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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
30 years ago you needed PG / YC to have a startup. Hardware was expensive, bandwidth wasn't ubiquitous, there wasn't a massive breadth of libraries and lessons online of what to do and not do. None of that is true today. And
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> Over the next decade That was a 2016 article. We're at the other end of that investment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSvDYDfd78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhQrz9EJ40 https://
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
No, It was a rare magical moment where consumerism receded - flannels were never about brands. Your band had to be "authentic" (and I hate that word) and anti corporate. It's the point in time where we all started hating tick
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
This comment feels like it's from the early 90's when people were being critical of bands for selling out.
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> turned into the carrot because the stick is so unreasonably disproportionate. John Kiriakou talks often about his own lawyers showing up at his house to convince him to take the deal. And then ending up in a higher security prison. ht
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> amplified over Slack Slack and Zoom are a massive parts of the problem. Because "my boss can read it" sure does curtail a lot of conversations. You are left in a situation where you miss out on all sorts of hints that people
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
Well. Lest you forget that modern computing exists because ATT built unix and then threw it out to the public, at speed, as they drove away from it as fast as possible. (Something about being an actual monopoly...). There is at least one th
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
There are also some fairly interesting trends in labor productivity. Labor Productivity for Manufacturing: Household and Institutional Furniture and Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturing: (has flattened out in the last decade-ish) https:/&#x2
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
My parents were both teachers, who, before moving into admin rolls (when I was somewhat older) worked in special ed. My mother later ended up back in a classroom for a period of time with severely handicapped children. Bound to beds and whe
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> companies often promote struggling employees into management roles where their impact is perceived as less immediately harmful I have never seen this actually happen. I have seen lots of people THINK that someone incompetent got the jo
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
I always just thought Swedish had a lot of words for "crap". Ikea used to make somewhat reasonable and affordable products, that, in total were much higher quality than their price point suggested. Now they are just cheap, on almo
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> It just looks like the attorney general in this area has been asleep at the wheel. Oakland mayor and progressive DA ousted amid crime complaints: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/09/oakland-mayo
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
Cheap radios are in everything now. Think about all the fun wifi, zigbee, matter devices that you can play with (if you are inclined). Meshtastic and LoRa is a great toy to play with. The kitchen is full of interesting things, Sous Vide is
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
This is one of those places where our failure to teach history and civics is failing the American people. It's Adams defending British solders, and later being very much a supporter of the concept of jury nullification. The fact that t
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
Hey boss, I just wrote a script that saves me 3 hours of work a week, you got anything for me to do? Hey, I just found 3 niche businesses that I can run because of AI and clear a million a year after costs. Fight club rules apply, you dont
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
Github stars are a metric of what? If I build something that satisfies me and say 100 users (who all star me) does that really say anything. Are those 100 stars even "real" any more? All the old problems of the web are new again,
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> where's the big deliverable from AI ... AI is simply "very useful" rather than being a historical game changer for humanity. The last 30 years of tech has been about big, the dot com boom, the next unicorn, the magnifice
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> If you want software that is literally identical ... If it's a throwaway script, that's fine (and I don't mean to undersell this - this is a huge application). That is the application. AppleScript, VB script, IFTT - and
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> For example, it helps... debug things... and write scripts to ask questions. Im guessing this isnt code that needs to "scale", that needs to "be elegant", that you arent focused on maintainability for the next decad
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
If a new physics break through gets published today, no existing model will be able to fully integrate it - beyond a context window. If I put the paper in my session and it isnt in yours the model knows nothing. It wont retain it past that
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
I pointed out the actual issue at hand for china with its currency - and that implies why DB would be a solid choice for them to use that bank. The thread devolving into a debate about "reserve currency" is - to be blunt - deeply
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
Deutsche banks slogan should be "If you need to do something shady call Deutsche". At some point china will loose the ability to keep its global currency (Yuan, should be inflating) decoupled from the domestic one (Renminbi is def
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
All that flowery, descriptive, metaphor laden language has a point. It is running up your bill. I will say this again: LLM's tokens are just B2B Gacha.
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
If Walmart (in person) behaved like Walmart (on line) the isles would be so littered with half full carts and items that others could not buy you would be unable to move in the store. https://baymard.com/lists/cart-aban
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
Your mental model here is mapping too close to an actual cart in a retail, at a in person, setting. The assumption that a SKU maps 1 to 1 to a cart item is flawed. If the first item in the cart is a bundle of SKU-A and SKU-B, the second ite
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
So is the USA...
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> How can I parent my kids when every child in the school is a social media addict? By parenting? My kids are hyper aware of what social media does, how it works, and how it exploits you. There were lots of conversations about this. Ther
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
The above stats actually align with the divorce rate: https://www.them.us/story/lesbian-marriages-weddings-divorce...
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> falsify election results This is something that is extremely hard to accomplish in the US. It would be akin to all of Europe voting on the same day and trying to falsify an election in each country. The logistics of this means that you
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by zer00eyz 2mo ago
> All you want is to not be hungry. This. Programers are high end chef's whos products are expensive. LLM / AI tooling is going to do a much better job of delivering on the promise of AppleScript, vb script, IFTT, and every fai

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