somsak2

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by somsak2 1y ago
i think it's the opposite right? people that didn't mind spending an hour in traffic are now unwilling to pay $9.
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by somsak2 1y ago
> At smoothbrains.net, we hold as self-evident the right to put whatever one likes inside one’s body appreciate seeing this. I've long identified as someone that's much more muscular than I have been in the past. it's inte
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by somsak2 1y ago
trading one drug for another?
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by somsak2 3y ago
#10 should be near the top. hugely important
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by somsak2 3y ago
I don't think it's so dire. I've gone through this at multiple companies and a startup that's selling B2B only needs one or two of these big outages and then enterprises start demanding SLA guarantees in their contracts.
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by somsak2 3y ago
I've heard alot of great reviews of this book but personally found it pretty disappointing.
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by somsak2 3y ago
https://archive.ph/sgHix
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by somsak2 3y ago
Any examples?
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by somsak2 3y ago
It seems like the "Turbo" models are more about being faster/cheaper, not so much about being better. Kinda similar to the iPhone "S" models or Intel's "tick-tock"
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by somsak2 3y ago
Was there an assertion that it doesn't?
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by somsak2 3y ago
I don't know if I'd say "miles ahead." AWS had 7 years of basically no other competition -- all of the other big clouds of today had their heads in the sand. OpenAI has a bunch of people competing already. They may not
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by somsak2 3y ago
How do you square this with OpenAI's assertion that they never use data from enterprise customers for their own training? Are you suggesting they're lying?
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by somsak2 3y ago
piece of feedback: it's weird to have a drop-down on "OpenAPI Links" when there are no other options.
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by somsak2 3y ago
Mind me asking how many hours that is? Does it include meetings?
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by somsak2 3y ago
source for this? what I've seen suggests that this trend isn't growing more than it historically has been.
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by somsak2 3y ago
You used a single personal data point and then pulled numbers completely out of nowhere and are comfortable making general statements about housing affordability on that basis? Bold.
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by somsak2 3y ago
> why won't I just hire good English-speaking talent in Costa Rica (more likely Brazil) at a tenth of your expected comp? you can try! but you'll find that this is basically impossible -- the folks that are good enough aren&#x2
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by somsak2 3y ago
>I recognise this is an incredibly privileged thing to do, not working is something that many people can only dream of. It's crazy how often you see this kind of statement these days. I often wonder if it's made in earnest or m
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by somsak2 3y ago
Very interesting how a company run by irrational humans can be counted on to make "economically rational" decisions!
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by somsak2 3y ago
It's interesting how most don't consider programmers artists, even though coding requires quite a bit of creativity.
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by somsak2 3y ago
What music? There is none.
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by somsak2 3y ago
covid a great recent example of this
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by somsak2 3y ago
human-driven cars kill people all the time too. and the stock thing from 2010 isn't AI, just algorithmic trading. not the most convincing of arguments
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by somsak2 3y ago
Right, and the reason "everyone" has confidence in just waiting a bit for it to go back up without panicking and having to try to find an alternative is precisely because GitHub and AWS have on-call engineers that are alerted and
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by somsak2 3y ago
>you wont find animals falling into existential dread and despair because they haven't gotten laid yet (or recently) I don't think I've heard of any animal falling into existential dread or despair, for any reason. But qua
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by somsak2 3y ago
If you work at a company on a team with a user-facing surface, you need to have an on-call rotation. Consumer expectations of uptime are extremely high and there's no way to build software that ensures 100% reliability without any huma
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by somsak2 3y ago
"this site just has too many blacks on it" see how that's problematic?
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by somsak2 3y ago
Ever since I've started seeing outright discrimination against males in tech, I've adjusted by always answering prefer not to say / other.
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by somsak2 3y ago
> prices have not returned to pre-pandemic levels Are you saying people are expecting CPI deflation ? I don't think that's accurate, and it's also definitely not gonna happen.
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by somsak2 3y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say that wanting to pay an employee less is "exploitive," just as I wouldn't label an employee's desire to make more an attempt to exploit the company either. I'm just saying that those a

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