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by jordanb 4mo ago
This is it. These companies don't really care about their customer's data. Their SDLC is no more rigorous than any other SaaS product. They have junior people and (now) AI pushing code with a quick "LGTM" PR check just
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by jordanb 4mo ago
The team was popular among contributors/editors. Their entire job was to handle the most upvited issues from the community and they were formed after the community felt like the management's priorities we not aligned with the comm
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by jordanb 4mo ago
It's bleak it seems like wikimedia is controlled by the same ghouls who are running Mozilla. Why is it so hard to keep a public interest tech firm honest?
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by jordanb 4mo ago
This shows how out of touch people like Reid Hoffman is. He thinks it's a daming accusation that SpaceX is "not AI" but in reality "not AI" means rockets and satellite internet. The parts of the business his class c
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by jordanb 4mo ago
They used to be vague and not make specific claims because that wasn't allowed. They'd say "Vitamin K helps promote healthy eyes." They can't say "our chewable will cure your glaucoma. ( claimhasnotbeenreviewed
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by jordanb 4mo ago
I was listening to a podcast and heard an ad for supplements (I think it was collegian). The thing that struck me was the specificity of the health claims they were making in the ad. There was no "promotes healthy whatever" it was
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by jordanb 4mo ago
It's the bitter-lesson to feature-engineering lifecycle. When a technique or technology is new people are making massive gains by just applying it to some use case, or gathering more data for training, or giving it more resources. As t
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by jordanb 4mo ago
NTSC's problems versus PAL is more of a first-mover problem. NTSC was standardized a decade before PAL so the technology wasn't as advanced, and the PAL authors got to see NTSC get implemented. But by the time PAL was implemented
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by jordanb 4mo ago
I don't worship Steve Jobs but he didn't pretend to be an engineer What turned me off to Elon was "it's a tube with an air hockey table in it, it's not that hard."
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"I want to be able to walk without pain but if it's gonna be expensive forget it!"
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by jordanb 4mo ago
It seems like the radiology equivalent to a blood testing machine that could be deployed to walgreens and detect 100 diseases with a finger prick.
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by jordanb 4mo ago
It's funny he's only able to do that because he has so little real technical understanding. A real engineer wouldn't be so flippant.
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by jordanb 4mo ago
I'm pissed off that Android took over the power button to activate their AI agent bullshit.
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Also the product itself is likely to suck. One thing that the tech world has become obsessed with is increasingly non-deterministic products. Products that do what they think what the user wants to do rather than what they actually want t
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by jordanb 4mo ago
Check out the timing. The sex abuse scandal broke in the US in the late 90s/early 2000s and the fight went on here for many years before it spread to the rest of the church. The church in Rome was blowing it off as an American proble
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by jordanb 4mo ago
Because they're Woke sensors that are collecting woke lies about the Chinese Climate Change Hoax of course. Also Accuweather paid a lot of money for this president and they are very interested in not having the US government compete ag
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by jordanb 4mo ago
> Software developers in the US are seriously expensive, using them for data labeling would be a waste of resources. Zuck basically went to a town hall and explained to his employees that their remaining value to him is as training mules
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by jordanb 4mo ago
And it didn't even stop the antitrust suite so they threw in with Trump and then started sucking up to him. He's giving big tech everything they want so there is pretty much nothing he can do that will upset them.
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by jordanb 4mo ago
80% of the space launch business is putting starlink satellites into orbit, so it's all internal funny money. They could very well be letting the space launch business take losses to make the satellite internet business look better (on
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Water in orbit: famously cheap.
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by jordanb 4mo ago
I felt the same way about the "tube with an air hockey table in it." But here I am fifteen years later eating crow as I take the hyperloop to Vegas.
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by jordanb 4mo ago
Roddenberry did not want TNG or even the original-cast movies to maintain tight continuity with TOS because he thought a lot of stuff in TOS was hokey and campy. He wanted the movies and TNG to set a more serious tone in a more believable u
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by jordanb 4mo ago
I used Google Translate to not learn French in collage. Fortunately for me it was bad enough I had to carefully review all its outputs, but that still didn't help and I managed to pass two semesters without ever developing even basic l
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by jordanb 4mo ago
Interestingly there are other episodes where starfleet officers are weirdly prejudiced against Data. For instance in the episode Redemption II when Data takes command of a starship and the crew doesn't want to serve under him. There
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by jordanb 4mo ago
The fact that they sent Data to starfleet academy, gave him a commission in the starfleet, let him attain the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and then decide that actually he's a machine that can be dismantled seems like quite a turn.
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by jordanb 4mo ago
Stevenson's endings are "pregnant endings" as in the Aeneid: https://old.reddit.com/r/mythology/comments/196r7mn/i_just_f... It's not a bad way to end a book in principle. I can'
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I found Snowcrash to be surprisingly poorly written. Especially given that I had read Cryptonomicon and Diamond Age before it. The quality of writing is so different. I thought perhaps Snowcrash was his first novel, but it wasn't!
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by jordanb 4mo ago
If putting data centers in a vacuum is a good idea why not just put them in a thermos bottle here on earth?
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I was lucky enough to graduate in 2006. Even with the downturn around 2008 my early career went pretty well because there was a massive crash in CS interest in 2001 and I was in a fairly tiny cohort of programmers.
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Yes this is completely opposite the "bitter lesson" and coming from a16z seems to be an admission that scaling is done.

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