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Do you think venture capital firms are made of money?

the letter but not the spirit, like Amish workers using batteries

Another 13 mini user chiming in. I’m 6’3, and think it’s ridiculous how big phones are. It reminds me of the automobile and tv industry though, where you’re sort of forced into buy…

It feels like something anthropic or OpenAI would pounce on for marketing clout

a pictures worth a thousand tokens

Is the mechanism through which CarPlay/Android Auto works locked down? Could a third party make a competing app for iOS or android that would connect to cars and run on the screen?…

Michael Mann movies tend to get this right, Heat and collateral have really decent gun sounds. Turns out they are very loud. Edit: just noticed you mentioned heat already, I need m…

I’m currently punishing Fable by making it watch the entire series of 7th Heaven.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes

SQL in SQL has never occurred to me.

I’ve bought a bunch of movies on appletv, and I think about how angry this would make me, but I’ve never looked into a decent backup solution. I’m not sure if the drm has ever been…

You're completely wrong here, they make sure the check clears.

It’s ridiculous get your money back

I’ve always wondered a bit about the ssr side of these things a bit. Something like time crisis where the main video is pre-rendered and streamed but the interactive elements (enem…

It’s always interesting when people who excel at an activity express regrets about certain decisions. I find it reassuring that being great at something doesn’t mean flawless.

You probably don’t need the word science in the headline.

So… chips and cheese?

They want you to drink your rich chocolate email.

They just mean you catch incorrect joins more easily because there is usually no overlap in keys between unrelated tables. Using int, you’re usually going to have some shared value…

A lot of oltp databases have modeling conventions for making read only reporting tables. Do tabular dbs have an inverse for transaction heavy data, that later gets batched to a rea…

I think I saw an apple A16 takes about 8 watts, which would be about a square foot of solar panel. So assuming we keep making progress it doesn’t seem insane to me that a laptop wh…

I always knew returning void was a bad idea

Structure in this context is probably ‘routine’, though how that plays into a male vs female role is anyone’s guess.

The one that really bugs me is the Apple TV. It would be a great little box to use for terminals/thin client style work and there are a ton of old cheap ones. Having a $50 dollar u…

If the USA walks away and lets every other country pay a new fee to Iran… That would be interesting…