matrix_overload

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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Google is sadly known for doing cool proof-of-concept stuff with no regard for profitability, and then axing it when the hype is over.
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
How does it work given the 500-year half-life of the DNA?
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Well, the elephant in the room is that an app these days is a packaged version of a website with one twist: notifications. Unless you explicitly disable it via settings, it will try to get a small chunk of your attention every now and then.
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
They are not paid 6 figures to add fields to JSONs. They are paid 6 figures to brainrot into obsolescence instead of going out there and creating a competing product. The last part is working very well. Most of the innovation these days is
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Well, if you are annoyed by a particular maintenance task related to your business, find a way to automate it! In this case, you could create examples for your API in common programming languages, publish them on the product website, and ev
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
It's not you, it's the industry. For every non-trivial task there is a long line of people within the company willing to do it for some visibility. But in order to get promoted to the position where they can do it, they need an ar
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Got 2 of those. Same behavior, otherwise both work just fine.
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
I had that problem as well (8TB Seagate). It would write some data, then get completely stuck to the point where Windows would report an I/O error. So I wrote a small tool that writes data in smaller chunks, monitors the write speed an
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
They still have valid use cases like backups or unedited video footage. It's just kinda lame that the manufacturers don't market them as "slow backup devices" clearly listing all limitations, and that you have to find it
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
TLDR: building projects with Clang is now about 4% faster due to optimizations in the way it internally handles assembly.
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Why does this comment read like it's written by AI?
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Not the developer, but chances are, they are either using a fine-tuned ChatGPT, or cloud-hosting something in the likes of Llama. So they are getting quite a bill each month from one of the 3 cloud landlords. So until they find a good produ
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
TL is lining you up for PIP/termination. The other guy on the team is likely his buddy. Come review time, you will be shown as an IC that struggles to deliver, and the other guy will get all the credit. Been there, seen that. Start loo
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Exactly. And then the board votes on who gets extra shares to compensate for the dilution, and the CTO is suddenly not on the list. Because the CEO spent months playing political chess with the board members, negotiating who gets what, and
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
By my logic, to make bank from a startup, you need to be a master negotiator constantly watching your back, parsing poker faces in meetings, reading fine print in agreements, and trying to bust other people's schemes, while scheming on
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
The article misses the obvious. You don't become a technical co-founder to make bank with the equity or salary. You'll get diluted, replaced and kicked out the moment traction starts gaining. You become a technical co-founder to t
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
With sufficient data points, you can do A/B and see that all affected systems run a specific version of Linux distro, and eventually track it down to a particular package.
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by matrix_overload 2y ago
Not necessarily. A frustrated developer posts about it, it catches attention of someone who knows how to use Ghidra et al, and it gets dug out quite fast. Except, with closed-source software maintained by a for-profit company, suck cockup w
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Freedom of speech works as a mechanism to maintain decentralized power. If there are multiple sources of power interested in preserving their own shares of power, they end up agreeing on fair mechanisms of resolving conflicts. Like arguing
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Because a whole generation doesn't care about their financial well-being, affording kids, retirement, or any kind of future plans. They are happy, as long as they have a petty emotion-driven control over what others will be allowed to
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Wyze cameras can actually be used very securely, as long as you bother to jump through some hoops. First of all, google "Wyze RTSP firmware". It's the official firmware from the vendor that enables the RTSP protocol. Now you
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Nah, the purpose of propaganda is to control which subset of infinitely complex reality will get remembered. Make enough people associate Orwell's works with the dark pages of his past, and the focus will shift from the ideas of the w
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Learned what? When it's zero interest rates, funding from desperate investors would dwarf any possible profits you could make, and the bigger headcount makes raising money easier. It's the policymakers and society in general that
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Kind of a dark pattern to hide the license price (last line in the AppStore page -> in-app purchases). Should be really prominently shown on the "buy now" page. Also the features page is garbage. Wall of text with fairly generi
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
They have been. But in the old times such behavior would quickly get you labelled as a village slut and become avoided by most people. But in the social media age companies need such people to generate content that drives engagement, and se
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
BOOM! Now anyone doing due background checks on her and googling her name will find that post and flag her as a huge liability and a complete no-hire. Brilliant.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
>I know some of the folks involved and they are working on 50 years to launch. I.e. far enough in the future to safely assume all current employees will happily retire. Isn't that brilliant?
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
High interest rates. If Fed dropped them to 0 overnight, everyone on the list would have happily hired everyone back. But then the grocery prices would start growing faster than SPX.
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
People fundamentally misunderstand how this works. For a large enough product company there's always a years-long queue of feature requests, fixes, optimizations, and other things to do. All of it will never get done! The doable amount
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by matrix_overload 3y ago
Vertical integration is not competition. A decision maker at any level within the vertical of power is facing internal competition from political rivals, but no results-based competition from his peers in other companies. So this promotes p

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