cactus2093

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by cactus2093 7mo ago
I agree, it's an interesting distortion to the traditional technology feedback loop. I would expect someone who "strikes gold" like this in a solo endeaver to raise money, start a company, hire a team. Then they have to solve
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by cactus2093 7mo ago
It has a heartbeat operation and you can message it via messaging apps. Instead of going to your computer and launching claude code to have it do something, or setting up cron jobs to do things, you can message it from your phone whenever y
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by cactus2093 8mo ago
This comment sounds exactly like the infamous "Dropbox is trivially recreated with FTP" one from 20 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by cactus2093 10mo ago
This is how it worked a decade+ ago, when there was still alpha to be had on providing better streaming service. It was great and we got things like the Netflix Prize and all sorts of content ranking improvements, better CDN platforms, lowe
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by cactus2093 10mo ago
I've always kind of expected it to work this way, with people being cutthroat and stealing credit for other people's work. What I have seen in reality is a lot more nuanced. There are a lot of good ideas that will simply die if no
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by cactus2093 2y ago
> His $750-million company got that way entirely by exploiting people’s misery for views and profit Uh, what? The guy runs big elaborate game shows. The contestants are thrilled for the chance to compete to win money. How could you spin
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by cactus2093 3y ago
> Who wouldn't want to live and work in that world? Who would want to? There are a lot of jobs in the real world that do work this way, and they are generally not the most desirable jobs. E.g. data entry or picking fruit or customer
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by cactus2093 3y ago
> create a space where a community of people you care about can thrive > the reward could evaporate at any moment Wait a minute, is the reward the fact that the community exists? That's not going to evaporate overnight when Reddi
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by cactus2093 3y ago
That's why I'm curious just how good the resolution can be on the Vision Pro. If it takes a 5k monitor at, say, 2ft away which covers maybe 30 degrees of your field of view vertically to be truly "retina", then surely a
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by cactus2093 3y ago
> Before, mods could run subreddits as they saw fit, users could choose the subreddits they participated in, and a user can always create a new subreddit if they don't think any existing ones suit their needs. As a frequent Reddit u
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by cactus2093 3y ago
I agree with all of that, but honestly the more important factor is this is just not a very good cause to get all worked up about. Reddit is trying to grow into a profitable company, their business model is showing ads to users, they obviou
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by cactus2093 3y ago
Interesting, at what viewing distance is a 4k monitor 70 PPD? From what I've seen the common advice for monitors is that 5k is the ideal resolution for a 27" screen and 4k is a little bit less sharp if you're looking closely.
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by cactus2093 4y ago
I have a really hard time believing this is being actively driven by collusion among rich families who know they could game non-SAT metrics. It would require a huge organizational effort, and for what? It's still not going to be a sure
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by cactus2093 4y ago
I just can't take any discussion of "skills" seriously that equates skill to some formal certification or degree. As a software engineer, basically all the skills I use to do my job on a day to day basis are things I've
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by cactus2093 4y ago
What even is the most generous, steelman argument of how this could help humanity prepare for a pandemic? The article just glossed over that part. Because after Covid it sure seems like whatever it is, there are a lot of much lower hanging
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Is the joke that the news would rather report on the bicycle accident in this case and not the collapse of civilization? I can barely tell what you're going for here, I feel like you couldn't have picked two worse examples. Road d
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Part of it is that people want to be tricked. If I want to buy something but I'm on the fence about whether it's worth $5 then I think the $4.99 price works as like a semi-subconscious plausible deniability mechanism to let me all
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Idk, doesn't this happen everywhere? Like at any physical store most things are $X.99 or $X.00 or $X.49, but not usually something like $X.31. Maybe this is just a US quirk. Apple sees themselves as a storefront not a payment processor
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by cactus2093 4y ago
> 3. Replacing `p-4` with `p-4` will require you to replace its occurrence all over your app, sometimes affecting thousands of matches. I'm not necessarily a big fan of Tailwind, but this is a total strawman. Nobody would advocate h
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by cactus2093 4y ago
It is a neat property but lines like this trip me up: "it's incredible how fast the DeFi space is moving because of it". The crypto/dapp/defi/etc spaces have supposedly been "moving incredibly fast" a
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by cactus2093 4y ago
From reading the abstract you are completely mischaracterizing this study. For the average person healthy food usually means food with fewer calories and more micro-nutrients, like eating more broccoli and less white bread. This study is ab
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by cactus2093 4y ago
> That'd test all the software paths. The daylight savings time bugs I've run into at pretty much every company I've ever worked at would beg to differ.
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by cactus2093 4y ago
To a very good approximation, it is simply not eating too many total calories. If you want to go one extra step, then also not eating too much sugar. Some people might find that they have a hard time not over-eating with processed foods, an
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by cactus2093 4y ago
If you want to claim that coloring or preservatives are bad, then just make that claim instead of the more vague "processed foods".
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by cactus2093 4y ago
"Processed Foods" is another vague, exaggerated boogeyman though. For one thing I don't think most people would even agree on what foods count as processed and are bad. Some people are talking about everything except fresh ve
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by cactus2093 4y ago
The benefits of SAT test prep seem to be a lot smaller than most people think https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/sat-prep-courses-do-the... . And in studies that have shown a benefit, the control group also
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by cactus2093 4y ago
I can think of several ways this is useful to know: 1. As OSS software, some users will want to edit the code and add features, and knowing what language it’s written in is a pre-requisite to doing that. 2. The developer community is an imp
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by cactus2093 4y ago
It's seriously such an underrated technology. The fact that there are billions of devices spread out all over the world that can suddenly spring into action to precisely locate my item any time is so crazy to think about. All for a $29
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by cactus2093 4y ago
> You have poor architecture, poor tagging, poor VPC design, poor IAM policy and role modelling or don't know what you are doing to start with. I would flip it around and say that historically AWS has had extremely inconsistent arc
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by cactus2093 4y ago
Right if the above comment is trying to simplify it as both of them following the pattern of "'20 Boom, '22 bust", it's not true. They did both start declining at the same time about 9 months before the overall mark

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