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by gonehome 4y ago
Makes sense to focus on the actual issue (noise) and not speed. It’d be awesome to have supersonic commercial aircraft that were also quiet. I’m excited about YC’s Boom and their overature plane, but it’d be so cool to able to fly coast to
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by gonehome 4y ago
You can adversarially frame "ability to intelligently answer questions" or act as an "intelligent assistant" to "ability to search google" but those are different things. I'm comparing the use case of the
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by gonehome 4y ago
They open with what they want it to be “intelligent assistant” and then show the capabilities it currently had. Since that time in 2011 it has gotten no closer to “intelligent assistant”. That’s a failure imo. Google’s is much better at ans
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah it’s a tradeoff, that part is worse but everything else is a lot better (battery life, performance, hardware quality, software integration, design etc.)
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by gonehome 4y ago
+1 I’m hoping urbit can provide a solution to this, but it’s still not at the quality bar I want (though I think there’s a path to get it there).
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by gonehome 4y ago
Just watch the introduction of the Siri product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzItTz35QQ "Your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking" I suspect Scott Forstall and Jobs wanted it t
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by gonehome 4y ago
It was clear to me when they mentioned Emacs that their opinion on this can just be ignored. That isn't to say Emacs isn't a great thing for a certain niche, but it's just not something that matters in this kind of strategic
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by gonehome 4y ago
I don't buy these excuses for Ballmer. - Massive miss on mobile - Delayed cloud stuff because of obsession with windows - Delayed cross platform apps because of obsession with windows for same reason https://stratechery.com&
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by gonehome 4y ago
That feels like a retroactive explanation of the current status quo to me. I doubt Apple would agree "Siri isn't supposed to be great" - they just failed to live up to what they wanted. We'll see if that changes.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I use macOS in large part because its a *nix OS under the hood. WSL gives a lot of that power to Windows.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think it's more about salesforce, I have a pretty negative opinion about them and everything they acquire seems to limp along or die (and the good employees leave immediately) - just seems like a boring place to be (nice sky scraper
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by gonehome 4y ago
They’re strategically exceptional, but beyond that a lot of their products (or subsidiaries) are also dominant for good reason (vscode, GitHub). O365 and the product integration there (teams) is why they crushed slack despite slack’s headst
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by gonehome 4y ago
Siri still sucks?
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by gonehome 4y ago
Apple has always had its own hardware based silo to some extent (excellent products and design, fully integrated). Still, I suspect the AI stuff will be hard for them. They were first to market with Siri and it’s still trash 13yrs(?!) later
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by gonehome 4y ago
Microsoft is a so well positioned on this I think Silicon Valley has forgotten what it looks like when they don’t have a horrible CEO. When Microsoft executes well, they’re a scary force. They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like
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by gonehome 4y ago
The most effective learning is when you try it yourself, but can also get immediate feedback and explanation. It’s doing the problem set, but also being able to check the key. Basically a private tutor or TA available at all times. Without
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by gonehome 4y ago
I learned way more useful skills from getting internet access in 1998 than from 90% of my in school teachers (and I went to a decent public school). For kids that are curious and want to learn - access to something like gpt-4 is amazing. Al
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by gonehome 4y ago
> Why do people keep buying Samsung or Apple when there are better products? Because there aren’t better products? Knowing nothing, I’d suspect the same of JD.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Why?
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Elevator Hacking – From the Pit to the Penthouse [video](youtube.com)
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’ve heard this a lot, but I don’t buy it. My friends in London lose at least half their equity value to taxes, have to buy 1000yr leases, and seem to be generally poorer than their counterparts in the US. Anecdotal, but the US is a rich co
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by gonehome 4y ago
Apple has “Advanced Data Protection” that you can enable This was built after the NSO group hacks to lock down the device to be resilient to nation state attacks. It limits some of the attack vectors you’re taking about (with a tradeoff of
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by gonehome 4y ago
I was recently in El Salvador and the hotel (Hyatt Centric San Salvador) had ThyssenKrupp elevators with door close buttons that actually worked! Presumably no ADA minimum times enforced there. And it was amazing! Well, as amazing as such a
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by gonehome 4y ago
Probably the best possible outcome. Protect depositors, allow stock holders to get wiped, prevent a cascade of runs from fear.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Of course, the actual best bad option would have been to just wait and lower interest rates if they must in the mean time.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I locked in a 30yr fixed mortgage at 2.49% right before the spike because it seemed obvious? Not sure if that counts, but that should be enough cred that I made a large bet on my prediction when it mattered.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Sort of the other way to handle it would be to say “we can’t find risk-free yield for the volume of cash we just had deposited, so deposits now get 0.8% instead of 1.0%” Which is kinda fine? Means you might lose some business as others chas
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by gonehome 4y ago
Like all startups, it’ll be in a new field. If it’s an advantage some sort of AGI/LLM remote company should be able to out compete non-remote variants. Though I wouldn’t bet on it.
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by gonehome 4y ago
The reason I disagree with the framing is I can do the same thing and I just find that rhetorical way of discussing an issue unproductive. For example: “Are the minor issues of working in the office so bad that you’d force everyone to isola
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think we’ll get to see the experiment happen which is cool. If either truly has a decisive advantage in some contexts we should see that materialize in the market.

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