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simonebrunozzi

34,529 karmajoined 18 lat temu
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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Submissions

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

slashdot.org
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·9 godzin temu·0 comments

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

smithsonianmag.com
171 points·by simonebrunozzi·13 godzin temu·133 comments

Elroy Air to Go Public

elroyair.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·przedwczoraj·0 comments

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

youtube.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 dni temu·0 comments

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

opportunityinsights.org
6 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 dni temu·0 comments

Normalization of Deviance

flightsafety.org
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 dni temu·1 comments

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

youtube.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 dni temu·0 comments

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

chinadaily.com.cn
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·3 dni temu·0 comments

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

abcnews.com
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·5 dni temu·0 comments

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

sciencedirect.com
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·5 dni temu·0 comments

Aerosmena hybrid thermal airships (2022) [pdf]

lynceans.org
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·7 dni temu·0 comments

Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012

science.nasa.gov
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·9 dni temu·0 comments

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

researchgate.net
74 points·by simonebrunozzi·9 dni temu·21 comments

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

derekthompson.org
7 points·by simonebrunozzi·10 dni temu·0 comments

It's time to reserve your WhatsApp username

blog.whatsapp.com
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·10 dni temu·0 comments

Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Converter

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·10 dni temu·0 comments

The Troubled Energy Transition (2025)

foreignaffairs.com
1 points·by simonebrunozzi·12 dni temu·0 comments

Miyake Event

en.wikipedia.org
3 points·by simonebrunozzi·12 dni temu·0 comments

The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse

palladiummag.com
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·12 dni temu·0 comments

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

twitter.com
2 points·by simonebrunozzi·14 dni temu·0 comments

comments

simonebrunozzi
·3 dni temu·discuss
Thanks Chris, great work!
simonebrunozzi
·6 dni temu·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
·9 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·discuss
How do you make money, and how will you pay for your salaries?
simonebrunozzi
·15 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·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 dni temu·discuss
pretty good. Which browser do you use?
simonebrunozzi
·20 dni temu·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 dni temu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
He went on to ruin Ferrari now :)
simonebrunozzi
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Watch a lot of Ben Felix. Tons of good advice for you.
simonebrunozzi
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
What should Apple do, in your view, to "embrace" it?
simonebrunozzi
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
What an amazing comment Johnny! Super thanks