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by zjaffee 1mo ago
Why wouldn't it? The Philippines has a large talent pool of English-speaking workers who can do tons of different IT-related functions that AI can't remotely replace. If you have a globally distributed sales team with no single of
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by zjaffee 2mo ago
Hyper scalers have a decent margin from a small number of their services and a much more normal if not a loss from many others. Additionally a massive part of their profit is support services and contracts. They also benefit from the fact t
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by zjaffee 3mo ago
Regardless of anything else, absolutely no one is calling shin bet the best in the world at what they do. The FBI is much more effective. It's the israeli agencies that focus on transnational threats human and signals intellegence (mos
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by zjaffee 4mo ago
If you really think this you simply have no theory of mind for this stuff. There are tons of immensely successful products in the ad space that both of those companies have launched. They don't need to innovate in the product or techno
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by zjaffee 4mo ago
I'm talking specifically their AWS service for ROS applications, all of my concerns are AWS specific for that matter, not the robotics they build in house.
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by zjaffee 4mo ago
I'm also an AWS alumni from many years back now, and truthfully, the organizational problems really took off when Jassy moved to being CEO of amazon as a whole and major leaders left the company (Charlie Bell, et al.). There were alway
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by zjaffee 4mo ago
I think back to my past jobs how there were people who'd work weekends on random (not to technically difficult to implement) efforts that probably got them promoted, but we would never make time for during the regular work week that no
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by zjaffee 5mo ago
Except here's the thing, that's the sort of code that was extremely expensive before, in large part because of our day jobs (which still to this day require mindfulness and can't just be vibe-coded). However, an extra script
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by zjaffee 6mo ago
This is in many ways a smart way to understand the problem, but it doesn't mean that microsoft contracts mean you're stuck with bad software. There are several verticals where Microsoft and Azure actually were smart and chose a be
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by zjaffee 7mo ago
If there's a single section of the entire world where daylight savings makes the most, it's above and below the 45th parallel. This means the earliest sunrise is 9am in the winter what a horrible idea just to give people a little
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by zjaffee 7mo ago
I mean, it's objectively true that they can do this, especially when even mildly filtered down by incoming external data. It's why you no longer need to speak with a person when reentering your home country in a lot of different p
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by zjaffee 7mo ago
There's no need to counter it, the whole point is to hit the social aspect of being on these platforms. If even half the kids can't figure out how to make it work, then a massive part of the problem is solved because a much larger
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by zjaffee 7mo ago
I can't speak about this being a current law, but there were laws in multiple US states at various times that prevented you from storing facial data on the server. In turn features like snapchat's face filters were doing all the r
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by zjaffee 7mo ago
Isn't this essentially just trying to reinvent ERP (i.e. what SAP has built a 207 billion dollar company at time of writing on and 90% of fortune 500 companies along with endless other large organizations use). One can argue that ERP a
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by zjaffee 8mo ago
The iOS version of most social media apps is better. IOS simply has better API integration to it's hardware, where with android, many OEMs (hell this was even the case to a certain extent with older pixel phones), do a number of things
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by zjaffee 8mo ago
I'm originally from the US, but where I live now, whatsapp functionally replaced email for a lot of different types of communication (that would be an email in the US). Recruiters text me on whatsapp about jobs, I can ask for a prescri
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by zjaffee 8mo ago
One thing that is repeatedly underdiscussed about open source is that every time you have a major open source project become successful, be that anything from Linux to Apache Spark, you have private companies who come in, build something th
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by zjaffee 8mo ago
It depends on what you were trying to with the data. Hadoop would never win, but Spark can allow you to hold all that data in memory across multiple machines and perform various operations on it. If all you wanted to do was filter the datas
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by zjaffee 8mo ago
I'm saying that a smaller amount of data means more compute is required for a join. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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by zjaffee 8mo ago
It's not about how much data you have, but also the sorts of things you are running on your data. Joins and group by's scale much faster than any aggregation. Additionally, you have a unified platform where large teams can share c
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by zjaffee 8mo ago
What an amazing set of articles, one thing that I think he's missed is the clear multi year trends. Over the past 5 years there's been significant changes and several clear winners. Databricks and Snowflake have really demonstrate
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by zjaffee 10mo ago
Montana likely passed such a law because they have a governor and a senator who both came from the tech sector in big ways (sold the same company to oracle). That said, there are a lot of other legal hurdles that would prevent Montana from
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by zjaffee 11mo ago
AWS (along with the vast majority of B2B services in the software development industry) is good because it allows you to focus on building your product or business without needing to worry about managing servers nearly as much. The problems
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by zjaffee 11mo ago
I couldn't agree more, there was clearly a big shift when Jassy became CEO of amazon as a whole and Charlie Bell left (which is also interesting because it's not like azure is magically better now). The improvements to core servic
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"Avinatan has come home": Jensen Huang hails release of Nvidia engineer(calcalistech.com)
4 points by zjaffee 11mo ago|1 comments
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by zjaffee 11mo ago
“Avinatan has come home”: Jensen Huang hails release of Nvidia engineer after two years in Hamas captivity Nvidia’s CEO shared the emotional news with employees after Avinatan Or, who was among those kidnapped from the Nova music festival o
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by zjaffee 1y ago
And the reasons for this are increasingly clear. In a globalized world, you need large-scale organizations to compete. Smaller nations are increasingly forced to become highly specialized in a few specific industries, often where companies
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by zjaffee 1y ago
Except this isn't about H1B this is about the PERM process for EB2/EB3 greencards. The truth is we should be much more open to temporary work permits, and much less open to this sort of thing for granting permanent residency. Tons
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by zjaffee 2y ago
Tons of critical infrastructure in the US is run on IBM zOS. It doesn't matter what operating system you use, what matters is updates aren't automatic and everything is as air gapped as possible.
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by zjaffee 2y ago
The math might not be complicated for a lot of market making stuff but the technical aspects are still very complicated.

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