Viewing profile — ojbyrne

This article has several passages repeated verbatim. Either bad AI or bad editing, not really a great advertisement for the product (“Brilliant”) it seems to be selling. Example: “…

I immediately thought this was like something from a Carl Hiaasen novel, then read “He was tracking and chasing a woman that he met and harassed on the set of the AppleTV+ show Bad…

Similarly the man who hoped he’d die before he got old, did not.

Maybe because he started after she left?

Only available with 1 memory config - 96 gb. They used to have 512 and 256.

From a paywalled article in the WSJ: “ The China card Two Chinese chip makers—CXMT, the country’s top DRAM producer, and Yangtze Memory Technologies, which focuses on NAND storage—…

Also CRSP, which is the index used by US Total Market funds and many Target Date funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune%3A_The_Butlerian_Jihad

I’m 65. I’m pretty sure I heard plenty of snide “nose buried in a book” cracks when i was growing up.

The lockup periods are also being fiddled with: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-ipo...

Managers schedule meetings so that developers can’t get anything done. Then they hire more developers, which means even more meetings. Virtuous cycle!

That Gizmodo article says none of the things you characterize it as saying. Except sorta - "Peter Freed, Meta’s former director of energy strategy, who spoke to Heatmap, expects on…

Why choose the median state tax? The proposed wealth tax is in California, where the top tax rate is 13%. Also relevant would be Medicare (1.45% or 2.35% depending on your employme…

It’s almost like a corollary to the Douglas Adam’s principle referred to in the article - if there’s a theory about social behavior formulated before you’re born, it’s fair game to…

The article starts with “Israeli soldiers and settlers” so presumably the answer to your question is settlers.

it would probably be useful to know how many of the current layoffs were people on H-1Bs.

Perhaps the lack of investment in their skills was the cause for the commenter’s job hopping, not the effect.

Not a lot of prestige in that.

The referenced article ends like this: "I'm Shubham, a full-stack product engineer passionate about fixing hostile UI, building privacy-first tools (like my YouTube extension with …

How can I not be flippant? I lived in Canada for a large part of my life (30 years-ish, 15 years ago). The bills are introduced, not passed.

“Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea” is a book about the treasure hunt, recommended.

In the ballpark ($2-4 billion in the 1970s): https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-...

It’s not clear to me whether you’re characterizing that as trenchant business advice or cynical bullshit. Meta has had several rounds of layoffs now so it surely can’t be the forme…