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I'm guessing that if you just uploaded a few pages of handwritten text to ChatGPT and asked it to make a font of your handwriting it would do a passably decent job. That might be the way that this business model ends.
Because a Macbook M1 is fast enough to do anything and most people aren't running local LLMs
What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?
The core of Apple's success has always been to capture the cultural leaders. Artists, musicians, journalists, etc. have used Apple at much higher percentages than the general public.
Now that the iPhone made Apple much more of mainstream company, it's harder to do -- what does it mean to focus on cultural leaders when 90% of American teens have an iPhone? But in the 15 years since Steve Jobs' death they have still been doing a decent job of it.
The company
The "Wall Street tech sell-off" is QQQM being down 1.7% over the last five days and up 17.4% over the last six months
This is how jealousy and regular ol' misanthropy manifests itself in the suburban biome
ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.
Facebook built a poker bot called Pluribus that consistently beat professional poker players including some of the most famous ones. What techniques did they use?
Very cool - I would like to contact you about this. Do you mind emailing me? My email address is in my profile.
I find that checking Facebook is almost always an emotional experience. I see so many more new babies than I ever did before Facebook.
But working hard isn't ever enough to reach the pinnacle of achievement. I could have worked my ass off at basketball, from age 3, and I would have never been an NBA player. Someone with more natural gifts than me, but fewer than Michael Jordan, might work hard his whole life and only brush the minor league/NBA border.
A lot of reasons can sound totally justified in retrospect. "The Colts will win the Super Bowl because they have superior talent." "The Saints will win the Super Bowl because the Colts' ego will go to their head." A lot of people take actions and have reasons for them -- when those actions turn out to be right, the reasons are often given undue credibility.
Failure can be great even if it never leads to success. Several people I've known have started a business with their own money, failed horribly, and never started another. But it gave them perspectives they never had before, and most importantly they worked the rest of their careers knowing that they had tried their best, and just weren't the right person at the right place at the right time to succeed.
You should make it more tailored (but not explicitly mention that) it's for dog owners to meet each other. For example, meeting other "friendly dogs and dog owners" or something like that.
Everyone knows it's not for doggie breeding, most pets are spayed or neutered.
O, Thor? :)
How many people have the ability to actually improve something? Should those people not demand quality?
I can't engineer a car - does that mean I shouldn't get mad when my airbags fail to deploy? I can't cook well - does that mean I shouldn't be disappointed by a substandard meal at a restaurant?
The copycat buglers would play reveille as they made their escape :)
Pedantry: a gigawatt is a unit of power, not energy. Perhaps you meant a gigawatt-hour? :)
I have 5 or so fake Facebook profiles I use for expressly this purpose.
A cursory search reveals no less than 8 companies already selling this
It wouldn't necessarily have to involve any of these. Most of these that I've seen have been cobbled together through Excel, so they have the skills to get everything into Excel. You could offer a product that made really pretty charts around these metrics.
The hardware would be just a 720p TV which they would have to buy and mount - you would just sell teh software.
Re: actually stands for "regarding," not "reply," so the OP could claim to be within the letter of ethical bounds, if not the spirit :)
No - Bay Area is a strike-slip fault whereas Chile is a subduction zone
As handsets become cheaper for the computing they deliver, this will become an accepeted norm for specialized software (my computer costs less than 10% of the value of the software on it)
How about this possible solution? If you're employed by a company and you want to take maternity or paternity leave beyond a standard period, you have to quit your job. Your employer is given a lump sum payment from the government to cover the cost of finding your replacement, based on some metrics such as the salary of the position. These payments are covered by an increase in payroll tax for all employees.
That way, all companies are shouldering the burden of people having children, so they have no real reason to discriminate against women likely to become pregnant.
They got 21% of the company.
> megadollars
actually, gigadollars...
"Business speak" as a term doesn't mean the useful business speak of increasing revenues, lowering costs, serving customers, pressuring suppliers, etc. It means things like "leveraging data," "strategic synergies," etc.
Why will only "douchebags" have a need for these techniques?
Also, the fact that everyone knows that it's a bit difficult ($500 fine for being caught on the roof, locked doors, etc.) makes the hacks more impressive when they do happen.