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901.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Always read older stuff from Carmack remembering the context. He made a name for himself getting 3D games to run on slow hardware. The standard advice of write for clarity first, make sure algorithms have reasonable runtimes, and look at pr
902.
by dehrmann 2y ago
> And no, I don't think the USG will break up Apple if this happens. They're already showing highly preferential treatment to Apple compared to Google. The largest business by far is iPhones. It has 16% market share in the PC b
903.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Harris has been thin on policy, so it's hard to say, but seeing that she's from the Bay Area, she might be more careful more careful to not break one of the country's key industries.
904.
by dehrmann 2y ago
You could make that argument for anything, though.
905.
by dehrmann 2y ago
One of the pendulums in business strategy is whether companies should be smaller so they can be more nimble and pursue their own destines or larger so the can be more protected from market demands and can capitalize on "synergies"
906.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Didn't some of the early GPT work come out of Google?
907.
by dehrmann 2y ago
They're almost certainly not equal because solving NP in P time requires magically making exponential decisions in P time. What's interesting that it's been so hard to prove one way or the other.
908.
by dehrmann 2y ago
There's a difference between a data center connection and a home connection. For 99% of home users, moderately oversubscribed gigabit is perfectly fine, and no one would pay the premium (and it's a big premium) for more. Once 1 GB
909.
by dehrmann 2y ago
It's 2024 and smart phones don't do out-of-the-box spam filtering?
910.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Hijacking this a bit, but I'm very annoyed around political texts. Banning them is something 95% of Americans would support, but only 5% of politicians would support it.
911.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Not sure of Newsom is actually wise enough or if his presidential ambitions moderate his policies.
912.
by dehrmann 2y ago
> we spent N weeks testing K products to root out the very best Does the Wirecutter no longer actually do the leg work?
913.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Low-hanging bill before an election.
914.
by dehrmann 2y ago
What's sad is most of the EV hesitancy is because of range anxiety, charging stations are the fix, and building a charging station is relatively easy.
915.
by dehrmann 2y ago
At some point it might be appropriate to frame the problem as being with "very large companies," but we're still at a point where the technology (mostly storage) isn't quite ready. Coming from a US perspective, politicia
916.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Pagerank worked as long as no one knew what the metric was and the old, hyperlinked web existed.
917.
by dehrmann 2y ago
The problem is with cataloging and discoverability. After a certain number of photos (or movies, songs, whatever), finding what's relevant is non-trivial.
918.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Going into winter, I wish we were more ahead of this. It might just be a repeat of swine flu, but I'd gladly pay $25 for an extra flu shot just in case.
919.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Was there an internal sense that the business model was flawed? You can only sell so many DNA tests to people, and the pharma research angle always felt like more of a pipe dream than a viable business.
920.
by dehrmann 2y ago
It's a lot harder to go to war when countries depend on each other economically.
921.
by dehrmann 2y ago
The larger lesson here is this is what happens when governments try to regulate things they don't understand. Cookie popups just add friction, and it's not clear consumers see any real privacy benefit. What's even worse is pe
922.
by dehrmann 2y ago
The whole strawman/dichotomy you see with Agile and Waterfall boils down to needing both flexibility and vision for large projects, and each fails at one of these.
923.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Years ago, I had an interview question that was essentially "model a restful query API." I'm not sure if it was the gotcha or that it was a bad question, but rest isn't a good fit. GET lacking a request body doesn't
924.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Tesla's sales were mostly in cities (where people still buy sedans), and they were mostly taking away business from foreign manufacturers.
925.
by dehrmann 2y ago
No BYD?
926.
by dehrmann 2y ago
I don't touch crypto, but one thing I took away from its rise is thinking through what money actually is and what equity valuations actually represent.
927.
by dehrmann 2y ago
There are only so many places you can put your money--treasuries, bonds, real estate, equities, precious metals, crypto. With interest rates going down, fixed-income looks a lot less interesting, so... real estate? Equities?
928.
by dehrmann 2y ago
9 bars of DIY pressure scares me.
929.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Weren't BD-R M-Discs never really M-Discs? The retention only applied to DVDs?
930.
by dehrmann 2y ago
Long-term traffic graphs can serve as good proxies for metrics investors care about.

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