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You definitely do not want a sewage treatment plant in your backyard. But hey, you got a cheaper home price so that the rich guys can pump their crap to your backyard from miles away.

If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?

A link and password communicated to me would suffice.

Did you see any of the MSE numbers? around 50% success rates in the tasks.

Anyone in robotics can tell you that building an 80% solution is doable, very fast. Covering the last 20% can take your entire lifespan

An ms shop wanted to share a folder from their onedrive with me.

I could not access it until I signed up for a Microsoft account and forced to download their authenticator app.

Is it even possible to audit the cloud pricing? They just give us a number and we pay.

Making intuitive illustrations and graphs was very time consuming.

Now with LLMs it is so much easier and faster. Hopefully books will be rewritten.

Just store what you mean to store for gods sake. We have been fighting with over-designed bs for decades.

Zero is not absence of a value. It has a value, it happens to be 0. Same for undefined/infinity. They exist.

Let the hardware engineers figure out an efficient way to deal with it. If it costs more, well if we add up all of the costs of bugs due to zero/null conversions, maybe it was worth it.

Tech is becoming from a margins heaven to the worst of all worlds. Super high capex (like manufacturing) in addition to headcount requirements for each additional customer (like consulting).

With the AI rush, it all makes sense why suddenly all Silicon Valley became pro Trump and anti climate overnight.

That is fair. Would business zoning help in this scenario and business specific property taxes?

Oh this definitely needs extra tax in areas with limited supply. Unoccupied property ? 1% tax per month. Rent it or sell it.

Landlords will just price rent at the maximum price the market can afford. Their costs are irrelevant.

Evidence: the free cash flow varies wildly per geography even in the same tax region.

Landlords will accept negative cash flow in expectation of property value increase.

Property taxes are the only thing that can redistribute wealth from landlords to the working people.

Your company definitely bought / financed it, so it is clear evidence of your financial means at the purchase time.

Businesses that own land don't pay federal taxes, they can just declare 0 profit every year while paying for range rovers for the owners.

That is fair, which is why you should not over-index on academic benchmarks. But a frontier solver should be within a small margin from the competitors in these benchmarks. If you are 10x slower, there is no way you can catch up (at least not without a ton of work from the practitioner side).

Everyone seeks education, healthcare, retirement.

Whether public or private it seems that the correct price that all systems asymptotically approach is exactly infinity.

All vendors just need 1 engineer in a BigCorp to have used their software to claim "Trusted by BigCorpName"

We do have standard benchmarks in the field. Hans Mittelman maintains a library. No idea why they did not bother to run them.

https://plato.asu.edu/guide.html

Their website has just 3 cherry picked instances and claim complete dominance.

The shift managers are on IM, sending email escalations to the site managers for exceptions etc. Definitely at end of shift they do a summary for the handover and regular reporting to leadership. Maybe not slack but they do leave digital traces.

Workers in a well ran assembly line should not have to figure out anything.

I could search for “belt jam” in outlook decades ago. Why do you see it as a difficult technical task? The info is there, nobody has the time to organize it.

Because of the slack complaints?

I wonder whether with AI we will be able to document more efficiently all of the nuances of production so if we need to ramp up a forgotten process we can do it faster.

There is so much domain expertise that exists in production that is not documented, because who has time for writing documentation when your floor is on fire.

But if writing documentation is something free and can be automated (maybe from the company internal comms), maybe we have a chance?

We have answers. It’s called physical chemistry. The problem is that it takes a shit ton of math

Any idea how one can join a board? Eating donuts and bagels with coffee once a quarter for 200k is my dream job.

Yes son. Go back to your iPad.

Taxi / shuttle service also needs trained professionals, high fixed cost investment on specialized equipment, 24/7 availability.

I am shuttled to the airport at 4 am and paid $30.

It did not cost 20k per ride. So ambulance providers charge that much because they can. There is no real competition.

You are exactly right. There is no freaking way there was no unsafe behavior in a code case of the size of Postgres.

In fact from a porting effort this is the first blog post I would expect. Not that the hey we successfully did it.

Robotics is all about edge cases. There are so many applications where we have robots that can do 95% of the tasks flawlessly. Yet it’s not enough. This last 5% is so broad that it’s impossible to close

Name 1 case that we can evaluate 10 years after the layoffs.

Ha! The new boss of Xbox surely has innovative ideas! Layoffs, how nobody had thought about this before?

In every single case layoffs degrade the company’s core product. Unless they plan to completely change the XBox business (for example to one that sells hotdogs), this move will make XBox worse.

I am not interested in teaching you how to google. I gave you pointers and keywords. Now you have to go read. Good luck.