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by julianeon 1y ago
Judging by the amount of free publicity it generates, I think it was the right choice.
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by julianeon 1y ago
This is also the argument of the guy in the article, fyi (it's not a loss leader, no reason for it to be).
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by julianeon 1y ago
I don't know exactly the speed/quality tradeoff but I'll tell you this: Google may be erring too much on the speed side. It's fast but junk. I suspect a lot of people try it then bounce off back to Midjourney, like I did
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by julianeon 1y ago
Remember you are paying about 4 cents an image if I'm understanding the pricing correctly.
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by julianeon 1y ago
It's not dead yet. Since vinyl is profitable we'll still be seeing new album art for years to come. "In the first half of 2023, vinyl records brought in 72% of all non-digital recorded music format revenues in the US."
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by julianeon 1y ago
It's been a while since they won something the "old" Google way: by building a superior product that is #1 on its merits. In that sense Gemini is a throwback: there's no trick - it's objectively better than everythi
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by julianeon 1y ago
Related: Only Claude (to my knowledge) has a desktop app which can directly, and usually quite intelligently, modify files and create repos on your desktop. It's the only "agentic" option among the major players. "Claude
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by julianeon 2y ago
But the percentage we're really interested in is "what percentage of tech based startups are VC vs. bootstrapped." Especially in, say, the Bay Area. I don't know what that figure is, but I'd like to know.
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by julianeon 2y ago
Maybe now, post-AI. But if you'd asked this question in 2015 or earlier, everyone would have said Disney -> pro-patent, average people & indie devs -> anti-patent. Microsoft was famously pro-patent, as were a number of nuisan
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by julianeon 2y ago
That's an important clarification! So for half the population, creatine works.
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by julianeon 2y ago
Pollutions impacts people across all age groups, including children and otherwise healthy adults. Many pollution deaths aren't inevitable near-term deaths. Health effects include: - Respiratory diseases developing in otherwise healthy
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by julianeon 2y ago
I'm reading Nagourney's The Times now and a point it makes is that the owner's (Sulzberger) decision to institute a paywall, over the objections of his team, made the NYTimes the profitable digital success story it is today.
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by julianeon 2y ago
I guess I'm in the camp that considers your con a pro. If my Dad wasn't or isn't my biological dad, I would want to know. And I'd be grateful to any service that informed me.
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by julianeon 2y ago
Great quote; I'll reuse this.
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by julianeon 2y ago
My hot take is that, viewed under the right conditions, India today is what a long-term MAGA victory in the US would look like (as in multiple consecutive Presidential administrations). Now obviously the religion must be changed; obviously
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by julianeon 2y ago
An interesting takeaway from this is that it looks like Rust has really fallen off, in terms of popularity. There was a time when it would've topped these lists (and yes I know you mentioned it - I mean people would've mentioned i
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by julianeon 2y ago
Actually this implies there's probably an opening in YouTube for someone to make vulnerability videos in the style of speed run videos. And then poaching some of that audience, and riding the sponsorship opportunities. Not my skillset
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by julianeon 2y ago
Two guys who I think are posting good stuff are Jesse Cunningham and Jacky Chou. I'm not doing exactly what they're doing, but I notice a lot of overlap w/my learnings and what they're teaching, in terms of principles. S
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by julianeon 2y ago
I'll just survey the landscape, and then say it ultimately comes down to personal preference. So the basic idea is to get an audience and then monetize it. For that, there are different ways. In my opinion it's easier to buy somet
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by julianeon 2y ago
I've got this sentiment reading a few such goodbye letters like this. They often end by saying something like, "I quit software engineering. Because I can't make money at it, under these conditions." As if the options we
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by julianeon 2y ago
We should be careful when we say "economists disagree." Economists disagree with Piketty about the causes of this inequality: that is true. Economists agree with Piketty however about the extent of inequality, by and large. That i
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by julianeon 2y ago
If you look at the revenue numbers creators of SEO-optimized websites are doing using LLMs, it's hard to believe they're losing. The AI slop website may look subpar when placed next a handcrafted niche website, but by the time tha
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by julianeon 2y ago
I've always thought this was an extreme response to managing the fear of death. By postponing retirement with that much in the bank you're saying: who knows, I could live so long I could run out of money - a flattering thought. If
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by julianeon 2y ago
100% of the capability could be absorbed by YouTubers looking to improve engagement (read: profit) with more interesting visuals. Since they have a bottomless need for that, this would get widely used within days of a commercial release. Si
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by julianeon 2y ago
> I’ve decided that the advantages of storing my bookmarks locally far outweigh the chance that I'll want to access them from a different device or collaborate with someone else on them. Yes, it means I've created something of
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by julianeon 2y ago
It's funny that I read to the end of the article and thought "But the logical next step for this type of person isn't to have shown all this agency, and then use it to work for someone else.* It's to start your own profi
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by julianeon 2y ago
I've seen this in the wild: for sale at Gamescape in San Francisco.
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by julianeon 2y ago
I would guess he probably just convinced a roommate or friend they need to kill other people to accomplish their lofty goal, which would be a lot simpler (see: the Mangione fandom). Once he got a couple people to agree the rest came over fr
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by julianeon 2y ago
They f you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, And add some extra just for you. But they were f'd up in their turn, By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who h
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by julianeon 2y ago
Seems a bit overly complicated for a blog, no? Like there's a HUGE middle ground between like "blogging on pager" and "posts in Markdown using vim, generating HTML using Jekyll, and serving the content via a small web ap

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