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by com2kid 1y ago
Counterpoint - Nearly every startup I've talked to recently (last year or so) has been cash flow positive after just series A (or sometimes after just a seed round!) Companies are pursuing smart business strategies and prioritizing hea
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by com2kid 1y ago
On one project I worked on, we tried sourcing prototype boards from an American supplier and they put a bunch of knock-off parts on it. Meanwhile our Chinese suppliers were honest with us. The one benefit the American places are supposed to
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by com2kid 1y ago
JS is very much a minimal language that has a handful of choices. E.g. arrays being objects with field names that are sequentially numbered integers. The initial equality operator was a mistake, but that was rectified over a decade ago with
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by com2kid 1y ago
Even 40 tokens per second is plenty enough for real time usage. The average person reads at ~4 words per second, 40 tokens per second is going to be 15-20 words per second. Even useful models like gemma3 27b are hitting 22 t/s on 4bit
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by com2kid 1y ago
You can do a lot with a lot of VRAM and a reasonable amount of TOPS. A 24GB affordable GPU can easily power an entire house worth of AI work, from real time voice chat, image generation, simple tool calls and task running, reminders, aler
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by com2kid 1y ago
It is a lot less if you are aiming to support a small set of platforms, don't need general driver support for everything possible accessory and peripheral under the sun, and if your file system usage is limited. If you are building for
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by com2kid 1y ago
Microsoft used to legit do this in the 90s. Recruit bus factor 1 employees from competitors by offering them large salaries. It was much easier to cripple your competition back when there were several orders of magnitude less software engin
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That is roughly equivalent to what I did in honors math in the 90s in the US. Looking over the math curriculum in the same school district today, the current level of instruction doesn't even come close. Standards have sadly fallen.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Do people really not understand that companies don't care one whit about your personality? When I worked at the original incarnation of HBO Max our #1 hiring criteria was "not an asshole". When I joined MSFT out of colle
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by com2kid 1y ago
I had an interview at a big tech company last year where I had a verbal offer letter which then got rescinded when a VP went over my interview feedback and decided I didn't come across as enough of a team player! That feedback occurred
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by com2kid 1y ago
The ratio changed after software engineering became a way to make a lot of money. It used to be there were a handful of well paying gigs and a bunch of "pretty good" jobs, but SE wasn't a huge outlier. Once people flooded the
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by com2kid 1y ago
As a hiring manager, I've read blogs. Heck when reviewing a stack of resumes, "has a technical blog" almost certainly moves a candidate to a consider pile and they are probably getting a callback in the very least.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I got the chance to do this at Microsoft, it is indeed awesome! Thankfully the (multiple!) legendary programmers on the team were all behind the effort. Anyway, if anyone reading this gets a chance to build a custom OS for bespoke HW, and g
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by com2kid 1y ago
At that ratio a technical manager should be first on every code review, should be testing the hell out of everything, and should be sitting in design reviews catching bugs well before they hit the IC's plates.
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by com2kid 1y ago
One of the first upgrades I made to my house was buying a nice (interior) vent hood. The exterior ones need to be at least a few feet away from the stove, and my stove is right up against the wall it vents out of. I still was able to find a
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by com2kid 1y ago
I've been using macos for years, I just learned .config was a standard in this thread, because damn nearly everything shoves files in ~ so I just assumed that is where config files go. Don't blame people for doing what 90% of apps
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by com2kid 1y ago
For around 2k it is possible to install a vent hood with the fan outside the building so it is completely silent, and has way more air flow than anything that fits above the range. Complete silence, performance beyond anything people are us
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by com2kid 1y ago
You do realize those GPS smart watches are everywhere in the US as well right? Some parents opt for the less invasive tool of air tags hidden in clothing or backpacks, same idea though. Smart watches are actually super useful for kids, it l
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by com2kid 1y ago
How would that help? UTF-8, 16, and 32 languages would still report different numbers.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Google's phones are a minor bit player in the market. They have an estimated 4% of US market share. OnePlus was kicking their butts until OnePlus decided to destroy their entire value prop and also laid off their much beloved software
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by com2kid 1y ago
> The camera is a waste of money. Camera is the main selling point for new phones. It may not be for you, but for most customers, camera performance is the key differentiator. Modern smartphone camera modules are incredibly high bandwidt
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by com2kid 1y ago
Being ~2 weeks into migrating from Windows to Linux for my dev machine, there are a lot of good reasons why people use Windows, and I keep learning more each and every day! From a lock screen that appears ~3 seconds after my desktop does
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by com2kid 1y ago
> It's less screen and less battery than a laptop, Phones have higher resolution, higher refresh rate, and brighter screens at the price point vs a $1000 laptop. (Also higher density screens are harder to make, 12" 1080p panel
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Speaking of which, could we apply vector embeddings to search engines (where crawled pages get indexed by their vector embeddings rather than raw text) and use that for better fuzzy search results even without an LLM in the mix? Yes, t
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> The business undoubtedly did a crude cost/benefit analysis where the cost to expose and maintain that public interface vastly outstrips the cost for the few people that have to call in and change their name. Haha, not likely. In r
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by com2kid 1y ago
> I used to be able to go to the local gardening center and ask the owner who could right away give you the right answer because that was his expertise that came from years of genuine experience. I can still do this, and I do on occasion
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by com2kid 1y ago
Last year one of my berry bushes had browning leaves with some spots. Google search said infection, treatment plan, etc. This year I snapped a pic and sent to chat gpt. Normal end of year die off, cut the brown branches away, here is a fert
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by com2kid 1y ago
I use my Meta glasses heavily on vacation, and then occasionally else where. The latest Llama isn't as smart as OpenAI, so after a few wrong answers I gave up on day to day queries. That said, the scenarios they are good at they are r
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by com2kid 1y ago
Have you ever spent time in a city designed for people first? Lanes are narrow, forcing cars to go slowly. Side walks are large[1], stop signs, roundabouts, or even curves in the road, exist to force drivers to pay attention to their surrou
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by com2kid 1y ago
Mail order pharmacies (though insurance companies) are more likely to fill a 90 day stimulant script in my experience, solely because they really want to send out 90 day supplies for everything for whatever reason. I don't trust the po

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