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Any data or public links you can share? That surprises me

I think hate of plastics is an emergent form of elitism. Upwardly mobile middle/upper class people who've sort of "maxed out" the amount of personal identity they can buy with regu…

Here's what I don't understand: Part of the value of doing an ETL pipeline via streaming replication is you get the full history of data in a table. An SCD type 2 table where each …

mostly true - but youtube has experimented with forcing a "loading state" for ad block users that was the same duration as the ads they would have watched. https://old.reddit.com/r…

I have an imperfect "canary in the coalmine" test for whether/where the principled/idealist nerds have the power vs the mercenary/cynical nerds have the power: Advertisers vs Ad Bl…

FWIW the OP passes as 100% human in Pangram https://www.pangram.com/history/d33dcbcd-e82b-4ce0-bea5-e4ee... Reddit is definitely overtaken with astroturf at this point. Especially …

At this point are the inference-time crawlers of all the major LLMs reliably detectable?

> you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code which has always been true

There are lots of "mature" dawn redwood trees in Princeton NJ - particularly in a specific neighborhood built in the 50s. It makes sense now that the species was discovered in the …

sounds like it was good marketing

I've seen people compare the situation we are in now with AI to early days of Uber. Basically "You're excitement is artificially inflated by the fact that a VC just paid half your …

Is there any good reason to use stored procedures in 2026?

Love it. Very cool. Brings back amazing memories from when I was in high school. A friend invited me to come to the museum for some drawing thing, turned out I got to participate i…

... _says company selling a service to use AI to find bugs._

This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free g…

But that would be a narrative violation. X.com and Elon Musk can't possibly be portrayed doing anything positive or productive.

FT uses "underwater" because the deal was $300 Billion and the stock has lost $315 Billion in market cap since the deal. That's a bit of a stretch, but the rest of the article is v…

Is Databricks the largest single customer on AWS? Trying to think of what would be larger.

didn't help that they called it "Free forever" before taking it away. Lesson learned

I love the website. It stands out amongst a million vanilla SaaS marketing sites all using the same section stack template. But nobody will actually use it the way they describe in…

Excited to see you launch this!

I think it's revealing that a group that historically values making decisions based on verifiable and accurate information is now jumping to discredit "Vibe Coding" based on rumors…

This tracks for other areas of AI I am more familiar with. Below average people can use AI to get average results.