candyman

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Old Telepad Brought Back Memories(ebay.com)
4 points by candyman 1y ago|1 comments
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by candyman 1y ago
Many people may not remember the "tablet revolution" of this period. Tons of consultants all raced to own and carry these things. They ran windows and worked fine but it just wasn't their time.
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by candyman 2y ago
First of all if you are going to talk about valuation then that should be included here. And Google has always been terrible at developing and managing products . The list is too long to begin writing down. One funny example is the Pixel.
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by candyman 2y ago
Bentley was a bit of a blow hard which really stood out in CS circles. He was around CMU at times when I was there as a student.
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by candyman 2y ago
It reminds me of how Ford started and owned the market, then GM became dominant by offering different colors, models, and styles that would appeal to the market segment that wanted a car but not the model T. Other companies like BMW are doi
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by candyman 2y ago
I think this hits the nail on the head, especially longer term. It's hard to compete with this level of low-cost production with steadily improving specs. Raspberry Pi seems caught in the middle with getting more powerful and expensive
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by candyman 2y ago
Off the top of my head out about DraftKings $DKNG and Vertiv Holdings $VRT. Huge successes there. True that the majority have been major disappointments but you can find some good ones.
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HeWorks Files for IPO(ipocandy.com)
1 points by candyman 2y ago|1 comments
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by candyman 2y ago
Chamath Palihapitiya and Adam Neumann are up to their old tricks with a new spin! Happy AFD.
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Ask HN: Job for college student better than DoorDash?
4 points by candyman 2y ago|2 comments
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by candyman 3y ago
I am doing some work on this anonymous proxy space as it's related to AI data collection. There are three big players and apparently NetNut is one of them. Has anyone used this one or one of the others which I think are BrightData and
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NetNut?(netnut.io)
2 points by candyman 3y ago|1 comments
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by candyman 3y ago
As my eyes get older I need a brighter and higher resolution display. I use external monitors but like to be able to work while traveling or sitting in an easy chair sometimes. To make matters worse I like a lot of memory and a numpad. That
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by candyman 3y ago
This is cool and I enjoyed playing with it and the navigation settings. But I am ignorant about what this would be used for. Would love to learn more about the motivation and use cases.
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by candyman 3y ago
Would Apple even notice something so small?
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by candyman 3y ago
Check out Kraken Robotics. https://krakenrobotics.com/
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by candyman 3y ago
The maintenance budget the central administrative system at IBM in 1985 was $4B or (about $9.6B in current dollars.) The idea of moving something like this to the cloud is hard to comprehend. Even if it could be done it would take years and
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by candyman 3y ago
This reminds me of a site that I miss that was called Regretsy and I often had tears in my eyes because it was so funny. Bravo!
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by candyman 3y ago
I think Strava already offers this. I used it for a 10K last year.
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by candyman 3y ago
Most of the cost in the internet is advertising. I was so happy to discover Kagi about a year ago. Saves me hours every week. https://ipocandy.substack.com/p/finally-a-better-search
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by candyman 3y ago
This is an interesting way to do this. I've been using Sublime lately and it's been okay but I need some organization. Does this allow something like "diary [name] [text] where you can add text to any diary with that name and
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by candyman 3y ago
The downfall of many LLM approaches seems to be the "black box" nature of the output. Regulators are demanding more transparency in how these systems generate content. Could this be a credible answer?
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Verses AI goes after “explainable AI” positioning(verses.ai)
1 points by candyman 3y ago|1 comments
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by candyman 3y ago
I agree that the nature of the algorithm allows it to generate false results which would not be acceptable in many domains. But I think there is tremendous potential to improve what you might call the "baseline" of what informatio
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by candyman 3y ago
Echos of Steve Ballmer who alienated many whiffed on cloud and mobile (!). Google has killed their search with advertising and promotion to the point where results are useless. Product management has been terrible for the things I use over
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by candyman 3y ago
There’s something weird about hourly wages to me. I had a grading job in 1983 that paid $12/hour. Which definitely felt good then, especially because I could grade papers while watching football games on Sunday. I know the math would m
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by candyman 3y ago
So what if I draw a the Mona Lisa and sell it? What if I draw some other painting but an obscure artist hanging in the same museum and sell that? What if I attribute the work as in “My drawing of the Mona Lisa” or “My drawing of this pictur
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by candyman 3y ago
I have been learning more about this industry and the need for efficiency since I had to do research for an article on Heidmar ( https://www.spacvest.com/heidmar-shipping ) since a part of what they do is help shippers unders
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by candyman 3y ago
I have configured a new MBP with the M2 chip a few times when I consider upgrading my laptop mix. I'm still pretty happy with an Air M1, Lenovo X1 Carbon (6th gen) and a big ThinkPad P17. But the cost comes in well over $3K on a config
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by candyman 3y ago
To give him credit I have to cite Dave Weiner who for me created the concept of of online information being a "river" which means you can watch it go by and not feel guilty about it. You pick out what you find interesting or impor

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