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by staunch 2y ago
In fact, the average person in Silicon Valley is as clueless as you are about Steve Jobs and would agree he was merely a good salesperson. But people that know what it takes to build great products almost universally respect his world-class
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by staunch 2y ago
The fools are the people who express more hatred for Steve Jobs than cigarette, oil, and pharma CEOs that irreparably injury and kill millions of humans simple because of his obnoxious methods of demanding the best from his highly privilege
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by staunch 2y ago
Woz in this case was acting as a subcontractor, doing a one-off favor for a friend. This was before they became partners when creating Apple.
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by staunch 2y ago
Things are always more complicated than this... As a rule, Apple gave stock to employees prior to the IPO, many of whom got rich. But some employees weren't eligible according to the criteria Steve (really, the board) came up with, and
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by staunch 2y ago
Steve Jobs gave Woz half of the base amount, which is what Woz agreed to. Jobs withheld the fact that he was going to receive a bonus on top of the base amount, and did not share any of that money. Was it an ethical mistake? Sure. He should
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by staunch 2y ago
Steve Jobs was a superficial asshole but was fundamentally a good and ethical person. There's only one major ethical mistake documented in his entire life (being an absentee father while his first daughter was young), which he spent de
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by staunch 2y ago
Woz was a great engineer. He was years ahead of any other engineer on the planet in terms of building awesome PC designs. Millions of the computers he designed and programmed were sold, for billions of dollars. The computer he created was t
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by staunch 3y ago
> Believe the hype. I'd rather believe the test results. Is there a neutral third-party that has validated S3's durability/integrity/consistency? Something as rigorous as Jepsen? It'd be really neat if someone
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by staunch 3y ago
Update: seems like it was already ~2 months out of sync when Caesar went to Gaul, so this is basically incorrect?
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by staunch 3y ago
Caesar procrastinated so hard he changed time itself! (This is funny, but I'd be interested to read a source on how true this is. Presumably there were priests that could take care of such things. He took care of lots of other Roman bu
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by staunch 3y ago
It would be unsurprising to find that Oracle's MySQL cloud service is 1000x faster than AWS Aurora for some specific things, or maybe even entire classes of problems. It would be equally unsurprising if Aurora is 1000x faster for other
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by staunch 3y ago
That's a very misleading set of partial quotes to assemble in that order... Ellison wasn't confused about any of the technical topics around cloud computing. He was complaining about the marketing trend at the time of slapping the
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by staunch 3y ago
I agree the DGXA100 is a "complete solution" because it's NVIDIA selling NVIDIA customized integrated/certified/tested/supported hardware and software. NVIDIA's advantage is that they're a proprietary
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by staunch 3y ago
I like George's style and wish him well. But I'm not optimistic about their chances of selling $15k servers that are $10k in parts (or whatever the exact numbers are). It's just too easy for anyone to throw together a Supermi
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by staunch 3y ago
In the great tradition of correcting someone only to be corrected ;-) > ... strictly monotonic growth ... Their growth is hardly "strictly monotonic" since their growth can fluctuate up and down, as can their subscriber count
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by staunch 3y ago
> Because a test that doesn't test "what happens when the enemy knows the weaknesses" is not a test. Sure it is, if the opponent can't deploy effective counter-measures. It doesn't matter if a protected drone i
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by staunch 4y ago
> Show me a serious battle in Italy or a battle in Rome that resulted in serious destruction as a result of Caesar's civil war. The people fighting in Spain, Greece, and Africa were largely Italian Romans or non-Italian Romans or
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by staunch 4y ago
> The Roman Republic was dead when Caesar won the civil war The Republic had been in trouble for a long time. IMHO it officially died as soon as the First Triumvirate was created. Rome was in complete control of just three people for m
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by staunch 4y ago
> Julius Caesar's civil war with Pompey was neither long nor protracted... Compared to what? It was nearly two years just for the portion with Pompey. > .. and never actually involved the populus of Italy, let alone Rome. Of
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by staunch 4y ago
> The difference seems to be that Tesla was 5-10 years ahead on everything... This is pretty much the definition of a great tech product: it's ahead of anything else by N years. What makes a great technology company is that they
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by staunch 4y ago
Yes, the ledger is public, but good luck identifying which transfers are bribes paid to informants within your government. This is same problem any foreign government would have.
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by staunch 4y ago
> ...a black ops funding scheme... More specifically, a scheme to enable transferring funds in/out of foreign countries to securely bribe informants and supply agents with money. It's the logical companion to Tor, which was c
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by staunch 4y ago
I'm looking forward to some new AI system making it possible to generate high quality audiobooks from epub files. This "AI book reader" doesn't exist yet, right?
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Benchmarking SQLite Performance in Go(golang.dk)
1 points by staunch 4y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 4y ago
1. Cars have had computers in them for a very long time now. 2. The code, in many cases, is probably an unmaintainable mess. Embedded programming is not always modern programming, for good and bad. 3. Today, the computers in cars are doing
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by staunch 4y ago
It's hard to justify spending lots of time learning fundamentals while working on real projects. The kinds of things taught in college. So, assuming one is a programmer, whatever one's weakest areas are: math, algorithms, assembly
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Dissecting Iranian drones employed by Russia in Ukraine(storymaps.arcgis.com)
8 points by staunch 4y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 4y ago
My pet theory (which I'm sure is not original) is that absolutely all intelligent life, through AGI and/or genetic engineering, eventually converges into an undifferentiated super intelligent state. These super intelligences conti
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by staunch 4y ago
Nothing could be a stronger indictment of Mark Zuckerberg's ability to lead teams and create innovative products than the fact that he wasn't able to utilize John fucking Carmack properly. Even with all the money in the world, Z
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by staunch 4y ago
The JFK assassination, and other historical events, seem like they could be such great applications for the kind of AI systems we have now. It really seems as if something like ChatGPT could "read" every document related to the

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