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by dzonga 3mo ago
some of these things are not news. this is like stating that Elon Musk has a security clearance. it's a condition of service and industry.
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Garmin Smart Band(garmin.com)
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by dzonga 3mo ago
once a.i images took over - a lot of things that were based on images died. going to a fancy restaurant coz of 'you can take good pics' - dead - a.i can recreate that cheaper. which means for a certain demographic - dating apps ar
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by dzonga 3mo ago
my apologies if you felt I was name calling you. I was putting it out as a generality - that most engineers/founders have no background in humanities. hence they don't tend to use 'logic' to make decisions that involve h
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by dzonga 3mo ago
so when you come to HN - and there's a story on the 1st Page about a YC company hiring - that you can't comment on - but just click. to you is that an AD ? for all contexts and purposes it's an ad. is it intrusive ? no. that&
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If I put out a native ad - uBlock Origin won't work on it. since it's just an html <p> tag or any other element. the ad industry at large has caused damage - for you to think ads are not beneficial and intrusive or mind rape
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by dzonga 3mo ago
remove the internet - forget the internet didn't exist. you will see why the publishing business runs on ads. see the world for what it is not what you want it to be. once people started publishing books or whatever in the 1600s - the
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by dzonga 3mo ago
ads are not bad. if it's publisher ads/native ads. the bad ad ecosystem is where there's whole demand, supply side platforms and ad exchanges that mine and sell your data. now there's better tech to do native ads without
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by dzonga 3mo ago
wordpress is so shitty - though it runs the majority of the web. people think PHP is shitty cz of Wordpress. at a certain point in time - people need to move to better ecosystems painful as that may be.
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this would have been the perfect era for home servers - but damn Ram is expensive. every other component is cheap enough but not Ram.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
I think the author is missing a layer of abstraction. yeah - once regulators come into play - the private ecosystems take over. discord is already a precursor to this. the era of mass public social networks will come to the end. next it wil
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by dzonga 3mo ago
can they pull this off - maybe - IDK the team - but this is possible. cause of concern? - i4 gas engine instead of using 4 electric motors - then using smaller engine to act as generator. plenty of Chinese have done this - quickest way to s
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or the application layer - which will capture majority of the value. yeah hardware companies make for nice stories or green numbers on Wall Street - but value will be captured by application layer. look at history.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
my take to benefit from SQLite: make sure you're not doing a bunch of migrations. that's the SQLite weak point that I know of & have experienced. use SQLite - as if you're using a KV or better yet maybe a CQRS approach.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
Here - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP for Number of Manufacturing jobs down to 12 million. a Few years ago it was going up before trump came in again. remember tech sector roughly employs 2 million people th
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by dzonga 3mo ago
> If you have ever babysat a REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW cron job, or faked live views with a pile of triggers, read that sentence again: our views update themselves, live. This is the feature Postgres users have quietly wanted for twenty
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by dzonga 3mo ago
remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does. trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
the rot starts from the top. sama plays loose with the truth. so likely the employees are gonna follow their boss in cutting corners. you see it everywhere in gvt/large organizations - if you come from a poor country - if the presiden
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by dzonga 3mo ago
beautiful site. wonderful thing opening their books. but damn consumer software is the numbers are brutal. the number of customers you need to reach $1M vs B2B is crazy.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
ZIG is already the better C.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
yeah some things are old - but still important documentation of how some people live.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
even though I don't use Zig - a few things make me excited. such as new games that are gonna come - written in Zig - since its more ergonomic than C. the other side is on the distributed software side of things - we have already seen i
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by dzonga 3mo ago
not just you - software quality has been down since 2020. specially software shipped by big tech.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
everyone specially male should get into either fast motorcycles, fast cars or fast boats. fast motorcycles are kind a speed run about life - you learn that life is fragile quick. you become deliberate in making your decisions. better to rid
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by dzonga 3mo ago
telegram is full of bots and spam. before it was a better WhatsApp alternative. now either WhatsApp or Signal.
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by dzonga 3mo ago
yeah with tools like HTMX - your environment shapes you. if your teams is less than 3 people - you've less politics to fight. & chances are people are already capable - no resume padding. so you choose what's pragmatic & t
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by dzonga 3mo ago
dope app.
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yeah the hostility started recently with trump and his ilk - fighting for nationalism of a bygone era. if you can afford it - the US has excellent healthcare, you can also get organic food and dare I say better housing, private infra. what
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Anglophone countries suffers from social media - with the whole monetization thing driven towards making fake content, rage baiting content that can be consumed in the west & divisive to put people into buckets.
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IBM could've been Palantir x100. they've the people, tech - only thing stopping them is myopic leadership.

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