remus

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by remus 2y ago
> I am talking about products and services where there is no local footprint, particularly digital goods. Im not going to defend Adboe's undefendable pricing, but there's almost always some sort of cost associated with selling
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by remus 2y ago
Not to disagree with the thrust of the article, but I think they're wrong on > Hardware is riskier than software: No longer true If you're building hardware you need to source materials for the thing, manufacture the thing some
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by remus 2y ago
Sometimes there are costs associated with operating within a particular country that a company might want to pass on to those particular customers. For example business insurance in the US can be pretty high in some sectors, or cost of comp
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by remus 2y ago
Also, ask customers for a demo to understand how they use the product and what they think is important.
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by remus 2y ago
My bad, see PaulHoule's comment for what I was getting at.
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by remus 2y ago
Pip doesn't resolve dependencies for you. On small projects that can be ok, but if you're working on something medium to large, or you're working on it with other people you can quickly get yourself into a sticky situation wh
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by remus 2y ago
You make it sound easy, but I think it's hard to know where to invest your learning time. For example, I could put some energy into getting better at shell scripting but realistically I don't write enough of it that it'll sti
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by remus 2y ago
I agree, and I think the key distinction is in understanding. In a cargo cult there's a lack of understanding, whereas I'll often copy and paste code/config I understand to get something done. Usually this is for something I
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by remus 2y ago
I don't think it's particularly fragile. Big systems have big dependencies, and moving those dependencies takes time if you want to minimise risk.
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by remus 2y ago
> I suspect readers don’t find it as exciting to read partial result papers. Unless there is an open invitation to compete on its completion, which would have a purpose and be fun. If papers are not page turners, then the journal is goin
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by remus 2y ago
> This seems reasonable? In some sense, but it does feel like the journal is missing the bigger picture somewhat. Say the two papers are A and B, and we have A + B = C. The journal is saying they'll publish C, but not A and B!
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by remus 2y ago
> if you're worried about a machine seeing your private stuff, why did you type it into a keyboard in the first place? Who owns that machine is important though. I don't mind putting my card details in via my phone to buy somet
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by remus 2y ago
I think it is simpler than that: people generally tend to work for companies who's products they think are interesting and useful. It's much easier to go into work each day when you think you're spending your time doing somet
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by remus 2y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that it's not just a financial gamble but a reputational one as well. Chances are most of that 90% of your customer base who were previously fairly happy are now very unhappy with a forced move to anothe
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by remus 2y ago
There's plenty of places to play chess already so presumably the main idea is to show off the AI generated pieces and default to the 3D view because it looks cooler.
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by remus 2y ago
Depends a bit on your use case. If you've got lots of other infra on AWS and you don't need to store that much data then the downside of using another platform can outweigh the cost savings.
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by remus 2y ago
"Guido's Law" perhaps?
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by remus 2y ago
> I try to avoid creating APIs which are "liberal in what they accept" for exactly that reason. That's my preference too. When you have relaxed criteria about what kind of data you accept via an API I find you inevitably e
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by remus 2y ago
A good instinct, but the point is it's important to think about what the data means. The authors of the paper are just saying that the populations of people driving each type of car are different so looking at a percentage of fatalitie
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by remus 2y ago
Interesting quote from that piece: > The study's authors make clear that the results do not indicate Tesla vehicles are inherently unsafe or have design flaws. In fact, Tesla vehicles are loaded with safety technology; the Insurance
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by remus 2y ago
> Tesla has the highest fatality rate, so that is ruled out! :) Do you have a source? Genuinely interested. From the little reading I've done Tesla seem to have put quite a bit of thought in to making their cars perform well in cras
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by remus 2y ago
While it's true that an auditor can look at an excel spreadsheet, my experience is that they'll never really understand what's happening for anything more than the most basic spreadsheets. It's far too easy to build a sp
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by remus 2y ago
"tab completion good enough to write 25% of code" feels like a pretty good hit rate to me! Especially when you consider that a good chink of the other 75% is going to be the complex, detailed stuff where you probably want someone
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by remus 2y ago
Very interesting, but I think the author overstates the importance of alignment a little. Unless your data/indexes are already of a challenging size (or you expect them to be imminently) for your hardware then fiddling with byte alignm
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by remus 2y ago
> I don't follow evolution of those protocols, but i am not sure how disallowing custom certificates has anything with "evolvability" of protocol ... One of the reasons for developing HTTP 2 and 3 was because it was so dif
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by remus 2y ago
1-3 are nice if you can guarantee your data is reasonably sized, but if it gets too big for your hardware taking copies of large datasets and then doing updates on large datasets can add a lot of overhead.
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by remus 2y ago
I think being a big user of whatever you're building is incredibly useful for finding these kinds of issues. If you're a big user as well as a dev then you will often stumble on these little things before a user does, and you are
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by remus 2y ago
Say your cash has been out of your possession for 6 months, couldn't you make a case around loss of earnings or similar? Having a big chunk of cash tied up unexpectedly like that could cause serious cashflow issues in a small business.
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by remus 2y ago
> But to put this in perspective (and again, i think civil forfeiture is nutso), thi is is a fedex site that processes about 100k packages an hour. Minor correction, but the article says they can process up to 99k packages per hour.
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by remus 2y ago
> They simply have websites use first party cookies, send the data server side to data harvesters, tie it all to a global user profile using either identifiers from the website or from fingerprinting and then serve targeted ads. This is

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