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by gizmo 4y ago
Sleazy and disrespectful behavior by substack. Just like medium, all these publishing/newsletter platforms go to $%@& real quick. The first time I saw the "sign up to continue reading" banner I knew substack was done, thi
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by gizmo 4y ago
This is just who Elon Musk is. Erratic, impulsive, and prone to lash out. He also sends rockets into space and lands them, so I get why people want to believe he's a nice guy. But he's not.
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by gizmo 4y ago
LLMs aren't intelligent but if they can further --human-- understanding of what intelligence is, then that is sufficient. Take the Turing test for instance. Today, thanks to LLMs, we know that a machine can fool an operator into thinki
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by gizmo 4y ago
> But ChatGPT isn’t a step along the path to an artificial general intelligence that understands all human knowledge and texts; it’s merely an instrument for playing with all that knowledge and all those texts. No arguments provided in s
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by gizmo 4y ago
> all Stripe services possible (Billing, Payments, Tax, Data Pipeline). Where are the other ~4% supposed to come from? Stripe Radar, Stripe Identity, Stripe Sigma? It all adds up.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Of course it's perceived differently, that's the entire point! A $2000 Brunello Cucinelli sweater is conspicuous consumption just like an oversized Gucci belt. And the art world is small. People know who the collectors are.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Buffet's diet consists of coca-cola and hamburgers, and every year he throws a massive self-promotion and sales event in Omaha that lasts multiple days. By old money standards it's vulgar.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The "new rich" counterpoints are that: 1. old money is afraid to spend frivolously because (a) they are embarrassed because they know they didn't earn it themselves and (b) they don't believe they could make it on their
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by gizmo 4y ago
Also, there is considerable career risk involved for the prosecutor. This is a high-profile case and the prosecutors can say goodbye to whatever ambitions they have if they botch this.
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by gizmo 4y ago
The unix philosophy is as much to blame for this as what you refer to as the cartel of commercial players. In the world of unix everything is a file and every file is a stream of bytes. This severely limits the kind of composition you can d
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by gizmo 4y ago
Computers are consumption devices because of the internet, not because of screens or bad keyboards. For what it's worth, I think modern keyboards and screens are fantastic for creative work, but to each their own. A chunky keyboard can
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by gizmo 4y ago
Honestly, billing is really not that hard. I've built some billing systems myself, and although it's easy to make mistakes if you read up on the known pitfalls rolling your own billing system is not a big deal. One key thing to re
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by gizmo 4y ago
The CPU architecture of the VM and Host have to match, otherwise you get software emulation which is very very slow. It's good enough for occasional usage, but nowhere near good enough for daily development purposes.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Impossible, because it's the 3rd party (government) that makes money money. Without a system of law, courts, and and people with guns to back them up you can't have trade or commerce at any kind of scale.
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by gizmo 4y ago
SEPA payments also support chargebacks. Gyms are notorious for making it easy to sign up and hard to cancel, so the other explanation is that people are upset with some of your gyms and disputing the subscription renewals. Stripe customer s
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by gizmo 4y ago
The other niche languages are either buggy, slow, or both. Jai won't be. Ultimately it's about taste and quality. If the language gets enough right then people will switch to it, because people are desperate for a c++ alternative.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Twitter is basically a real-time database where everything is interconnected. It's one of the harder things to scale because it doesn't allow for easy segmentation.
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by gizmo 4y ago
This article conflates the abundance of terrible software with the near absence of great software. The abundance of terrible software can easily be explained by the the growth of the sector which attracted many mediocre software engineers w
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by gizmo 4y ago
Should casinos be regulated or should we allow somebody to throw away their life savings if they have a bad day? “No regulation” may sound appealing but society has to pick up the pieces when people wreck themselves.
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by gizmo 4y ago
His ability to attract top tier talent and work them hard is second to none. And frankly, many great engineers want to work hard and want to work with other great engineers who want to work hard on something that matters for society. That r
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by gizmo 4y ago
Artificial scarcity is still bad. Imagine a world where books are free for everybody, not just for people who live in prosperous areas with good libraries. Would you then advocate making books nonfree thereby placing books out of reach for
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by gizmo 4y ago
For HIS life, meaning he’s likely to go to prison if he fails to make his depositors whole. He doesn’t care about his customers which is why he embezzled the money, didn’t do any accounting, created a backdoor in the finance software, and t
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by gizmo 4y ago
VSCode can enforce return types with jsdoc annotations, even when using plain javascript. VSCode uses typescript internally for all type inference, so you get that for free. Type inference works flawlessly 95% of the time, even for iterator
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by gizmo 4y ago
In Javascript Object.freeze() and Object.seal() are wonderful to prevent accidental mutation.
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by gizmo 4y ago
When people call themselves "lazy and incompetent" they're not sincere. It's the equivalent of an obviously fit person saying "oh I'm so fat". It's just fake humility. The same people would get offend
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by gizmo 4y ago
GOOD: having large chunks of code that runs (mostly) without side-effects. As projects get bigger global state can trip you up, so try to keep it in check. That's where the real value of functional programming is. BAD: copying data nee
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by gizmo 4y ago
It's a giant tragedy of the commons. For every individual company it makes sense to cut corners to get to market quicker or to save on engineering costs. For the industry as a whole it's a disaster.
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by gizmo 4y ago
Absolutely. No way to tell in advance if a big new release is going to work, and it's all too easy to make a product better in 10 unique ways that just don't matter. You can't A/B test yourself out a local maximum, and s
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by gizmo 4y ago
Minimalism is often a fantasy. If you want to make a great product for the end user you often have to much more engineering work in the backend to give the illusion of simplicity. You can click on any link to open a website, but there is a
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by gizmo 4y ago
They are taking responsibility by admitting their strategic error. That's enough. They have not performed poorly as executives they are not going to punish themselves in the manner proposed by OP.

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