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by eitally 11d ago
When we moved to the bay area in 2015 (south bay), I was absolutely stunned at the variety of residential architecture, having come from the mid-Atlantic where everything tended to be uniform based roughly on construction date/period.
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by eitally 12d ago
I recommend Doctors of Running (website & podcast). They're a group of running PTs and each of them has different needs & preference. One in particular likes less cushioned and more structured shoes. There are ample options
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by eitally 12d ago
That's just a bad salesperson.
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by eitally 12d ago
Conventional wisdom among running coaches and orthopedists these days is that the most important thing is to run comfortably, and that just because something looks "weird" doesn't necessarily mean it's bad or wrong. Yes
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by eitally 12d ago
Shoes salespeople wield huge influence over buying decisions, especially if they come off as authoritative. My son works in a running shoe store that also does gait analysis and they default every new runner into something stable-neutral li
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by eitally 12d ago
Nike are too narrow for me. I alternate between Inov-8 and Topo for trail shoes. I was really happy with an older pair of Adidas Terrex Pro, but haven't tried the new Agravic options in several years. Trail running is highly dependen
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by eitally 12d ago
I think if you looked closer at runners you'd see many wearing Adidas, Asics, Brooks & Saucony, too. NB may be a mom/dad fashion brand with models like the 99x, 540, etc, but they're a default starting point for many run
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by eitally 15d ago
This is why it's not recommended to use providers below the Silver level in Semianalysis' rating index. https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-20-the-indu...
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by eitally 17d ago
As an engineering leader back in the day (2000-2015) I considered it terrific value to license Telerik and others. In fact, it looks like Progress has acquired a large catalog of the most common .NET dev tools over the past ten years.
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by eitally 23d ago
They offer inference, too. I don't know anyone who uses this service, but presumably it must be reasonably popular.
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by eitally 24d ago
This has become a common pattern in my Claude & Gemini usage. Always require citations, then check those citations to validate they actually contain the information/data the LLM's output claims. Claude, in particular, seems
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by eitally 1mo ago
Honestly, there's just a huge amount of thrash across the cloud & SaaS industries as a whole. It's not a lot better at Google (way behind OAI & Anthropic on coding & local AI harnesses), Microsoft (no meaningful front
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by eitally 1mo ago
Maybe, but GPU is just one aspect of NVIDIA's dominance. If you are buying Vera Rubin GPUs, you're getting an NVL72 rack, which is only one of several racks that you're probably buying. You'll also need your NVIDIA rac
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by eitally 1mo ago
How did you effectively download 500GB of photos? Did you just use Takeout?
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by eitally 1mo ago
I think it's arguable that this "intuition" you call knowledge could very easily also be called "opinion".
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by eitally 2mo ago
The interesting thing is that China began as an agrarian economy and quickly modernized via influence/direction of the CCP. The United States used to have a dominant middle class that was geographically distributed (cities & rural
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by eitally 2mo ago
As a business user, the same thing is true for non-code documents. The biggest exertion is reducing the excessive slop down to concise, clear points.
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by eitally 2mo ago
My question is this: why is Palantir required for this kind of fairly basic data analysis? Couldn't they use much cheaper, probably open platforms for data science & analytics?
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by eitally 2mo ago
FWIW, your pessimism isn't entirely well-founded. If you're in a hot, tech-centric market, then yes, staff will be far more inclined to job hop for comp increases. But if you're hiring remote or you're located outside
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by eitally 2mo ago
I disagree, or rather I don't care if I'm wrong but there are likely millions on my side. I'm 49 years old, grew up eating grilled cheese (American cheese on Pepperidge Farms white bread), often with sliced onion or tomato,
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by eitally 2mo ago
I am not impressed with that steering of the AI. In the case of Terry Tao, he clearly held a solid understanding of the problem domain and could also understand the outputs of the LLM at an expert level. He asked astute, topical questions
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by eitally 2mo ago
Google already owns 14% of Anthropic.
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by eitally 2mo ago
I think this is possibly true, but the other piece of the equation is tooling. Right now, Anthropic has by far the best tooling around (for both SWEs and non-technical users), and a huge ecosystem of integrated ISVs. I'm not suggesti
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by eitally 3mo ago
NVIDIA's $2b into CoreWeave was a stock purchase. https://investors.coreweave.com/news/news-details/2026/NVIDI...
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by eitally 3mo ago
I think so, too, and I think it'll end up being a race between Apple & NVIDIA (or NVIDIA partners) to see who realizes this first. It would probably be easier for Apple to do it because it wouldn't require a form factor adjus
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by eitally 3mo ago
I have 15 years experience working in high tech electronics manufacturing (for a global firm with factories around the world, including in the US and China) and can tell you the most difficult thing to manage is the supply chain. For time
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by eitally 3mo ago
This was also true on the comms apps sides. Back in the days of ICQ & Jabber, there was a huge ecosystem of chat apps, many of which (like my favorite, Miranda IM -- which has been revived for Windows as Miranda NG: https://
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by eitally 3mo ago
My perception is that the market lumps companies together into sectors whether they have similar business models or not. When one is punished, other associated firms tend to be, too. You see this in any industry (not as a guaranteed rule,
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by eitally 3mo ago
I think a lot of the deeper enjoyment of literature comes when one has a sufficient understanding of the relevant culture & context and can adequately bring the characters to life. I studied Latin for 5 years (and Spanish for 3, Portug
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by eitally 3mo ago
100% agree on all points! And moreover, CHRSRA, while it is certainly delayed and over budget, appears to be a fairly well-run program with delays due primarily to external issues created by state & local government. It doesn't he

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