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YMMV but every gym I've been to in the US had a huge social component.

If the unit-economics work out and they can sell $0.99 of tokens for $1.00, doesn't matter how many agents you spin up. The flat rate subscriptions can't last though.

Reminds me of "a terrible project with a great slide deck might end up decent. A great project with a terrible slide deck won't even exist." In the real world there is no If You Bu…

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They are a luxury item, you are paying for the privilege of signaling you can afford $550 headphones. Generic black over-ear headphones could be $800, could be $80, useless for sig…

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>> "almost no competition" >> "costs way too much" >> "It's not like chat is a hard problem" Surely these statements can't all be true. Since Slack is expensive and has little comp…

Ads are a ratchet that only tighten in one direction. Once the paychecks of 1000s of motivated, intelligent OpenAI employees depend on ad revenue increasing, the only option is to …

In the foreward, she calls out to her, great SF is descriptive, not predictive. TLHOD is about sex, gender, friendships and culture in our world. Also a huge number of spacey conte…

That's not fair! Sometimes the ideas come from Snow Crash, which gave us the Metaverse because Zuckerberg wanted to cut a guy in half with a katana from a motorcycle.

Enshittification is a technique to make more money _without_ raising the price by simply making the product worse. Self-driving taxis have a high floor for 'making the product wors…

As is often stated, microservices is a solution for scaling an engineering org to 100s of developers, not for scaling a product to millions of users.

Start with your chosen dictionary, remove small words and all 's'es. Then find all words with 7 unique letters, then get the unique set of letter sets. These are your valid puzzles…

The bigness of your data has always depended on the what you are doing with it. Consider the following table of medical surgeries: date,physician_name, surgery_name,success. "What …

Probably it actually ran git checkout or reset. As you say git revert only operates on committed snapshots so it will all be in the reflog

I explored the space of valid Spelling Bee puzzles and found out the lowest scoring puzzle is (x)bejkou with 14 points. Hoping they do it for April 1st one year.

Wish we lived in the universe where the term 'monkey' won over 'agent'. Would have given everything a cool Planet of the Apes feel. I remember this getting a lot of buzz at the tim…

The goal of "actual projects" is also fast and correct enough though

The very next ask will be "order the zipcodes by number of customers" at which point you'll be back to aggregations, which is where you should have started

"Figure out which codes they can use to get the most revenue" is a billion dollar industry with many players, subspecialties and surprisingly few lawsuits.

'robot' meaning 'automated/non-human', a common English idiom especially in non-technical contexts

Really feels like we owe KnockoutJS an apology

Long wait times are not exclusive to public healthcare. My dermatology appointment to examine a concerning mole was scheduled 9 months out. And of course I pay for the privilege.

I implemented a casino in assembly for college. Started with a Mersenne Twister and added a few pure chance games like roulette and slots. The PRNG was trivial. Managing the user's…