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by tmpz22 2y ago
US involvement in South America is arguably the leading cause of the current instabilities in the region. It is not the sole factor but in order to understand the geopolitics of the region must be taken into account. Knowledge of these US i
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by tmpz22 2y ago
Reddit stock price has been going up since the IPO I believe not as a result of user or ads growth but because they've been selling data to AI companies for training. IMO the quality of Reddit's product has never been a pillar of
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> These cars are literally unsupervised. Unsupervised in what sense? There's internal cameras that are periodically checked. Weight and seatbelt sensors that give alerts if a passenger is or puts objects in the drivers seat, or if t
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> Consider finding a role or opportunity to write software for people doing something you find meaningful - you can provide an enormous amount of value I agree with the premise but I want to play devil's advocate because you can cau
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by tmpz22 2y ago
Enterprise vendors have gotten better at locking in customers on multi-year contracts which takes away some of the biggest upside to chipping away at the market. Often a challenger will come in and snag a few smaller deals but the Monopoly
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by tmpz22 2y ago
The "whiz technology person" after a few months of toying with NextJS will fully embrace the vendor-lock-in with a poorly optimized and rushed implementation using a team of college drop outs who themselves have only a few months
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by tmpz22 2y ago
It's a shame the same passion for porting old video games doesn't exist for library software. If we can get doom to run on a refrigerator surely we can get a less computationally intensive software to run - if only in a virtual ma
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> An "Outside the Lines" investigation of 115 charities founded by high-profile, top-earning male and female athletes has found that most of their charities don't measure up to what charity experts would say is an efficien
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by tmpz22 2y ago
If it is a pop how can Big Tech walk it back? Am I overreacting here or have companies like Google and Microsoft pimped out their reputations in an irreversible fashion?
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Vercel is a (more?) opinionated ecosystem that influences higher adoption of Server-Side-Rendering and other features. This encourages projects to use more niche APIs like Suspense, and due to the capital, marketing, and bearish adoption of
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by tmpz22 2y ago
Unless you want prison rules or to counteract decades long policy of not academically punishing protected classes of students you cannot effectively ban Phones in the Public School System. You often can't seize the device. If the stude
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by tmpz22 2y ago
Maybe we shouldn't be selling products built on such a shaky foundation? Like Health Insurance products for example. [2]: https://insurtechdigital.com/articles/chatgpt-the-risks-and-... --- please disregard [1] it
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by tmpz22 2y ago
Why build something when you can leverage your social status to take ownership from others and profit off it indiscriminately with minimal effort - i.e. Finance and Upper Management.
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It would be interesting to cross-examine ML expertise and what votes people give in the poll.
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Reminds me of Henry Kissinger and others being put on the Theranos board. How do we know these board seats are real and not just rubber stamping everything for the free pay check?
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by tmpz22 2y ago
> 90% may be high, but I know 80% of the calls would have been squashed by an AI bot. Which one is it 90% or 80%? Is it possible it could've been 70%? 60%? 20%?
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by tmpz22 2y ago
Newer Apple Intelligence features will require 16gb ram and new M-series chips to run on-device. How is Microsoft able to release wide-spread features on device when there is a much diverse ecosystem of lower-powered, low-cost, windows devi
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by tmpz22 2y ago
> senior staff could easily be making 500K Can we please stop connecting the words easy and $500k without also discussing the difficulties and lifestyle trade-offs obtaining L6 and equivalent positions at Google and other companies? Jesu
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by tmpz22 2y ago
Not being on Social Media at < 14 is extremism? The same verb used to describe terrorists?
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The return to office was necessary for Google to have a coherent product strategy \s
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It must be an exceptionally difficult time to teach when kids are being influenced to believe in an imminent AI takeover of their intellectual world. And that is just one of many, many, threats to the US Education system.
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by tmpz22 2y ago
I think this is a unfair characterization. Yes Apple's developer ecosystem has a lot of fair complaints, I've personally run into the issues in this article particularly with newer APIs like SwiftData's #Predicate macro. But
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Yeah IMO its a red flag to compare yourself to Salesforce unless you: * Offer a managed database system that can support common ETL workloads, custom fields, event hooks like post-save, etc * A embeded-DSL for scripting custom actions, no a
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I went this route and now have a resume of inflated titles. I learned a lot and believe I can do some things in the top 10 percentile, just not the things many companies are currently hiring for (top 10 percentile in a narrow development sk
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The contingency isn't golden handcuffs its using one of the hundreds of C-level connections you made as a Founder doing sales and networking (and accelerator programs) to get you a cushy gig as a Product Lead, Operations Lead, or simil
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If you have a team of competent DBAs are you going to do well with most workloads on most RDBMS?
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TIL MFN: Most-Favored-Nation Wikipedia: > In international economic relations and international politics, most favoured nation is a status or level of treatment accorded by one state to another in international trade.
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Whats wrong with their image? They're still able to raise billions no problem. Their day to day doesn't change. Altman just did a big deal with Apple. Musk's board is still likely to cram through a $45B+ comp package for him.
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For the last 10 years I've been a full stack / devops developer. I think that ecosystem is in a very bad place right now and has failed to efficiently modernize. The tools that people are adopting in an attempt to mitigate this su
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I think its important to admit we all do this in various ways. Consider one of the top threads today [1] and the vitriol in the comments almost as if Satya Nadella had personally schemed such a predatory Minesweeper game. The truth is likel

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