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PCjs Machines 2 days ago

You'll want to turn down your speakers for a few of these. I did not find any volume knob in time for Dune II to finish booting, unfortunately.

Yeah, it’s a false dichotomy. Ironically, even in the advent of LLMs very little has changed here. An off the shelf solution to a problem has always usually been better than building it yourself most of the time. People just think it’s easier to build now, and it is. But that doesn’t mean it’s the efficient choice.

The TD Bank securities commitment of 20B to finance the deal and GameStop having a market cap far below the acquisition cost suggests that buying eBay would’ve been very problematic and risky for investors. But comparing it to K mart buying sears isn’t really accurate to me.

Like yeah, GameStop clearly fits into the death of retail, and acquiring eBay does increase their market visibility or presence. Beyond that, what ebay/GS could’ve gained is way different and arguably more substantial than what acquiring Sears did for either company involved. Atleast here, one operates storefronts for second hand transactions and the other expressly doesn’t. There is definitely money in that.

MacBook Neo 5 months ago

Define fine. Tahoe, chrome, electron apps running with pretty much anything else already push things over 4gb when things start to get laggy and usability becomes more problematic, atleast to me. You could theoretically run a lot of things ‘fine’ the way you describe. And for the college student who hopefully doesn’t already run Spotify and Discord, it’ll hopefully be “fine”.

I just don’t get arguing that it’s the same experience as what people actually consider fine.

I don’t think it’s that straightforward to answer that. They’re both body fonts. Public Sans is a bit wider (as it isn’t geometric) and roboto seems a bit thicker. Besides these bits which can be worked around, they’re functionally too similar. Maybe you’d prefer to use Public Sans because it’s less condensed which works well for readability of smaller fonts that would be in a body of text. But you can just adjust a number of things to get what you’re looking for here.

A more vague answer I can think of is that it’s preferential and doesn’t matter to most — with designers just being highly particular about preferences, in a way that isn’t really open to objective choice. One font may display slightly better but the other font pairs better with the title font. Or we’ll look for specific issues that I don’t really see in either fonts.

They can say no. These Prisons incentivize inmates to opt in by claiming that prisoners develop employable marketable skills and that the work leaves a a good mark on their record. It can also pay out cents to a few dollars an hour (or nothing at all)

It’s not quite slave labor but it probably should be compensated better at the minimum.

I have no affiliation or horse in the AI Slop race but wouldn’t mind taking a shot at this. From my ignorant perspective, there are obvious common arguments against optimizing for generally inconsistent UI and UX, particularly how problematic and fruitless it can be.

However, I’d argue that there are some good arguments for this sort of optimization with what we know about potential consumer insights and how insignificant (but unique) aspects of an appeal can make or break someone’s interest. Or just given other evidence of how unique appeals can be effective (see things like Project Narwhal from Obamas first campaign.)

It’s also more tangential than argument above, but what we know about regular users of larger platforms indicates that a one size fits all approach doesn’t really fit all. Also consider that we really do have the tools/data now more than ever to offer a unique experience to users, and how that very concept of a unique user experience is what led to the proliferation of the platforms we use in the first place. There is a reason we preferred Google to Yellow pages and Google ad revenue took off — or atleast it wasn’t just about the profit motive of easy to access, updatable information. It was about using your insights and insights from others to craft unique results that appealed to you in a way that mass produced impersonal solutions did not do.

Intellicode being (officially) deprecated will impact VSCodium, yes. I too am more concerned about copilot being further “needed” or required in my VSCode fork. It’s already the biggest pain in the butt I’ve ever had to deal with in the context of VSCodium. I am not excited for the future.

Burry's critique is even more general than that when it comes to tech companies doing accounting fraud. It's his argument as to why "the market doesn't make sense" and his bets have failed -- which is why I'm not sure anyone would summarize it as "betting against AI growth translating into real profits as a whole"

I feel like it's almost more of a Popular stock thing. Consider if pagerduty eked out an empty deal with any one of the "Pop stocks" that had little impact on their real profitability. Would stock trade differently or better? It feels like it really would in the modern market. Like even if the numbers weren't a big change, the buzz would be.

hey Julien. I love the product but the search doesn't seem to be doing the best for me. For example, I looked up Tailwind and got plenty of results but none of them actually involved Tailwind.

