johnebgd · HackerTrans

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Gotta hit that high IRR as a fund manager and the clock starts when the cash comes in so capital calls are appreciated by fund managers. Unless they are emerging managers (the startup equivalent in finance) and their LP’s are less than institutional and ghost them when the capital call hits.

johnebgd

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This. Unless in 2026, we suddenly see Costco sell personal quantum computers for sub $2k, with practically unlimited high speed crystal storage, all cooled/powered by unobtainium fusion reactors that are made with 3D printers at your neighborhood coop, then we either must accept private entities that do this kind of indexing at scale or we should ask government to offer it on taxpayer expense.

johnebgd

4 miesiące temudiscuss

My post Mortem sentiments exactly. The lack of Nvidia GPU support for the M series Mac Pro models kneecapped the platform for professionals. If Apple had included that in those they’d be the defacto professional workstation for many more folks working in AI tech.

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Electron apps also basically don’t work in Wine. I miss having Evernote on Linux.

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Codex high reasoning has been a legitimately excellent tool for generating feedback on every plan Claude opus thinking has created for me.

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Agreed. Windows 10/11 can run just fine on 4GB of RAM. You just can't run anything inside of Windows 10/11 with 4GB of RAM.

The last version of Windows that felt like 4GB of RAM was performant for me with applications was Windows XP. Not that every computer running the 32-bit edition of Windows XP could even see/utilize a full 4GB of RAM properly, but at least it was fast.

johnebgd

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Neo is powered by a fast and battery-friendly chip. It's definitely not a novelty any more than Chromebooks or Windows 11 notebooks with integrated graphics have been.

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We use them as well. Great product.

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It’s be great if Google just revoked antigravity access if terms were violated. No need to disable the entire account.

johnebgd

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Sometimes I forget programming languages aren't a religion, and then I see someone post stuff like this. Programming languages really do inspire some of us to feel differently.

johnebgd

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

I’ve met many more $5M/year “SaaS” entrepreneurs who built a Wordpress plugin than a custom SaaS platform. Your point is well made.

johnebgd

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

White flight all over again but this time it’d be white collar flight.

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I switched to Ubuntu last week for my desktop. First time in my 25+ year career I’ve felt like Microsoft was wasting my time more than administering a Linux desktop would take. The slop effect is real.

johnebgd

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Half of the country has been left behind to the extent that they are worse off financially than their parents at the same age and have no path to improvement. It just keeps getting worse for them. The other half of the country thinks they are uneducated buffoons who are morally bankrupt for and need to do more to help themselves.

They blame the other half of the country for calling them “deplorables”, immigrants, globalization, religion, gender, education, science, and anything else that is an easy scapegoat. Blame whoever you want but the symptom of this illness that the institutions failed to resolve is the current political reality.

johnebgd

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

I’d just drop them.

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6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Americans can’t afford healthcare or rent. They aren’t happy supporting the UN anymore. If the world needs the organization it’ll find others for funding.

johnebgd

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Trademarks and other intellectual property rights prevent cloning those.

johnebgd

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

I’d pay a monthly fee for a browser where I’m not the product anymore and it respects my privacy.

johnebgd

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Meanwhile Firefox keeps undoing its own track record. There really is no perfect solution to browsing the web these days.

johnebgd

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

I bought a corded electric snow blower this year for my driveway. My neighbor has a gas powered one. I sold mine after two uses because it was so ineffective it mostly just clogged. It is a highly rated unit on Amazon. My neighbor has used his for years.

I hope this kind of environmentalism never comes for winter gear. At least not until we have fuel cell technology that far exceeds what batteries can offer.

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