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I had a crippling fear of flying and I still have anxiety about it. One way I got over it was by learning a lot more about aviation. Now I'm really not afraid of anything happening…

How is it opposed to OpenAI's goals to have a friendly company selling them chips instead of NVIDIA, which is, at-best, a neutral company? Software is always more important than ha…

A leader can't do anything on their own, they need people to lead. And those people deserve recognition and rewards. But in most cases there's no one more important than the leader…

If you want to get really basic: there's no OpenAI at all without Sam Altman, which means there's no ChatGPT either. There are much larger armies of highly qualified scientists and…

It's completely ignorant to discount all organizational leaders based on your extremely limited personal experience. Thousands of years of history proves the difference between suc…

Curious if other more informed people know what's going on with AWS's OpenSearch fork of Elasticsearch? Is AWS doing a good job? Should people outside of the AWS ecosystem be using…

Wrapping every third-party library in defensive code doesn't make a lot of sense since this isn't the most dangerous kind of bug. To make a one example of a million: a third-party …

Sounds like you may be confused thinking that a panic in Go is like throw in other languages? Third-party libraries should virtually never panic. Go has panic, and it's useful for …

My sense is that you probably could help them get their technical act together, if the team was otherwise in good shape, but that you're probably not the right person to provide th…

Thanks! I wouldn't expect them to be lying but there to be some data hiding in the "average" part of the ARPU. We often want the median or some other percentile, not the mean. "We …

I've used Digital Ocean (and many other hosting providers) for as long as most of them have existed. Most of my servers have been running nearly uninterrupted for many years. Yes, …

That seems plausible but can you cite where these figures are from? Is this just a rough estimate from total numbers for the entire company of $REVENUE / $MAUS?

Isn't this intentionally priced so that people won't pay for it? Does Facebook really make €12.99 per month per user? It seems designed to be priced as high as possible, so that us…

Most customers care about having the best of the available options. Rarely would any company deliberately choose to be behind where their competitors can be. 1. The way to run into…

If you're not rapidly scaling it probably doesn't matter. But if you're still buying (and maybe even using) Haswell CPUs in 2023, you may be missing out in a big way. A moderately …

Coupling requires more integration work, including writing and testing custom firmware. Oxide will be a tiny market player for a long time, even if things go very well. Are AMD and…

Beware of cloud providers that don't "charge for egress" but do charge on a metric that is effectively a proxy for egress. For example, a cloud streaming service that charges for v…

Coupling vs Decoupling is not some one-sided thing. It's a major trade-off. One of the most obvious examples of the problem with this approach is that they're shipping previous gen…

One can easily imagine the privileged son of a medieval samurai attempting to purchase a lemon-lime Shasta from a vending machine outside his castle, only to have his coin repeated…

You're doing it wrong if you think programming for work is about the code being a means of expressing your inner soul. The most successful professional programmers derive their enj…

Go is a complete and simple language, and this is a fairly objective claim. Unless by "incomplete" you mean it could have more features. But C++ and Rust (and Java) have been pilin…

For a project (business, not personal) I want to purchase a SIM card with service in the U.S. (global would be nice) I see tons of fly-by-night IoT SIM card sellers but it's very h…

Most jobs do in fact contribute to the well being of humanity, however little. It's few jobs, like most in financial trading, that actively reduce the well being of humanity. Never…

I don't need to be able to accept iMessage messages from random numbers. I'd be happy to enable "Prevent messages from unknown numbers" for example. Is this possible?