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simonebrunozzi

34,525 karmajoined 18 years ago
Opinions my own.

Current: VC in Europe at Rialto.VC

Previously: Operating partner at Cota Capital; co-founder at Fabrica.land, co-founder of Cloud Academy; CTO at VMware; Tech Evangelist at AWS. @simon on Twitter (yep, early user).

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iPod: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. (2001)

slashdot.org
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·8 hours ago·0 comments

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

smithsonianmag.com
167 points·by simonebrunozzi·12 hours ago·131 comments

Elroy Air to Go Public

elroyair.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·2 days ago·0 comments

Arthur Clarke in 1940s predicted satellites and the internet of 2000s [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 days ago·0 comments

The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility [pdf]

opportunityinsights.org
6 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 days ago·0 comments

Normalization of Deviance

flightsafety.org
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 days ago·1 comments

IKEA-Style Wind Turbines Could Change Offshore Energy [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 days ago·0 comments

US at 250: A time to return to the founders' wisdom

chinadaily.com.cn
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 days ago·0 comments

Venice mayor proposes dynamic pricing for day-trippers with 50-euro ceiling

abcnews.com
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·5 days ago·0 comments

Urban thermal structures in scenarios of hot weather: The Bologna study

sciencedirect.com
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·5 days ago·0 comments

Aerosmena hybrid thermal airships (2022) [pdf]

lynceans.org
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·7 days ago·0 comments

Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012

science.nasa.gov
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·9 days ago·0 comments

Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019

researchgate.net
74 points·by simonebrunozzi·9 days ago·21 comments

AI Could Be the Railroad of the 21st Century. Brace Yourself

derekthompson.org
7 points·by simonebrunozzi·10 days ago·0 comments

It's time to reserve your WhatsApp username

blog.whatsapp.com
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·10 days ago·0 comments

Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Converter

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·10 days ago·0 comments

The Troubled Energy Transition (2025)

foreignaffairs.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·12 days ago·0 comments

Miyake Event

en.wikipedia.org
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·12 days ago·0 comments

The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse

palladiummag.com
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·12 days ago·0 comments

New split layout framework for nearly all Apple platforms (macOS, iOS, etc.)

twitter.com
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·14 days ago·0 comments

comments

simonebrunozzi
·3 days ago·discuss
Thanks Chris, great work!
simonebrunozzi
·6 days ago·discuss
All right, when someone will do this for Railroad Tycoon Deluxe, Master of Magic, Master of Orion II, I will have to waste hundreds of hours playing these again... And it will hopefully be much more fun, because the computer "AI" will most likely be stronger / more interesting.
simonebrunozzi
·8 days ago·discuss
Have a friend lawyer that will send them a proper letter. They will take you seriously that way. And if you live in EU, use GPT... Actually, use Gemini (!) to craft another great response invoking a number of articles etc that they are in violation of.
simonebrunozzi
·14 days ago·discuss
Thanks for sharing this one, Jeff. I was a big fan of Twilio since launch, and I think I remember that article (I was at AWS back then, in a Tech Evangelist role, so most "new" startups on the block passed in front of me one way or another).

I'm sure there are thousands of stories about Om, and only some of them are here in this thread.

I briefly met him in 2012 or 2013, but didn't really interact with him much. But I kind of liked him a lot, and kept following his writings.

RIP.
simonebrunozzi
·15 days ago·discuss
How do you make money, and how will you pay for your salaries?
simonebrunozzi
·15 days ago·discuss
It was one of the most influential civilization in all of recorded history. It's not about glorifying it, or justifying it. I think that a lot of people see it much more "civilized" than many others, before and during it. And perhaps after it too.
simonebrunozzi
·16 days ago·discuss
Interesting comment, but the comparison with hard disk drives is probably unfair.

The IBM 350 was commercialized 70 years ago; it took 70 years for someone like you to be able to compare that to a multi-TB SSD.

Furthermore, nothing says that Moore's Law will necessarily apply to LLMs, for decades to come.
simonebrunozzi
·17 days ago·discuss
Reminds me of the TV Series "The Last of us" [0], which: "... is set decades after the collapse of society caused by a mass fungal infection that transforms its hosts into zombie-like creatures". Of course, minus the zombies.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series)
simonebrunozzi
·17 days ago·discuss
Quite the opposite. They use proven reactor tech, and they are now going straight to commercial, vs other startups that need to go supercritical first.
simonebrunozzi
·17 days ago·discuss
> The business is sucker farming: manufacturing a product whose counterparty is a retail customer who does not understand that he is the one being farmed. It could have played by the existing rules. It has decisively chosen not to.

Bingo.
simonebrunozzi
·18 days ago·discuss
pretty good. Which browser do you use?
simonebrunozzi
·20 days ago·discuss
Sad for this.

I am wondering: what's the data on how safe, or unsafe, "private" planes are, e.g. compared to commercial jets?
simonebrunozzi
·28 days ago·discuss
Lovely! Thankfully no one (AFAIK) has done a similar work with Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe... Otherwise I would be easily spending tens of hours playing it. One of the games I have loved the most in my life!
simonebrunozzi
·last month·discuss
He went on to ruin Ferrari now :)
simonebrunozzi
·last month·discuss
Doesn't sound like reality to me. The article looks very much AI-generated. Nothing to do with not being an English native speaker.
simonebrunozzi
·last month·discuss
Watch a lot of Ben Felix. Tons of good advice for you.
simonebrunozzi
·last month·discuss
I would bet that there is a nice clause in that contract that gives exit options to Google at year 1, 1.5, 2, etc.

Perhaps they only need to pay $11B, or $16.5B, before exiting the contract.

Plus, instead of getting nothing for these $11B/year, they surely get some compute power that should have some value.
simonebrunozzi
·last month·discuss
What should Apple do, in your view, to "embrace" it?
simonebrunozzi
·last month·discuss
I absolutely LOVED learning SQL on PostgreSQL, roughly 26-27 years ago (so, close to the 30 years cited there). I think I still retain at least 70-80% of all the knowledge I built back then, and it is the case probably because the way in which I learned was by DOING.
simonebrunozzi
·last month·discuss
What an amazing comment Johnny! Super thanks