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by cdf 2mo ago
The CEO/founder as the L1 support is not the flex it may appear to be. As a user, if the CEO/founder is answering my questions, I honestly will wonder if this is a one man fly by night operation that will be gone next week. Also,
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by cdf 7mo ago
You hit the nail on the head. The rest of the world yearns for a phone that is cheap, has many years of updates, and not directly subject to US government control. Motorola on GrapheneOS can run away with this and create a Global South pho
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by cdf 7mo ago
The keyword in "Software as a Service" is not Software; it's the Service. In the early days, the tagline for Salesforce is "No Software". It's secret recipe is this: your sales team only need a browser and a cr
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by cdf 8mo ago
The typical GPU cloud machine will have 8 H100s in a box. I didnt check your math but if a single machine needs 32 square meter radiator, 200 machines will probably be the size comparable to the ISS. How much does it cost to launch just the
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by cdf 8mo ago
I was listening to a podcast featuring Gavin Baker and he went on and on about models being defined in generations, and we will be moving from Blackwell generation to Rubin generation soon and it will be awesome. This is not something I kno
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by cdf 8mo ago
Because big companies can crush competition, either via lobbying for government regulations, acquiring the competitors, or driving the competition out of business by offering something comparable but cheaper or free. It's the old Micro
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by cdf 9mo ago
On paper, Google should never have allowed the ChatGPT moment to happen ; how did a then non-profit create what was basically a better search engine than Google? Google suffers from classic Innovator's Dilemma and need competition to r
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by cdf 9mo ago
Does anybody actually work with H100s and the like? Their failure rate is so high, I dont understand why anybody will even consider it feasible to put the machines in orbit or even the sea. By my ballpark estimate, if you have 800 H100s, af
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by cdf 10mo ago
During my army days, the sergeant major always seem to know where we would fail to clean during inspection standbys, eg the top rim of doors. Part of it is a hazing ritual, but it also means if you know where to look, you know where people
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by cdf 11mo ago
Despite his public persona, I read recently Obama is actually quite aloof and didnt have the patience to charm the politicians in person.
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by cdf 11mo ago
Even though I worked for companies that killed Sun, I never stopped admiring the foundational work the company was doing, which was not just cool, but critical for technological progress, and was very sad when the company sold out to Oracle
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by cdf 1y ago
Most religions have the concept of ritual cleanliness for thousands of years, esp touching dead bodies make them unclean and yet at some point, doctors have to be reminded to wash their hands after performing autopsy. How did we get there?
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by cdf 1y ago
That's the fundamental problem right there. You have no problem accepting eg a treatment can only work on a man, but not on a woman. But modern medicine have no concept of a yin body type and a yang body type, which may or may not be m
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by cdf 1y ago
The unspoken part is the human mind is a big part in health, and treatments that does nothing medically but fools the human mind can work wonders too. There is a lot we do not understand yet, just as blood letting was conventional medicine
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by cdf 1y ago
The fundamental problem is TCM acknowledges individual differences that cannot be measured or even dont exist in the eyes of modern medicine, eg identical twins with different diets will have different responses to the same treatment, so go
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by cdf 1y ago
I am biased as an ethnic Chinese, but I feel modern medicine is afraid that it's approach, the sum of parts empiricism may be incomplete, in that we dont understand all the parts yet. The human body is not just human DNA organs working
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by cdf 1y ago
I always believed that the AI/LLM/ML hysteria is misapplied to software engineering... it just happens to be a field adjacent to it, but not one that can very well apply it. Medicine and Law, OTOH, suffers heavily from a fractal v
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by cdf 2y ago
AI code assistants are amazing when you start from zero and just need a 80% working prototype. But once you start trying to refine the product from there, that's where the automation gets counterproductive. If you can exactly specify t
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by cdf 2y ago
Cant watch from my location, just want to know if he is the inspiration for the blind character in my favourite movie, Contact.
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by cdf 2y ago
As someone who was working on Itanium systems at the time, I can confidently say that "consumers" never had a chance to choose Itanium. It was only available on server hardware and Windows ... will there as a version for it but it
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by cdf 3y ago
"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." ― Voltaire
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by cdf 3y ago
I'm an overseas Chinese and can read Chinese but not keeping up with modern slang and 暴雷 means to me what you see in the translation... a thunderbolt?
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by cdf 3y ago
Bigco creates a VR/AR/Metaverse seemingly for entertainment but really is gathering data of the "guests", esp how they will behave when they think nobody is watching and/or judging, and in time, uses the data for ne
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by cdf 3y ago
Amazon in particular has RSUs 80% vesting only in the 3rd and 4th years resulting in these spectacular TCs.
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by cdf 3y ago
You have rediscovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%E2%80%93share_matrix
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by cdf 3y ago
For the record, my 5 year old LG C7 has mild subtitle burn in, only appears on brown background.
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by cdf 4y ago
I cant remember if it was Thiel or Andreessen, but it was postulated that the consequence of "Software eating the world" is the unemployment it will create will keep interest rates low... until the pandemic had other ideas. Is it
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by cdf 4y ago
Having millions of DAU is potentially hard, but not the most manpower intensive part. The hard part is monetizing. What was the revenue Instagram and Whatsapp were collecting at the time of their acquisition? Likely 0. The moment you start
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by cdf 4y ago
Getting it to about 90% working in a single country or just the general western sphere, probably 100 will suffice. Making it globally available and legally compliant, that's where the next few thousand folks come in.
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by cdf 4y ago
I was a sales engineer and I can assure you if your product is sufficiently innovative, nobody will have a budget for it, so this is an expected objection and every sales person would be trained to address it and they either were not paying

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