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sounds like AWS funding everything else Amazon does that isn't profitable, this isn't a new strategy

> After all the mind is inseperably embedded into the body (first and foremost through the brain). People will gloss over this, as this is the common western view, but it should be…

But having kids is all-in: there is no turning back and no flexibility I would feel so much more limited and bounded in what I can do in the world, because my own financial future …

I can't remember the last time I searched on Google without appending "reddit" to the end.

What are the proposed solutions to get better than that? C/Rust code? Assembly?

This. Both Coinbase and Stripe are were they are today almost entirely because they have mastered UX/UI.

Surely they made the decision to IPO back when BTC was half of what it is now.

FWIW, I probably hate Slack more than anyone else on Hackernews (because everyone somehow seems to like it). Keep in mind I also don't use the Slack desktop app but I do use the Di…

Is there an open source example of the actor model in use, particularly in Go or Java? It sounds pretty cool but I can't build the mental model of it without an example.

> but it is also not >$10B of software engineering Really? How did you come to this conclusion? Discord is, without a doubt, 10x better than Slack, Teams, or Zoom combined. They've…

I think there is tons of things aligning for something catastrophic this year. I suspect economic collapse due to loss of confidence in the USD.

Was Kia using BlackBerry's QNX platform?

Pretty sure all conversations are public, so you can just scrape for free.

Problem I have with .io is that .com is more familiar with 1/3 the cost.

> self-healing, service discovery For a second I read that as self-discovery Damn kubernetes is some good shit

Saying you and your wife find Slack superior is a bit lie preaching to the choir on these forums, no? Let me give a different anecdote. When I open up teams, I have one account, I …

> I want environments to just work. I want code to just compile. I want containers to just run. Without me having to start digging through documentation, looking at thirteen Stack …

I feel the opposite about chat-bots. It just adds to the clutter of the website (along with cookie notification, asking for email signup, etc). If I need help, I'll go specifically…

Speaking of academic papers, I'd love to see a focus on readability. So many papers are just too dense for readers outside of the specific field. This can be because of the complex…

First time looking at Cyberpunk 2077 stuff online, after having just beaten the game at ~50 hrs. Super surprised it's not being praised, it's certainly the best game singe-player I…

Couldn't this just be called 'monitoring'?

Twitter is just a bunch of businesses, celebrities, and bots. I don't know a single normal person that uses it on a daily basis. The fact that is has this many people is amazing to…

But now they are locking down their software hard. So there is really no free lunch.

Just don't go to /r/nootopics. A better name for that sub would be /r/placebo.

Given the opportunity though, it still seems like a risk well worth it. Businesses rarely (if ever) fail because of an acquisition gone wrong. But a acquisition gone right can have…