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the number of doctors on j1 extensions the us is going to lose over this is going to seriously impact us healthcare. it's also not uncommon for doctors to practice on an o1 and the…

the passthrough quality is a real letdown given the marketing. it's like looking at everything through a grimy, unwashed window i never expected it to be good as a productivity dev…

it's also because they wanted to run it at night with all the casinos (and the sphere) on the route lit up. the miami gp started at 1230pm and the montreal gp at 11am (930am and 8a…

the big risk with elixir imo is that it's runtime/vm is still owned by ericsson and there's no alternative. i know things like firefly exist but they aren't mature replacements (to…

sometimes it's not your data

that presupposes that france wants to ban the phone. charitably they just want an accurate measurement so they can apply their regulations. the lab has no incentive to find either …

this is 100% it. there's a ratcheting effect in owning housing in canada. that recent study about how 70% of homes in canada are being bought be investors is completely bogus. 70% …

it also advertises news, music and apple tv (and probably all their services, those are just the ones i've noticed)

it's not as mysterious as it sounds. every data structure (including modules and anonymous functions) has a binary serialization and every erlang vm is also an rpc server that can …

fwiw this is from 2018 and i would say the conclusion from those who were around pinterest at this time and shortly after would not be nearly as positive

how does the type system handle `receive` in erlang/elixir? does it just require every `receive` clause have a catchall case (meaning every `receive` is any -> T) or does it only g…

the smartphone killer app was that it fit in your pocket and was useable almost everywhere you were

the current generation of vr headsets aren't useable for extended periods. too heavy, too hot and too clunky losing peripheral vision is a bigger annoyance than i expected also

many table games and all sports betting i know of take a commission (the rake). they are definitely not zero sum

orders of magnitude more expensive than kafka tho. not feasible at scale

i don't think it's as nefarious as that the issue is that startup founders might have a lot of implied wealth based on the equity they hold and money raised but a "mainstream" bank…

you know what is more stressful than having too much work? not understanding the work you do have

it works fine and there's someone happy to do it for free. why would anyone try to compete with it?

the nuance you are missing is that individual contributors are responsible for their own work and judged based on that. they are not responsible for the work of others. managers ar…

their entire ad backend is in a state of crisis. i have friends who were on the monetization (read: ads) teams at twitter and every single one of them has been asked/ordered to ret…

their entire ad platform is basically unuseable at present

he had very capable partners/lieutenants at spacex and tesla (shotwell and straubel, respectively). elon's undeniably great at cheerleading and fundraising but it's unclear how muc…

you need a ton of people to run an ad platform modern advertisers will actually use. and a ton of ad sales people to convince them to use it. twitter the product is pretty simple. …

they don't. you ask the team to come to a consensus on their own and if they don't just pick someone to make the decision and then pick someone else the next time you have to pick …

yeah but if you fire 5500 there's little hope that the 2k you keep are the right 2k. nor are they likely to stick around to see things through