justapassenger

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by justapassenger 9mo ago
It's part dysfunction for sure, but it's mostly just reality being messy. Anyone who worked on a bigger engineering problem, solving real business problem, learns very quickly that reality is messy and doesn't conform to rule
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by justapassenger 9mo ago
This is the lock picking robot and what I have for you today is a github repo.
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by justapassenger 9mo ago
Explicit AI slop isn’t very desirable. But tricking people into thinking that AI slop is real is, sadly, mostly desirable. Sora fading may just reinforce that companies need to continue to focus on sneaking in AI slop manifesting as content
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
He’s one of the GOATs, but this article is written by someone who has no idea about software engineering and full of exaggerations as a result. For example: > Many times there are certain chunks which will occur many times in the code of
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
Like them or not - when it comes to the Linux kernel they are one of the biggest contributors for many years now.
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
Apple is not really interested in giving you nice features that makes it easier for you to escape their ecosystem and have Apple make less money.
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
Flying everywhere is degraded experience - no need to argue if Europe or US is worse. Most of flights today are glorified busses, with less room, that just happen to have wings attached and staff trying to sell you things.
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
I wouldn't hold my breath for it. It was suppose to be released in 2020. It's end of 2025 and current release date is 2027 (and who knows if it'll be pushed back again).
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
Oracle has been selling large enterprise contracts for many decades and those enterprises were looking to migrate off Oracle since then too (I've been working on a project like that almost 20 years ago, at my first real job).
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
1. About 25% of their service revenue is from charging commissions in app store and other 25% of the revenue is Google paying them for search default. Other services include things like insurance (applecare) That's not exactly same typ
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
Engagement.
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
Yes, bugs in sheets are worst part of excel, by far. But many end users prefer dealing with bugs than with inflexible software that doesn’t understand all the different ways how real world is messy and hard to model. I hate using Excel. But
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by justapassenger 10mo ago
Yes, there's many many cases that should likely not be using Excel. But given that Excel is the second-best tool for everything, world runs on it. And when you try to build systems to replace Excel for a specific task, you quickly lear
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
AI is people looking at EV hype and saying - I'll 100x it. It has all the same components, just on much higher scale: 1. Billionaire con-man convincing large part of market and industry (Altman in AI vs Musk in EV) that new tech will t
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
We can also solve global warming problems by banning oil, coal and cows, and solve hunger by banning having kids.
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
None of them were cancelled. But none of them exist in any form or shape remotely reassembling the product - therefore - vaporware. It's that simple. But also, since you're telling me there had been no material impacts to the cust
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
US government didn't pay for getting its mass into orbit. Getting Starship to the orbit means that they have something called Starship in the orbit. It doesn't mean product that they sold isn't vaporware - what was sold with
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
SpaceX is only space company that does hardware rich development. Blue Origin takes much more traditional approach of linear design. Blue Origin may fail (I couldn't care less about them or SpaceX), but yes, they're in final valid
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
There are prototype that are called Starship. There's nothing even remotely reassembling what was advertised to the public (and sold to the government) as Starship. It's Duke Nukem Forever.
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaporware "a computer-related product that has been widely advertised but has not and may never become available" It's not available and it's going to be t
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
Are you saying that in next 10 years they'll make more money that there's an atoms in the universe?
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
If it ever feels weird - just watch Silicon Valley show again. "Revenue? No no no no. Why would you go after revenue? If you show people revenue, they’ll ask ‘how much?’. And it will never be enough. The company that was the 100x-er or
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by justapassenger 11mo ago
Talented workers get talented pay. But global average of talented pay is much different than average of talented pay in HCOL areas.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
> Decentralized solar plus batteries is already cheaper than electricity + transmission for me at my home in the US. The only thing stopping me is the permitting hassle or the contractor hassle. Does decentralized solar plus batteries gi
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Not releasing any new model in half a decade (let's forget about cybertruck - tesla already did) didn't help either.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
I'm a hobby woodworker - I've tried using gemini recently for an advice on how to make some tricky cuts. If I'd follow any of the suggestions I'd probably be in ER. Even after me pointing out issues and asking it to impr
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by justapassenger 1y ago
You do bare minimum, get sued, litigate for few years, pay some fines (that are MUCH less than amount of money they made), then do bare minimum again, etc - rinse and repeat. And one may argue - it's not malicious compliance. It's
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Most important part of fair use is does it harm the market for the original work. Search helps to brings more eyes to the original work, llms don't.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
You can invest in a fundamental research without investing in a company creating tons of weird circular financial deals.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
There’s a huge difference between “similar” and “works and is ROI positive for my business across the whole lifecycle”. Multi cloud redundancy is like Java being a solution to platform independency.

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