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Given you are happy to work say 60 hours a week, what is the optimal use of the extra 20. For some it might be free work for their employer in return for something. Example might b…

Not sure. Read the recent PG essay. But I reckon you are going to be writing the procurement app for a midsized building firm, or a ERP for a road haulage firm, or a shift manageme…

I disagree with #1. Not entirely but it is about perception. Working an extra 10-20 hrs a week for free in return for a chance but no guarantee of a vouch is in itself a bad deal. …

The problem with using an eggplant to denote end of string is backwards compatibility.

Shareholder value is fine. Share seller value is what is targeted.

Google is big enough to avoid innovators dilemma. You just create a new company and leave it alone. I reckon it is more that you needed special circumstances and series of events t…

1% of 10T is 100B 0.1% of 10T is 10B

> Seems Predictable Nice pun

Is there a name for this rugpull that is a recurring theme in tech, when you rely solely on another service bringing attention to your service. E.g. when youtube cancels you or you…

About 0.085% of AUM Maybe a single rep cares? But not the whole company.

Wordpress (or whatever) The make sure internet archive archives you! Honestly it has been a godsend for repairing broken Stackoverflow links! Now I reread about state actors… I am …

Coffee shop? Customers fine, but health inspectors and rent increases are your antihero. As well as too much competition.

Possible but maybe 2060-2100. The big rub with LLMs is training time and methodology. RAG exists because despite the name, these AI systems cannot really learn, at least human leve…

I believe it is probably possible due to the very very mathematical nature of the universe and it’s reliable calculability. The only difference might be semiconductors might therma…

I don’t think you need a strict superset of human talents to be an AGI. Certainly whistling tunes is not required.

It is hard to make a slow one. Even shared hosting wordpress with the cache turned on is fast.

You can fool yourself with money too. Often it is more profitable to do the unethical thing.

Yes he tells you how to increase your odds in the lottery from 1E-11 to 1E-6 perhaps. His advice assumes you won the birth lottery already. Really you can’t be motivated by being t…

What is the parallel advice for a 40 year old? I guess the programming and tinkering stuff still applies. But university cannot be redone. Sure I can study but I wont have any conn…

What about a single API for builds, implemented in multiple general purpose languages. End users get to pick a familiar language to them. Similar to how Pulumi is available in mult…

Causation is just correlation, and a good story. :-)

450lbs but because it is not straight up but up and back that probably gives a 2-1 leverage so 225lb or 100kg. using your legs to lift it would be in the realm of a regular male we…

Could it be made of lighter material. Ironic how the garage door is perhaps the most armoured part of a house

What about a counterweight or a piston instead (pistons are used in pull down beds which might be a similar load)

Gmail 2004. I wish I kept my 1998 hotmail then that would be the oldest!