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by mabbo 4y ago
The developers who don't understand the relationship between relational algebra and SQL are the ones who end up confused why their query browned out prod. It's not exactly the same thing, but the underlying lessons and mental mode
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Around the same time, summer of 2010, TechCrunch also reported that Google was making a ChromeOS tablet, which was going to be released in the next few weeks. I was interning on the team building the first ever touch screen for ChromeOS, in
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Well, to be fair he didn't specify that they were changing the world in a positive way.
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Curious: from an economic perspective why would anyone in the industry want to contaminate their product like that? Like it's a fundamentally different substance with a different effect. If you bought mixed drugs from your dealer, yo
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SVB collapse: Shopify wires money to merchants with payroll problems(foxbusiness.com)
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There's something to be said for today's business model that much of big tech uses: "First we build it, then we get customers who love it, then we try to figure out how to monetize it- and kill it if we don't". Goog
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> they basically launch Starlink satellites for free as they can reuse launch vehicles other customers already paid off. Yes and no. First, their customers actually prefer to use previously-flown boosters now. Insurance premiums on lau
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If it was anyone but SpaceX, this would be a company-ended disaster. Dozens of satellites ruined? That would be an impossible loss. For SpaceX it will be an mildly expensive lesson.
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That's fine, but don't turn around and tell me that I want something that you know I don't want. Don't pretend I said this would make me happy.
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Every day at 5pm, I do three things: 1. I turn off my work computer and exit my home office. 2. I get a big hug from my 1 year old daughter. 3. I remind myself how glad I am that I left Amazon, because it was obvious in 2021 that they'
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There's probably better candidates. For any two objects in orbits around a common body (like the sun) to match their orbits, they need to have their locations match and their velocity , at the same time. To collide, you only need your
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The economic implications don't worry me. The social implications do. Look at how fast it's getting better. Look at how quickly we're taking the very basic capabilities and expanding on them. Where will it peak? How good can
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If I'm following this all here... We're going to have AI help us generate long pieces of text from very small blurbs of information. Then the reader is going to have AI read the long pieces of text, and condense it down into just
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Ignore the fluff piece. The reality is you're being laid off because the company can make more money by taking your salary and buying government bonds. When your team got spun up to work on this project, interest rates were low and it
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The technology has really improved in the last decade
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Consider it is as a competitive advantage. An API that is public, well-documented, and easy for other systems to securely integrate with would mean that customers get the integration they want. If someone builds a better way to utilize your
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My goodness is it Monday already and time for yet another of these articles? At a given scale and software maturity, it is cheaper to buy your own hardware and pay for your own team to operate it. Generally, this is when you start thinking
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Is there a resource we can all use to find out if our employer is in a similar situation?
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I miss using React Redux. I'm a back-end dev primarily and never had a good time writing front-end code. Redux just clicked for me. The model made perfect sense! Events from components get handled, and the state is changed. The state
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Everyone has a price, but I think the pandemic taught us that there are things we value more than just money. I have a 1 year old. I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner with her every day. When I'm done work, instead of commuting for 40-7
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Does RJIT get JIT compiled... by itself? That would be lovely in the sense that as RJIT finds more optimizations to speed up code, it would become itself faster.
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Police gangs are criminal gangs. The very nature of the report is that these people are committing crimes and getting away with it via their position as police officers. It's corruption of the worst kind.
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I keep trying to explain to people: they aren't "ads" they are "pay for customers to ever see your product". It's an extortion ring, basically. Just like nobody ever opens page 2 of Google search, people rarely
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A friend of mine was an SDM for something like Alexa grocery ordering, a few years ago. I remember him saying that the additional revenue generated by what they did couldn't pay for even a single developer on their team. And it wasn&#x
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I think the trouble is that ChatGPT's output made it sound as though it had invented the game, which is noteworthy on its own. That it also coded it up itself is pretty amazing, but it's overshadowed by the false more amazing
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As is always said when this argument comes up: fine, let's automate the job and then just give those people the money they would have otherwise made. The people in need get the money, but no one has to do the awful job. Win-win. Or we
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I hope this doesn't signal the end of the entire business model. I know there are still speed bumps and problems to address, but cashier in a convenience store is one of those awful jobs I don't think anyone should have to do if w
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I think it's disingenuous to compare an online store platform to a gun manufacturer. What I'm saying is that individual stores can track their customers however they like, but that there isn't an overall tracking system acros
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Then we have nothing to worry about
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I think a civilization that intends to wipe out all others would be more proactive. Pre-seed any nearby system that looks like it could develop life at all with doomsday devices preprogrammed to activate the moment a technosignature is foun

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