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by ghc 1y ago
TIL. I've only made a few business plane trips, but thinking back on it they were all turboprops.
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by ghc 1y ago
I think you're exhibiting a lack of imagination here. There's plenty of time sensitive items the Concorde was used to transport, like organs for transplants, or serum for snake bite victims. Since the retirement of the Concorde we
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by ghc 1y ago
It's become the equivalent of the stupid faces on YouTube thumbnails.
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by ghc 1y ago
For all we know, the CEO could have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. It's dangerous to read too much into these sales without more information, even if the situation is unusual.
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by ghc 1y ago
Don't conflate "taxi" as a mode of transit with "taxi" (aka hackney carriage) as a particular industry. The name is meant to tell consumers what to expect, not investors. Combined with "robo", I know exact
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by ghc 1y ago
I'm in much the same boat. While I can recall minute details about major events from long in my past, I cannot "see" them in my head like other people apparently can. Instead I feel like my brain is a police sketch artist w
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by ghc 1y ago
It's an entertaining and well-written story. After reading it I momentarily entertained writing up my own similar misadventure, but even 15 years on, I think I'd find it too difficult to write about. I'm glad you were able to
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by ghc 1y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain; what you say makes a lot of sense. I'm definitely going to give Kagi a try.
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by ghc 1y ago
What kind of search does Kagi excel at compared to Perplexity? I've been using Perplexity as a google replacement for about a year now, so I haven't tried Kagi, but seeing several people mention they use both has piqued my interes
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by ghc 1y ago
I'm generally speaking of the stage right after a startup closes an institutional seed round. Across 75+ such investments over the past 10+ years, I've seen gaps in each of those areas be catastrophic. It definitely doesn't r
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by ghc 1y ago
Ok, but technical co-founders in tech startups are also less valuable than they think (as this blog post shows). In reality there are four critical skillsets (outside fundraising) for a new tech venture: Operations, Sales, Product, and Engi
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by ghc 1y ago
I explicitly excluded those from my research, including only employees of for-profits. While federally funded research is important, it would be misleading to include academia in employment figures. To wit, Harvard alone has 10000 medical r
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by ghc 1y ago
> whistleblowers Using the term whistleblower in this manner is inappropriate; actual whistleblowers are individuals who bring to light illicit acts by organizations or governments at great personal risk.
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by ghc 1y ago
Isn't it strange that before the widespread adoption of the internet advances in computing were more distributed, but after they've consolidated into the Bay Area? We know one reason is the concentration of venture capital (almo
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by ghc 1y ago
> Texas has more Biotech opps now than MA, thanks to crazy high lab space rents. For anyone confused by this I looked it up. The number of life sciences (biotech + biopharma) employees in the state of Texas is less than 50% the number of
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by ghc 1y ago
That photo is so perfectly framed, I think it has to have been faked. I bet the "disk" was probably hung from a tree and the fishing wire was just invisible to the camera.
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by ghc 1y ago
I think citing the bookstores of Camberville might be cheating in this case. Off the top of my head I can think of at least half a dozen that are well-stocked with Asimov titles. Not sure the same could be said for elsewhere.
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by ghc 1y ago
I'm not really sure why anyone would want to use an Apple TV for games, instead of a dedicated console. AFAICT the killer app for Apple TV is airplay. I haven't seen a co-working space conference room TV without an Apple TV attach
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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be(arstechnica.com)
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by ghc 2y ago
The good news is Microcenter seems to have found a niche that keeps them relevant. My local branch is always packed with people trying out new mechanical keyboards, buying new computer cases or monitors, and buying hobby electronics kits. H
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by ghc 2y ago
If that were the case, then you would expect isolated groups of humans who never developed a writing system to be significantly different from "homo archivum", but we know that's not true. We also know that groups without wri
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by ghc 2y ago
At least one contract appears to be for the air force's effort to move secure workloads to a multi-cloud environment. Based on publicly available slides, I think Accenture is acting as a middleman to avoid dependence on Azure or AWS te
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by ghc 2y ago
You're right, which is why factories are already automated that way. Where humans still reign supreme is in two areas: assembly and work in human-centered environments. So, it's a lot easier to have a human welder do welding insid
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by ghc 2y ago
Great analogy at the end! I'm going to have to steal this, because it hits right at the heart of the problem with relying on LLMs to do things outside of what they were designed for.
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by ghc 2y ago
I think it would be fair to describe GPL as a dark mirror of BSD, because GPL has an explicit viewpoint that some kinds of freedom are bad.
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by ghc 2y ago
I mean, I'm a US citizen and I'm not doing foreign travel any time soon because I don't want to fly into the US either. With the way ICE is acting, I'm not going to count on my citizenship to protect me from violations o
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by ghc 2y ago
Part of the problem with the English translations is this ambiguity. Sansho comes from a different species (Zanthoxylum piperitum) of the same genus, native to Japan and Korea. The flavor is different, but reminiscent. I keep both sansho an
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by ghc 2y ago
Different tree, same genus. I'm not sure if all species (of 250+) in the genus have edible fruit, but the berries of several Asian species are harvested for spices, including Sichuan Peppercorns, which are made from the dried berries.
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by ghc 2y ago
To be fair, a lot of Asian ingredients have picked up such weird English translations that they could use a rebrand. Case in point: "Prickly pear ash" is an amazingly unappetizing translation of the spice's proper name, sansh
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by ghc 2y ago
Looking at this, I wonder if there should be a a warning attached to building bespoke auth systems akin to "don't roll your own crypto." This "Protected Query Pattern" looks like bespoke ABAC, dealing with only a ti

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