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by runako 1y ago
Every executive publicly saying obviously* false things like X job will be done by AI in 18 months is putting downward pressure on the labor market. The pressure is essentially peer pressure among executives: are we stupid for continuing to
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by runako 1y ago
Notably, Uber switched horses and now runs Waymos with no human drivers.
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by runako 1y ago
> new models to date have cost more than the previous ones to create This largely was the case in software in the '80s-'10s (when versions largely disappeared) and still is the case in hardware. iPhone 17 will certainly cost fa
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by runako 1y ago
> No foreign country has a right to sell things in America Flipping this around: this is a limit on the rights of American citizens to purchase things from around the world. My argument is it's best for policy to center the rights o
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by runako 1y ago
US companies also have access to locally-sourced forced labor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries There must be some other reason Temu is able to sell goods at lower prices, especially now that Chi
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by runako 1y ago
Do they have to do this each time they change the composition of the board? What about if they just move/change the layout of the copper traces?
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by runako 1y ago
I have yet to see any compelling argument for the expected source of labor for the scale-up in manufacturing. We're going the other way and reducing our labor force. In a country where people were ready to riot when service was slow at
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by runako 1y ago
> All of which have my same area code, which is for a location I haven't live at for over 15 years I am in a similar situation. One of my not-yet-implemented projects is to route my phone through a VOIP app that automatically blocks
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by runako 1y ago
TL;DR it's not doctor salaries. Fortunately, there has been much expert research on this, for example: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2... That "administrative costs" lin
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by runako 1y ago
> Universal healthcare doesn't change the overall cost. Something like 15% of US healthcare spending goes towards administrative fees just around insurance. That's order of $800 billion annually, roughly $1,500 per American, th
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by runako 1y ago
The name & function overlap with AWS Nitro is severe: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-desi...
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by runako 1y ago
If the car needs any occupant to be awake, it is not an autonomous vehicle. Some of the best marketing ever behind convincing people that the word "autonomous" does not mean what we all know it means.
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by runako 1y ago
> Dead code has no “weight” Assuming it is truly dead and not executable (which someone would have to verify is & remains the case), dead code exerts a pressure on every human engineer who has to read (around) it, determine that it i
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by runako 1y ago
I could be mistaken, but I believe BlackSky is pretty close today.
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by runako 1y ago
USG is looking at spending ~$10B on an Intel stake. It's worth wondering whether it might make more sense to instead put the same money into AMD and earmark it for US fabs. Ditto NVidia.
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by runako 1y ago
Big fan of Zed. I want to echo a sibling comment that I don't see that as paying for Zed, I see it as paying for LLM usage. And since I already have my own LLM keys, I just use those instead.
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by runako 1y ago
Part of the reason we don't want this is because it creates an enormous government spoil, which is the decision to label a given company as part of the critical infrastructure of the country. For example: why Intel and not AMD? Does Mi
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by runako 1y ago
In my small city, people are routinely hit at crosswalks of roads that look like this. There's a spot where the crosswalk is marked, with lights and signage, where the curb even just out a little extra to make the "unprotected&quo
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by runako 1y ago
> there's something missing from the story The missing piece is a picture of the parents. The author argues that the system needs to lay blame somewhere, and the parents present as a soft target.
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by runako 1y ago
This reminds me of some of the better experiments in mid-aughts Web dev, and is exactly the kind of project that helps push standards & user expectations forward.
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by runako 1y ago
> maybe they want to be FANG rich Their (limited) levels.fyi data does not indicate this is one of their goals.
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by runako 1y ago
Check the ratio of SG&A to R&D spend at MASI. They have money, they just choose not to spend it on engineering.
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by runako 1y ago
I understand, and this is timely in the context of Meta making $100m offers. I have no data on this, but I would be highly surprised if Apple offered anybody more than $5m/year. Masimo has that much money. Could Apple go higher? Sure,
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by runako 1y ago
I specifically did not address any of the corporate competitive dynamics, although it is worth noting that this is more of an existential issue for Masimo than Apple. My core point is is that Masimo has far more than enough money to pay str
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by runako 1y ago
Masimo was worth ~$16B when this was going down. They are worth $8B today. This is roughly the size of American Airlines. Masimo is not the biggest company, but they are a large publicly-traded company. The company does $2B in revenue and s
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by runako 1y ago
> Phones sucked, pre 3G was slow, there wasn't much you could use them for before app stores and the cameras were potato quality This is a big rewrite of history. Phones took off because before mobile phones the only way to reach
567.
by runako 1y ago
Not as much with spellcheckers because even when they started to get popular, it was apparent that many people cannot spell English. So it was very natural. People pushed back on the grammar checks when they landed in Word. Before that, peo
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by runako 1y ago
Constructively, I would suggest some areas for study: - relative speeds of programming languages ( https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison ) - database indexing ( https://stackoverflow.com/question
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by runako 1y ago
> couldn't even write a basic sql query Not the point at all, but I have found it quite common among younger professional engineers to not know SQL at all. A combination of specialization (e.g. only work on microservices that do not
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by runako 1y ago
Not the OP, but I could use more explanation. Isn't Affirm typically structured as payments over X period of time for something that is normally a one-time purchase? Why would you do that for rent, which is already spread out over a pe

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