dchftcs

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by dchftcs 3y ago
I think headsets are decent enough for virtual monitors, as in the resolution and latency are reasonable and head and hand tracking works just well enough. The software quality, HCI design and UI problems are bigger issues IMO, e.g. having
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Amazon burns and churns through employees, Google burns and churns through paying customers. Guess which one holds better in a bad labor market.
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by dchftcs 3y ago
>What happened over the 8 years prior was hedge funds and banks had saddled up on Intel stock which was paying healthy dividends due to cost cutting and "coasting" Not clear about what the role of activist hedge funds is here b
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0.5 per user per year by installs is significant for many apps, apart from apps from large companies, only subscription-based apps have the economics to justify this cost.
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Egress costs are significant by the time you want to use your backup, around $1800 to download the 18TB, which is around 10 years of storage cost. If you assume 5 years of HDD data lifetime, you need to roughly triple that monthly cost, whi
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by dchftcs 3y ago
A significant portion of taxi fares go to the driver, as opposed to the maintenance of cars. There are other marginal benefits such as making the driver's seat available, eliminating the driver's commute and as well as the risk of
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by dchftcs 3y ago
For othes you may have a point, I'm not sure what you mean about sexual freedom in Singapore. Singapore is culturally not that sexually open, which is largely a choice of the people, but people who don't want to adhere to the cult
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Sexual freedom is a very weird point to make because many people, more men than women, cannot afford sex without material wealth. Sexual freedom for women also improves with material wealth because fewer women feel the need to trade off the
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by dchftcs 3y ago
In cases where it matters, it's still a competitive advantage. Consumers don't care, maybe, but companies absolutely do, for their business-critical tools.
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We can attempt to deduce the point from the comment. The only assertive statement that the comment it replied to was "close to" the stupidest, but not the stupidest. One possible evidence for that sort of statement is presenting t
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by dchftcs 3y ago
It's a tough one because a PhD dissertation can be seen as a book.
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It's not worthless; many people still want to like the product and would like the company to improve. Alas it seems to be a lost cause given what's discussed over the years, better move on and use the energy to support a browser f
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by dchftcs 3y ago
There are ways where an employee that works 40 hours has less than half the impact than someone who works 60 hours. But plainly high quality code is not one of them. It works when you get a block of intense focus time and then go off to spe
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by dchftcs 3y ago
For that, accuracy seems to be a stronger limiting factor than speed.
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And also if you care if it's sustainable.
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>I respect his hustle but there is something about him in watching him speak live and in person that comes off as incredibly manipulative. He knows how to speak and pause in a way that gets the audience to laugh and gives soundbites. I a
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by dchftcs 3y ago
>The board's mandate to act as a check and balance on OpenAI seems to be working as intended in this case I'd argue it's not. If the board isn't able to steer the wheel without destroying OpenAI, they failed. The prem
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by dchftcs 3y ago
I still see no justification for assuming that the board member's voice was not heard before the publication. There's zero evidence for it, while the priors ought to be favoring the contrary because she does wield a fairly materia
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by dchftcs 3y ago
She's a board member. Who had approximately 1/4 of the power to fire Sam, and she did eventually exert it. Why do you rather assume her voice was not heard?
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Not sure about smart, but the word "nimble" can never be used to described anything about real estate.
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by dchftcs 3y ago
I did some google searches like "letter B in German frequency". Of the languages I searched, German has the highest frequency of Bs (1.96%), the closest are English and Spanish (1.49%), many others are around 1%. So, true to its n
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by dchftcs 3y ago
It wasn't wasted, thank you for reading it so the rest of us don't.
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Note I mention profit before distributing to equity holders. The highest prestige and therefore most profitable consulting companies are all partnerships. Some highly profitable consulting companies that are partnerships have very high marg
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by dchftcs 3y ago
The most profitable consulting-type businesses have profit margins >=50%, before distributing profits to equity holders. But either way I'm not sure about your implicit assumption here that the profits should be comparable to the pa
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Back in the day I heard stories of how some of the better ACM ICPC world final participants turned out to be rather slow typers. But the idea was that they figured out what to do before they type, and their own clarity of thought allowed th
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by dchftcs 3y ago
Holders can still band together as a single pot, like a fund which can count as only one investor. This sounds like a loophole, and now that I think if it it probably is - VCs and stuff should not have been allowed to ask for money from pen
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by dchftcs 3y ago
I'm incredulous that a linear algebra course taught by mathematics faculty didn't have a lot of theorem proving. Maybe that would be the case if the intended audience is engineering students. But for mathematics students, it would
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That is already a first and most important "why". It may be a little bit too terse, but mathematics didn't evolve by knowing the applications before doing something. Without doing some playing around from sqrt(-1) and discove
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If I were to say combined 5 years of professional experience in rust + C++, employers would definitely want to see the breakdown, unless they really don't care if it's 0+5. (And in the case of my claim, it is indeed 0+5)
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by dchftcs 3y ago
This looks like the moment of truth for Waymo. Waymo had self-driving for years but rolled out slowly as they prioritized safety. Competitors seemingly had caught up pretty quickly, the space got crowded and for a long time people were thin

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