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Ironically, this essay is an example of at least somewhat "questionable taste". It has provoked dialogue and thus is valuable, but I think it makes a number of cognitive errors in …

That's interesting. I would (and I think most?) would say the opposite. Good taste is hard to define because it is very contextual. There's popular taste but also there's artisanal…

I don't know how you're paying that much. Sandwich + Tenders + 2 Cole slaws + 2 bottled 500ml drink + one fries, as combos here in western Canada total up to $50 CAD for me on Door…

Except this isn't like tulips or NFTs or Crypto; AI is actually useful (far beyond being a chatbot), and has real supply & demand, vs. a being pure speculative investment. Yes, the…

It's because the hardware can't really handle the latest and greatest games unless you get the top end hardware. Their GPU innovation is on letting you run an AAA game from 5 years…

I wouldn't say 'eliminated gaming', they just have they've put a lot of encouragement into Mac gaming in recent years to the point that they're maintaining Rosetta 2 for game ports…

Yeah I don't doubt your lived experience with the product. And I too have run Linux for a long time (1995). A vSphere cluster (in comparison to say KVM) has been easier to run in m…

It's a long story: OpenShift was a bad product all around until 2019 with v4, the 3rd rewrite, but that product was a home run. That in itself was an incredible turnaround, even be…

> Revenue may be increasing, but their customer base is decreasing, and any customer who's paying attention is now looking for an exit strategy. VMware in 2024 had 96% of the virtu…

Eh, it's still the least hassle at scale for your own data centers and VCF 9 isn't exactly low tech - it does things no one else really can do to the same level of quality (DRS, HC…

Negotiating tactic. Never really makes it to court.

They do keep investing in their software "just enough" to keep customers from churning. These sorts of lawsuits never really make it to court, there's a negotiation tactic. Meanwhi…

Before the IPO; AdSense came out in 2003. Before that they really make much money. Simple text ads to start. It was built on MySQL, Java and C++ and became how they made most of th…

Indoctrination and cultural erasure isn't unique to the church. With Germanic tribes - the Saxons, Angles, Normans, etc., while women's rights ebbed and flowed over the centuries, …

"Church" ok "and any kind of believe system hurts our society and divides us." People shouldn't believe anything? Disagreement and conflict are natural. How we handle these disagre…

You've got a lot of hot takes, but this is an astounding statement that underscores you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to economic development.

The term "Hacker" means many things.

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What makes Elon complicated is that he is not just a scam artist. He has an eye for talented people that do good engineering while working for him, in spite of his personal flaws. …

I tend to agree with you there, but that's not mostly due to an individual's (or group's) like or dislike of cars as a product.

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I look forward to them sternly changing Bambu Labs' practices!

I had a long response to him; I don't think it's reasonable to believe that AI inference demand is going to suddenly collapse, and it would be wise to understand why.