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AdamN

4,111 karmajoined 17 years ago
AWS/Amazon Q - Berlin

Formerly Seattle, Nairobi, NYC:

* AWS Reliability Services (Fault Injection Service) - Region Isolation, AZ Power Outage and other tools for Chaos Engineering * AWS Developer Tools - building software teams to build software for other developers to build software * CTO at Factr - a geo/temporal research aggregation tool for international organizations and media * Founder of Kili.io - a public OpenStack for African markets based in Nairobi. * CTO at Yipit - Built the team and was initial dev (Python, Django, Ubuntu, AWS) * Way back when, I was the CTO of Forsalebyowner.com (acquired by Tribune Interactive).

Get in touch ([email protected]) if you have any interest in African technology, governance, Amazon, or anything in between.

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Does Antimatter 'Fall Up'?

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2 points·by AdamN·6 months ago·0 comments

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AdamN
·23 hours ago·discuss
Paid journalism is still often good (Bloomberg, FT). But yeah if you're just going to free sites it's the same as the free newspapers they used to give out for free in the subway - a few salacious articles, one or two ostensibly 'real news' pieces, and a bunch of ads.
AdamN
·2 days ago·discuss
It's sort of a cool idea. "Pre-RAM" without the tracking/AI integration so it can be used for clandestine activities in a dystopian future.
AdamN
·2 days ago·discuss
Politics and tech have gone hand in hand for generations. Just think about Stallman and free (as in beer) software or encryption export controls or much of the history of computing. There is no advanced tech that doesn't touch upon the political because politics is focused on what's important and advanced technology is very important.
AdamN
·3 days ago·discuss
Like 20 years ago
AdamN
·3 days ago·discuss
Probably going to the school above is a good start.
AdamN
·3 days ago·discuss
> all high end watches are mechanical.

No, most high end male jewelry are mechanical watches (and much of women-oriented jewelry as well).

High end watches are such a solved problem we don't even talk about them anymore. Either the G-shock, the Garmin watches, or the Apple Watch run circles around mechanical watches in terms of functionality with each satisfying a different niche (100% self-contained, long lived smart functionality, glance-oriented integration with full-stack personal tech ecosystem).
AdamN
·3 days ago·discuss
German culture is thorough, not efficient.
AdamN
·3 days ago·discuss
I did Philosophy and Physics - each of which I have fond memories of.
AdamN
·4 days ago·discuss
The standardization process should weed out 'footguns' that are prone to accidentally (or maliciously) lowering the security bar.
AdamN
·5 days ago·discuss
Yeah they're a media conglomerate and their customers are advertisers. They have unstoppable traction with Instagram and Whatsapp and a legacy model with Facebook. There really isn't much more to it except that they need to keep trying new things in case those properties get taken down by a competitor.
AdamN
·6 days ago·discuss
If pricing is per-token then in theory the vendor can offer you modes that optimize token usage or quality whereas all-you-can eat encourages vendors to satisfy you just enough to keep paying but the trend is towards lower quality responses.
AdamN
·9 days ago·discuss
This is really important. Unless it's straight up fraud or a safety issue, most market participants are totally allowed to ship garbage (who are we to judge?).

At some point when monopoly power tests start turning true then the bar is raised (as it should be).
AdamN
·11 days ago·discuss
First off range should be based off of 70mph/110kph since that's what actually matters when people talk about range (how far away from home can I get on a full tank?).

And 250 miles just isn't far enough to fully mitigate range anxiety. I would say about 300-350+ miles is the sweet spot that higher end makers should target.
AdamN
·12 days ago·discuss
Might also be smart to make the adversary think you are overselling when you actually have the capability.
AdamN
·12 days ago·discuss
It's also good for recruiting. They're building a new supercomputer in Edinburgh and I'd imagine it's a pull for certain researchers.
AdamN
·15 days ago·discuss
They recommend treatment because the mandate is to keep the animals alive, not whether or not it's good long term for humans. Many doctors and vets though are against the mass use of antibiotics in industrial farming (literally as a prophylactic so they get the antibiotics just in case) but it's not having much of an impact it seems.
AdamN
·15 days ago·discuss
The penny doesn't matter but being off by a cent can mean there are serious problems in the workflow.
AdamN
·15 days ago·discuss
Yeah this could end up being a good thing. We need more diversity in the computing space and this might make some space for that.
AdamN
·17 days ago·discuss
I may be crazy but I feel like we shouldn't be giving medicine to animals with communicable diseases (unless the medicine reduces the chances of animal->human transmission). We're just reducing the effectiveness of these medicines over time.
AdamN
·18 days ago·discuss
lol - it's probably going to just get worse. AI will continue to generate ghetto code and nobody cares so it will just degrade even further.