Maybe a tagging solution is the way? if you determine a set amount of popular keywords for a topic and filter around those, you can offer more relevant results. With some sort of public tagging system you can also have SEO friendly pages around tags and get people browsing stuff they wouldn't normally search for.

I think the real key to top performance is to learn to get over the aches of practicing and training yourself to get engrossed in a range of subjects. Piano is good practice but I usually recommend something more dopamine efficient.

The mechanism is staking. People stake Eth 1.0 to get 2.0 later, along with a bridge to convert Eth 1.0 to 2.0. They can't unstake for a period of time but get decent automatic returns.

There won't really be much reason for people to use 1.0 to execute smart contracts*. There really isn't much for miners to do besides eventually cashing out and becoming a validator. Eventually when "the merge happens" Eth 1.0 will be automatically converted to 2.0. This won't be for a few years (but PoS will launch this year)

*The 1.0 network supposedly uses 1000x times the energy of the 2.0 one to execute a smart contract and would obviously be more expensive to work with, so people will probably avoid using 1.0 as soon as possible. Less use means lower gas fees means lower payouts for miners, who already had payouts reduced by EIP 1559, and will likely have payouts reduced once more. So miners will see a slow death.

Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.

I doubt it. Alphabet generates $175B+ in Ad revenue yearly and Apples always looking for ways to increase stock value. Apple recently introduced ways to scan while depersonalizing your data which implies it would be easier to read and serve ads to users over it. Not to mention that they can afford the development time and have the userbase and consumer loyalty necessary to build and launch a competitor to Google.

I'd give your project a shot but the signup funnel for your beta is a little funny -- you should let people choose to leave the textbox-based questions blank and still get an invite.

If you just made those parts drop-downs with the most popular answers and had an 'Other' option that makes a text-field option, you would probably get much more valuable data and more of it. I would not be surprised if you had some amount of dropoff in your beta signup funnel due to questions that make potential users feel like theyre being 'put on the spot'

Samsara S-1 5 years ago

IoT will definitely continue to grow, and with it will likely come opportunities for Samsara to reach that 20% market share.

Also, I don't think any company's growth can be really fairly compared to Tesla's.

Samsara S-1 5 years ago

The physical world, yeah.

The specific aim or mission depends on the school, but the focus in Buddhism is always on escaping duhka ('modern/societal ills') in an attempt to break or transcend the cycle.

I think widespread institutional adoption of crypto is pretty important in this regard.Operating a photonic miner being hard provides more incentive to be a part of those 'mining' it, as you might expect. So, if it's beyond average user scope but within say .1-1% of a companies budget and could create massive dividends, why shouldn't they invest in this?

It can be a little gross to consider, because no ones like idea of 'the rich getting richer', but that isn't really different from what happens today, anyways. What matters most is that the system has a lot of nodes to work with, and that can still happen here if there's enough adoption in this scenario.

Not to mention that it should be hard to abuse your control in a public blockchain system. Governments could require companies to have an use photonic miner operating license and revoke it if they did something like this, for example. I think its a decent middle ground between centralized and decentralized. And (should?) produce less electric waste overall. I'm not sure, I don't really know much about photonics.

I didn't see this answer and wanted to submit it. So, in order for this NFT to have any authenticity, it has to be made under some sort of "technoviking" name right? Ultimately, this technoviking guy is probably reputed and if someone found his content through NFTs, would probably let him know. You can argue that the chain can't regulate itself, but as it stands it does -- just by virtue of there being one large platform (opensea). I'm not sure that Technoviking could easily get his content pulled from the chain, but it can be delisted entirely from opensea, and probably rigged up so future items of his would be caught and shadowbanned immediately.

Is this a solution that works long term? I'm not sure about that. It's a hard question to answer, but I'm glad someone's going for it. I would personally expect ycombinator to be more open to these kinds of ideas -- Programmatic solutions are something we can all get behind. It's a hard problem to solve but that's what drives a lot of our passion in this field, correct?

Basically yes, you'd be right. Someone has to call him out. But do you expect an automated system to handle that in a fair and ordered manner? We already have a terrible (user-wise) implementation of that -- DMCA. What's important is ascribing ownership for the long-term, even if we have to do it manually and surprise -- that's what NFTs (could) do.

I could be wrong but from what I've seen, I think DAOs could bridge that gap. These 'headless' communities create that manual self-regulation that is needed -- social verification fueled by some sort of financial incentive, driven through a very public system.