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by whatever1 2mo ago
Exactly. With stroke of a pen a company is less important than its ability to pay taxes. So we can put people above companies. With a stroke of a pen.
92.
by whatever1 2mo ago
Why a company has to survive but not its people? For example when it comes to the IRS bill, the company will literally cease operations and sell all of its assets to pay IRS. Why the employees do not deserve this?
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by whatever1 3mo ago
Since they can put a huge battery onboard why don't they also electrify runway taxiing? I cringe every time a jet plane has to spool up, burning god knows how many gallons of fuel, just to go 15mph on the runway.
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by whatever1 3mo ago
They benefit everyone but I have never seen one in a rich neighborhood. So the rich are exercising NIMBY.
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by whatever1 3mo ago
You definitely do not want a sewage treatment plant in your backyard. But hey, you got a cheaper home price so that the rich guys can pump their crap to your backyard from miles away.
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by whatever1 3mo ago
If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?
97.
by whatever1 3mo ago
A link and password communicated to me would suffice.
98.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Did you see any of the MSE numbers? around 50% success rates in the tasks. Anyone in robotics can tell you that building an 80% solution is doable, very fast. Covering the last 20% can take your entire lifespan
99.
by whatever1 3mo ago
An ms shop wanted to share a folder from their onedrive with me. I could not access it until I signed up for a Microsoft account and forced to download their authenticator app.
100.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Is it even possible to audit the cloud pricing? They just give us a number and we pay.
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by whatever1 3mo ago
Making intuitive illustrations and graphs was very time consuming. Now with LLMs it is so much easier and faster. Hopefully books will be rewritten.
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by whatever1 3mo ago
Just store what you mean to store for gods sake. We have been fighting with over-designed bs for decades. Zero is not absence of a value. It has a value, it happens to be 0. Same for undefined/infinity. They exist. Let the hardware eng
103.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Tech is becoming from a margins heaven to the worst of all worlds. Super high capex (like manufacturing) in addition to headcount requirements for each additional customer (like consulting).
104.
by whatever1 3mo ago
With the AI rush, it all makes sense why suddenly all Silicon Valley became pro Trump and anti climate overnight.
105.
by whatever1 3mo ago
That is fair. Would business zoning help in this scenario and business specific property taxes?
106.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Oh this definitely needs extra tax in areas with limited supply. Unoccupied property ? 1% tax per month. Rent it or sell it.
107.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Landlords will just price rent at the maximum price the market can afford. Their costs are irrelevant. Evidence: the free cash flow varies wildly per geography even in the same tax region. Landlords will accept negative cash flow in expecta
108.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Property taxes are the only thing that can redistribute wealth from landlords to the working people. Your company definitely bought / financed it, so it is clear evidence of your financial means at the purchase time. Businesses that ow
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by whatever1 3mo ago
That is fair, which is why you should not over-index on academic benchmarks. But a frontier solver should be within a small margin from the competitors in these benchmarks. If you are 10x slower, there is no way you can catch up (at least n
110.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Everyone seeks education, healthcare, retirement. Whether public or private it seems that the correct price that all systems asymptotically approach is exactly infinity.
111.
by whatever1 3mo ago
All vendors just need 1 engineer in a BigCorp to have used their software to claim "Trusted by BigCorpName"
112.
by whatever1 3mo ago
We do have standard benchmarks in the field. Hans Mittelman maintains a library. No idea why they did not bother to run them. https://plato.asu.edu/guide.html Their website has just 3 cherry picked instances and claim compl
113.
by whatever1 3mo ago
The shift managers are on IM, sending email escalations to the site managers for exceptions etc. Definitely at end of shift they do a summary for the handover and regular reporting to leadership. Maybe not slack but they do leave digital tr
114.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Because of the slack complaints?
115.
by whatever1 3mo ago
I wonder whether with AI we will be able to document more efficiently all of the nuances of production so if we need to ramp up a forgotten process we can do it faster. There is so much domain expertise that exists in production that is not
116.
by whatever1 3mo ago
We have answers. It’s called physical chemistry. The problem is that it takes a shit ton of math
117.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Any idea how one can join a board? Eating donuts and bagels with coffee once a quarter for 200k is my dream job.
118.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Yes son. Go back to your iPad.
119.
by whatever1 3mo ago
Taxi / shuttle service also needs trained professionals, high fixed cost investment on specialized equipment, 24/7 availability. I am shuttled to the airport at 4 am and paid $30. It did not cost 20k per ride. So ambulance provide
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by whatever1 3mo ago
You are exactly right. There is no freaking way there was no unsafe behavior in a code case of the size of Postgres. In fact from a porting effort this is the first blog post I would expect. Not that the hey we successfully did it.

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