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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, Google's top three revenue sources are ads, ads, and ads. (Respectively search, network, and YouTube.) Their customers are advertisers. Chrome's job (and Android's) is to make sure they retain control of sufficient surf
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I am so glad that we're out of the ZIRP era. It's my firm hope that getting funding will require most businesses to do something economically productive. My theory is that if founders mainly sell nonsense and bafflegab to investor
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For sure. A friend of mine went to med school and chose the general practitioner path. One time I was hanging out at their place, so I leafed through some of the GP journals on the coffee table. It seemed much more akin to car repair than t
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by wpietri 3y ago
> You buy only the bread that tastes good This is a pretty wild omission of all of the food safety regulation out there. Regulation we got because the "let each consumer get sick enough to change their behavior" approach turne
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by wpietri 3y ago
Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ, so it's definitely a business: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/cost As far as I can tell it was always structured as a normal business, albeit one requiring an
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A Normal Person’s Guide to the Room-Temperature Superconductor Drama(defector.com)
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It's wild to me that America's most functional consumer regulator might be a private company.
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100% agreed. Reaction emojis are a huge innovation in online participation, and they serve a lot of the same functions as non-speech behaviors do in group conversation. I'm in one large Slack where people have contributed an extensive
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If that works for you, great. But generally when I see people "keep it loose" on a prototype that then gets kept when some decision point is hit, they don't actually take the time to clean it up to production grade. And perso
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Yeah, I started with AWS and then spent a year on GCP and next time I'd much rather do GCP. It felt much more manageable and supportive to me.
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It's not a bad comparison for their purposes, which is to look at two major tech companies who are trying to get their employees to sleep at work. I agree it's not identical , but it's valid in terms of common themes being d
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, in looking at ratings I think you have to keep in mind that people don't randomly select books. People pick things that they think they will like, and they are generally pretty good at it. This is especially true for authors of s
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by wpietri 3y ago
All I'm saying is that if we're going to have killer robot cars roaming the streets and interfering with firefighters [1], we might as well do it properly. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun
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by wpietri 3y ago
> it is fundamentally human in nature. The egos are invested in the existing thing That is one thing that can happen, because it is part of human nature. But it is not the whole of human nature. if you have a culture of experimentati
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by wpietri 3y ago
I definitely disagree with you on the first point. Setting aside the part that's just fussbudgetry, I think "proper" coding is about doing things that pay off in the long term even if they feel burdensome now. As an example,
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by wpietri 3y ago
Nah. I think a prototype is something you definitionally should throw away. There's a huge freedom to knowing that instead of taking on tech debt, you're committed to declaring tech bankruptcy and throwing away the code. It lets y
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by wpietri 3y ago
I am very disappointed that unlike radar, lidar, and sonar, this "HADAR" technology is not an active-sensing technology, but just relies on passive IR emissions. I was imagining a car driving around with a big open flame at the fr
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by wpietri 3y ago
> And those studies suggest that melatonin plays a critical part in your circadian rhythm, which kind of implies that adding it to your food would also screw with your circadian rhythm. That alone seems like a good enough reason to caut
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by wpietri 3y ago
That's not rent seeking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by wpietri 3y ago
It's worth it if you spend thousands a month. I run assorted personal projects in AWS and pay $80/month. Another $40/month looks like a lot to me. But I think the point is more that it's outrageous compared to the margin
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by wpietri 3y ago
Amazingly, this corporate desire goes back more than a hundred years. Edison cylinders had a "shrink-wrap" license trying to control what people did with the recordings they bought: https://www.flickr.com/photos&#
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by wpietri 3y ago
You have pretty strong opinions for somebody who has admittedly seen no evidence either way. Personally, I think it's a terrible idea in that it further changes the relationship between buyers and sellers toward a relationship of long-
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Software is an infinite candy bowl. More in theory than in practice. Ask any open-source maintainer how much running a popular project is unlike putting out an infinite candy bowl and then going on with your life.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I might point you to Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution: "[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusiv
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by wpietri 3y ago
What's your evidence for this bit? > this is how judges will construe the license
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. "Bring the card to the device" and "bring the device to the card" seem about equivalent to me in convenience unless the device is something that the waitstaff is going to carry all the time anyhow.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry, but I think it's correlated in two ways. One is that very bright people, which I think includes most PhD-havers, are especially used to being right. When they have the rare experience of being ignorant and wrong, they may strugg
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by wpietri 3y ago
Oops! Thanks for the correction. And even more able to evaluate the code.
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Things have definitely changed here recently. At least in San Francisco, at-table terminals are now the norm in sit-down restaurants. Staff generally use the same device for order-taking and payment.
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I'm a huge LLM skeptic, but I'd disagree with you here. I think using ChatGPT to write long-lived code for a serious application is a bad idea. But I think it's fine for somebody knowledgeable to use it for throwaway and firs

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