Viewing profile — sgustard

Exactly, imagine the huge sums of liability insurance Google is carrying to make payouts when the worst-case scenario happens. That financial burden is a prime driver of their oper…

Mostly I found it odd to open with a comparison of hobbit to human ages when it's well known that hobbits can live to 130.

"best not to blame the students" There are dozens for every one who didn't get the opportunity to attend an Ivy. The penalty for cheating should be automatic expulsion. I'll note a…

"Blindly trusting" is not the same as "learning some new questions to ask about the validity of the given claims". The Midjourney announcement is not providing detailed medical cre…

> never been so much backlash against data centers Backlash against the proliferation of space junk still has plenty of room to grow.

> explain the thesis It's all laid out in this insufferable a16z piece if you can see past the ego-stroking. https://www.a16z.news/p/spacex-and-the-sentient-sun

https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/Tech/Acyclica_...

Tried this? defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.05; killall Dock

Original Singapore results from Debug in 2019 - "greater than 90% reduction in release areas": https://blog.debug.com/2019/11/singapore-collaboration-achie...

Well, making throw-away things you never use could also be the definition of a hobby ... and hobbies are arguably good, and differ from "work" in that your goal is not to ship a pr…

I used to drive a 2001 S-class ... easily counted nearly 100 physical buttons within reach of the driver. In theory you could use the 10-digit keypad like an old flip phone to ente…

I've definitely worked places where I used the company Xerox machine to print up 50,000 "Unionize Now" fliers.

Yep, I've co-founded several companies and sold them for near $1B in aggregate. My investors and customers are on there, sometimes posting nice things about us. So I give it a thum…

See also Asimov's The Last Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

I have been to Rome and Taipei and Johannesburg, and crossing the road is terrifying lots of places.

Would love to enumerate those commonalities. Run by a psychopath? Commitment to violent lethality? Burning billions of dollars for uncertain goals? (ok there's one)