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by makestuff 3y ago
Japanese public transportation made me never want to take the Amtrak/Subway/US Airlines again. It was astonishing how well it works there.
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by makestuff 3y ago
What are the two companies that control the market?
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by makestuff 3y ago
People hate ads but they hate paying for content even more. There are startups that offer a pay per article integration for publishers but it never really caught on. Monthly subscriptions to one publisher work decently but people are tired
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by makestuff 3y ago
I work in ad tech and we had layoffs last year and no new headcount for this year (even backfills need approval from leadership). Our revenue was up, but IMO we way overtired during the pandemic so I doubt we will hire a lot of people for a
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by makestuff 3y ago
Hasn't doordash also said if you don't add a tip a dasher is unlikely to pickup your order? Therefore, the tip seems more like a fee to me.
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by makestuff 3y ago
It is a shame for Chicago that groupon didn't continue to find success. I really think that if they had continued to grow the Chicago tech scene would be significantly larger than it is today.
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by makestuff 3y ago
The reason is people will click on them thinking it is an interesting story. The publisher (ESPN/Yahoo/etc.) just care that you click on the page so the ads load and they get the impressions. Some PM probably ran some analysis tha
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by makestuff 3y ago
Could you use AWS Bedrock? It seems like they are going with the route of let AWS handle the developer platform aspect and they will just work on the models.
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by makestuff 3y ago
All time high stock though... If it wasn't such a PITA to prep for interviews I think companies would have to give out better raises to current employees to avoid mass attrition. My conspiracy theory is that companies keep using leetco
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by makestuff 3y ago
> that matches your compensation That is going to go over well with current microsoft employees.
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by makestuff 3y ago
Yeah I remember Regus office space commercials well before WeWork offering single offices/flex spaces. They even had shared reception you could subscribe to.
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by makestuff 3y ago
This is what Google is trying to do with topics ( https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/topics/ove... ). Topics are supposedly the replacement after cookie deprecation, although the deprecation time
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by makestuff 3y ago
In addition to what others have said about them having so much capital to invest, another angle is that AI is a hot topic right now. It is a much worse PR headline for it to come out that Google’s AI did something bad. If a headline comes o
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by makestuff 3y ago
I mean you can "lobby" a congressperson for like $10k. IMO they already know what the outcome will be.
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by makestuff 3y ago
https://lumigo.io/blog/comparing-amazon-ecs-launch-types-ec2... You can now specify your launch type to be an ec2 instance. This has the benefit of lower cost but you are responsible for managing the instances ex: secu
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by makestuff 3y ago
Yeah you can run Fargate on EC2 now as well to optimize cost even further.
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by makestuff 3y ago
Yeah I have been using Supabase recently and I really like it. You still get the “serverless” benefits but at the end of the day it is just a Postgres database with some plugins. It is super easy to figure out where the data is coming from&
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by makestuff 3y ago
I will say pretty crazy spanner is doing 20x the RPS at peak. I thought 126m from dynamoDB was insane, but 2b RPS is just a whole different world
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by makestuff 3y ago
Yeah that is basically what I was describing. I guess it wasn't as unique of idea as I thought.
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by makestuff 3y ago
Next unicorn will just be a UI wrapper ontop of a postgres instance.
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by makestuff 3y ago
I have a feeling the long term bet here is to tie it in with AWS in a significant way. End user internet helps pay off the expensive R&D, but enterprise has to be where the money is.
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by makestuff 3y ago
A similar thing works for me. I don’t use my phone in the bed at night anymore and wait until I am tired before going to bed. After doing this for a few months I began to get tired around the same time every night (midnight for me). I wake
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by makestuff 3y ago
Yeah I have some decent side projects that I think could be useful in the marketplace; however, I have no skills for the sales and marketing of it. It seems to be common advice to bootstrap your business, but at some point you need a salesp
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by makestuff 3y ago
If you updated to v8 and missed the one small text link to export your data before creating an account, then all of your data was gone. Fortunately you could go to Github and download an old version. If you created an account all of the dat
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by makestuff 3y ago
Law firms might be interested in this. I used to do IT support for a bunch and they always were scanning stuff into their computers for document discovery.
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by makestuff 3y ago
Meta was rumored to want to layoff its chip fab team for VR. I wonder if OpenAI will work out a deal with them.
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by makestuff 3y ago
I was testing out something and ran into this issue yesterday as well. I created a cname to point to http://ip.jsontest.com/ so I could validate my DNS was working. For some reason I was getting the google 404 page.
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by makestuff 3y ago
> Tech professionals have been moving from expensive cities to lower-cost locations. U.S. inflation-adjusted remote salaries have been higher on average. Employers have decreased the number of open roles in high-cost-of-living markets by
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by makestuff 3y ago
Yeah I have zero issues skipping host read ads as a YT premium subscriber. I'm already paying not to see ads.
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by makestuff 3y ago
According to a quick google search Walmart does not commingle inventory. However, I think they will eventually once their tech can support it. Target started commingling inventory so it is only a matter of time before Walmart does. From a l

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