saulpw

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by saulpw 2mo ago
Friendster
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by saulpw 2mo ago
I don't think that's true. Games are a product of their time and context; if Tetris didn't exist, do you think it would be a massively popular hit today? I can see it being an interesting entrant in the mobile space like a
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by saulpw 2mo ago
That's not suspicious, that's the load-bearing smoking gun.
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by saulpw 2mo ago
Do you mean "punctuated equilibrium"?
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by saulpw 2mo ago
"Too big to fail" should trigger anti-trust and be broken up.
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by saulpw 2mo ago
> You're obliged to maximize their earnings. This is not true. Fiduciary responsibility does not mean "maximize earnings". This one fiction has done more damage in the name of unfettered capitalism than anything else.
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by saulpw 2mo ago
That's "this year" [the past 12 months].
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by saulpw 2mo ago
That's what happens when you inject a lot of money into a sector/company, it attracts people who only want to maximize money. This is honestly what has ruined the tech sector over the past 30 years.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
They fired Opus 5 as their assistant (in part for calling out a LinkedIn draft post as "engagement bait", which sounds like it might have been calling a spade a spade), and moved to ChatGPT instead. Too bad nobody here can chec
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by saulpw 3mo ago
I'm still using my Thinkpad from 2016.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Hey, cut us some slack, we were raised by Boomers.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Have you tried using this to actually edit anything? The local transcription is trash (slow, tons of repeated words, no speaker diarization, no option to upload a transcript or use ElevenLabs). I made a few edits to a sample episode I hav
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by saulpw 3mo ago
He works at Tesla already.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
I don't think they mean "monetarily". But once you have some reasonable parity you can implement your own features/workflow as you want them and not be reliant on Descript.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
I hate Descript, not because of the cost but because of their dark patterns. (I learned recently that their CEO is the former CEO of Groupon, which explains a lot.) So I'd love something like this. But I need to edit an audio-only p
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Your parents didn't have the legal authority to print money. It's almost like running a household is different from running a business, is different from running a nation.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
I have been using vi/vim for 30 years and I had no idea about using ^K-M to insert an em-dash.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
There are many reasons people might not read your documentation, and "it isn't good enough" is only one of them. To wit: - they don't know about it - they can't find it when they need it - they just don&
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Sorry it felt condescending. I'm sure you think it's obvious that you "did the work" because you know about scientific notation and understand the notation. I thought I had done it too, but more and more I see how my i
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by saulpw 3mo ago
It feels like that at first glance because you haven't done the work to internalize the notation. This is like someone who uses Roman Numerals being introduced to decimal notation, and getting confused that "22" isn't j
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by saulpw 3mo ago
(Author of Mag World here) I'm here to attest that it's worked for me! I see now that I had a fractured collections of number lines in my head (thousands, millionths, billions, and of course all the various units). Since using m
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by saulpw 3mo ago
RC is a great community and I will be forever grateful to them for introducing me to several good friends that are still in my life 10 years later.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Sorry but this is one of those instances where you have to kill your darling. You can't sacrifice readability for textual content.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Okay, well said. Maybe we should try one year of each and then put it to a popular vote.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
It takes more energy to liberate the oxygen than you could ever get from the fuel. You don't need oxygen atoms, you need the oxidant.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
I hate to say it, but you're the problem. One time is better than switching, but we switch because no matter which time standard we choose, some group of people takes issue. The only way we can get one time standard is if we all let
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by saulpw 3mo ago
That's the source, but for chemical reactions you also need a sink. For instance gasoline is not usable as an energy source without an oxidant. Take away the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere (an asteroid has no atmosphere at all) an
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by saulpw 3mo ago
Oh good, that does make me rest easier. Though technically the units should be man-hours (or bacterium-hours?). Now this makes me wonder how many life-hours there have been...looks like ^40 'beings' over all time[0], and ^43 bei
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by saulpw 3mo ago
That's basically what we're doing! I'd be curious if it helps you. Send me an email if you wind up listening to or reading anything from the site.
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by saulpw 3mo ago
> evolution has spend quadrillions of hours doing just that Magnitude pedantery incoming: 1 billion years is "only" about 10 trillion hours.

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