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by dzonga 8mo ago
zuck panicked. the metaverse didn't pan out. other companies were making inroads on A.I and zuck felt flat-footed. the crazy shit is in an era where most content on social media is A.I generated - zuck should've pivoted to banning
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Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts
43 points by dzonga 8mo ago|24 comments
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by dzonga 8mo ago
that's pretty obvious to everyone in the US what's not obvious to most people - is how e.g other countries that are already struggling will get into deeper depths e.g UK where cost of energy was super high. UK is not bombing Iran,
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by dzonga 8mo ago
thing coz we're people in tech -- we are open to ideas that are non-tech or old school a lot of creative industries solved this by using agencies, unions and co-ops if you really want to have success and make an impact start an agency
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by dzonga 8mo ago
what's the value add ? what are you offering to candidates - a better interview experience (been tried before etc, those companies closed) you want to solve a problem, however you are trying solve the problem at a wrong abstraction lev
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by dzonga 8mo ago
could have been on sqlite -- backups in s3 or equivalent object storage but let's over-engineer
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by dzonga 8mo ago
the economy has been shedding jobs back to back now - since nov 2024. however due to the incompetent and corrupt powers that be - a lot of the news has been suppressed, and even the head of BLS fired. everyone is struggling - but I guess th
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by dzonga 8mo ago
most people who are into graphics processing e.g video-games, 3d for films/entertainment industry etc need these "PRO-workstation" machines, or doing fluid mechanics if your work is around data | software engineering (web bac
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by dzonga 8mo ago
I know this is a heavily tech circle. however for the common person out there, unless they're buying for status -- this will meet most of their needs office workers, hospital workers, stay-at-home parents - who just wanna fill forms oc
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by dzonga 8mo ago
Charlie Munger once said >>> Show me the incentive, I will show you the outcome Problem is in big tech -- the incentives are all aligned towards complex stuff you wanna get promoted - do complex stuff that doesn't make sense.
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by dzonga 8mo ago
most times it seems liberal leaders don't like to read history, even if they're lawyers. if a pleb like me can understand that the Supreme Court has the power of imposing the judges personal views on the rest of the country. would
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by dzonga 8mo ago
yeah pixel used to be great. probably the best phone I ever owned after iPhone SE was a Pixel 3a. till I got the abomination that was a pixel 6a. fucking overheated - then finally battery exploded. Other pixels suffer the same problems as w
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by dzonga 8mo ago
I guess study was sponsored by Elon
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by dzonga 8mo ago
drones are probably the boss level of asymmetrical warfare ever seen cheap to make - if you care to do so -- to stop them your enemy has to deploy expensive anti-missile tech -- thereby in a war of attrition the person who quickly churns ou
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by dzonga 8mo ago
I remember the days when it was mostly Gitlab having issues. Github was super stable - then it got shitty once they switched to React on the frontend instead of the server rendered pages, then Co-pilot stuff lately I haven't heard them
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by dzonga 8mo ago
If this is a DHanson who was at Khoros before -- yeah I worked under him -- pleasant fellow -- all around top guy, so yeah please do apply
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by dzonga 8mo ago
inverse thinking is needed here - instead of having a solution trying to find a problem. what would it look like if you didn't need concurrency at all - would simply having a step by step process enough e.g using DAGs what would it loo
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by dzonga 8mo ago
I also agree - however the ART of making software that's simple and works is disappearing fast. One of the most impactful things in my career was watching Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey our industry is part engineering | part art (i.e
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by dzonga 8mo ago
one thing though - food and oil supplies at risk - if the airspace and shipping lanes remain shut down for 1 month or more. people in the Middle East will literally starve and china will run out of fuel - though they've gone mostly ele
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by dzonga 8mo ago
great article. one thing it mentions is how in Europe etc - places with limited land quickly pivoted to monogamy was due to limited resources. in places with limited resources, raising kids under monogamy has shown to produce the best resul
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by dzonga 8mo ago
you're doing the honorable by offering solutions
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by dzonga 8mo ago
Straight from the horses mouth: >> yes we over-hired during covid because i incorrectly built 2 separate company structures (square & cash app) rather than 1, which we corrected mid 2024. but this misses all the complexity we too
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by dzonga 8mo ago
the web is great as an application platform. what's not great are the complexity merchants, due to money & other incentives etc that ship to the web. there's better web frameworks that are lighter, faster than react - but due
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by dzonga 8mo ago
why not use DuckDB ? of course that depends on your workload etc - but for most cases duckDB should be efficient.
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by dzonga 8mo ago
these guys are selling snake oil to the gvt - cz they know they can get cash based on fear. the Chinese are releasing equivalent models for free or super cheap. AI costs / energy costs keep going up for American A.I companies while chi
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by dzonga 8mo ago
this is brutal. :( my mentor was on the chopping block too. block btw now makes most of its money on bitcoin transactions not software
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by dzonga 8mo ago
this is well written. thank you - you broke down the economics nicely. I do think maybe with a hub & spoke model - big trucks move loads to hubs -- then smaller electrified trucks cover the less than 200 miles from hub to spoke. electri
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by dzonga 8mo ago
express buses that go straight from say point A (home) location e.g from a central point e.g Mall to central point B (downtown) can work wonders - if they're given highway access and bus only lanes, automatic green light access etc the
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by dzonga 8mo ago
for most folks -- just user Inertia + Django | Rails
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by dzonga 8mo ago
The trump administration by refusing to admit the superior metrics of solar, they're just burying their heads in sand. As admitting that solar is now a superior and cost effective means of energy means admitting that the US is no longe

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