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by lchengify 5mo ago
Very cool. I've also had to do multiple versions of something like this ... also for healthcare. I got very good at Sikuli and Charles Web Debugging proxy back in the day.
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by lchengify 6mo ago
Yea that could have been worded better. My point was more that the banks didn't turn into software (an app) with just developers working on it, just that the labor force that was doing teller operations moved.
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by lchengify 6mo ago
Two anecdotes I'll share: First: Most people believe it was Netflix that killed Blockbuster, but that's not strictly correct. It was the combination of Netflix and Redbox that really sealed the deal for Blockbuster (and video re
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by lchengify 7mo ago
I was so proud of myself in college when I could finally name all those books in the bar scene.
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by lchengify 1y ago
I wonder if I can strap this to my Roborock from 2020 and train it to pick up socks. Roborock sells a new model that does this [1] but it costs $3,000 and I refuse to pay that on principle when I know it's likely a straightforward mode
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by lchengify 2y ago
So I've driven Route 50 between Tahoe and Placerville a few times. Many of these times the weather has been quite bad. Many of these times I've had to wait for hours while an accident was cleared, or 12 foot snow drifts were plowe
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by lchengify 2y ago
I'm not that old, and I still remember being really disappointed when something wasn't in my home (book) Encyclopedia. Then you would trudge to the library to find maybe one book on the obscure topic. You could request a book be s
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by lchengify 2y ago
Didn't know he worked on Black & White. Black & White was really ahead of it's time for 2001, it did a much better job of having NPC simulations in groups based on how you played as a god.
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by lchengify 2y ago
Was shocked to hear this news. I worked for Google years ago but I was in the NYC office, so we didn't run into the YouTube folks much. Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on HN, but it is objectively one of the most successful bu
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by lchengify 2y ago
> coal (a fuel you can run the engine on) is of course going to be very cheap and abundant directly above the mine where it is being produced and for the atmospheric engine to make sense as an investment the fuel must be very cheap indee
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by lchengify 2y ago
> I was perusing some Simpsons clips this afternoon and came across a story to the effect of "So and so didn't want to play himself, so Dan Castellaneta did the voice." IANAL, but parody and criticism are covered under Fai
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by lchengify 2y ago
Ok I didn't believe you at first, but holy crap you're right, they didn't even do the voices. Not going to lie part of my childhood died a little :(. "Help" is them though I watched that too.
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by lchengify 2y ago
If you have time, I highly recommend reading other articles in Bret's blog. His write-up of how the roman legions got paid was my favorite read for a few weeks [1]. The detail of articles like this are right up there with the History o
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by lchengify 2y ago
This only would have worked if it was animated. The 1977 Hobbit film which was produced for NBC [1] was a excellent adaptation, and Yellow Submarine is in the same style. I would argue Yellow Submarine also has many of the same themes, if n
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by lchengify 2y ago
I used to use the WeWork on the bottom floor (technically partial basement). This is definitely the vibe: Huge open floor, no windows. WeWork did an OK job trying to light it but, I could never shake the feeling that it felt like a scene fr
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by lchengify 2y ago
Amazon and Uber are definitely different, but in 2003 Amazon's market cap was about $21B, or ~$36B in today's dollars. Uber is actually bigger than that in value today (~$144.11B). Amazon was far from a dominant player in 2003, an
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by lchengify 2y ago
This is correct. For the most part, you are taking the money from your profit centers to invest in new initiatives. Could be geo's, could also be verticals, etc. This is not at all unusual for a company where the top line is growing. A
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by lchengify 2y ago
So if MS-DOS 4 was released in 1986, and it is now 2024, that's a 37 year gap between release and open source. That means Windows XP should be open sourced by ... 2038. Not as far away as it seems. I'll add it to my calendar.
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by lchengify 2y ago
I have a lot of tech / healthcare couples in my friend group and this is definitely the arrangement. Especially true since healthcare careers have very different timelines than tech. In once instance, one partner is a clinician and abs
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by lchengify 3y ago
Honestly, makes sense. This is how much of finance runs their models.
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by lchengify 3y ago
> Engineers, saving your program time and money out of the sheer laziness of not wanting to make a new XML format for an instrumentation project. This is how progress is made in the world, I guess. I've worked in healthcare, fintech
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by lchengify 3y ago
If you're interested in a visual of how different welds interact with the metal, I watched this video on SpaceX's Starship welding that was helpful [1]. Something I try to remember is that most non-organic materials gain their pro
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by lchengify 3y ago
Only tangentially related, but I highly recommend watching Veritasium's YouTube video on electricity if you're curious as to how Maxwell's fields create the current / amp abstractions in EE [1]. It's a common miscon
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by lchengify 3y ago
FWIW, I don't think the author is talking about executives. I think he's talking about people on the level of ultra high-net-worth individual (UHNWI). People with roughly $30m or more in investable assets. People like that prefer
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by lchengify 3y ago
For those who don't know, Josh Brown runs Ritholtz Wealth Management and hosts The Compound Podcast [1]. Probably one of the most insightful finance podcasts that covers a wide range of topics. Highly recommend subscribing. [1] https:
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by lchengify 3y ago
Honestly Unity has had a slew of problems for years. Completely useless purchase of WETA tech, product not improving markedly, ad network (IronSource) issues, problematic CEO. The price hike fight was the last straw. They've had a ton
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by lchengify 3y ago
I am supremely curious about this myself. My guess would be their ad spend is bad in comparison to the other networks (Google, Facebook, TikTok). Could be because their audience isn't worth as much, could be because the ad formats are
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by lchengify 3y ago
Not mentioned in the article but definitely the elephant in the room: The rise of TikTok streaming [1] TikTok doesn't focus on gamers, but attention is finite. TikTok surpassed Twitch a while ago in revenue and it's accelerated si
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by lchengify 3y ago
Just to add on, a good way to learn these terms is to look at the history of neural networks rather than looking at transformer architecture in a vacuum This [1] post from 2021 goes over attention mechanisms as applied to RNN / LSTM ne
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by lchengify 3y ago
> That’s a function of the train speed. If the train traveled at 300 mph, then LA<->SF becomes faster than Brightline’s 180 mile LA to Vegas route, which looks like it will average 100 mph. Even with the speed, you would have to do

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