rchaud

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by rchaud 1y ago
Apps have the ability to send notifications, web apps meanwhile have to deal with a pesky browser that prompts you to provide explicit consent for them to do that.
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I'd be very interested in seeing an example of someone in 2015 claiming an AI bust was imminent.
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by rchaud 1y ago
The AI bubble won't pop because too many CEOs have discovered that it's a convenient fig leaf for mass firings, which is then laundered into a broader narrative about "operational efficiency". Unlike metrics like operati
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by rchaud 1y ago
$10 million sounds like peanuts in an information environment where discussion is dominated by talk of billionnaires. When I was growing up, I remember Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's wealth being touted as a measly $40 billion or some
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by rchaud 1y ago
Not surprising, Youtube has tracks that Spotify does not. Live stuff, unofficial bootlegs, out of print B-sides, the lot. Some are "official" but many are user-uploaded. Youtube has enough legal power to keep those online I suppos
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by rchaud 1y ago
Those companies go out of business faster too so dealing with them carries more risk.
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> Dont just sell your work off as someone, or rather something, else's. Bosses pushing for AI don't care about that. They just need to be able to tell their bosses that "AI is improving productivity". It's a KPI
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by rchaud 1y ago
Accessible web hosting was when your internet plan gave you access to a web bucket by default, and when the average internet user needed a computer to go online. The default Internet-connected device now is a locked down phone that barely l
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by rchaud 1y ago
I imagine it's less about "rock music" and more about the disappearance of "bands" from the mainstream. Almost every charting artist now is solo and makes pop music, which greatly limits the variety available to lis
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by rchaud 1y ago
> Chat bots are ad free because they are in the expansion phase. It is remarkable how many people do not understand this. We just had this conversation re: Netflix. 10 years ago, everyone was happy to spit on the grave of cable TV for
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by rchaud 1y ago
The era of the "brand" is over. Consumers have gotten wise to companies cutting corners while raising prices, burning up the goodwill earned on their past reputation for quality. Apple had a top brand, yet most consumers are aware
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by rchaud 1y ago
Kaplan's LinkedIn post says absolutely nothing about what is objectionable about the policy. I'm inclined to think "growth-stunting" could mean anything as tame as mandating user opt-in for new features as opposed to the
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> Our PMs don't like making things opt-in. Thank god the web browser was developed in an era where PMs weren't stack-ranked on rubrics like "feature engagement". Imagine a world where every website was granted access
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AI features + user opt-in are mutually exclusive at this point.
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If there's an app that started life in the browser, a desktop/native app can only make it worse. I don't use native apps for Youtube, Amazon, Slack etc for this purpose.
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Signing bonuses for 10 engineers.
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by rchaud 1y ago
That makes a lot of sense. VCs only make money when companies go public, so a medical device that requires years of regulatory compliance legwork to even be allowed into a lab or pharmacy is an immediate no-go.
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by rchaud 1y ago
Zero interest rate policy (2008-2022) probably had a hand in that.
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by rchaud 1y ago
For this exact reason, I have an Android TV box with a 1TB USB stick that plays TV shows from the 90s and 2000s on shuffle. As most of those shows are in 480p resolution max, you can store a lot with 1TB.
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by rchaud 1y ago
It's the opposite. Episodes are lengthened with plot points being repeated through dialogue. Hour-long TV shows were really 40 minutes due to advertising, meanwhile on Netflix they are 50-plus minutes. Longer shows = more watch time re
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by rchaud 1y ago
Telenovelas and soap operas are cheap to produce. Netflix meanwhile raises prices every year.
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> By dropping any pretense of being polite or approachable Linus Torvalds does this without feeling the need to articulate himself like a Scarface character. It's not a coincidence that he was the primary author of the biggest open
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by rchaud 1y ago
Seems to be an issue in the tech industry more so than elsewhere. H1Bs are common in investment banking, management consulting, science labs, university jobs, really any sector where foreign graduates of US universities are hired.
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by rchaud 1y ago
I think of the box art and physical manual of a video game like Diablo from 1996, compared to the game itself. The manual had several detailed drawings of monsters and otherworldly creatures with a very "evil" look, but the game i
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by rchaud 1y ago
Religion delivers a recurring revenue model that isn't taxed and where criminal confessions can't be used in court if made to a high-ranking company officer. It's the perfect business.
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Something tells me food and water supplies, weapons and private security forces aren't going to be paid for in OAI compute credits.
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"Apostates who turned to darkness" vs "Converts who saw the light".
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That's how companies like Slack get billion-dollar valuations. The promise of "less".
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I haven't found this to be true for any app that just shows text and images.
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Jobs disliked anything where Apple wasn't getting a cut. Flash games and Google ads being two of the biggest offenders in his eyes. He also "hated" the small tablets Samsung were making, saying in a keynote that you'd ha

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