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by matwood 11mo ago
I think you're spot on. OpenAI alone has committed to spending $1.4T on various hardware/DCs. They have nowhere near that amount of money and when pushed Altman gets defensive. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11&#
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by matwood 11mo ago
As others mentioned, 5T isn't money available to NVDA. It could leverage that to buy a TPU company in an all stock deal though. The bigger issue is that entering a 'race' implies a race to the bottom. I've noted this bef
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by matwood 11mo ago
> Did you ever hire any duds when you were not hiring remote? Bingo. I had an exec ask me once how will we know people are working if they are remote? I asked back, how do we know they are working now? Remote work is harder on manageme
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by matwood 11mo ago
And he's right (and the sources he points out), that some bubbles are good. They end up being a way to pull in a large amount of capital to build out something completely new, but still unsure where the future will lead. A speculative
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by matwood 11mo ago
What I like most about Gemini is it's perfectly happy to say what I asked it to proofread or improve is good as it is. Never has ChatGPT said, 'this is good to go', even its own output that it just said was good to go.
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by matwood 11mo ago
ChatGPT has recently been linking me directly to Amazon or other stores to buy what I'm researching.
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by matwood 11mo ago
I've seen many smart people make bone headed mistakes. The more I work with AI, the more I think the issue is that it acts too much like a person. We're used to computers acting like computers, not people with all their faults heh
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by matwood 11mo ago
Haha...I didn't downvote you, but 45 minutes to cook seemed crazy to me unless you're making something new or complicated or you're socializing. You also kept eating separate from cooking in your first post. I don't coun
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by matwood 11mo ago
> …at least if you let these things autopilot your machine. I've seen people wipe out their home directories writing/debugging shell scripts...20 years ago. The point is that this is nothing new and only shows up on the front p
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by matwood 11mo ago
Ok, so you need 2 people working in tech making near top end salaries for the area? You do see how this simple idea of saving 100k/year isn't so simple for anyone outside of FAANG?
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by matwood 11mo ago
45 minutes is crazy. I have a chicken and rice dish I can make in 20 minutes (yes, I've timed myself because I'm weirdo and enjoy those chef shows). It takes 20 minutes because that's how long the rice takes. It can be faster
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by matwood 11mo ago
In GA, after taxes your take home would be ~125k. So you think someone can live in a big city like ATL for 25k/year? What if they have a family? Ok, are you assuming their spouse is also in tech and making at least similar? The 125k al
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by matwood 11mo ago
> how about re-banning stock buybacks? This is pretend boogie man. Banning buybacks will not automatically make that money flow into hiring or salaries. Companies are not charities, they exist to make a return. If hiring people and/
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by matwood 11mo ago
We posted a job a year ago for a dev. We received terrible candidates, but still tried to fill it from the pool. 2/3 ghosted the interview and the other I'm not sure had ever done anything in iOS. I just pulled the job instead of
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by matwood 11mo ago
I got my first programming job in ~98 while still in college. I had family members telling me then that programming was a dead end and was all going to be outsourced. I lived through .com, GFC, etc... This does feel more like a reversion to
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by matwood 11mo ago
I think one of the issues is that engineers define bad code on a different set of dimensions than the business, and even amongst each other. Early in my career I was definitely guilty of this, that if the code didn’t fit my definition of pe
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by matwood 11mo ago
Apple was clearly moving towards usbc (which they helped develop). Their laptops and iPad pros had moved along with the pro phones. To think the EU the reason usbc came to the iPhone is ignoring the clear path Apple was on. At best they put
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by matwood 11mo ago
Same with usb-c when Apple was one of the main drivers of usb-c adoption.
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by matwood 11mo ago
It's a good perspective to keep. I've also worked a lot of crappy jobs. Overnights in a grocery store (IIRC, they paid an extra .50/hour to work overnights), fine dining waiter (this one was actually fun, but the partying was
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by matwood 11mo ago
Maybe people think it’s more urban to suburban instead of black to white? Either way the point stands. Just look at how much US culture is driven by hip hop now.
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by matwood 11mo ago
You wouldn't use a screwdriver to hammer a nail. Understanding how to use a tool is part of using the tool. It's early days and how to make the best use of these tools is still being discovered. Fortunately a lot of people are exp
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by matwood 11mo ago
That sucks. When I want a hotel I want easy check in.
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by matwood 11mo ago
Yeah, I either go directly to a hotel's website (using Google Maps to find it) or to AirBNB if I'm looking for an apt because of a bad experience with booking.com.
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by matwood 11mo ago
I live in Italy and this is common on the trains and busses. I ride the train a lot and have my ticket checked maybe 1:10 times. The tickets are cheap (~2 euro) and the fines are high (50-200 euro), so it makes sense to buy them. I have see
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by matwood 11mo ago
> My small northern Minnesota town is far from perfect, but we don't let our neighbors and kids become fent zombies on the main drag. You can search for more articles, but small town America has been hit very hard by opioids and now
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by matwood 11mo ago
Intended effect of increased prices and less choice?
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by matwood 11mo ago
> financially sustainable (and without sustainability, a political shift will kill it) Fiscally sustainable is a BS excuse often put forward by conservatives to not fund the things they don't want funded. Most things the government
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by matwood 1y ago
> Have you ever met a single non-programmer who successfully picked up XSLT of their own volition and used it productively? Admittedly this was 20ish years ago, but I used to teach the business analysts XSLT so they could create/edi
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by matwood 1y ago
IDK. I find people who really like Apple to be the most critical of Apple. When things don't work perfectly or something is a little off, they complain because their expectations are so high. No one really cares that Windows has so m
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by matwood 1y ago
AirPods Pro.

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