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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I work in the industry at a startup insurtech, we are a life insurance carrier (wysh.com - our flagship product is a b2b micro life insurance benefit, but we built that on top of a term life carrier and also sell d2c term life) Allianz has
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
This sounds like this might have been in NYC? NYC has a pretty nontraditional setup where the city sheriffs are basically set up to be the enforcement arm of the courts and only work civil issues. Certainly makes stuff like this easier.
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I can certainly see the potential: both for this to be really useful at the start and progressively move toward the useless as someone figures out they can get a big bonus if they sell sponsorship within it. This last weekend I was using Ch
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
The thing that always surprised me about this when I still used FB was that they clearly had the expertise available in Meta to do it right because my Instagram ads/recommended content was almost stunningly well-tailored: events I actu
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
I think you might be misunderstanding the suggestion - typically when people say "email like a CEO" they're talking about direct 1:1 or small group communications (specifically the direct and brief style of writing popular wi
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
A really important element of this is that much of the burden of maintaining the DRM is on the theaters, and the theaters themselves are the ones who care about protecting the theatrical release period: you might be less likely to pay them
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by sethhochberg 1y ago
This all makes perfect sense. The gap I usually have - and I admit its probably something of a skill issue, I have relatively little formal CS background - is how these abstract declarations of rules are integrated into a product. The examp
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Those Uniqlo self checkouts really do fall into that “ indistinguishable from magic” territory for me - on a technological level I completely understand how they work, and yet every time I use them I’m a little surprised that it works so we
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Not gonna do you any good if the batteries themselves start going off, but if something else has ignited in the cabinet and the batteries are not yet on fire... you'd be glad to have the extinguisher, I bet
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
This is my experience as pretty heavy speech-to-text user (voice keyboard) - as they’ve introduced more AI features, I’ve started to have all sorts of nonsense from recent emails or contacts get mixed into simple transcriptions It used to h
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
I'm a bit late to respond here but in case you're checking replies: Camille Fournier's book The Manager's Path is enjoyable to read and covers exactly this
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
The various 3-letter-agencies really are incentivized to help government and industry be legitimately secure against anything short of the sophisticated attacks they themselves can orchestrate When you’ve got the sort of reach and resources
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Once upon a time, outlet stores generally were all end-of-season, B-stock, etc... but fickle consumers didn't like that it was possible to go to an outlet store and not find anything to buy, so the brands started making cheaper "o
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Lav mics and boom mics are great because they solve the problem so many other designs are trying hard to work around: distance from the speaker’s mouth to the transducer. An inexpensive omnidirectional lav can sound good for much less money
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
I find the trick with product reviews on modern reddit is to skip over anything positive and look for what people are complaining about. If I’m shopping for something deliberately enough to be digging through reviews I’m probably pretty sur
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
The user agent is pretty low hanging fruit, but these days even your most standard captchas / bot detection algorithms are looking at things like mouse movement patterns - a simple bot controlling a mouse might be coded to move the cur
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Constant and plentiful supplies of food are, on an evolutionary scale, a somewhat recent thing. Agriculture itself is what, around 12k years old - a few hundred generations? We're all experts at eating food but having an instinctual un
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
I do think there was a distinct period 10-15 years ago where, particularly when trying to break into the startup scene as a rookie developer coming from a non-CS education background, the blog was a useful place to write about technology ju
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
It’s a common enough technique that this surely isn’t the only example, but there was discussion here a while back about TeamViewer doing this to detect the presence and version of the client software when clicking a link to open a remote s
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Most of the bridges and tunnels have their own tolls, with a few exceptions like the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. One possible explanation is that the advocates were right and the combined bridge/tunnel + congestion toll is enough t
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Much has been written about Gen Z having a tiny appetite for risky behavior, and the causes are attributed to all sorts of stuff. But my entirely unscientific bet is that there is a real chilling effect to growing up as the first generation
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
I had a data structures / algorithms professor in college who would occasionally ask us to write C++ by hand, on paper, during exams. Syntax wasn't really graded, its forgivable to make trivial syntax errors on pen and paper. The
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
The catch is that the interest-free loan can be called in by you, the gift card holder, at any time - so they get less utility from any given amount of gift card balances than they would loans/corporate bonds of the same amount because
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Ironically, I'd bet environments most desperately in need of tools like this are some of the ones where there has been lots of "just run this Helm chart/manifest!" admining over the years...
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
My respectful counterpoint is that most people aren't paying attention to tech releases at all, ever, unless they go viral like ChatGPT did. I have very nontechnical coworkers get excited about cool new things ChatGPT can do, but I&#x2
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Output was definitely doing stickers for a while, I still have several of them (on a stickerbombed bicycle frame). I can't remember whether that was in the early years or the late years though.
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
Various clubs and parties in the NYC scene, too, going back well over a decade. I'm genuinely surprised to read there is some (perhaps exaggerated) controversy over this in the news. The places that have strict no photo / no video
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
This is what we've eventually given up and done. At a certain point, the vaguely-principled stand gets in the way of business. We're playing in an old-school corner of the world and need to meet it in the middle.
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
We see this all the time working at the intersection of the insurance / fintech space. I've had several big, legacy vendors make requests for multiple physical signatures on a piece of paper (printed and mailed or faxed, can'
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by sethhochberg 2y ago
I read that more as saying the technical author had trouble selling to a nontechnical audience because they found them hard to relate to, rather than the traditional wisdom that technical people in general are a tough audience for anybody

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