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by ppeetteerr 2y ago
Yeah, it's a lot of what you said but if it were the only player in town, then you'd have to deal with the monopoly. With AI, I can pull up a 70-99% accurate answer to my question (for many questions) and avoid the mess of ads alt
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by ppeetteerr 2y ago
What killed Google Search are the AI research papers that ultimately led to the rise of OpenAI
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
I've seen lowercase wording used by people who don't want to put effort into something. Personally, I consider it a sign of dismissal towards the audience. If you see this coming from someone, it might be an indication they don&#x
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
In an increasingly disconnected world, I couldn't agree more. Everything now is automated: car service, groceries, shopping. Activities that used to be social are no longer social: working in person, meeting in person, socializing in g
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
You can, but through layers of abstraction, and UI abstraction layers just complicate everything and lead you into unexpected corners.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
The binary size is outrageous but Swift is a decent language. For many of us who want a good client (iOS) and server language, Swift is a good choice. You can work in a single IDE for both and even compile to WASM if that's your thing.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Their job recommendation system is just awful. I really hope they put some money into improving it.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
It's more like being a pastry chef and telling your employees to stop eating pastries because they will all get diabetes
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Yeah, DB replication and caching would be a pain in this scenario. Akamai cache busting is challenging enough in complex cases. I can also imagine how you can have localized datasets with a centralized auth database, for instance. That way,
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
You could branch out in a lot of directions from here. Compiling from source is another option, or messing around with config files. Depends on where you want to go in the education.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Totally agree that function locality is important, especially if latency reduction is your biggest opportunity. Edge compute feels like a niche problem for most businesses, and it comes with high overhead costs in setup and maintenance. You
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
This is the way. Too many engineers are disconnected from the metal.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
It took me a while to get some context here but the article makes sense. Maybe more outside the topic but related: why would you put business logic closer to the user when that's rarely the performance bottleneck? You could cache compu
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Or you can hire people who are talented. Another advantage of the extra-rich is that they don't rely on their skills alone. As the article says: "Specifically, for given portfolio allocation, individuals who are wealthier are more
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
The argument being made is that compound interest is higher the wealthier you are.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Wasn't this the entire thesis of Capital in the Twenty-First Century? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce... A great read if you haven't already.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
You can think of it this way, the higher the debt, the more of your tax dollars go towards paying off that debt, which means less money goes into services you think you're paying for. The earners of this are institutions and the wealth
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Find a job that qualifies you for a TN/H-1B visa or become a founder and get on an O-1 visa.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Similar experience but my reason for staying in the US is purely for the weather and the money. Life in Canada is so much more pleasant than any city I've lived in in the US.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
While I would agree with you in an otherwise normal year, in the year of layoffs, this policy may be the kind of fast-thinking that actually makes sense.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
That's a great list. You might want to consider applying at Reddit for a PM role :) https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ I don't think reddit cares as much about third-party clients as much as being mined for d
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
I didn’t know moderators were being generous with their time only because Reddit was not profitable /s Reddit will do what it wants with with their costs. It’s not a publicly funded entity. Building on top of someone else’s content is
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
I would argue that it's just okay. You're right about being safe, tho. Man, the US is violent.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
I'm surprised to keep hearing that charging for API is lazy and bad for a business. They can do whatever they want with their API and price their services as they see fit. Reddit isn't going anywhere because it's a good produ
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Having lived in Boston, I can say that the city is way overpriced. You may argue that rent is in line with what people are willing to pay for it and that may be true. However, the city is failing its residents who have no protection against
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
I'm surprised to see no mention of exercise in the comment section. It seems that working out produces "[...] increased the concentrations of taurine metabolites in blood, which might partially underlie the antiaging effects of ex
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
Do people visit the Google homepage anymore? I feel like the address bar of every browser is now the default means by which to search on Google.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
It may have been a way to grind down Russian forces. The next few weeks will tell if this was also a trap for the Russians as the Ukrainians look to surround the city.
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by ppeetteerr 3y ago
I imagine that leveraging AI to answer questions about documents, or helping with documentation composition, could be an expected feature by DropBox customers.
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by ppeetteerr 4y ago
That's why the cracks are small at first. Patches, new API connections to customers, and ambition will still cause some change, albeit small as you point out. Entropy in a living system always increases.

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