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by trimbo 1y ago
Except that, unlike a human, this particular "reader" can then regurgitate millions of copies of that content and all other content it sees, in seconds. I wish people would stop treating this topic like it's not nuanced. It c
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by trimbo 1y ago
> her legacy will forever be stained Interesting. My hot take is 99% of the time non-founder CEOs end up on the dustbin of history, successful or unsuccessful. Terry Semel. John Akers. John Sculley, Carly Fiorina. Except among those of u
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by trimbo 1y ago
> If this were true, the market for EVs would decline in entirety I was just reading a different article[1] that pointed out 4 of the top EV sellers in the US (Tesla, Ford, Kia and Hyundai) have announced Q2 drops in sales. BMW is the an
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by trimbo 1y ago
"Bathroom for customers only" is a completely reasonable ask from a business owner, and is what Microsoft is doing here.
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by trimbo 2y ago
Sorry yes I meant modem
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by trimbo 2y ago
I live in SF and Comcast doesn't charge me to have my own router. I pay $130 for 1.4gbit and unlimited data. It's expensive but I also have no other choices. Sonic stops only one block over and we haven't been able to convinc
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by trimbo 2y ago
Gerstner saved a brand name by destroying a tech company and making it a consulting company. I'm not sure the same is possible with Intel.
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by trimbo 2y ago
A classic: Small Town's 'Cryptosporidium Daze' Fails To Attract Visitors https://theonion.com/small-towns-cryptosporidium-daze-fails-...
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by trimbo 2y ago
10 years ago, the Genius Bar would fix my problem to my satisfaction in almost no time -- whether or not I had Apple Care. They'd send it off for repair immediately or fix it in less than an hour. 2 out of 3 iPhone 6 that had an issue,
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by trimbo 2y ago
> That's just how the internet works. Don't put something on the internet if you don't want it to be globally distributed and copied Until now, this has been an acceptable tradeoff because there's some friction to the
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by trimbo 2y ago
I don't agree because it creates this dilemma for creators: you need to put your work out there to get traction, but if you put your work out there and anything public is fair game, then it will be sampled by a computer and instantly r
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by trimbo 2y ago
"Secondhand smoke linked to secondhand coolness" "Schaumburg Man Dimly Aware Of Shadowy, Non-Schaumburg World Out There" "Clinton Injected With Highly Unstable Experimental Growth Serum" "Beer! It kicks as
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by trimbo 2y ago
Thanks for the ideas, I’ll check them out.
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by trimbo 2y ago
> It includes a plastic mouthpiece with stainless steel electrodes that electrically stimulate the tongue. All I can picture is the device John Lithgow uses in Buckaroo Banzai. I might need to try this soon. I've had tinnitus for ab
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by trimbo 3y ago
Excellent, I was just thinking about something like this a couple of weeks ago. > "Turquoise Hexagon Cybernetics" Nice homage to Boards of Canada!
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by trimbo 3y ago
> This patch ports the VP9 library written by Andrzej into Rust as a proof-of-concept ... > this library will not need any further updates for the same reason we have never touched its C counterpart What was being proof-of-concepted?
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by trimbo 3y ago
> I'm genuinely curious - what are you thinking when you say this? As a pedestrian, I always try to make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them. It would be nice to know that the car is doing the driving.
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by trimbo 3y ago
Studying the humanities puts people in debt to the tune of $100K, sometimes $250K, to get a job that pays $50K. The problem isn't that humanities jobs are all worthless, it's that there are a very, very limited number that have en
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by trimbo 3y ago
The part you did not quote is that, at the time the Shuttle was being designed, 2/3 of satellites launched were in geosync orbit. Looking them up now, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 were both intended to be in GEO but failed, and were retri
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by trimbo 3y ago
Your comment reminds me of Boards of Canada's "Dayvan Cowboy" video, which blends Joe Kittinger's space jump with Laird Hamilton's surfing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4
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by trimbo 3y ago
Wendover Productions had a good video about this, framed around United getting a loan during the pandemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUduBmvQ_4
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by trimbo 3y ago
> I attempted to use Netscape Navigator and iCab based on the list from here to no avail, Netscape Navigator crashed and iCab reported that it didn't have enough memory Well the SE is like 1986 technology that predates the web. NCS
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by trimbo 3y ago
And there was a bunch of primetime TV content about the nuclear apocalypse when a large part of Gen X was at an impressionable age. "Threads" (UK), "The Day After" (US) are two big ones. Two lesser known ones that had a
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by trimbo 3y ago
> This isn’t like the game of Go where processing power eventually wins It turns out transportation is not a zero sum game. There's no "AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol" watershed moment for AV. Instead we progressively work toward
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by trimbo 3y ago
> get promoted roughly every 2 years, and then take about 3 to get to Principal Engineer at the 1.1M mark Soon, everyone will be a Principal Engineer, like everyone is a VP at a bank.
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by trimbo 3y ago
Many of his recent articles are structured around quoting himself from prior articles.
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by trimbo 3y ago
There are dozens here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=try+galaxy From this search I also learned this used to be called "iTest" 2 years ago.
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by trimbo 4y ago
San Francisco is 75 per 100K. (620 last year, population is 800K)
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by trimbo 4y ago
> It feels weird that they're using Cash App to indict the company as a whole. Cash App is 60% of their revenue.
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by trimbo 4y ago
No because SVB has assets with value to sell. That's the "dividend" the FDIC refers to in the press release.

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