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by onion2k 2y ago
A cash business can have quick linear growth, whereas an equity business will have slower but exponential growth. ...or not. Businesses do fail. A cash business and an equity business are just as likely to fail as one another. Working in
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by onion2k 2y ago
and of course vanilla That depends on who is writing it and what the app is. Most frontend code is written by people who don't have as much time to focus on performance and optimization as core framework developers, so their once the
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's only a problem if hospitals replace doctors with AI. If they employ AI as well then outcomes will improve. Using AI to find the ones AI can identify means doctors have more time to focus on the ones that AI can't find. Of c
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by onion2k 2y ago
Terrorists prefer blowing up aircraft to other things. There have been more terrorist car bombings than plane bombings by several orders of magnitude.
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by onion2k 2y ago
The fact you can skip most of the friction by spending more money shows that the friction is not really there for additional security.
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by onion2k 2y ago
People get really hung up on page weight. It's nice when an app loads fast with a cold cache, but if it's something that you load once and then keep open, or it's something that's easily cached for a long time after the
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by onion2k 2y ago
REST is not complex. REST isn't complex, but API design is still hard. Making a strategic choice not to design a service API but to ship the same code in two places is valid, and arguably the right one if that's what the teams
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by onion2k 2y ago
If the basis of this move is that the USPS haven't figured out how to collect the tariffs on imports from China you would expect other couriers to be implementing the same measures very soon.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Two of the features of Invites are sharing photos and sharing music. These are both locked down to users of Apple services (Photos and Music). So you can invite anyone, but those people won't be able to fully participate in your event.
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by onion2k 2y ago
We really shouldn't be celebrating when a simple text editor requires literally millions of lines of code to run. If you include the OS, the hardware BIOS, the switch gear at the ISP, the internet backbone, DNS, BIND, etc, etc it&#x2
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by onion2k 2y ago
It sounds like a real life Black Books.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Would be unpleasant if there was crew. 19 people have died in the 391 crewed space missions humans have done so far. The risk of dying is very high. Starship is unlikely to change that, although the commoditization of space flight could h
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by onion2k 2y ago
The shuttle programme was signed off in 1972, had it's first flight in 1977, and it's first crewed flight in 1981. Starship has been going for 5 years (albeit on the back of lots of other SpaceX work.) It's getting to orbit i
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by onion2k 2y ago
That's less to do with people paying to watch someone throw a disc as far as they can, and more to do with corporations understanding that putting the Olympic logo on a shirt increases sales.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Manufacturers made alcohol-free versions of their products so that governments wouldn't step in to regulate them. They can claim to be responsible product owners who offer low-alcohol versions of their drinks to keep people safe from h
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by onion2k 2y ago
No. 'conceit' has a few meanings, including 'a fanciful notion'.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Scope of influence. A senior should be defining and building things within their team. A staff engineer or a principal should be influencing things more broadly than their team.
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by onion2k 2y ago
And in doing that it's endorsing some random website that makes things up and elevating that garbage to be something users trust 'because it's on Google.' Users will need to learn that Google is only as trustworthy as th
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by onion2k 2y ago
Does anyone still do that?
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by onion2k 2y ago
Freestyle and FIDE organization are not in competition. They're competing for the time and attention of the players. If there are two competitions on the same day, players will have to choose which competition to play in. That in its
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by onion2k 2y ago
Google's AI summary of search results hallucinates. You might like it, but you may also end up seeing, and believing in, something that just doesn't exist. For example, it says there's a sequel to a Disney film called Encanto
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by onion2k 2y ago
Folks who are passionate about a subject will typically explore it more... The problem with this idea is that in most orgs 'passion' equates to putting in more hours, taking problems home, etc. That implicitly biases the org aga
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by onion2k 2y ago
I don't think that's fair at all. Every engineer should regularly reflect on where they could improve, and that necessitates understanding that you're not good at all things. A weak engineer sharing those thoughts is just a
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by onion2k 2y ago
I spent 3 years reflecting on this about a decade ago, and concluded that I really like fixing things that aren't working. There's no big or special reason behind what I do, just an understanding that things are broken and I have
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by onion2k 2y ago
Yeah, that's fair. I should have said something like "GPT generates a less biased description of a decision than an inexperienced manager", and that using that description as the basis of an actual decision likely leads to be
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by onion2k 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if GPT genuinely makes better decisions than an inexperienced, first-time CEO who has only been a dev before, especially if the person prompting it has actually put some effort into understanding their own weakn
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by onion2k 2y ago
Google spent a lot of time and money attracting people who want to work on general hard problems rather than experts in specific domains. Maybe tasking a group of people like that is more likely to succeed in inventing something than buil
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by onion2k 2y ago
You just need to replace the battery every three years or so. If you used it as a PC, presumably in a dock attached to a monitor, keyboard, etc, then it's be plugged in most of the time and battery wouldn't get much use.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Without Ads you'd have 10 entrepreneurs. With it you have 10000 Before the internet was fuelled by ads there were some ad-free directories and human-curated lists of websites that people seemed to like quite a lot. That could have
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by onion2k 2y ago
They level the playing field and provide economic opportunity to hard working entrepreneurs everywhere. They absolutely don't though. They skew the playing field to whoever has the most access to ad publishing (most money usually). I

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