pruetj

LOL, don't mess this up for me.

I have a Costco that is walking distance from my office. If I need to decompress, I walk to Costco for lunch solo, get a hot dog and a slice of pizza, sit down, and watch both the people and what's in their cart. It's so diverse and pretty fascinating.

pruetj

3 ay öncediscuss

I remember when Uber first came to Austin, one of the big draws was that a tip wasn't expected. The app didn't even allow it IIRC and Uber sort of advertised this as a feature. 15 years later, back to it, tips seem expected again?

Oddly enough, the fact that I was initially sold a product where a tip wasn't expected has made me continue to not tip Uber drivers. Not sure what that says about me.

pruetj

3 ay öncediscuss

We do push ahead with missions that might end up in casualties. It's just a matter of risk tolerance.

It's impossible to say a space flight mission has 0% chance of casualty. It might be impossible to say that for virtually any activity involving humans.

pruetj

3 ay öncediscuss

Appreciate the write up! I’ve always wanted a hive on my property. I’ve seen some carpenter bees and bumblebees at work around the garden and this is giving me second thoughts about introducing more competition for them via honeybees.

I think I’ll let nature take its course here and enjoy the natural wild life.

pruetj

4 ay öncediscuss

> Why could you reach a deal when Anthropic could not? Did you sign the deal they wouldn’t? Based on what we know, we believe our contract provides better guarantees and more responsible safeguards than earlier agreements, including Anthropic’s original contract.

Weak. You reached a deal that Anthropic could not because you demanded more safeguards than Anthropic?? (Based on what you know, of course).

Makes total sense!

pruetj

5 ay öncediscuss

Ha, giving claude code a CC and pointing to mappymail would probably be very good for business. Might be something you regret though?

pruetj

6 ay öncediscuss

"Special offer: 80% off if you send a lime with a note attached instead of a letter!"

pruetj

6 ay öncediscuss

Funny seeing this. I've been working on a site to allow people to send a letter as cheaply and conveniently as possible. I actually think letters (physical) are a great way to make an impression, often times much more so than an email. Had never considered sending an actual object lol.

At current scale (which is very small), the cheapest I can get it down to without losing money is $1.55 per letter (postage, paper, print, envelope, stripe fees, misc. hosting fees, etc.). Sadly, I have no way to compete with a $0.25 lime!

If you're curious, https://mappymail.com

pruetj

6 ay öncediscuss

Is that foreshadowing of ChatGPT redirecting users to ChatGPT Health in some way? Base product no longer answers everything, now I need to pay an add-on fee to talk about health related things?

pruetj

8 ay öncediscuss

Thank you for this, I needed that.

pruetj

9 ay öncediscuss

The only thing I can think of is if they had converted Alexa into a truly useful assistant and gotten people to sign up for a premium to it while everyone was still in awe of and having fun talking to LLMs.

Even if they executed this perfectly though, I think all it would do is increase the burn rate related to Alexa. Plus there's no moat, everyone has a phone with more capable hardware that would be a better place for this assistant to live long term.

I don't think they missed too much on the AI front. Bedrock was crap during formative LLM-solution building times, maybe that was a legitimate miss of theirs? SageMaker still is crap, another miss?

pruetj

9 ay öncediscuss

> purchase laptops with decent hardware specs

> It costs nothing

Seems like it does cost something?

pruetj

2 yıl öncediscuss

I used to work on an Ingres database using QUEL that did have FROM before SELECT, just with different key words. We would use something like:

  RANGE OF t IS table
  RETRIEVE INTO target (t.column1, t.column2) 
  WHERE t.condition

Instead of

  SELECT t.column1, t.column2
  FROM table t
  WHERE t.condition

I still find the joins to be more readable:

  RANGE OF t1 IS table1
  RANGE OF t2 IS table2
  RETRIEVE INTO target (t1.column, t2.column) WHERE t1.common = t2.common

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