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Amusingly, I recently learned that Seymour Cray was a hobby tunneler.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...

Another shoulder anecdote... I also really appreciated being able to open up my shoulders.

I was once amused by a friend that had never seen a split keyboard before - they were mostly delighted with having a place to put their coffee...

I was under the impression that they were initially allowed to produce the drugs since they were on FDA drug shortage lists. As expected, the compounders scaled up their pipelines to meet demand and now that the drugs have been taken off the shortage list the compounders are incentivized to figure out how to keep things legal. (Of course, they should have had clean supply chains this whole time.)

I'm curious if one of these outfits got bought out to end the supply shortage.

Related: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c...

Yes. Along with the feared click of death.

Has AWS support gone downhill in the last two years? I've worked with them in the past - as both an individual and a couple startups - I always reached a human. Issues weren't always resolved as quickly as I'd like but response times were short.

I thought the comparison was unfair as well.

Physical libraries also tend to be the defacto life help desk for a lot of people out there.

Thanks for mentioning this. I didn't realize Intuit sold it off to private equity in 2016.

DARPA funded a bit in this space a while ago. (Example: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/darpa-maskless-nanowri...) I'm not sure how you get over the bandwidth limitations, even with multi-beam.

From what I understand, this does not actually affect Google. They were already amortizing their R and D expenses.

Over long time scales (and big company revenue streams), this is sort of a wash. I think this hurts startups a bit more due to the long timescales involved which eats up much needed cash in the short term.

Still waiting for basalt rebar to become more of a thing. This version plays to the steel industry at least?

Microsoft had/has the Natick project which was an undersea data center testbed which allegedly had a bunch of benefits. That doesn't seem to have gone anywhere - or at least isn't really scaling up. I'd imagine the ongoing operational costs of space are worse than the ocean?

To me, the cost estimates seem a bit off and conflate capital with running costs.

The main benefit for space at the moment seems to be sidestepping terrestrial regulations.

Meta's more open models aside, are the other copyright abusers giving out their model for free?

There are funds that trade on the rebalancing and entrances/exits of individual stocks from the indexes. While this may offer some yield, you can still get pulled under the bus by large scale movement in the markets... as seen recently.

While I'm not a fan of the "dark pools", if your "grandma" is a buy and hold anyway, the price of the asset should be ballpark correct most of the time since presumably the people doing the trades in the dark room are rational? I suspect that this setup is more useful if you need short term stability in the price to set up a complex deal.

If this ever stops working for you, try one of the magnesium mixes like MagTech.

While you have documentation about migrating to your platform, you don't seem to have any documented promises around export and leaving your service.

Also, it seems a bit odd to me that the "balance sheet" ability is two non-free pricing levels deep into your service. Isn't that a baseline expectation?

I ended up buying a couple strings of Twinkly lights a while back - after considering a diy solution. The mobile app has been solid and (assuming they didn't muck it up) there's are libraries out there for interfacing to them as well (over WiFi). The cost is not cheap but seems fair to me and seems to be well built. (The light mapping is pretty fun. You can zigzag a bunch of lights across a wall and basically create a low res display.)

Relevant article by a fun author: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...

Not to hijack but last time I was setting up wireguard, I found this site to be super useful: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2020/10/wireguard-topolog...

While I agree that development has gotten more complex (often unnecessarily), compared to the 90s, the sheer number of potential consumers now available seems hard to justify complaining about.

When I looked into this the numbers suggested that energy-wise we'd be extracting a drop in the bucket. There are concerns for local effects though (e.g. earthquakes).

To set an example for others... :-P

I regularly worry that one of the biggest benefits of LLMs for corporations is being able to obfuscate their editorial decisions.

I assume that some of the doomsaying perspective comes from operating under the assumption that Congress will be about as functional as it has been lately and not actually get around to explicitly delegating.

From what I understand, commercial real estate is also going through some devaluing so maybe those rents should be going in the other direction? This seems like a last ditch attempt to keep things together long enough until rates come down (I'm not sure they'll come down enough in the near term.). I'm hoping businesses choose to move - or maybe go storefront free for a while - to speed up the correction. (I've noticed several businesses operating (purely?) out of a nearby storage place for a while now.)

I had a similar experience and was left wondering whether I could add progressively larger units of work to the alarm clock task to get things done while still "asleep". :)

Related to preventing value getting shoveled into the void, I was reading an article about tax write offs for movies that were never released - even though they were basically done. The fun suggestion someone had was that the movies be released to the public domain, since in some sense, society was footing the bill. It seems like something along those lines would be interesting here.

Haven't most of the most valuable customers already started rolling their own Nvidia hardware replacements?

I believe that some retailer special interest group put out some numbers that did not support any real increase in shoplifting/shrinkage. Initially they made a claim otherwise but they ended up backpedaling. Oddly, the numbers around shrinkage from self-checkout seems to be persistent though.

IIRC, they could correct your bill after the fact.

I used to joke with others that shoplifted items should be retroactively free - as long as you self report after the fact. (Extra useful training data...)

I would avoid this guide. I don't even see mentions about dilution and cap tables, let alone preference and a bunch of other risks.

If you need a solid guide, I usually point at the Holloway Guide To Equity Compensation but I'm annoyed that it looks like they started charging for it (probably still worth both the time and money). The preview is worth checking out. That being said, I think there are a bunch of other aspects that aren't captured.

I was under the impression that founders/management generally don't give any company specific guidance in order to not be on the hook for anything that may be construed as guidance or promises.