jonnat

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by jonnat 21d ago
Fair point, but no one is clearly articulating what AWS gets out of this. They don't get the DuckDB IP, that's owned by the foundation. All the work that the team at DuckLabs is putting in growing DuckDB and DuckLake are already i
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by jonnat 4mo ago
No, value is determined by what participants in a market are willing to pay for something. The only reason you are able to say that the value of gold is determined by its weight is that gold is a commodity and no matter what you paid for it
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by jonnat 6mo ago
People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.
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by jonnat 7mo ago
Read the linked issue. The bot did not find anything interesting. The issue has the solution spelled out and is intended only as a first issue for new contributors.
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by jonnat 8mo ago
Pretty terrible for SpaceX. Of course they paid a crazy inflated price for xAI in an attempt to cash in on the IPO. This just devalues SpaceX and exposes the investors to all the AI bubble risk.
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by jonnat 1y ago
What an empty threat. Apple has 1/3 of the mobile market share in Europe and people here are not locked into the ecosystem, with 3P messaging apps like WhatsApp dominating communication. And they are trying to pull this BS at a time th
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by jonnat 1y ago
The hardest part is to remember not to do it when sharing screens...
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by jonnat 1y ago
Doesn't sound misleading to me. I read "$5,000 of professional software" as paid-for software that would have cost $5,000.
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by jonnat 1y ago
He most definitely did not pay $6.6B. The beauty of these OpenAI acquisitions is that they are all-stock transactions so only worth the face value in the make-believe world OpenAI investors seem to live in.
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by jonnat 1y ago
I admit I've not been following the Chrome saga, but what does the DoJ mean by Google divesting from Chrome? Will they have to sell the Chrome brand? Will they have to get rid of all Chrome developers? If not, what would prevent Google
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by jonnat 1y ago
Worse than projecting one's values onto a rationalization of the new tariffs is to simply take the administration's rhetoric at face value. That other countries are "taking advantage of us" is just a talking point. We ha
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by jonnat 2y ago
So, will Databricks deprioritize Delta Lake in favor or Iceberg, or will they try to derail Iceberg development now they they got the team that originally built it at Netflix? Edit: from the Tabular CEO announcement Databricks reached o
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by jonnat 2y ago
That would not make any sense to Microsoft. Xbox consoles are sold at or close to manufacturing cost but it's worth it to MS because it locks consumers into their ecosystem that generates a lot of after-purchase revenue. Allowing windo
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by jonnat 2y ago
> Elon is Tesla's marketing driver so we can't kick him out I confess that when he started the downward spiral, I thought it might be part of some marketing strategy: they had to bring the other half of the population who think
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by jonnat 2y ago
Whenever this comes up, my thought (admittedly from an outsider perspective) is that people can say that .NET is far ahead in the same way some may say that Oracle is far ahead: Both are enterprise focused technologies that were built using
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by jonnat 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale It would cost substantially more for a small-scale company to produce a laptop with the quality of MacBooks than it costs Apple. That cost difference would have to be pa
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by jonnat 3y ago
It has an Apache 2.0 license. I assume it allows it to be repackaged removing telemetry.
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by jonnat 3y ago
They probably mean that the actual number of malicious repos is probably very hard to get. The article reaches the 100K number by searching for repos with patches with a particular string contained in this specific attack, so it's like
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by jonnat 3y ago
While it't true that oil is used for plastics and chemicals today, it's absolutely not the case that it will be drilled into the future when demand for gasoline disappears. Oil is not strictly a necessary precursor to much of the
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by jonnat 3y ago
Quite the opposite, this is great for Meta's competitors. Meta is not trying to get market share with this strategy, it's trying to commoditize their complements ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12
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by jonnat 3y ago
I was with you until your last sentence. Taking you point at face value, people who despise codes of conduct nonetheless working under a code of conduct would just be another example of people disagreeing with each other (in this case disag
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by jonnat 3y ago
I guess I finally understand what they mean when they say “I don’t know how to count that low”
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by jonnat 3y ago
> The Many World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics was rejected out of hand by scientists that were also religious Do you have a reference for that? The Many Worlds interpretation was initially rejected by John Wheeler, Everett's
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by jonnat 3y ago
They have a comparison page: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/compare.html
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by jonnat 4y ago
Even if it would be easy only pay per conversion, you would create a different type of perverse incentive in which ad platforms would exclusively want to target consumers their models attach a high preexisting (before exposure to ads) proba
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by jonnat 4y ago
Because they are for-profit businesses and as such have a strong incentive to spend in ads and for these ads to be as effective as possible. FB and Google are just giving them the means to do so; we should be asking why it is that hospitals
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by jonnat 4y ago
An episode from Sean's podcast in which he builds the argument in more detail: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/09/09/63-s...
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by jonnat 5y ago
Or: "If you've never quoted an Umeshism after you screw up, you're taking too much responsibility for your failures"
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by jonnat 5y ago
Important recommendations from the article: don't eat, drink, or put in the eye most parts of a Covid test. The article doesn't mention the paper package, you might be safe eating that.
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by jonnat 5y ago
We are one year away from Chrome effectively killing third party cookies. That’s a strange acquisition given how reliant on cookies AppNexus still is.

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