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by aylmao 1mo ago
> When a story about laws actually being enforced is news, it’s a good reminder that the weight of the law holds very different meanings in different countries. I don't think the weight of the law holds very different meanings in di
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by aylmao 1mo ago
I discovered pandoc in college, in 2013 or 2014 and it quickly became one of my favourite pieces of software. It was like magic; hassle free and incredibly powerful. Writing problem sets in Markdown with embeded LaTeX saved me hours and my
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by aylmao 2mo ago
Does BYD want to close the gap between its valuation and Tesla's? I'd argue they're more concerned with capturing market share.
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by aylmao 2mo ago
I have friends who moved to Germany, so although I haven't been or experienced immigrating there myself, it's been in the conversation amongst my circles. What I hear about it is that it can feel closed and lonely. Germans are not
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by aylmao 3mo ago
I think illustration isn't something too much in the mindshare of open source, so overall support for it isn't great. IMO this has contributed to it. The industry standard tools are all closed, with closed formats, so it just soun
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by aylmao 3mo ago
I like electronic music production and mixing, and at some point embarked on the quests of writing a DAW (for which I wrote my own state library too) and a dj application. The DJ application I started this year, the daw has been going on fo
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by aylmao 3mo ago
> Maybe the CEO was always like this, but he went from being a likable, and liked person, to a fucking maniac. I might not know him, but I don't think he changed. I think the circumstances changed and they happened to lead to anothe
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by aylmao 3mo ago
+1. IMO the company with the strongest web infra/tooling teams for example. Also very strong teams working on db/data, source control, performance, reliability, pl/compilers, etc.
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Mexico's president meeting with Ben Horowitz, from a16z(twitter.com)
3 points by aylmao 3mo ago|1 comments
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by aylmao 4mo ago
It still doesn't take a team that large. When I was at Facebook they decided to re-write Messenger in C. There were people who thought it was a waste of time. There were people who thought it was a great idea. It was a lot of work, too
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by aylmao 4mo ago
This is not a laptop announcement. This is an attempt at a software announcement disguised as a laptop announcement. All that's shared about the actual laptop are renders. The website and the video spend much more time and pixels adver
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by aylmao 4mo ago
I've always thought letting the free market decide everything is not an optimal strategy. Protecting sovereignty of key industries like this is a good example. What IMO is a bad strategy is the aversion to nationalization that exists i
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by aylmao 5mo ago
Because they need it to work, so that everything built on it works too. Building developers sell you the apartment, not the elevator room, the electrical room, mechanical room, etc. They will make all sorts of controversial decisions with t
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by aylmao 5mo ago
Bun is not a "product" at Anthropic though, it's a tool for its developers to build products. IMO as long as it remains that way, the incentives for its developers will remain fairly aligned with the incentives of people who
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by aylmao 5mo ago
I think this can be true at the IC level and in situations where the organization's success depends on the product being good, but that's not always the case. Big companies with market control can go years, or perhaps even indefin
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by aylmao 5mo ago
Apple is hurt by being so centralized Cupertino IMO. A company that big in city that small and frankly, boring, isn't going to have the best hiring pool. I know plenty of very talented people who simply won't apply to Apple. They
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by aylmao 5mo ago
I grew up with this animation so I didn't consider it annoying until I bought a new Macbook a couple years ago. I noticed sometimes I would press keyboard shortcuts before my system's focus had switched. Just little stumbles here
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by aylmao 5mo ago
I think the biggest issue with classes is subclassing, it looks like a good feature to have, but ends up being a problem. If one avoids subclassing, I think classes can be quite useful as a tool to organize code and to "name" stru
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by aylmao 5mo ago
First and most importantly is the fact they have a lot of very valuable data they wouldn't want to siphon to a competitor. This data is a key strategic asset in the space where they do business. Secondly though, I think it has to do wi
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by aylmao 6mo ago
I've worked with text and in my experience all of these things (soft hyphens, emoji correction, non-latin languages, etc) are not exceptions you can easily incorporate later, but rather the rules that end up foundational parts of the c
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by aylmao 6mo ago
Do people really have a choice though? Many people don't choose what OS they use for work, and even when one can pick, the environment we exist in is one where being less productive is often hard to afford. Another instance where compa
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Scale AI Launches Voice Showdown, first real-world benchmark for voice AI(venturebeat.com)
2 points by aylmao 6mo ago|0 comments
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by aylmao 6mo ago
IMO it's telling that the lineup here is bucketized by screen size and not model. Screen size, processor performance, storage, sensors, etc are ambiguous concepts that don't mean much in their own merit. People don't really t
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by aylmao 7mo ago
I wonder what the mood is like internally too. I can only imagine there some level of employee discontent.
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by aylmao 7mo ago
For anyone interested, they published the post-mortem of the referenced incident: https://withpersona.com/blog/post-incident-review-source-map...
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by aylmao 7mo ago
Thanks for the link
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by aylmao 7mo ago
I'll note that Persona's CEO responded on LinkedIn [1] pointing out that: - No personal data processed is used for AI/model training. Data is exclusively used to confirm your identity. - All biometric personal data is d
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by aylmao 7mo ago
First we got cars in game engines, and now we get game engines in cars too.
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by aylmao 7mo ago
If you bring a billion anywhere you won't get systemic political power unless you seek it. Political power isn't about having money, but money gives you the operational range you need to seek political power. There's a lot of
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by aylmao 7mo ago
This doesn't mean money has no power over you. Perhaps the billionaire can't buy your willingness to do something, but they can very much affect the material world around you, and therefore, you. If you rent they can probably find

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