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by dkobia 2y ago
I love this. Open source projects often suffer from a combination of a funding crisis and maintainer burnout. I think state funded open source projects are a wonderful idea! By investing in open source projects, governments can create more
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by dkobia 2y ago
I support software in many languages and ruby has to be the most syntactically stimulating.
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by dkobia 2y ago
https://archive.is/NUw7C
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Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk's companies(ft.com)
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by dkobia 2y ago
A bit hyperbolic on my part but I think Trump and Elon are quite a potent combination for the money and media influence they have between them. Members of congress and senators with opposing views are very unlikely to stick their heads up f
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by dkobia 2y ago
This new administration lays bare what we've known all along - the legislative gridlock and dysfunction in the house of representatives and senate has made them completely incapable of governing -- the least productive in a generation.
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by dkobia 2y ago
With extreme wealth, the next goal becomes immortality. Ellison and others are obsessed with living longer (or forever) and viewing all their ideas through this lens helps explain their investments in biotechnology and artificial intelligen
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by dkobia 2y ago
One of the most interesting metrics I came across this week was the rise in custom built software over SaaS as AI enabled the “Build” in the “Build vs Buy” equation that has typically pushed companies to SaaS.
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by dkobia 2y ago
In the end, all the leaders can offer is Bread and Circuses.
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by dkobia 2y ago
These lite apps are a way for Apple to dip its toes into popular niches in the App Store while not killing the goose. In this case, Evite, Partiful and Hobnob have been put on notice as Apples expands its services revenues which have grown
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by dkobia 2y ago
Perplexity is a pretty awesome and much needed app, but Aravind Srinivas has many posts on X reek of a desperate need to succeed - scruples aside. To me that signals an inevitable enshitification.
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by dkobia 2y ago
Won’t it affect America as well? Yes, it buys time, but also delays innovation, disrupts global supply chains and ultimately means costlier American cars no?
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by dkobia 2y ago
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. When worlds were conquered through brute force and wooden ships, it is crazy to imagine how pivotal vitamin C was.
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by dkobia 2y ago
AGI is the Sisyphean task of our age. We’ll push this boulder up the mountain because we have to, even if it kills us.
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by dkobia 2y ago
Some of my issues with X. - The algorithm is extremely aggressive and antagonistic. Any signal (linger, view) on a post indicates you might want to see more of whatever it is. Usually it is posts that provoke the most reaction. - Posts with
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by dkobia 2y ago
Advertising incentivizes engagement driven content amplification which is usually best manifested in outrage unfortunately. On Twitter (X), Instagram, TikTok, it seems any minute signal (view, like, scroll, linger) algorithmically retunes y
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by dkobia 2y ago
VW cleaned up their image. Now they have a different problem - China is no longer buying and their current offerings are not as interesting to consumers everywhere else.
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by dkobia 2y ago
I too normally like this channel but a few minutes in and it started to sound whiny. Encouraging “coning” was pretty low. It is starting to become pretty obvious that the many benefits of progress in this area overwhelm minor grievances.
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These Record-Breaking New Solar Panels Produce 60 Percent More Electricity(theconversation.com)
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by dkobia 2y ago
The Shining is one of my favorite King books and I always thought the movie was a bastardization of his work. One of my biggest peeves is the fact that Wendy in the book was a much stronger character than the one played by Shelley Duvall. A
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by dkobia 2y ago
To say Dikembe was an awesome guy is an understatement. It was pretty common to see him around town either at the store or in line at the bank and if you talked to him he was always happy to engage.
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by dkobia 2y ago
This is it. Loss of trust and disagreements on money/equity usually lead to breakups like this. No one at the top level wants to be left out of the cash grab. Never underestimate how greed can compromise one’s morals.
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by dkobia 2y ago
The iPhone, and really, most phones today, are pretty amazing pieces of technology in a glass slab. Expecting phenomenal changes between versions at this point might be asking for too much. Apple stuck itself in a corner with "stock&qu
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by dkobia 2y ago
I too divested. One concern I think about constantly these days is that the Tesla we supposedly own is vulnerable to the whims of the CEO. I worry that software updates pushed to my car to satisfy a man (who has absolute control) might not
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How Telegram Played Itself(platformer.news)
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How to Properly Archive Your Digital Files(wired.com)
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by dkobia 2y ago
I've often heard the narrative from hiring managers over the years that a prospect who's been laid off probably doesn't make a good hire, especially if they've been laid off multiple times. In this wonderfully written an
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by dkobia 2y ago
The British could have said exactly the same of any of their colonies. Who knows, Hawaii could have been as prosperous as Fiji or even more given the chance.
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by dkobia 2y ago
They are indeed very open about this. More here [1]. You can also put in a request for limited monitoring [2]. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/c... [2] https://c
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by dkobia 2y ago
We'll continue to see diminishing returns as time goes. The low hanging data sources have all been consumed and now everyone is battling for scraps of what's left. There's still a lot of optimization that can be done as illus

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