>IRC and Matrix are self hostable and end to end encrypted. There is no good reason for tech communities to lock themselves into Discord The good reason is that many devs of open source projects don't want to self-host…
>And I like working from home, but... man, working on truly new stuff, in person, with people who also care, looks like it was so much fun. It is fun. It's popular to say office environment sucks and remote work is…
>It sounds all superior and mysterious to quote Feynman here, It isn't about being superior, mysterious, or clever. The following "nobody understands" type of quips and thought experiments are different ways of saying…
>We still have public libraries. They usually have a pretty sizable collection The public libraries in major cities like the New York Public Library have sizable collections. The smaller libraries in the outer suburbs…
>"physical media & a Jellyfin install" is going to be more sensible. Physical media is only cheaper if the user is ok with re-watching the same videos repeatedly. The higher cost of the DVD/Blu-ray discs can be…
>a database small enough to be served from a computer from the 90s? Putting ~170 million .com records into a RDBMS on a 90s computer is not enough infrastructure to serve ~746 billion DNS queries a day :…
>You're trying to push an agenda here, No agenda. I've been a Amazon customer for almost 30 years and not trying to run a smear campaign. I buy from them every week. I'm just explaining why I've revised my thinking…
>But it is completely false to say that Amazon is generally able to pass on the cost of all its returns to manufacturers, that this makes returns zero-cost for Amazon, The vendor agreements say if the returns are…
>Amazon most certainly does not generally operate on a consignment model No, not a consignment model. A "chargeback model". >, but this doesn't change the fact that they still have to pay suppliers. Not for the returned…
>If Amazon is selling a shirt for $50, then they are probably acquiring it for $25-30. Believe me, they don't want to throw away that $25-30. The key you're missing is Amazon didn't have to spend that ~$25 in the first…
>, but I can't really see how the LLM should have any role in the interview process at all Some companies, and especially new startups that are "AI native" or "AI first", view skilled usage of LLMs, Codex, Claude Code,…
>What Amazon sends to landfills is when items (mostly third-party seller items) aren't selling and the seller doesn't want to keep paying for warehousing or to have them shipped elsewhere so Amazon sends them to…
>If you return unopened wine to Costco, for example, they throw it out The food and groceries I already knew about. However, Amazon throwing out returned clothes was a surprise because I've seen clothing retailers like…
>I frequently have to return clothing because there's absolutely no way of figuring out which size will fit you since nothing about sizes is standardized. I used to take advantage of Amazon's return policy by…
>Why is a purchase ever in such a hurry? Short delivery only really encurrage impulse purchases. We never do impulse buys for frivolous throwaway consumerism junk but fast ~2 day delivery is still very helpful…
Many replies about Firefox having no problems on Youtube but I will confirm your complaint that it's an ongoing issue for some of us. I keep retrying Firefox over multiple years and it's still not quite equal to Chrome…
>Didn't even occur to me to look for a purpose-built smart home console. Sorry for not being clear. The Crestron/Savant panels are not typically purchases separately as 1 item. They're installed by certified system…
>Why another screen? One of the motivations is to have a "master controller and dashboard" for the (smart-) home that's conveniently always attached and connected to the house itself. Consider that many houses already…
>How would that happen? Maybe with a small loan of a million dollars... The majority of business owners (aka "capital owners") were previously employees/workers in someone else's business. E.g. a carpenter starts out…
>, it means that even if Photopea moves to server based (which it should have been in the first place), It's a 1-man operation so it may have not have been financially viable to architect the app as server-based. -…
>He earns 7 figs a month from it iirc, Less than 7 figures (~1 million) per year -- not per month -- based on previous comment from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141
>important difference is that now Apple has some of the best CPUs in the world. Apple Silicon has the "best CPU" in specific dimensions of low power usage and single-core performance with up to 512GB RAM ... but not in…
>, we fork the universe in 3. In one, Bob continues his work and solves the open question. To not lose sight of the discussion, the gp was saying that in this 1st scenario, Bob still didn't "solve it (totally) on his…
>I’d disagree with this being targeted toward normies. Reread the release. The first demographic in their copy is toward developers I'm using "normies" to describe people who are not developers and they would not…
>As a serious engineer why would I want that? Take off your "engineering" hat and put on your "normie" hat... OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok Bot, etc are trying to target non-technical people and give them "24/7…
