geeky4qwerty

6 ms·

1.
by geeky4qwerty 6mo ago
I'm afraid the music may be slowly fading at this party, and the lights will soon be turned on. We may very well look back on the last couple years as the golden era of subsidized GenAI compute. For those not in the Google Gemini/
2.
by geeky4qwerty 6mo ago
Hello whomever posted this! I am hoping you are interested in the pursuit of truth and would like to have a conversation with you about this article. I am hoping you can address the following issues: - The lab-leak hypothesis rests on more
3.
by geeky4qwerty 9mo ago
"The Telecommunications Act of 1996 fundamentally reshaped how wireless infrastructure is regulated in the U.S. by prioritizing rapid network expansion over local oversight. The Section 704 Legal Shield A key provision, Section 704, pr
4.
by geeky4qwerty 3y ago
Not sure if you read the last part: "...internally developed and maintained for a fraction of that cost over the products lifecycle." Now, imagining a lifecycle of this specific app in question of 5 years, are you suggesting that
5.
Ask HN: At what stage did your company move from 3rd party to internal software?
5 points by geeky4qwerty 3y ago|12 comments
6.
by geeky4qwerty 3y ago
A far more substantive reason for the prevalence of crime among adolescence and young adults can be attributed to fatherlessness (1)(2)(3)(4). (1) https://fathers.com/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/\ (2) https:&
7.
by geeky4qwerty 3y ago
Yes, of course I do, just like I believe that the Australia, like false equivalencies, don't exist.
8.
by geeky4qwerty 3y ago
I recognize the cynicism in my observation, but is it fully unmerited? I put the following prompt in GPT4: create a professional title and a click bait title for the following article Then provided the article. This was the output: Profess
9.
by geeky4qwerty 3y ago
Good point. I'd say if you're tight on money I'm not sure a wall should be at the top of your to-buy list.
10.
by geeky4qwerty 3y ago
This feels a bit like diet clickbait... "use fewer bricks than a straight wall"* *A straight wall of the approximal strength and length of a wavy wall, not just length. My counter would be that from a practical perspective the amo
11.
Ask HN: How much of your company do you think is needed to function?
2 points by geeky4qwerty 3y ago|4 comments
12.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
While almost everyone seems to be fixated on various housing market minutia in justifiably passionate anger/frustration at the entire situation, very little attention is given to the causational elephant in the room: The Federal Reserv
13.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
One of the unique beauties of aging is getting to witness the rhyming of history. ~40 years ago it was roller skates ~30 years ago it was roller blades ~20 years ago it was roller shoes ~10 years ago we began to see the wide adoption of bat
14.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
Eternal K-Hole of the Spotless Mind | High Society - VICE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZxNLlkKGiI Timmy Davis is not an alcoholic. But like many twenty-something students, he's worried he may be drinking too much.
15.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
In October 1990, García, then a Tucson-based real estate developer pleaded guilty to a felony bank fraud charge for his role as a straw borrower in the collapse of Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association.[4][5] Garcia &q
16.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
"From a rough calculation, the flash appeared to give off more light than 1,000 trillion suns." Can any space geeks chime in on this one? Does this mean the emission of light from the sun at a single point in time x 10^15? My bra
17.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
Maybe someone can help illuminate a nagging question I've had for quite sometime around this whole FTX debacle: Practically every single VC seed round story I've heard from new/young founders is that the process is nothing sh
18.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
I was being tongue-in-cheek, the "blame boomers" trope is pretty well worn and I was merely making fun of that.
19.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
My apologies I was not meaning to be flamebaity and actually put that "boomers ruin everything" in as a joke.
20.
Ask HN: Are we in the midst of a systems collapse?
37 points by geeky4qwerty 4y ago|32 comments
21.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
Anyone else around for the dot com bubble? Why does the current tech M&A scene feel so eerily similar? I recognize that inflation is quickly destroying the value of the dollar, but $20 billion is still a mind numbingly large amount of
22.
Ask HN: How does your company manage communication response etiquette?
17 points by geeky4qwerty 4y ago|10 comments
23.
Ask HN: When did corporate America become so flaky?
45 points by geeky4qwerty 4y ago|58 comments
24.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
"Take the money and run."
25.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
That double negative hurt my head.
26.
by geeky4qwerty 4y ago
Twitter has around 8,000 employees. I fully understand and respect the high level of technical skills needed to operate and manage such a highly available service, BUT I still can't for the life of me figure what the other 7,950 emplo
27.
by geeky4qwerty 5y ago
The author provides 3 possible explanations, but I believe there is a fourth (touched on by another post): 4. They want to sell you something.
28.
by geeky4qwerty 5y ago
Funny enough it was actually my wife who suggested him. I had a large stack of resumes I had gone through and was complaining to her that I couldn't find a suitable candidate to even call in for an interview. She looked through the r
29.
by geeky4qwerty 5y ago
Thanks, and best of luck to you as well. Based on all these nightmare stories I'm hearing I'm half tempted to start a "island of misfit toys" consulting company. Seems like a lot of amazing talent going to waste in the
30.
by geeky4qwerty 5y ago
Funny enough the last job I applied for was in 2006

More ›