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by crowcroft 6mo ago
It all seems a bit overly complicated to me. TikTok pretty much went straight to a self-serve platform and basically had immediate success. I would think if OpenAI did something similar there would be no shortage of advertisers wanting to s
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by crowcroft 6mo ago
The most surprising thing to me is that they're partnering with third parties to do this. Less secure, lower margins (more middlemen taking fees), harder to access, more likely to not work properly. I would expect all the meta execs th
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by crowcroft 6mo ago
I disagree on some of those dimensions (esp. lack of a moat), but agree things like geopolitics and security would lead to multiple wholesale providers. My concern is that globally international relations are an absolute MESS, but there rea
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by crowcroft 6mo ago
Naive question - let's assume this all becomes a really competitive market and 10+ companies are pumping satellites into orbit. Are we going to run out of space? At some point it probably makes the most sense for there to be one wholes
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by crowcroft 6mo ago
Sounds more like Sendgrid didn’t get the memo and their email reputation metric is a poor proxy.
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
Don't get me started. So many existing laws just seem to be conveniently ignored because... it's 'digital'? In a lot of countries there are specific laws banning the deliberate targeting of advertising to children (and i
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
Where does this fit in alongside the Agenctic Commerce Protocol? Is it just a question of whether your transacting bits vs atoms? https://www.agenticcommerce.dev/
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
A bit of a moving target there, especially with the definition of medium data on disk considering the rise of high speed NVMe vs spinning metal. Makes me wonder if the 00s 'Big Data' era and the resulting infra is largely just out
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
Not really a comment on laptops, but I recently built a new desktop for the first time in nearly two decades. I'm sure that there has been some innovation in the space, but overall I was surprised that everything just seemed... the exa
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
Not a biggie, but might want to update the reference to 'Ironclaw' in the Try Ironclaw link at the top of dench.com
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
In almost every category meaningful differentiation is a myth. It sounds nice to tell yourself you've got it and talk about moats or whatever, but it misses the point. What people usually mean when they talk about differentiation is di
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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by crowcroft 7mo ago
> Other sectors are missing out on investment limiting their growth and stalling the economy. Would love to know what sectors you would say are obviously under invested. Sounds like an opportunity.
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by crowcroft 8mo ago
I think a better comparison is saying that search ads don't change search results (but it does change the results page). The point is that the language and nuance ends up being lost on a large portion of the audience.
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by crowcroft 8mo ago
I totally agree, but the framing is critical. I guess the question is, when I write a prompt into ChatGPT is the answer the entire response I get back, or is the answer just one part of the response I get back. To date the entire response =
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by crowcroft 8mo ago
"Ads that support free access and don’t change ChatGPT answers ." I understand what they're trying to say but this statement is factually incorrect. Answers never used to have ads, and now they do. In the very first example,
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by crowcroft 10mo ago
How does the LLM know that the HTML and the API are the same? If an LLM wants to link to a user to a section of a page how does it know how to do that from the API alone? You introduce a whole host of potential problems, assuming those are
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by crowcroft 10mo ago
If only Arch supported Arm.
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by crowcroft 11mo ago
Here's my incredibly cynical take. First they moved away from this in 4o because it led to more sycophancy, AI psychosis and ultimately deaths by suicide[1]. Then growth slowed[2], and so now they rush this out the door even though it&
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by crowcroft 11mo ago
Did that stop Adobe moving towards a subscription model?
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by crowcroft 11mo ago
You can only please some of the people some of the time I guess.
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by crowcroft 11mo ago
You lay out an impossible challenge for Canva, there is no way they can prove that they will never add a subscription service or different charges in the future. What exactly do you expect from them? Would you prefer they just kept charging
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by crowcroft 1y ago
I find this less true where I live (New Zealand) where there are a lot of small takeaway shops that are often competitive on price. In general though the ease at which the market can recall a brand has a direct connection to market share, l
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Not entirely relevant to the article, but another factor that is rarely discussed. You need to assume people know about both widget companies. You often see a McDonalds or Wendy's outcompete lower price/higher quality alternatives
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by crowcroft 1y ago
New cars with low mileage should have far less maintenance issues than older cars. Hard to get a real sense for total cost of ownership for electric vs gas cars from that sample.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Yes, people should be building applications on top of this.
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by crowcroft 1y ago
Not even just the battery (although that probably is the biggest one), but maintenance in general. If I buy a 5 year old Corolla with 50k miles on the clock, I have a pretty good idea of what maintenance is going to like for the next decade
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by crowcroft 1y ago
I don't understand the 'Nextjs is good for SEO' hype. I think it's better to frame it as Nextjs isn't bad for SEO. Whether a site loads without client side rendering is a pretty binary thing. If you're using Ne
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by crowcroft 1y ago
I don't think the NYSE had any DEI requirements, but the NASDAQ created a rule where boards needed some minority representation in order to be listed. That rule was challenged and overturned in court though. > On August 6, 2021, the
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by crowcroft 1y ago
> You pay for instagram with your personal data, which is used to target you with high value ads. It's not quite that simple though. The problem is that they are not simply showing you relevant ads, they actively attempt to delive

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