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by mbb70 2mo ago
u7à
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by mbb70 5mo ago
YMMV but every gym I've been to in the US had a huge social component.
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by mbb70 5mo ago
If the unit-economics work out and they can sell $0.99 of tokens for $1.00, doesn't matter how many agents you spin up. The flat rate subscriptions can't last though.
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by mbb70 6mo ago
Reminds me of "a terrible project with a great slide deck might end up decent. A great project with a terrible slide deck won't even exist." In the real world there is no If You Build It They Will Come, you've got to get
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by mbb70 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
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by mbb70 6mo ago
They are a luxury item, you are paying for the privilege of signaling you can afford $550 headphones. Generic black over-ear headphones could be $800, could be $80, useless for signaling. Doubly true in the context of a gift.
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by mbb70 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
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by mbb70 6mo ago
>> "almost no competition" >> "costs way too much" >> "It's not like chat is a hard problem" Surely these statements can't all be true. Since Slack is expensive and has little compet
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by mbb70 7mo ago
Ads are a ratchet that only tighten in one direction. Once the paychecks of 1000s of motivated, intelligent OpenAI employees depend on ad revenue increasing, the only option is to make them more invasive, more prevalent, more annoying, more
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by mbb70 7mo ago
In the foreward, she calls out to her, great SF is descriptive, not predictive. TLHOD is about sex, gender, friendships and culture in our world. Also a huge number of spacey contemporary works like A Mote in God's Eye, Rendezvous wi
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by mbb70 8mo ago
That's not fair! Sometimes the ideas come from Snow Crash, which gave us the Metaverse because Zuckerberg wanted to cut a guy in half with a katana from a motorcycle.
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by mbb70 8mo ago
Enshittification is a technique to make more money _without_ raising the price by simply making the product worse. Self-driving taxis have a high floor for 'making the product worse' because the car fundamentally has to drive itse
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by mbb70 8mo ago
As is often stated, microservices is a solution for scaling an engineering org to 100s of developers, not for scaling a product to millions of users.
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by mbb70 8mo ago
Start with your chosen dictionary, remove small words and all 's'es. Then find all words with 7 unique letters, then get the unique set of letter sets. These are your valid puzzles times 7 for each selection of a center letter. Co
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by mbb70 8mo ago
The bigness of your data has always depended on the what you are doing with it. Consider the following table of medical surgeries: date,physician_name, surgery_name,success. "What are the top 10 most common surgeries?" - easy in b
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by mbb70 8mo ago
Probably it actually ran git checkout or reset. As you say git revert only operates on committed snapshots so it will all be in the reflog
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by mbb70 8mo ago
I explored the space of valid Spelling Bee puzzles and found out the lowest scoring puzzle is (x)bejkou with 14 points. Hoping they do it for April 1st one year.
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by mbb70 9mo ago
Wish we lived in the universe where the term 'monkey' won over 'agent'. Would have given everything a cool Planet of the Apes feel. I remember this getting a lot of buzz at the time, but few orgs are at the level of soph
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by mbb70 10mo ago
The goal of "actual projects" is also fast and correct enough though
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by mbb70 11mo ago
The very next ask will be "order the zipcodes by number of customers" at which point you'll be back to aggregations, which is where you should have started
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by mbb70 11mo ago
"Figure out which codes they can use to get the most revenue" is a billion dollar industry with many players, subspecialties and surprisingly few lawsuits.
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by mbb70 1y ago
'robot' meaning 'automated/non-human', a common English idiom especially in non-technical contexts
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by mbb70 1y ago
Really feels like we owe KnockoutJS an apology
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by mbb70 1y ago
Long wait times are not exclusive to public healthcare. My dermatology appointment to examine a concerning mole was scheduled 9 months out. And of course I pay for the privilege.
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by mbb70 1y ago
I implemented a casino in assembly for college. Started with a Mersenne Twister and added a few pure chance games like roulette and slots. The PRNG was trivial. Managing the user's bank balance, switching between games, making the roul
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by mbb70 1y ago
A huge and growing percent of all realtime communication is happening via text. It is reasonable and worthwhile to encode some nonverbal information in it, and emojis have won the day.
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by mbb70 1y ago
The key is goodness/badness of advice is a function of the receiver. The internet doesn't give you control over who reads your stuff, so internet advice is safer and less useful than it could be. The advice "use 'any&#x2
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by mbb70 1y ago
In healthcare, notes are directly correlated with $$$ for the hospital, because everything that is billed for must be documented with a mix of metrics (O2%, temp, lab results), events (orders, prescriptions, procedures) and notes (consultat
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by mbb70 1y ago
The status page is a SaaS product called StatusPage, acquired by Atlassian in 2016.
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by mbb70 1y ago
Normally just called calendar versioning

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