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by fhd2 1y ago
Is it though? I'm not knowledgeable on this at all, but it _seems_ like Space X is blowing up a lot more expensive equipment compared to NASA back in the space race days. Genuinely curious how it compares and how true my outsider impre
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by fhd2 1y ago
Paul Graham, Y Combinator founder.
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by fhd2 1y ago
I look at this a bit more generously: We're pushing the boundaries of what's technically possible. At least for niche use cases, I'm convinced bipedal robots and GenAI will have lasting value. Are they the next automobile &#x
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by fhd2 1y ago
Much like wheelchairs vs exo skeletons, the simpler (and cheaper) tech tends to win. I'd imagine in a future where robots are everywhere, they'll use whatever cheap locomotion is appropriate for their tasks, probably predominantly
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by fhd2 1y ago
> however, the core infrastructural asset of GPUs tends to become rapidly obsolete after about 5 years. Is it all about the actual GPUs though, is that the only "infrastructure" being built? A list from the top of my head of th
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by fhd2 1y ago
Not sure I'd call that a pivot, they've been at it for many years and even at the forefront every now and then, e.g. IBM Watson. At least it seems like that from my non-specialist, outside perspective.
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by fhd2 1y ago
If you're alluding to the fact that a lot of startups run at a loss to capture as much of the market as they can, that is true. But I don't think that's the point here. Revenue is probably the wrong measure, it should be prof
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by fhd2 1y ago
Even I, who doesn't require anyone to be in any sort of office (we don't even have one) only hire people from the same country my company is registered in. I've hired full time employees from other countries before, but it&#x
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by fhd2 1y ago
I've thought about this quite a bit, and my conclusion is that the ultimate missing component here is trust. I don't trust star reviews, they can be bought, and platforms don't care about that too much as long as they're
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by fhd2 1y ago
Sounds like "enshittification" to me: During the growth phase the offering is good, but as growth inevitably slows, most companies will extract value by other means: Cutting costs/quality and raising prices are the most obvio
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by fhd2 1y ago
Not sure that post demonstrated any particular morals, but thanks :) So far I've had the luxury to get by well with mostly only doing what I think is right. I consider that a luxury indeed, I don't mind paying for it, much like I
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by fhd2 1y ago
That's the thing with activities anyone can do - pretty much anyone does. And 90% of everything is... not great. I think a lot of those doofuses on LinkedIn just portray some level of success when in reality they're desperate for
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by fhd2 1y ago
I think like that too, or at least used to. I got pretty far by just doing good work - or so I thought. Growing up in a rich country and getting a bit lucky to be found and promoted by the right people probably mattered as much, if not more
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by fhd2 1y ago
What you quote could be summarised as "frequent small posts work better than long infrequent ones". I kinda agree that's an incentive for lower quality (since quality takes time), but it's still a bit tangential. What Li
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by fhd2 1y ago
Content blockers on iOS are severely limited compared to what's possible with powerful extension mechanisms (Firefox, Chrome before Manifest V3) or built-in ad blockers (Brave). So there's not really differentiation on a technical
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by fhd2 1y ago
They don't get donations from Google, but get paid to include Google as the default search engine, right? No important difference though. Mozilla tried to switch to Yahoo a few years back and backpedaled. In terms of what users expect,
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by fhd2 1y ago
Nailed it :D
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by fhd2 1y ago
That about sums it up from my experience as well. But as parent said, such takes unfortunately don't get a lot of eyeballs :(
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by fhd2 1y ago
And then the part where you have to create an account to read past the SEO filler :( It's so sad, cause it drags down good pages. I recently did a lot of research for camping and outdoor gear, and of course I started the journey from G
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by fhd2 1y ago
"10% even think that male chickens can lay eggs" I really didn't see that one coming.
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by fhd2 1y ago
Other people's AI generated code. They don't understand it, it's over engineered, it looks right at first glance but turns out to be full of subtle bugs. At least that's pretty much universally been my experience. What c
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by fhd2 1y ago
For working parents, it's pretty tricky. I ran a few remote organisations, and while there were usually decision makers that wanted mandatory meetups, I always tried to make it as optional as possible, and to eliminate the need for tho
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by fhd2 1y ago
Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk (not a fan), Fly.io. With these, it always boils down to using their Celery/RabbitMQ offering. I also used Ofelia in the past, a simple Docker image for cron jobs, but quickly outgrew it. Maybe I'm mi
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by fhd2 1y ago
Agree with almost everything, but Celery is pretty common in my Django projects. I don't like the complexity cost, but especially when using some PaaS for hosting, it's usually the least painful option. I kinda always start out th
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by fhd2 1y ago
"Don't get high on your own supply" comes to mind :P
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by fhd2 1y ago
Very, very much this.
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by fhd2 1y ago
The problem is the knowledge encoded in the models. It's already pretty hit and miss, hooking up a search engine (or getting human content into the context some other way, e.g. copy pasting relevant StackOverflow answers) makes all the
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by fhd2 1y ago
Tech and product are just small components in what makes the business profitable. And often not as central as we in our industry might _like_ to believe. From my perspective, building software is the easy, the fun part. Many bets made have
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by fhd2 1y ago
In my experience, it was. And if we're getting real for a moment, the vast majority of programmers gets paid by a company that is, first and foremost, interested in making more money. IMHO all technical decisions are business decisions
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by fhd2 1y ago
> I suspect that the majority of the people who claim that these tools are making them more productive are simply skipping these tasks altogether I think that's probably true, but I think there are multiple layers here. There's

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