justapassenger

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by justapassenger 1y ago
> Not relevant to unit profitability. Tesla’s American competitors can’t turn a profit on each car production-wise. To quote a great commenter here, you can "engineer that outcome". While there are rules, details are mushy and
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Owning entire stack has benefits for sure, especially if you're dominating market. But it also comes at a huge cost - you now need to pay for R&D for the whole stack yourself. Tesla was dreaming of dominating market. But it looks l
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by justapassenger 1y ago
> Tesla has solved the problem of unit profitably manufacturing EVs. Outside America and other petrostates, these are broadly accepted to be the future of transportation. (It’s getting its ass kicked by BYD, which didn’t distract itself
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Given that most of the web has TLS and you can easily do DNS over TLS - that's very very high level metadata, where I personally just don't see much ROI vs to giving that metadata to random company with no regulations whatsoever.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
With TLS being everywhere, and just few clicks away from having DNS over TLS, I really don't get eavesdropping on public wifi prop value.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Is there any other real world usecases for VPN nowadays other than: 1. Getting access to geolocked data 2. Torrenting "Linux ISOs" ?
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Cynical view is that technical founders who don’t know who business work are easier to manipulate into bad decisions for their business, as long as VC makes money.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
CTOs just arbitrate between dev teams and product teams.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
They moved the industry, that's for sure. But at this point - there's nothing really THAT special about them compared to their competition.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Source on that?
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by justapassenger 1y ago
It's a very common story in industry. You start nimble, and disrupt bloated platforms. Then, as you grow, pressure grows and you also bloat. Then new company comes that brings nimble product and disrupt you. Search, TV->internet vid
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by justapassenger 1y ago
They do have good engineers. But they’re chasing wrong goals set my management. I don’t know many people who said “man, I wish iPhone was x mm thinner”. But I do know many who say “man, I wish iPhone battery was much larger”. And what did A
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by justapassenger 1y ago
Vendor lock-in, with a heavy legal implications, is Oracle's bread and butter of operation.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
You need more than talent - founding, culture of entrepreneurship, government support, trust of partners, suppliers, etc. Russia has none of that at the scale needed.
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by justapassenger 1y ago
I use Garmin myself and I'm sure I won't switch to anything else for many years, as for what I need is amazing. It's a complete fitness product, with a healthy dose of smart watch features added to it. Pebble is very differen
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by justapassenger 1y ago
It should be required that any AI generated text comes with prompt that created it. So I don’t have to use AI to reverse engineer TLDR.
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by justapassenger 2y ago
Microsoft is undisputed leader in backwards compatibility for their OS, while running on near infinite amount of hardware. Testing is large part of why they can do that.
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by justapassenger 2y ago
> previously sacrosanct topics like space exploration. Space exploration was full of misinformation (or corporate BS, if you want to call it that way) for decades.
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by justapassenger 2y ago
They don’t sell user data for a very simple reason - it’s a crappy business, as you can charge much much more with to recurring sales for heavily obfuscated access to the data than just one off selling of said data. When you think about it
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by justapassenger 2y ago
For something where Chernobyl or Fukushima is far from a worst case scenario I do appreciate there’s regulator burden involved in new deployments.
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by justapassenger 2y ago
You should read more about failures than happened during Apollo program. Apollo 1, Apollo 13 being most famous, but even during Apollo 11 multiple things failed.
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by justapassenger 2y ago
It’s fundamentally same technology with same limitations. You can throw a lot of money at it to try to fix short comings, but they’ll be just bandaids. LLMs are extremely amazing autocomplete mechanisms. But that’s all they are at the core
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by justapassenger 2y ago
The gap is as huge as between ancient Greeks discovering planets and us having colony on Mars.
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by justapassenger 3y ago
It’s typical native tech thinking that legal issues can be solved by technology. USA has a lot of experience how they can influence foreign providers by making it increasingly difficult for them to do business with any USA entities. It’s no
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by justapassenger 3y ago
It’s all just a bogus data. Over 10% drop in windows market share in few months, that recovered after few more months? How can anyone believe data like this?
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by justapassenger 3y ago
It's great, but also a bit sad, that what used to be an industry norm not that long ago (easily accessible repair parts) is now a heavily celebrated news. Hopefully it's a sign that trends are reverting in the broader industry.
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by justapassenger 3y ago
Bombardier is out of passenger jet business - they sold it to Airbus and now they focus exclusively on business jets.
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by justapassenger 3y ago
Tech is full of people like OP. You got good paying job (because profession is hot) so you’re obviously smarter than everyone else, and your way of thinking and living is only right one.
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by justapassenger 3y ago
I don’t think that people being sceptic about $1.8T corporation that controls large part of internet and will fire large part of its workforce to make numbers look better is necessarily a problem.
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by justapassenger 3y ago
Plus, they’ve spent years prioritizing production and sales, not service. As a result their cars aren’t designed with repairability in mind and their service centers are backlogged, and even when they can work on your car they may not get p

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