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by mvkel 1y ago
The entire Ferrari Challenge "race series" is guys shipping their cars around the country and participating in "races" exclusively so they can stay/be on the list for future allocations. It's wild.
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by mvkel 1y ago
"Tech debt" is a misnomer. It implies that at some point it should be paid down. There are very few examples where dedicating real efforts exclusively to paying down tech debt led to anything beneficial for the customer. Some of t
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by mvkel 1y ago
Grok 4 is effectively Grok 3 with massively scaled RL, and the improvements on the benchmarks (and experientially) are minimal. Is this a flaw in theory, or application?
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by mvkel 1y ago
Bullet dodged. Windsurf's value to OpenAI was for the latter to "see the whole chessboard" of context, which is helpful when you're training models to be good at coding. But codex (and Claude Code) fulfill this from the
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by mvkel 1y ago
What I've found works best is to hand-code the first feature, rendering the codebase itself effectively a self-documenting entity. Then you can vibe code the rest. All future features will have enough patterns defined from the first on
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by mvkel 1y ago
It's kind of cool to see big frontier ai tools being exclusive to a terminal window. It really takes me back
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by mvkel 1y ago
1,165 of anything is not very much. Rolex makes 1,000,000 new watches per year, and the wait lists are years-long. There is definitely enough demand for all of those paintings to be sold for more than you'd think
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by mvkel 1y ago
What a beautiful piece. For me it evokes a river: not knowing where it's going, but sounding exactly right in the moment
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by mvkel 1y ago
I think I know what happened. The A-squad design team left Apple 15 years ago. The B-squad left 5 years ago. What remains is a sea of Gen Z designers who weren't yet alive when the foggy glass of Windows Vista seemed like a good idea.
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by mvkel 1y ago
Until the next financing round which might include more liq pref, full-ratchet anti-dilution, new shares issued, etc. Ultimately the 409a is for the IRS, not a mark for employees
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by mvkel 1y ago
So what is your equity really worth? "The difference between the most recent FMV (409A) valuation and your exercise price." This will almost never be the case. This doesn't account for different share classes, liquidation pre
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by mvkel 1y ago
A great article that stops right where iOS development becomes a hassle: actually getting it published in the App Store.
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by mvkel 1y ago
It depends on how you define the "fight." In the Nielsen days, two things were happening: 1. People were creating quirky, whimsical, odd corners of the internet for nobody but themselves. Art. 2. Entrepreneurs were starting to bui
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by mvkel 1y ago
I can still hear the music
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by mvkel 1y ago
This is great food for thought. I like your idea of developing a new economic model as a proxy for possible futures; that at least can serve as a thinking platform. Your comment inspired me to look at historical examples of this happening.
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by mvkel 1y ago
This is a great reply, thank you. For me, I just zoom out a little further and say: at the rate AGI is approaching, what is the utility in trying to regulate it ahead of time? Seems like advancement is slow enough that society can/will
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by mvkel 1y ago
It doesn't really seem like there's much utility in defining it. It's like defining "heaven." It's an ideal that some people believe in, and we're perpetually marching towards it
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by mvkel 1y ago
Interview 20 people who -could- be customers, but not pitch them. Get their honest take on what sucks about their current solution/process. Ask for their expertise. Build the thing that emerges from the 20 interviews. Not the thing the
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by mvkel 1y ago
This is some excellent first-principles thinking. Sort of like resisting the next team hire until it's unbearable, keeping the user out of the browser until it's unbearable
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by mvkel 1y ago
That's a bit like saying having access to Google is as good as being Google. All they really see as a model provider is little fragments of the picture, like trying to reconstruct the Mona Lisa by knowing which paint swatches Leonardo
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by mvkel 1y ago
The value is in the prompts being sent to OpenAI. Massive training depository. Only thing better would be a social network, which supposedly they're working on.
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by mvkel 1y ago
You can easily do that now with custom instructions
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by mvkel 1y ago
I am curious where the line is between its default personality and a persona you -want- it to adopt. For example, it says they're explicitly steering it away from sycophancy. But does that mean if you intentionally ask it to be excessi
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by mvkel 1y ago
It's weird to characterize ai categorically as "stupid" when, until it was wrapped with clever UX, it was an entirely academic pursuit (craft), with little to no money in it.
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by mvkel 2y ago
> Anxiety is an evolutionary feature I used to think this way. Spent decades justifying it as a motivator. It's a trap. It made sense if you were risking your life whenever you went to get food. If you're trying to recreate tho
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by mvkel 2y ago
"Releases" is a strong word, as in typical google fashion, the actual thing that was released was a waitlist form.
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by mvkel 2y ago
isn't that intentionally creating a lot of mental anguish every day (trying to make 80% last the full day) in exchange for just one day of simplicity at some theoretical point in the future? Feels a bit like worrying about tomorrow ste
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by mvkel 2y ago
If you're capping the charge to 80% always, the only beneficiary of the total capacity of the battery is the next owner. Like wrapping your furniture in plastic.
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by mvkel 2y ago
It seems strange, though, that one would habitually charge to their "effective" capacity of 80% for the purpose of preserving the battery for the next owner
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by mvkel 2y ago
> the best solution is slow charging, for which a low-power charger from your old feature phone is ideal. These devices offer a small power output of 2–5 W, stretching the charging process to 5–7 hours depending on the adapter's pow

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