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by nojvek 2y ago
“War” is a strong word. Russia and Ukraine are at war. Israel and Iran are at war. People are dying. Microsoft and Google are competing to provide better consumer services. Business competition is a wonderful thing. War is atrocious.
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I was at Microsoft under both Ballmer and Nadella leadership. Ballmer was stuck on the old ways. I was connected to a team that had made iOS office apps but Ballmer blocked because MSFT jewel apps on Apple meant Apple would gain marketshare
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by nojvek 2y ago
Yes. 16^6 is not 6^16.
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Not really. When numbers repeat, the value is the same. E.g 00 is the same as 00. So the possible outcomes is 6^16, but unique values per color channel is only 256 values. So unique colors are 256^3 = 16.7M colors.
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Singlestore has been doing json -> column expansion for a while as well. https://www.singlestore.com/blog/json-builtins-over-columnst... For a colstore database, dealing with json as strings is a big perf hit.
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by nojvek 2y ago
Tech lead. Analyzing code isn’t the biggest problem. It’s understanding what’s not in code. Like the customers who depend on a certain behavior. Or why a certain piece of code was added. If it’s still used by some paying tenant. Or how vari
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Love FTC’s momentum in building fair trustable free markets.
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Slow death is the worst kind. We'd have wonderful lives, our grandchildren may too, but their grandchildren is a ??? I am still amazed that modern fossil fuels only really took off in 20th century. We found Pandora's box of cheap
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He! Healthcare companies must be like 'hold my beer! let me show you how to lobby'.
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When you buy a Tesla, that helps Tesla's biggest shareholder - Elon to buy voters and buy the next potential president. When your worth is $100B+, $1M is the same as someone giving away $1 when they're worth $100,000. Elon doesn&#
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by nojvek 2y ago
Negotiating scope with relevant stake holders. Understanding the problem to decide solution tradeoffs. Understanding the codebase enough to decide what code to write. Why haven't you automated it? Because there exists no good automatio
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Haven’t used blue sky much. Do they have a bot problem like Twitter?
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Doesn’t matter if it’s Red or Blue. At the top, Green takes reign.
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I don’t think Spain can handle Florida anymore.
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All the Tesla shareholder. First they approve the gazillion dollar payday for Musk, then Musk takes a huge infra investment and gives it to xAI on Tesla dime.
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The thesis makes sense. Humans drive with a 20 watt brain, two cameras (eyes), two microphones (ears). Tesla has 9 cameras surrounding the car, I assume some microphones (not sure). Two big fat neural processors that can fails over incase o
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by nojvek 2y ago
American economy is really about cheap oil/gas. They had a leg up in semiconductors and then that led to mega tech corps. Average GDP per capita looks good on paper, but heathcare and education are really expensive. They increase the G
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Also we don’t know why the universe is expanding. Not just expanding but accelerating. Why is spacetime itself stretching and what is doing it? Yeah yeah dark matter blah blah, but it’s not a concise enough answer.
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How does OpenAI manage to spend $5B in one year? Is that mostly spend in building their own datacenters with GPUs?
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Yessss! Made in America with humans and CNC robots. That’s the future we should be aiming for.
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by nojvek 2y ago
Chrome + Electron codebase is a gazillion lines of code. If someone builds an electron app and gets VC funded, is that somehow unethical? Lines of code is irrelevant. Only issue is if they are building on top of a codebase whose license the
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by nojvek 2y ago
When you make code open source, with an open commercial license and someone takes that code to make money or funding, they don’t owe you anything. A license like MIT explicitly allows commercial use. If you don’t want other people to make m
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X is a private company. Elon bought is as a megaphone. Elon is so wealthy that even if Twitter goes under, it doesn’t mean much that to him. He’ll probably be a bit more butt hurt that he lost audience. There is enough Elmo bros and right w
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by nojvek 2y ago
What is FWA?
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Where are you getting $3B ARR number? curious about source.
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by nojvek 2y ago
I wish postgres supports parquet file imports and exports. COPY command with csv is really slooooooooow. Even BINARY is quite slow and bandwidth heavy. I wonder how open postgres is and what kind of pull requests postgres team considers? I&
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Prediction: OpenAI will implode by 2030 and become a smaller shell of current as they run out of money by spending too much. Prediction 2: Russia will implode by 2035, by also spending too much money.
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We don’t need price cap on rents. What we do need is a tax policy that progressively taxes the more single family homes an entity owned. Living in your own home as primary residence means you pay slightly lower property tax. The more homes
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by nojvek 2y ago
What do you mean by Pareto optional regulatory structure? Got links to read further to comprehend meaning of word salad?
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I connect my RAV4 to comma and it’s better than a Tesla on highways hands down. Don’t need no junk software selling my privacy for ads. Go the other way Toyota, make rock solid cars that are easy to repair and hold their value. I plan to ke

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