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the start-up situation sounds pretty similar

>> elite takeover of the internet. Wasn't the internet solely the domain of the (techno) elite for a very long time? It's the masses that have wrecked what we had, the the "new" el…

what about the hardware that significantly leverages their non-game software? I think the full ramifications of what they're doing with mobile gaming have not yet been felt.

Pretty big stretch to compare a massive disruption to the medium with a massive disruption to the content. The press is far closer to the web than generative content. The output fr…

This sounds suspiciously like some form of Stockholm syndrome.

Not this big, but very large with a market cap of 13B. In tech circles, a very well known story though.

>> just another entitled, out of touch zillionaire, You can level a lot of criticism at Jeff but I don't think this one applies.

Memories are short, but Twilio was built when doing what seemed obvious - add an API to telecom services - was really hard. It's what Stripe is (doing, not done) to banking & payme…

And I think most consumers don't want these things. When given the choice they've consistently taken cost and convenience over openness, privacy or durability.

Doesn't this imply that there's an entire group of people who are now better off, if they have to choose between (a) the relatively new availability of cheap clothes or food and (b…

that's a different website: "Do It Yourself, Blind; Repair!"

YT is a great resource for fixing things like appliances, but the devices themselves have gotten (1) shittier, (2) harder to repair and (3) more expensive custom parts - that are t…

the only alternative for a lot of positions then, is administering a separate job for every single person. no thanks.

I had rack mount equipment running in my house for a while; not sure how he sleeps with it in his bedroom. The best part of the "cloud" was getting all those boat anchors out of my…

except the ease and frictionless experience of iPads and most phones, combined with curated ecosysmtems of apps, means you never have to see how the sausage is made, or learn how t…

Kids don't really use email these days, or usb sticks. They share more than we ever did, but directly via apps or mobile which doesn't work with "files". It seems reasonable in thi…

I've done this too, and it also took me multiple (3!) tries to get through the entire thing. I interleaved it last fall/winter with Ben Eater's amazing series on building an 8-bit …

The book is a great example of how we do pretty much everything with computers today: abstraction. You can definitely learn how a transistor works but this book/course explicitly s…

Saying, "I'm sorry; I've made a mistake" is the killer disarming technique for even the most emotional conflict. Not sure if it's our pride or fear of liability but western culture…

The key being "supported" - that definition has changed dramatically in the past 50 years, and what you're referencing in the US was the middle class, not those living in poverty (…

>> The most successful engineers and researchers I know personally; are not particularly social people Could you imagine how successful they'd be if they added those skills?

Similar experience: An order that was supposedly in an Amazon facility < 30 min from me on the 8th, was not delivered as promised by the 13th, then stated delivery between the 14-2…

it's not supposed to be a secret in the "something you know" way, but rather "something you have" - i.e. the physical card. If they store it you no longer need the physical card fo…

any chemists here who could calc if this is cost effective?

autocomplete accurately took care of a lot of the boilerplate; that low-hanging fruit has been picked. AI is not doing the same IME, the pay-off has been a lot slower coming, and s…