randmeerkat

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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> But why single out Russia and North Korea for exemption? They’re not, they’ve been sanctioned to such an extent that tariffs would be meaningless…
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Semiconductor fabs are actually decently large (>20k employee) cities. Ok… Then build more pylons…
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Breaking the system does not make anything work better except human suffering. Maybe ask yourself why human suffering was so great that people voted to break the system..? Big tech should have paid more respect for things like housing.
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Hence he didn't put tariffs on Russia. He’s maintaining crippling sanctions on Russia…
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> The Deck is so transformative that if Microsoft were serious about XBOX at all, the next XBOX would be a handheld. Or they’d realize that the Deck is successful because it’s open and bring Steam to the Xbox.
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> It's sad to think that the computing devices our newer generations are growing up with are trying their best to shoot down this exact use case; making the device do things no one made it do before. Buy a Steam Deck.
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> What mechanism is capable of driving such a societal paradigm shift? I don’t know, if we had experienced it, we wouldn’t be in this conundrum…
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> In fact, I think the current LLM rampage of sorts acted as a flood to fill the drought of incremental innovation that would have otherwise occurred. We’ve been running on the remnants of research from the 50s - 70s for awhile now. Busi
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Their robber baron behavior reveals their true values and the reality of capitalism. This is rather reductionist… By your same logic I could say that Stalin and Mao revealed the true values and reality of communism. Let’s not elaborate
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Why? What is the goal of a scraper, and how does disabling the source of the data benefit them? The next scraper doesn’t get the data. People don’t realize we’re not compute limited for ai, we’re data limited. What we’re watching is th
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Usually access and funds is _harder_ to find than alpha. So what’s more important is finding alpha (or whatever metric you are benchmarking against) that you can operationalize even if it’s worse on a risk adjusted basis than some othe
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Especially as corporate sees devs like they see salesmen… You’re onto something here. People perceive the world through the lens of their education and environment. Sales, legal, finance, are all easy constructs for a business leader t
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> You could know precisely what to invest in but not have access to the funds or deal flow and not be successful. Thank you.
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> I'm not sure if you are taking into account that VCs are remunerated largely on the amount of money they invest rather than the results? Sure, but is it really worth just spraying a firehose of money across a variety of entities w
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Now is the time to look at Open Home Foundation and their Voice Assistant device which does Speech Processing offline.. Donate! Buy their stuff! What about just not using voice assistants period? Do we really need third party cameras a
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Growth. Exit. IPO. Those are the 3 words they want to hear. IPOs aren’t happening in this market… Are IPOs still the only thing investors are looking for?
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Although I hear VCs are working on an algorithm where they burn money directly and the smoke patterns represent the solution to the multiplication. That might keep the margins high. This has been bothering me for some time now. It’s ra
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Thank you so much for the kind words. There isn't a lot of that going around on today's internet with its ephemeral interactions, dopamine-driven engagement, and deep polarization. I too often allow this disposition to infect
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
Over the years, I come across thought provoking comments from time to time on this platform. I usually take a moment to ponder what I just read. Then I ask myself who wrote this..? Then return to look at the username. More than once I find
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Ideally it's the responsibility of management, starting at the top, to think critically about what kind of software most benefits the company and reward those that do it. Unfortunately, it's much harder to sell "amazing
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> he's not, just another delusional venture capitalist that hasn't bothered to look up the counter arguments to his point of view, done by mathematicians Don’t hate on it, just spin up some startup with “ai” and LLM hype. Juice
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> It's the same and worse over there, the drama just isn't public. At least you’re getting paid. What’s the point of spending one’s free time arguing with strangers on the internet over some code that will be refactored anyway
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Turns out FOSS devs are humas just like everybody else and suffer from the same flaws. It is rather anticlimactic. I had always imagined FOSS to be this free exchange of ideas, thoughtful consideration, and intentional action. Seeing w
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> Someone can post a tortured looking piece of awk code here and people applaud. A tortured piece of awk code is like a beautiful rose, sharp, but wax poetic. Perl is like a corpse flower.
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
People still use Perl?
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> This seems like a pretty bold and employee-friendly move. Google recently merged two large divisions, so there's going to be some redundancy. Most companies would resolve this with a layoff, but it sounds like they're trying
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> You can connect an iPhone to a USB-C monitor and a bluetooth keyboard already. It just kind of sucks. Because Apple refuses to allow it to be a computer. They don’t want the iPhone consuming their MacBook sales. If Apple really cared a
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
I gave up on the game when the person next to me exploded into confetti… Is it really too much to ask for an Unreal Tournament reboot?
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
> It started in 2010. How much longer should we wait for your prediction to come true? Google has already actively started soliciting outside investors to spin off Google Fiber. Don't hold your breath. Nothing escapes the Google Gra
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by randmeerkat 2y ago
It’s Google, it’ll be shut down a week after the fiber goes live.

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