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by psadri 3y ago
Shameless plug: https://skymass.dev is a js/ts version of Blazor. It is a batteries-included, code-first solution for creating high quality business web apps by simply writing a single-dependency backend process. Please b
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by psadri 3y ago
I wonder what the sweet spot for # of passenger for a given route is. You need to balance costs (crew, fuel, airport fees, ...) with revenue from passengers. On one end you can have a massive plane that flies once a week. But that's
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by psadri 3y ago
Sure. This particular incident has irregularities. I was referring to the general idea of a board not being able to change CEOs in the parent comment.
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by psadri 3y ago
Ultimately one important job of the board is to be able to replace the CEO. So it would be odd if it was structured in a way that this wasn’t possible.
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How about something much faster growing like algae? Then harvest the algae, seal it in a plastic wrapper and sink it to the bottom of the ocean?
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by psadri 3y ago
How much are you willing to pay for such a product?
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by psadri 3y ago
Thanks for this reply! I never thought of it this way before. I guess I had imagined the captured carbon would be used to make something else, like fuel, and remove the need for extracting more oil.
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by psadri 3y ago
It could work if one directly captures all the released carbon instead of releasing it into the atmosphere?
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by psadri 3y ago
That is true. The initial wave was driven by the sheer excitement of being able to “publish”. I do think that the ad supported model is still responsible for what happened next. Ads encourage optimizing for eyeballs and traffic vs qualit
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by psadri 3y ago
What happened is that people didn’t want to pay for high quality content. So sites need to rely on ads. Delivering more ads is not aligned with user interests. If we lived in a world where people paid for content, the incentives would hav
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by psadri 3y ago
I wish YouTube would use some AI to pick more appropriate points in the video to insert their ads. The current viewing experience with ads is simply too jarring. Maybe that's the point :-)?
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The facets need to be defined but their possible values are computed from the data and don’t need to be predefined. These are also recomputed based on existing filters.
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34kwh!? That’s a pretty beefy setup.
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by psadri 3y ago
This may have come off the wrong way as a criticism of the people involved vs the process. My point is that iterative design processes tend to work better than waterfall (for new software projects). Architect / construction worker - su
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I think his strategy is to exit to Amazon/Walmart/…
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by psadri 3y ago
I think any software (and possibly product) development process where the starting point is a designer creating mocks / flows in isolation and then handing them over to others to build is doomed to fail. The initial designs, created in
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by psadri 3y ago
The extracted colors were used in a few different ways: 1. product search - show me "red" shirts. We also mapped certain hues to "saturated", "muted", "pastel" etc... meta colors based on HSV values.
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by psadri 3y ago
We had to do this at Polyvore (a fashion e-commerce site) to extract dominant colors from products. To create the palette, we took 10k random product images from our catalog, cropped them to the center 1/3, and stitched them into a sin
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by psadri 3y ago
I love how “load bearing” is used here!!
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by psadri 3y ago
I improved our kitchen hood vent by attaching a semi-rigid aluminum duct to one of the fans. The other end of the duct can be positioned right over a frying pan to suck in cooking smell. It works much better compared to the vent itself.
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by psadri 3y ago
Apple Pay and some other payment methods generate a single-use token per transaction which is much safer than sharing you raw credit card number with a merchant. The token can only be used once for that particular transaction.
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by psadri 3y ago
Shameless plug: Gamma Pay [0] enables accepting Apple Pay on Chrome and other non-Safari desktop browsers. [0] https://gamma-pay.com/
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by psadri 4y ago
And this is exactly why we don’t drop dead right after we have kids. We are optimized to stay alive and support our our offspring until they have the highest chance of survival and reproduction (and maybe their kids?) so 20+20+10? Nowadays
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by psadri 4y ago
Thanks for point these out. Some of the best episodes in the show (after The Inner Light). I particularly liked Ship in a Bottle. My point was the AI is very constrained in the Star Trek human world.
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by psadri 4y ago
Or a ban of AI as in Dune. The only utopian sci-fi show I recall is Star Trek TNG. In that show the computer is intelligent but never takes initiative. I always wondered why the ship couldn’t just raise shields instead of waiting for Pica
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by psadri 4y ago
Last year, I found true my Tesla VIN was used to register a car in a different state. I never received the CA renewal notice, then eventually got a “driving with no registration” citation, and had to pay something like a $1k penalty to get
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by psadri 4y ago
I agree anything we do at scale will affect the ecosystem. However, restoring an ecosystem to a previous state seems less risky than changing oceans to a new state.
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I had a C64 in Iran when I was 12. After a few years, a column of keys on the keyboard stopped working. So, every time I turned it back on, my first task was to remap some critical keys to the function row keys.
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by psadri 4y ago
That might disturb the ocean ecosystem.
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by psadri 4y ago
Creativity doesn’t exist in isolation. In order to be creative, and create unexpected connections, one first needs to know a lot of seemingly unrelated things.

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