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by mrjin 4y ago
Even that was not quite right. Just take a look at those leading providers' financial reports, none would be pretty. They were virtually accumulating customers by providing heavy incentives using investors' money so that they coul
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Nope, it doesn't make sense as you mentioned. But imagine that you were an investment bank with almost infinite cheap money has nowhere to go, you will probably put it into whatever dumb idea out there as long as there is a clear exit
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It's virtually a credit card service issued without neither a foregoing credit check nor a physical card except that with a lower credit limit. For people with enough financial capacity, it provides little value in comparison with cred
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by mrjin 4y ago
Oh well, yes and no. Assuming the demand maintains the same, unless something can fill up the gap when wind/solar dropped quickly enough, the current capacity of coal/gas plant simply cannot be reduced or the whole power grid will
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by mrjin 4y ago
It's not surprising at all. Given the intermittent nature of wind/solar power, it would be a huge waste of transmission network capacity built to the maximum producing capacity. So, unless a storage facility is available, you will
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FSD was lie. This isn't any better.
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My gut still tells me you might be too optimistic about it. Sometimes it's just like a function f(x)=1/x. f(x) gets closer and closer to 0 when x grows, but it can never reach it in a finite scope.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Try their timesheet function in any browser, much more amazing. Every time you save something, it opens a new tab!!
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by mrjin 4y ago
It depends on what you are trying to do. If you goal is to host some hello world apps, you shouldn't even think about it. But if you are going to build micro services that scale, k8s should be one of the choices. Anywhere in between? T
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Oh dear, what you were doing was just a little bit less than pointing at the CISO's nose and saying: "Look, you don't know what you are doing by choosing such a sh*tty product!" Of course, nothing going to happen. As any
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by mrjin 4y ago
Oh well, the margin for the printers is mostly negative. For consumables, the margin is actually super high. But you simply cannot get into the market without a popular printer, isn't it?
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There is virtually no way. Most if not all printer on the market are sold at loss, even at massive scale. The possibilities to lower the cost have been exhausted. There is absolutely no chance a startup can get around that hard limit.
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The answer is simple. There is not enough margin. Most if not all printers are sold at loss then the vendors will recoup via consumables.
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by mrjin 4y ago
It's actually worse than that. I have a laser printer which costed me $36, came with a toner actually printed over 400 pages. The genuine replacement toner costs $110 but can only deliver nominal 1000 pages. But that not quite a big pr
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by mrjin 4y ago
Have been using scrum/agile for over a decade now. To most of the companies if not all I worked for, agile/scrum was nothing but just a fancy buzz word to the management team. They just did what they were already doing under the n
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by mrjin 4y ago
Even if you dont't use Facebook at all, you can still be tracked by Facebook as lots of website you visit may contain trackers from it. So the plain fact is you get tracked by Facebook even if you are not a Facebook user. The info coll
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by mrjin 4y ago
To me FSD is a lie. I don't see why he would not use another lie to cover it up. To safely drive on the road, we'll need to understand the environment surrounding us precisely. Unfortunately for all auto-driving approaches, I cann
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by mrjin 4y ago
Highly unlikely you will get a severance pay as most company will only offer barely minimum required by law, which is is not much and definitely not worth the hassle. Also probation period makes things even worse for new starters as it can
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by mrjin 4y ago
I would say not that bad if you take it from a different angle: what if you managed to get there and then laying off started?
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by mrjin 4y ago
Adobe is the most malicious company I've ever dealt with. My wife needed to use PS & LR in a couple of occasion and I checked the monthly subscription it looked only around $20/m or something and did not realize it was actuall
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by mrjin 4y ago
The answer is plain and simple: they want your phone number, your account security is not much of their concern.
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by mrjin 4y ago
There was nothing wrong with Amdahl's law but the author simply took it from a wrong angle.
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Wasn't the spelling itself ringing an alarm bell?
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Google poses a larger threat to most people I guess.
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Cannot agree more. Money is the most important if not the sole driver of decision making in those large organizations.
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It looks like the result of the arm race with DNS based ad/tracker blockers. This move will for sure force the users to make a hard decision of "all or nothing".
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Amazing. Was about to sign up but gave up after reading their T&C.
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I don't want that sh*t to be there in the first place. No one knows better than the end user. And also, if the user could not reach some M$ server does not mean users' network was not connected to the internet. Anyway, won't
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by mrjin 4y ago
Not sure when Micro$oft can stop such abusive moves. Why the user have to be able connect to your endpoint to prove they are connected? Why keep nagging me to set active hours coz I regularly use my computer 8am to 6pm? Anyway, won't b
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by mrjin 4y ago
I think the number might be plausible, but you know, even if you get 80% done, it's probably only 20% of the effort. The remaining 20% will require 80% of the effort, which is 4 times of the committed.

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