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by drewda 8mo ago
From the same magazine that also recently published a piece headlined "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books" I do have a print subscription to The Atlantic and appreciate some of their coverage, but it's embar
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by drewda 8mo ago
Waymo is intentionally leaving out the following details: - Their "peer-reviewed model" compares Waymo vehicles against only "Level 0" vehicles. However even my decade-old vehicle is considered "Level 1" becaus
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by drewda 9mo ago
Here's a different aspect of utility: The F150 Lightning includes 120V and optionally 240V outlets, so it replaces the need to carry a separate gas-powered generator. That's probably more relevant to fleet vehicles for constructio
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by drewda 9mo ago
In the US, many astronauts start as Air Force pilots. And for the preternaturally calm and confident who don't have the perfect eyesight required to enter the Air Force, many of them apparently serve instead on nuclear submarines...
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by drewda 9mo ago
It's not just millions. Shanahan received over a billion dollars when divorcing Brin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan Today's unscientific gutting of the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule is
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by drewda 9mo ago
Fair point. "User" as developer rather than "user" as person clicking buttons in Gmail, Google Maps, etc, etc
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by drewda 10mo ago
FWIW, both of your comments can have some truth: - the pure consultancy is another company now - the IBM portfolio of software "products" are being packaged in ways that emphasize professional services and elaborate licensing sche
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by drewda 10mo ago
Maybe this is a "strategic inflection point" for Intel... to get back into the DRAM business?
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by drewda 11mo ago
As others have mentioned but not yet shared links, enterprise support is coming in January: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-support-organiz...
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by drewda 11mo ago
What they saying in this post is that they are designing these LLM-based features to support search. The post describes how their use-case is finding high quality sources relevant to a query and providing summaries with references/link
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by drewda 11mo ago
For what it's worth, most of those examples are acquisitions. That's not a hit against Google in particular. That's the way all big tech co's grow. But it's not necessarily representative of "innovation."
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by drewda 11mo ago
For a premium UI around the open-source Whisper core, there's also MacWhisper: https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
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by drewda 11mo ago
Apple likely pays Yelp to license the review content, not the other way around.
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by drewda 1y ago
FWIW, this blog writer appears to only be cross-linking to his own posts. Perhaps good for his own SEO, but not as much for his readers...
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by drewda 1y ago
Interesting, but why share the Sedona name? I thought Apache Sedona is implemented in Java/Scala for distributed runtimes like Spark and Flink. Wouldn't Rust tooling for interactive use be built atop a completely different stack?
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by drewda 1y ago
Agreed. There are dozens of startups and established companies providing analytics-y software. The fact that this one is being acquired by OpenAI doesn't make it any more newsworthy to anyone other than the people who are getting some
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by drewda 1y ago
Can't wait for mashups of MCP services :)
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by drewda 1y ago
The OSM Foundation has been serving raster tiles for years and years (that's what's visible by default on the slippy map at www.openstreetmap.org): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Carto Afte
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by drewda 1y ago
It's a great open-source option, but I'd also skip using their hosted service given that Traccar is a Russian company.
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by drewda 1y ago
I was wondering the same. FWIW, the HTML custom elements spec does require a hyphen: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...
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by drewda 1y ago
Always great to see his open-source creations, like: - a Redis like cache purpose built for real-time spatial locations: https://tile38.com/ - go package for reading JSON: https://github.com/tidwall/gjs
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by drewda 1y ago
"Do things that don't scale" to quote Sir PG.
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by drewda 1y ago
Glitch was acquired by Fastly a few years ago, so perhaps the user-facing brand will continue on for a while on top of some Fastly hosted services...
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by drewda 1y ago
Nice to see Ruby continuing to exist and deliver... even in the age of "AI"
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by drewda 2y ago
FWIW, previously discussed under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853845
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by drewda 2y ago
Interesting analysis. Sounds like an argument for ABAG to expand its energy related services into a full utility (at least on the electricity side): https://abag.ca.gov/our-work/energy-infrastructure
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by drewda 2y ago
Here's a detailed look at how total compensation compares between the private sector and federal positions by education level: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235 The key takeaways: - staffers with high school o
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by drewda 2y ago
Google Gemini MX 2026
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by drewda 2y ago
Intersting, I didn't realize there's a relationship. But Wikipedia says: > Lexmark was formed on March 27, 1991, when investment firm Clayton & Dubilier completed a leveraged buyout of IBM Information Products Corporation,
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by drewda 2y ago
Even today there are decent odds that within Apple the macOS and iOS groups are locked in a multi-decade long fight in which one may prevail...

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