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by dzonga 6mo ago
this is dope work.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
I have said it before in another comment - on a related post. It's wild that Southern US which gets most of the sun - has relatively little solar compared to the North - which gets less sun days - but has more solar. the damage politic
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by dzonga 6mo ago
;) - use the Chinese models ;,>
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by dzonga 6mo ago
> Consumers accept that they can pay more for a better product, so when you compare a Model 3 to an ICE BMW 3 series, and they’re similar in price, but the Model 3 offers better technology and drive characteristics, then on balance you’r
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by dzonga 6mo ago
for video game assets this is massive. but in general though - will people believe in anything photographic ? imagine dating apps, photographic evidence. I'm guessing we're gonna reach a point where - you fuck up things purposely
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by dzonga 6mo ago
good idea - but not effective enough. if you gonna go about e-waste then go by repairability and part prices and part supply. then let the market sort itself out. as someone said - either standardize batteries or ensure that device makers c
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by dzonga 6mo ago
Tim Cook will be one of the legendary CEOs in history. he knows when to be conservative - and knows when to push hard. qualities very few CEOs have shown to have in practice. all his contemporary competitors have ridden on certain waves e.g
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by dzonga 6mo ago
but now Ruby on Rails is not a circus like how Next.js is. see [0]: Rails security Audit Report [0]: https://ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-audit-complete/
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by dzonga 6mo ago
just to add - you've to work the marketing problem from reverse. how much money do you want to make - have an absolute cap on the annual amount e.g in 5 years you want to make 2m|5m|10m a year. then choose your markets based on whether
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by dzonga 6mo ago
go to the Harvard MBA for Bootstrappers i.e https://longform.asmartbear.com one of the recommended posts: https://longform.asmartbear.com/problem/ which goes to the heart of what you're experiencing. p
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by dzonga 6mo ago
if any Alibaba (Qwen) folks are here - website is not working on safari
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by dzonga 6mo ago
a lot of the vulnerabilities in web-apps are people trying to be too smart for their own good. use battle-tested frameworks such as Rails, Django then you won't make rookie security mistakes.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
never seen people who are hellbent on shooting themselves in the foot. A.I or more accurately LLMs are currently trained on shitty open source code. the best practice code out there is locked in some cabinets for private companies. if you i
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by dzonga 6mo ago
One book I can recommend is "Gap Selling" before I read that book and tried to sell some stuff I realized in org's there' more than 1 buyer. in a typical b2b / gvt deal - you've 4 buyers at least.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
covered in terms of educational material, covered in terms of conference videos, then you can listen to dj mixes. YouTube is simply goated - no other platform comes to the versatility you can consume in terms of long-form content.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
it's even worse on backend tasks. but people writing shitty node.js code might beg to differ.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
one day people will realize that Tim Cook as one of the best killer CEOs. by now - by now he has more hits than Steve Jobs. His precision, and being able to manage risk maybe due to his supply chain background have made Apple into the kille
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by dzonga 6mo ago
mysql is really easy to run too. Postgres too (though it might come with a few operational headaches) all these things are awesome. however the complex over-engineering comes from people putting a k8 cluster or some cloud services when self
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by dzonga 6mo ago
software engineering - let's break it down. engineering is about applying rules of thumb to solve problems. however what's not usually stated to most people in the profession - that 'software engineering' is also an art
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by dzonga 6mo ago
one thing I can see as wrong thinking with this paper is taking companies at their word e.g they quote Block layoffs as AI induced not because of over-hiring. the other mistake taking A.I companies at their word - that these models even as
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by dzonga 6mo ago
me personally, I wouldn't bet against companies like Intel that have full government banking. soon or later they were gonna turn things around with military precision specially with DOD, Intelligence folks giving advice.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
constitutional coups. unfortunately being attempted all over from Hungary, Russia(successfully), Zimbabwe (currently in progress) and other nations all over.
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by dzonga 6mo ago
sub-saharan africa a place with more landmass & diversity than most continents reduced to a monolith by a someone who has never lived in africa for more than a year. if that's not patronizing and stupidity - IDK.
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by dzonga 7mo ago
worse is better wins again. there's a reason people prefer aged products - they gain a character of their own, similar to art or works produced under constraints.
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by dzonga 7mo ago
some people got very very rich. like rich - that their great grandkids don't have to work. that's the price of "freedom". both sides get to save face - Trump says they won, his cronies n himself got rich. Iran gets a bet
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by dzonga 7mo ago
the ecosystem around Kafka is so crazy specially in regards to data engineering. CDC capture Kafka (Redpanda) these days - just works and simplifies a bunch of stuff.
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by dzonga 7mo ago
you hardly get good instant coffee in the US. however in the UK the premium supermarkets have really good instant coffee i.e M&S and Waitrose.
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by dzonga 7mo ago
be ready to give bloodwork, the rest are people putting hell in your life - so ignore them.
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by dzonga 7mo ago
a war end up being a war about information. hence the first department that goes into full throttle mode in any war - is the department of propaganda | press corps (as modernly called). so we gonna see lies on both sides - Iranians | US &#x
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by dzonga 7mo ago
> America is at near full employment Hope you're not saying this at social gatherings. What the newspapers(economists | politicians) say, is not reality for most people.

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