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Shipping great products is about the details that almost nobody will notice

A good promo process needs to notice the invisible

Apple did it for decades

What makes you use API billing instead of a plan?

Sure, but in two years AI has gone from “impressive tool, but not a replacement for knowledge workers” to “the study where it beats our highest caliber of knowledge workers may have some methodological deficits.” In another two years it’s going to be curtains.

Hardly matters at this point, the billionaires have already fled

Not surprising that the legal profession decided that their special privilege doesn’t apply to you if you’re not paying them hundreds of dollars per hour

Not never releasing convicted criminals, but 1) not letting any crime go without at least 1 day in jail 2) doubling the penalty on each successive offense would incapacitate a huge number of serial offenders

It’s fascinating how America could completely get rid of Flock cameras by sending criminals to prison and leaving them there, but we won’t do that so we have these endless arguments about these cameras.

The purpose of the brand font is to avoid paying licensing fees. Because the typefaces aren’t protected by copyright it’s usually enough to just have someone go and essentially clone an existing font. The whole thing is an artifact of peculiarities of IP law

I worked in a research lab that had dongle protected software and it achieved its commercial purpose. It was installed on every computer but would only work with the dongle. Eventually people started fighting over the dongle so much that we got another license (and dongle).

What does AI have to do with this?

“has died” is one way of saying “crashed his Ferrari at a high rate of speed, killing his passenger as well as himself.”

I have no desire to run an LLM on my laptop when I can run one on a computer the size of six football fields.

This policy will be in place for about 2-3 more years at which point it will be excluding almost everything, at which point it will be reversed

That’s the most legible font for people with impaired vision, which is a completely different concept

Important context is that he cheated on this woman with every warm body he could find