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by kylecordes 2y ago
Tremendous boon for the dental industry. Congratulations for everyone involved in getting this through.
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by kylecordes 2y ago
UV is such a big improvement that it moves Python from my "would use again if I had to, but would really not look forward to it" pile to my "happy to use this as needed" pile. Without disparaging the hard work by many th
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by kylecordes 2y ago
Yes, this is such a big challenge for commercial database products. PG is so great that it often makes the most sense to reallocate the money to more CPU/RAM/SSD, rather than licenses.
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by kylecordes 2y ago
Good post. Here is a reasonable answer to the title question: At the beginning, definitely no. Eventually, once there is a mature engineering org in place: maybe! There can be great long-term valuable enterprise and government customers ava
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by kylecordes 2y ago
Now that it's public knowledge how low the bids were, a re-auction might attract many more bidders and raise a LOT more money for the creditors. It is certainly not an asset with any appeal to me, but a talented brand and e-commerce op
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by kylecordes 2y ago
I am curious how this compares to developing a site using the various AI/IDE add-ons. If you're already a developer enough to care that it's using Next.js, it seems like bringing up in Cursor might be similarly effective, tho
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by kylecordes 2y ago
It looks that way from some cosmetic choices, but structurally this kind of UI has been around a long time in many apps. Probably no one can claim to own it at this point.
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by kylecordes 2y ago
I remember when that happened, many people publicly predicted it would lead to the situation seen today.
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by kylecordes 2y ago
On one hand, it really has gotten much better over time. It's quite impressive. On the other hand, I fear/suspect it is asymptotically, rather than linearly, approaching good enough to be unsupervised. It might get halfway there,
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by kylecordes 2y ago
In addition to the other ways this is incredible, it is a stunning achievement in software development.
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by kylecordes 2y ago
That is a very clever idea!
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by kylecordes 2y ago
In the 2000s I had a SaaS firm making software for underground utility locating companies so I learned a lot about the industry. In most parts of the country as built drawings are unusual for residential property anyway. Locating staff most
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Large publicly traded companies sometimes already have pseudo-secret/anonymous ownership, with most of the shares held by a giant mutual funds etc.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
It seems like Tesla should focus on updating the Model Y, which is by far their best-selling model, instead of the 3. The typical US consumer is not all that excited about sedans anyway.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
"Disastrous" seems like a significant overstatement. To me this looks more like "unsurprising". Tesla has some additional business lines which might eventually prove quite valuable, but in the short to medium term it is
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by kylecordes 3y ago
I use this similar but even older tool, which still works. This one is Mac-specific but works across most/all apps, i.e. not a browser plugin. https://github.com/EugeneDae/Force-Paste
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Adding such a speed bump where the user must explicitly approve the upgrade because of a change of ownership of the company that provides it, would leak a fair percentage of the users. This would decrease the value of the product/compa
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by kylecordes 3y ago
The bar to relative excellence in our industry is so very low.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
I have noticed that the Panera Bread status tracker used to provide good information, but doesn't anymore. It frequently says an order is done while it is still being worked on. Might be a UI/Organization mismatch, as described in
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by kylecordes 3y ago
This is so frustrating - Pyrex isn't itself anymore. Is there any brand that still sells kitchen glassware made like Pyrex used to be?
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Obviously we should all want our altruism to be effective. What is the other side of it? Wanting one's altruism to not really accomplish much? But with everything that has gone on, I cannot imagine wanting to be an Effective Altruist!
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Assuming Starship succeeds, hopefully at that point other players will adopt the basic design, iterate and improve, then forcefully compete. I'm still surprised that, all these years after Falcon 9 obviously works, there isn't a &
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by kylecordes 3y ago
But they're not abandoning on-premise, though one could get that impression from the tone of the article. They are only dropping the small-business targeted Server tier, they are keeping the enterprise targeted Datacenter tier. It&#x27
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Ouch. I wonder how much of the exit value got absorbed by their preference stack.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
I am far from an expert - but think this is essentially true - but does not universally imply you can't trade on the info. Example: You watch the front door of an office building. From seeing who walks in, you ascertain with 99% probab
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Maybe y’all are more talented developers than me; But I have found repeatedly that building the wrong abstraction is on the path toward discovering and building the right abstraction.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
Right, the obvious fix is not "make it illegal!"; but rather to have the regulatory/disclosure/etc. requirements for a SPAC more similar to those of an IPO. (There's also a good argument that IPO requirements are to
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by kylecordes 3y ago
I see it as more of a potentially disruptive innovation. In some ways it is obviously worse, but it is also much cheaper. They might eventually be able to keep most of the cheapness while improving the capacity partway toward large expensiv
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by kylecordes 3y ago
The time and cost to acquire the land for such a system would be enormous, if it is possible at all.
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by kylecordes 3y ago
There is inherent conflict in having both an AI tool business and an AI tool detection business. If the first does a good job, the second fails. And vice versa. (On the other hand, maybe there is a lot of money to be made selling both, to d

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