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by dehrmann 1y ago
I used to have the public IP address of the computer in my dorm room memorized. It's been 20 years, and I still remember it started with 128.211.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
And only somewhat true for punk. Once you're a mediocre guitarist, you finger the whole chord in case you strum too far.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It was culturally influential, signaled the end of glam rock, and was even dubbed the anthem of a generation, but it didn't showcase great songwriting. It's not fair because he had time to grow as an artist, but "Everlong&quo
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by dehrmann 1y ago
My point is that you have to put all of his wisdom and stories in the context of what he's good at and the environment he was in. He tried to apply his value investing playbook to early Google, and it looked like a bad investment. He l
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by dehrmann 1y ago
This is what makes software interesting. It theoretically works forever and has zero marginal production cost, but it's durability is driven by business requirements and hardware and OS changes. Some software might have a 20 year life.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Just because it beat indexes doesn't mean it couldn't have done better. From 2017: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/06/warren-buffett-admits-he-mad...
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Not to diminish any of his accomplishments, but read his quotes and story as being a product of his time. He famously missed out on a lot of solid tech investments because of his background as a value investor. Value investing doesn't
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by dehrmann 1y ago
So... to what extent is software a durable good?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Teller, as in Penn and Teller.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
You've seen publicized examples (Toys R Us) where it played out like that, but that narrative doesn't generally pass the smell test–no counterparty would keep making bad loans. There are cases where companies are mismanaged, their
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Yes, he did sign up for the job, but his charity work afterwards says a lot. The joke is he was too good of a person to be president.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Has the distribution model been good for Linux? It led to different approaches to things like desktop environments, packaging, and a variety of platforms, but 30+ years later, there are several sane choices for server distros, desktop distr
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by dehrmann 1y ago
My great grandfather's joke was always "There's only one man I'd vote for, and I won't run." The office attracts people who are there for the wrong reasons, with Carter being the exception that proves the rule.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
There's a chance the tariffs will be rejected by the Supreme Court within a year, a chance something political happens within the next two years (senators and representatives will turn on Trump as soon as he becomes a liability in the
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Why would the US and EU losing manufacturing be bad? > How long can any country survive this kind of inequity? What worries me more is that the US has been funding global military security through deficit spending funded by foreign inves
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The job is essentially the same: publish or perish.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> but I feel almost as nervous rolling my own backup as I would rolling my own crypto Is there a Restic frontend for Windows that you'd be comfortable setting up a family member with?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The most recent example is the Anthropic CEO: > I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code https:&#x
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by dehrmann 1y ago
All it takes is 14 grad students studying the same thing targeting a 95% confidence interval for, on average, one to stumble upon a 5% case. Factor in publication bias and you get a bunch of junk data. I think I heard this idea from Freakon
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by dehrmann 1y ago
He's a bit late to this conclusion. For a while, Facebook supposedly didn't see TikTok as competition because it isn't social, but Facebook and Instagram have been entertainment feeds for a decade, now.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The only interesting part of 2 is it looks like Doge wanted all the data. The technical details of how they scraped it mostly doesn't matter.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I know it would leave a lot of money on the table, but if Apple had set the app store fee at 5% (enough to cover credit card fees and running the service) and been content with a 50% margin on hardware, it never would have been in this mess
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Doesn't WSL 2 essentially run Linux in a VM? It's fine when things are in one OS or the other, but gets weird when it crosses over.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Banks aren't defaulting because they held bad PE loans. The recent memorable case was SVB, but it held quality paper, just with a duration risk. Banks aren't investing depositor funds in loans to Toys R Us.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
GP is repeating the PE as corporate raiders story, but leaving out that these are often struggling, mismanaged companies, and that those loans have a sophisticated counterparty. The lenders might eat the losses, but after a few rounds, they
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by dehrmann 2y ago
That's like asking what's the distance between A, B, and C.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> dyad Correct, though you'll much more commonly hear about triads, as in major and minor triads, and you'll hear "power chord" more often than "dyad," even though it's one specific dyad. > if you he
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Pachelbel's Canon in D is by no means a complex song and has stood the test of time It was actually mostly forgotten until the 1960's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel%27s_Canon#Rediscover... Can
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by dehrmann 2y ago
And both are valid. Some people like building new products and features, some would rather fix existing ones.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I'd also like to see return by college ranking, selectivity, and ROI for drop-outs.

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