3y ago
for my specific use-case with my Arduino/K8s setup, I found a mix of OpenWeatherMap and the National Weather Service's API to be optimal. OpenWeatherMap for broader metrics and the NWS for hyperlocal data, especially when it came
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Tesla, like many pioneers, began with a laser focus on product superiority and disruptive customer service. But as it grew, its focus seems to have shifted predominantly to scale, efficiency, and margins. Don't get me wrong; scaling is
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Love windy.com! Another niche weather tool, Dark Sky, has always been a staple for me due to its hyperlocal rain predictions. Small anecdote: there's a unique satisfaction in creating something of your own. A few years back, I started
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by canvascritic 3y ago
chatgpt vibes, huh? maybe the author's just a fan. or we're all bots in disguise. plot twist! On a side note, i can't help but wonder if, in a few centuries, someone will be analyzing the 'VOC' equivalent of old USB
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Lignin breaking down smells nice, sure. but let's not forget, old books might be carrying mold spores that can trigger allergies or worse. Not to mention asbestos which was used in bookbinding till the 70s.
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by canvascritic 3y ago
having spent decades with nano, transitioning to emacs was a revelation. the extensibility, the vast array of packages - it was like stepping into a whole new world. but then came vscode. it felt like the best of both worlds - simplicity wh
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Yes indeed. it's intriguing to consider problems in BQP that may not fall into NP. this opens up a world of possibilities and challenges our current understanding of computational complexity. It suggests there are problems solvable by
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by canvascritic 3y ago
Cyberdog 2's specs are genuinely p impressive: 19 sensors, proprietary micro-actuators, dynamic stability, and it's just 8.9kg! Pretty crazy they were able to fit all that in such a small form factor. Xiaomi's investment in t

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