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by bberenberg 1mo ago
I think the main thing people paid for was avoidance of change. Devs already use mermaid (by preference or policy) and therefore they wanted to keep using it. When I first build the Markdown Macro in 2012/2013 my thesis was that people
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by bberenberg 1mo ago
I’m the author of one of the most popular mermaid renderers in Confluence. People spent huge sums of money on this. Feel free to message me if you have questions about the space.
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by bberenberg 2mo ago
Yup I agree with the consistent access across surfaces ideal. WorkOS has some cool piping to support this and uses it for their internal version of the same thing. I think everyone experimenting here is a good thing. I expect we’ll end up w
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by bberenberg 2mo ago
Hey Dylan, long time. The solution we landed on was that the skills should be authored by a small set of people who know what they’re doing and made available to non technical team members “magically”. This means either use your IT systems
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by bberenberg 2mo ago
The use cases I care about is roughly: 1. GoPro on my face for “action” activities like gokarting 2. Portable speakers + glasses + voice control for audio while running 3. Audio triggered camera for when hands are full. This one sounds dumb
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by bberenberg 2mo ago
In the current age of AI, deepfakes, etc this is a very hard problem and I don't envy you. I think asking vendors to go through a paid verification process is fair. There are a slew of KYB vendors out there who can help.
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by bberenberg 2mo ago
Allow users to opt into you injecting referral links. If they opt in, when they land anywhere, you rewrite amazon links to your referral code. Costs users $0, it's opt-in, and you make money.
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by bberenberg 3mo ago
We have 36 units in our coop iirc, so we are “large”. Generally I think our taxes are fairly reasonable. I just don’t think there is any reasonable solution here that isnt focused on a simple triangle: - Build more, destroy short term value
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by bberenberg 3mo ago
Am I understanding your point correctly as you hoping that an increase in tax rates drives property values down enough thay aggregate tax amounts are reduced? The practical rental math in NYC is simple. Buy a $1M coop in a building with nea
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by bberenberg 4mo ago
z0.ai | Full Time | Founding Engineer | On Site 5 days a week | NYC | $140-$180k USD + equity We're helping non technical users adopt AI by making usage visible. Power users become role models and people can upskill to gain value rathe
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by bberenberg 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_of_primary_sourc... It’s their official policy.
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by bberenberg 4mo ago
Stripe can’t do anything per the way CCs work. Asking for that to change is a big ask. Asking my vendor to help me not do business with people who are likely to scam me is a smaller one.
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by bberenberg 4mo ago
I have a hard time with the idea that Wikipedia is unbiased when the main source in most cases is news reporting. Wikipedia is a societal form of Gell-Mann Amnesia.
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by bberenberg 4mo ago
It matched their LinkedIn photo.
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by bberenberg 4mo ago
I got hit with a fraudulent chargeback (claim was the purchase was unauthorized and the person showed up in person to a class) and it was doubly bad because they paid via Link which means that Stripe actively verified them via 2FA. Can some
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by bberenberg 4mo ago
Only if it has access to exfiltrate data. We deny by default and the company has to allowlist each individual destination.
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by bberenberg 7mo ago
I've built something similar to this internally and absolutely agree that timing is the real challenge. Getting an AI to navigate a process is now easy. However, the difficult problem is having it understand: 1. How to screenshot or, e
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by bberenberg 8mo ago
This seems great for code, but can this be used for non-code use cases?
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by bberenberg 9mo ago
I did not intend to be critical of their work. They're doing OSS as best as they can and good for them. I am just saying that it's a different beast if Sentry is OSS vs a much simpler to operate OSS product. Licensing matters less
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by bberenberg 9mo ago
Isn’t the “solution” for Sentry that deploying it is such a pain in the ass that no one bothers to really do this? I haven’t checked in years but that always seemed like the real competitive blocker?
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by bberenberg 10mo ago
API ify
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by bberenberg 10mo ago
Yes but I don't rely on rice I bought a year ago or DOOM as a core component of my business. Trying to work around a business model (subscription saas) requires that you understand what people are buying, and often, especially with you
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by bberenberg 10mo ago
I think all of the boilerplate projects you can find. Are ONCE projects getting updates? We will find a year or two? Your model is a subscription, we just don’t get to know when you decide to have a new major version and plan pricing /
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by bberenberg 10mo ago
I think this is a great idea with the wrong pricing model. Look at all the one off payment products that involve code, they're all dead. Just charge a lower but recurring price so I can be sure that you make enough money that you keep
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by bberenberg 11mo ago
Alert fatigue. Down Detector will show an outage with a service when the intermediate network is down. Companies have to triage alerts and once they’re validated they are posted on a status page. Some companies abuse this to hide their outa
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by bberenberg 1y ago
Because the outcomes and demographics for sports betting vs the other two show different aggregate money movements and we make judgements about what we consider to be acceptably and unacceptably informed and consenting risk accepting behavi
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by bberenberg 1y ago
Merceds has accepted a degree of liability? https://www.prescouter.com/2024/04/mercedes-benz-level-3-dri...
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Temac: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Automated Web GUI Testing(arxiv.org)
3 points by bberenberg 1y ago|0 comments
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by bberenberg 1y ago
As someone who uses Docuseal, please don’t focus on this and add UX improvements for end users. For example, filters for who has signed things.
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by bberenberg 1y ago
I build all kinds of “useless” stuff. Recently I did a LoungeBuddy clone[0]. Prior to that I made a bunch of other things you can see at [1]. I toss things on domains I happen to own if it makes sense. Sometimes they live on a path of an ex

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