>IRC and Matrix are self hostable and end to end encrypted. There is no good reason for tech communities to lock themselves into Discord The good reason is that many devs of open source projects don't want to self-host…
>And I like working from home, but... man, working on truly new stuff, in person, with people who also care, looks like it was so much fun. It is fun. It's popular to say office environment sucks and remote work is…
>It sounds all superior and mysterious to quote Feynman here, It isn't about being superior, mysterious, or clever. The following "nobody understands" type of quips and thought experiments are different ways of saying…
>We still have public libraries. They usually have a pretty sizable collection The public libraries in major cities like the New York Public Library have sizable collections. The smaller libraries in the outer suburbs…
>"physical media & a Jellyfin install" is going to be more sensible. Physical media is only cheaper if the user is ok with re-watching the same videos repeatedly. The higher cost of the DVD/Blu-ray discs can be…
>a database small enough to be served from a computer from the 90s? Putting ~170 million .com records into a RDBMS on a 90s computer is not enough infrastructure to serve ~746 billion DNS queries a day :…
>You're trying to push an agenda here, No agenda. I've been a Amazon customer for almost 30 years and not trying to run a smear campaign. I buy from them every week. I'm just explaining why I've revised my thinking…
>But it is completely false to say that Amazon is generally able to pass on the cost of all its returns to manufacturers, that this makes returns zero-cost for Amazon, The vendor agreements say if the returns are…
>Amazon most certainly does not generally operate on a consignment model No, not a consignment model. A "chargeback model". >, but this doesn't change the fact that they still have to pay suppliers. Not for the returned…
>If Amazon is selling a shirt for $50, then they are probably acquiring it for $25-30. Believe me, they don't want to throw away that $25-30. The key you're missing is Amazon didn't have to spend that ~$25 in the first…
>, but I can't really see how the LLM should have any role in the interview process at all Some companies, and especially new startups that are "AI native" or "AI first", view skilled usage of LLMs, Codex, Claude Code,…
>What Amazon sends to landfills is when items (mostly third-party seller items) aren't selling and the seller doesn't want to keep paying for warehousing or to have them shipped elsewhere so Amazon sends them to…
>If you return unopened wine to Costco, for example, they throw it out The food and groceries I already knew about. However, Amazon throwing out returned clothes was a surprise because I've seen clothing retailers like…
>I frequently have to return clothing because there's absolutely no way of figuring out which size will fit you since nothing about sizes is standardized. I used to take advantage of Amazon's return policy by…
>Why is a purchase ever in such a hurry? Short delivery only really encurrage impulse purchases. We never do impulse buys for frivolous throwaway consumerism junk but fast ~2 day delivery is still very helpful…
Many replies about Firefox having no problems on Youtube but I will confirm your complaint that it's an ongoing issue for some of us. I keep retrying Firefox over multiple years and it's still not quite equal to Chrome…
>Didn't even occur to me to look for a purpose-built smart home console. Sorry for not being clear. The Crestron/Savant panels are not typically purchases separately as 1 item. They're installed by certified system…
>Why another screen? One of the motivations is to have a "master controller and dashboard" for the (smart-) home that's conveniently always attached and connected to the house itself. Consider that many houses already…
>How would that happen? Maybe with a small loan of a million dollars... The majority of business owners (aka "capital owners") were previously employees/workers in someone else's business. E.g. a carpenter starts out…
>, it means that even if Photopea moves to server based (which it should have been in the first place), It's a 1-man operation so it may have not have been financially viable to architect the app as server-based. -…
>He earns 7 figs a month from it iirc, Less than 7 figures (~1 million) per year -- not per month -- based on previous comment from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141
>important difference is that now Apple has some of the best CPUs in the world. Apple Silicon has the "best CPU" in specific dimensions of low power usage and single-core performance with up to 512GB RAM ... but not in…
>, we fork the universe in 3. In one, Bob continues his work and solves the open question. To not lose sight of the discussion, the gp was saying that in this 1st scenario, Bob still didn't "solve it (totally) on his…
>I’d disagree with this being targeted toward normies. Reread the release. The first demographic in their copy is toward developers I'm using "normies" to describe people who are not developers and they would not…
>As a serious engineer why would I want that? Take off your "engineering" hat and put on your "normie" hat... OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok Bot, etc are trying to target non-technical people and give them "24/7…