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by cm277 3y ago
This; also, the more interesting tidbit is that the US at that point hadnt really developed anything with titanium (for the same reason; most of it was in the USSR) so Lockheed had to develop all the tooling for the SR-71 internally as well
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by cm277 3y ago
Yeah, I asked him; the answer was emacs (and a lot of macros). He automated the translation (from pre-processed code) and then hand-crafted the rest.
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by cm277 3y ago
I once worked with a true 10x programmer. The guy used C++ metaprogramming to avoid boiler-plate code. Any by "used" I mean he needed the best preprocessors and compilers at the time to just write his code. He once single-hande
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by cm277 3y ago
Er, the Romans pretty much continued the science and engineering of the Greeks --the management of water alone was a massive engineering feat that wouldn't be matched for centuries. But mainly science and engineering was killed off by
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by cm277 4y ago
It's just as likely (more so, given this is Google) that management is looking for a _visible_ sign of cost-cutting to pass a message to staff that times have changed, so chilling effect on raises/bonuses and probably increased at
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by cm277 4y ago
There were some decent use cases I've heard off; supplier compliance got quite big during Covid and AFAIK stayed big. Instead of flying out a team to inspect a factory, just ask someone to walk around the factory wearing Glass. Zero no
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by cm277 4y ago
I found the Chomsky article simplistic: his arguments against the LLM lack of logic basically boil down to that LLMs are not aware of physics or logic, or social interactions. Well, guess what, they are not. Yet. Humans are indeed 'tr
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by cm277 4y ago
Well, let's start with the idea of “I wish I could invest in YouTube without investing in the rest of it”. Why not? YouTube is a more focused brand, with a world-beating product that's already active in multiple high-growth verti
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by cm277 4y ago
The problem with the article is that every company wants to manage risk; turning risk into money is what a company, any company, does . Now bigger companies have processes, hierarchies, etc. to manage risk in a distributed way, because wel
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by cm277 4y ago
Hmm, all of these things are hard; they are also fairly easy compared to building your own jet engine . There are a handful of jet engine makers in the world, 2 or 3 that can build passenger-grade engines and 2-3 (small overlap) that can
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by cm277 4y ago
It's probably too early to tell, but my wild guess is that it will add another conceptual level of abstraction to programming. Instead of say pesudocode→code→assembly, you would get to description/case→code (via GPT)→assembly. I
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by cm277 4y ago
I've used Thinkpads exclusively for >20 years, last ~10 all X1s. I am typing this on an X1C Gen10 as well. It's an OK machine, but unless something shifts spectacularly, it will be my last Thinkpad: it runs hot, even with the
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by cm277 4y ago
It basically gave me the same feeling of glee I got out of Google while it was still at stanford.edu: just a great UX and what feels like the correct answer on the first try. Google should be shaking in their boots.
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by cm277 4y ago
That's fair. But then your investment thesis is based on the value given to gold by large institutions that can/will create a price floor. Which yes, is absolutely based on trust-in-future-value, but in the case of gold that trus
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by cm277 4y ago
That's a good counter; but gold does have a minimum value separate from trust in its future value: it can be used for jewelry / metallurgical applications, etc. and it won't rust / oxidize. And gold is a lousy currency:
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by cm277 4y ago
I used to agree with you; but I think this line of thinking takes a (core) feature of money (trust in its value) and reduces the whole thing down to just it. Fiat money has another core feature in its definition: that you can pay taxes to a
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by cm277 4y ago
Genuine question to the Googlers here: how do OKRs factor in the misaligned incentives internally? in other words, are OKRs a good idea badly executed, or just ineffective period?
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by cm277 4y ago
I wasn't joking too much... high growth is bad for a company's 'health', no matter what is driving that growth (VCs or just PMF). By health here, I mean people, processes and product. It helps, a lot , if the team has
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by cm277 4y ago
Let me rephrase this pithy remark in econ terms: a company by definition builds value, hopefully a lot. You as the founder at some point has to extract the value one way or the other (immediately by exiting, over a longer period by divesti
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by cm277 4y ago
I've done both. Bootstrapped a business to >$10m and (now) running a VC-backed firm. The models are different because the markets the two companies operate in are different. I see VC money as getting steroids in a competitive spor
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by cm277 4y ago
This is more or less exactly why Google/Meta need to be regulated and cut down to size. The fact that super-expensive engineers do not have to create value for these companies, but they are still 'affordable' while every oth
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by cm277 4y ago
Hmm, the EU also has stricter emission requirements from ICE cars, so above some displacement (roughly 1500cc or so I think), manuals are becoming rare, as better emissions means turbos, which means higher revs, which means more gears (7-8)
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by cm277 4y ago
100%; the business model side is the major advantage Apple has here. Part of that advantage is the sheer size of the market compared to desktop/servers. They will sell 10s of times more CPUs for iPhones/Macs than anyone will sel
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by cm277 4y ago
It hurts me to say this, but American democracy is broken. Checks and balances have been twisted to subvert true democratic rule. We should stop worshipping the Founders and their intent, and aim for a Second American Republic, built arou
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by cm277 4y ago
That's not how the EU works. EU is driven by compromises between states. When a compromise is hard politically (like common debt was during Grexit) it gets shelved until a crisis rebalances things and a new compromise can be reached (
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by cm277 4y ago
Hmmm, I think TFA misses the fact that software engineering, isn't really engineering any more. We don't develop code that gets deployed and stays in place (well, maybe in embedded systems, but even those are getting IoT'ed)
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by cm277 5y ago
I think that's a perfectly valid argument. And of you have any Miami beachfront property you may as well just gift it to me now as its value is $0, so why pay any taxes on it?
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by cm277 5y ago
Erm, go to Google maps and zoom the heck out. Southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Greece) is at the latitude of Virginia or Northern Cal. Yes, there are fewer mosquitos than say, Egypt or Florida...
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by cm277 5y ago
It's another (big) data source for Facebook to track you across the web and build a profile to sell ads against.
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by cm277 5y ago
Erm... 30% of US teens own an Apple Watch [1]. The AW may be the most underestimated gadget of all time... [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/05/apple-now-most-popular-...

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