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by mvkel 1y ago
The current VC climate is interesting. It's virtually impossible to raise a new fund because DPI has been 0% for over a decade and four-digit IRR is cool, but illiquid. So they're piling gobs of capital into an "AI" comp
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by mvkel 1y ago
I’m tpng ths wth autocrct nd y knw wht th wrds r wtht m hvng t wrt thm ot. Bt autocrct dsnt bcs it scks. Ths s th prt tht cld b bttr. W hv th tchnlgy.
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by mvkel 1y ago
It is unfortunate that iPhones cannot be made anywhere else in the world. No other country has the right tooling, workforce, or skill set, at that volume. China made a strategic decision to go deep there, and the rest of the world decided i
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by mvkel 1y ago
Since 2021, Tim Cook has repeatedly quoted the old IBM CEO's line "world peace through world trade." This was the same line IBM used to protect their huge business with... wait for it... Nazi Germany
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by mvkel 1y ago
Apple should experience the same surge of collective excitement everyone felt when they first saw the headline "iPhone Pocket," followed by the crushing disappointment of discovering it's just a grocery bag for your iPhone.
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by mvkel 1y ago
In my experience it is not so good that you could happily swipe away without needing to review the generated text. For example, sliding to type "rife" autocorrects to "ride," despite the context of the sentence making &q
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by mvkel 1y ago
Divorce. ^ This is what appeared when I said "it's even worse"
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Ask HN: Why has typing on a phone not improved in ~20 years?
15 points by mvkel 1y ago|21 comments
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by mvkel 1y ago
Full agree. This is... just being a VC. If it's not your own money and you're aligning with someone else's thesis, you're just a vc with crappier terms
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by mvkel 1y ago
> performance issues What kind? It would be helpful to know what you're experiencing, attempts you've made to fix, etc. Or is this a thinly veiled "I've been working on this for a while and it's taking longer tha
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by mvkel 1y ago
Yep. The irony being that "enshittification," properly deployed, can actually lead a company to even more success. Product people always think "having the best product" wins the day, but there are billions of dollars mad
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by mvkel 1y ago
It was a let down to be bought into the "hook" that saying no, taking focus, is the key to continued long term success as a scaled company, only for it to devolve into how courageous it is to have a simple homepage. I wanted to re
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by mvkel 1y ago
By "easier" I meant: "easier than having to recall everyone's AirPods and give them redesigned ones." I guess it's all relative :)
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by mvkel 1y ago
It's the difference between "I can't walk because my leg fell asleep" and "I can't walk because I have no legs"
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by mvkel 1y ago
If it's an algorithmic issue, can that not be changed?
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by mvkel 1y ago
I suspect this is fixable in firmware. What I heard on a long haul flight was the faint sound of the plane's engines traveling back and forth down a paper towel tube; a hollow, cavernous sound. It must be so tricky to nail these algori
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by mvkel 1y ago
Boosted Boards have regen, and in typical use, it extends range by about 10%. It was an incredibly intuitive system; instead of brakes, you regen your way to a stop. I don't see how this would be any different. Or, it's certainly
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by mvkel 1y ago
Still insane to me how broken the UX is. In safari, tapping the back button, disabled or not, makes it react in the same bubbly way. If the back/forward arrows are present, it again reacts identically, regardless of which button is tap
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by mvkel 1y ago
> There's nothing wrong with Anthropic wanting to completely own that segment and not have aspirations of world domination It's very clear by their actions (not words) that they are shooting for the moon in order to survive. Th
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by mvkel 1y ago
This is why Anthropic is a zombie company. They put all of their eggs in the coding basket, with the rest of their mission couched as "effective altruism," or "safetyism," or "solving alignment," (all terms the
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by mvkel 1y ago
It's closest to "geographical center" so traffic from Europe feels faster than us-west
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by mvkel 1y ago
Corporations have no interest in making things that no one will buy. To change Apple's behavior, consumers need to change theirs. Given the lines out the door at China at Apple stores today, I don't see Apple changing their behavi
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by mvkel 1y ago
It exists because it is likely the first volley in a push to a foldable phone. It's the same thickness as one half of the foldable phones on the market. I am personally interested because I have found iPhones to be offensively bulky fo
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by mvkel 1y ago
> Everyone has full access to all of the available data and information Ahh, but this is part of the problem. Yes, they have access, but there is -so much- information, it punches through our context window. So we resort to executive sum
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by mvkel 1y ago
Agreed. LLMs are actually -the worst- at doing very specific repetitive things. It'd be much more appropriate for one to replace the CEO (the generalist) rather than junior staff.
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by mvkel 1y ago
This is mostly true if the existing codebase is largely self documented, which is rare
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by mvkel 1y ago
Associating weight loss with the healthiness of oneself is a mistake. One can subsist on Oreos at a "healthy" weight if they consume <2,000 calories worth of cookies per day. They will not be a healthy person.
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by mvkel 1y ago
Whether a model is open or closed is beside the point. How much value are they generating?
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by mvkel 1y ago
This counterfactual implies that successful companies that have not been hacked have done so because they pay down their tech debt. I can name many companies that have Olympus Mons levels of tech debt, and are doing great. Here's one:
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by mvkel 1y ago
I would read that study thoroughly. It had a very specific caveat of "within existing codebases that the engineer was intimately familiar with." In all other instances, it was not slower

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