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by tazu 2y ago
> It's valuable to go to school with people who don't look like you and think the same way you do. I did and it was incredibly alienating. I will make sure my kids don't have to go through that.
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by tazu 2y ago
> Inflation is now below 3% Officially.
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by tazu 2y ago
> 3) By how well it is received by an organization and real world customers. One patent can be more "innovative" than 10,000 patents. For example, 10,000 patents on horse carriage designs/parts compared to one patent for a
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by tazu 2y ago
> After losing a key member of a team, perhaps the survivors find they have other priorities in life than trying to file for lots of patents. This seems like a rather obvious confounding factor. Exactly, seems pretty disingenuous to meas
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by tazu 2y ago
> A Harvard study tried to measure this by looking at what happened to researchers when a colleague died. The loss of an immigrant brainbox reduced co-workers’ productivity (measured in patents) by nearly twice as much as the loss of a n
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by tazu 2y ago
Personally, 10GB. It's a database of all "person pages" on English Wikipedia with some extracted text (infobox and sections) compressed using sqlite-zstd[1]. About 350k rows. (I know this is "small" compared to what
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by tazu 2y ago
Prices lowered to $1.25/hr... still 2X vast.ai prices.
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by tazu 2y ago
> Why do corporations and devs continue to accept a share cropper role by paying Apple to host native apps? Push notifications. That's it, and presumably why Apple waited 8 years[1] before allowing them on iOS PWAs. [1]: https:&#x2
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by tazu 2y ago
I searched around and couldn't find anything, has this been audited?
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by tazu 2y ago
There are many models, XTTS [1] is a good one. [1]: https://coqui.ai/blog/tts/open_xtts
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by tazu 2y ago
> X is arguing that whenever you have a group of companies that are competitors, and they take an action that is contingent on their competitor's cooperation ("I'll boycott if and only if you do the same"), then that
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by tazu 2y ago
This isn't about "encouraging boycotts", it's about business competitors colluding to weild their market power for political reasons. No one is saying that individual companies shouldn't be able to make their own de
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by tazu 2y ago
For infrastructure, I try to keep the Lindy effect [1] in mind. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by tazu 2y ago
Flagged for spam [0]. I've now seen your maliciously deceptive landing page twice in 48 hours, please stop. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41197650
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by tazu 2y ago
Cloudflare's durable objects seem similar to this article's "objects in RAM", but I think you still have to do some minimal serialization.
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by tazu 2y ago
I don't see the point of "globally scalable" SQLite... the most I would want is distributed read-replicas, and LiteFS handles that well. I'm a huge SQLite fanboy, but trying to turn it into a distributed RDMBS is weird.
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by tazu 2y ago
When did America stop?
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by tazu 2y ago
If you have access to target customers (hopefully you do), I'd recommend a short questionnaire using Van Westendorp's Price Sensitivity Meter [1]. I've had success using it in the past, and you only have to ask four questions
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by tazu 2y ago
By doing that, you’re actively contributing to enshittification—you are the enshittifier.
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by tazu 2y ago
Disappointed I can't use an arbitrary S3 URL. I'd like to use Cloudflare R2.
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by tazu 2y ago
https://painkillerideas.com/
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by tazu 2y ago
Why? Do you think lossless compression is intelligence?
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by tazu 2y ago
A better/newer live-reload technique is a websocket connection on the page listening for filesystem events.
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by tazu 2y ago
I'm pretty sure LLMs have to generate text left-to-right, but there was a screen recording floating around that had "multiple cursors" of text generation at once, where it looked like the LLM was filling in a grid of text,
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by tazu 2y ago
Seems like this website is hosted on a 1ghz e-reader.
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by tazu 2y ago
This is a great question. There's probably some game-theory principles that could shed some light here, but I'm not well-read on it.
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by tazu 2y ago
I just muted his account, haven’t seen anything since.
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by tazu 2y ago
What's with the obviously fake Chrome store review?
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by tazu 2y ago
I’ve never used Emacs, but heavily used Vim/NeoVim for many years. I recently switched to Zed because I was tired of shitty terminal emulators on Mac, and wanted something designed from the ground up with speed and GPU acceleration in
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by tazu 2y ago
Sent you an email, this would look great on my resume.

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