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You can charge up the iphone suica balance using cash in the machines... a bit weird but that's what I did.
Getting back home first thing I did was get a mastercard to complement my visa, as it seems EU mastercards still works to charge Suica.
It would be interesting to read about why this happened, it feels like there are interesting payment processing details to learn from it :)
But think about it from a company/wealth creation perspective. Are you then really sure the correct course of action is to take it chill?
- batteries + touch screens => iPhone
- batteries got better => Tesla
- reinforced concrete => pretty much all the worlds buildings and bridges
- neodymium magnets + gyros => drones
A room temperature superconductor... well, that changes things on a completely new level. Order of magnitude smaller losses plus order of magnitude higher magnetic fields? OMFG can we build SciFi things from this if it pans out.
So yeah - we are in a hurry. If this pans out, there will be a massive shift in how pretty much anything is made. And the reward for the people who can figure it out first are insane, in terms of potential value created.
I also think it is very interesting that this entire class of superconductors will, as far as I can tell, be illegal in the EU for most application due to RoHS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...
If they just keep on releasing videos and building stuff, even if they are not so skilled in the beginning eventually they become really skilled! It really shows that practice yields mastery.
Tom Stanton is another on my list.
Most multinationals seem to be operating on a "business as usual" principle in Russia.
If they all risk jail time, things will be different.
Also consider that any purchases of anything from Russia would now also be classified as sponsoring terrorism. So no more Gasprom gas :P
But what I would like to see is a situation where companies paying tax to Russia are seen as sponsoring terrorism. It would have insane reprecussions?
Well, then.
Classify them as such.
=> Any funding of them is now funding of terrorism. Including paying tax in Russia. Which means any and all companies doing business in and with Russia, and the individuals working in and for those companies now have to immediately stop, or else face jail... right?
Seems like it could be super effective way of halting Russia?
cf classification of Iranian's Revoutionary Guard as a terrorist org: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/01/23/eu-faces-growi...
2. I have seen data that can be used to argue Twitter is slipping. But to claim Twitter is dying is a great exaggeration, based on data. There are perhaps cases where a company will totally mess up something and a replacement can take over, but this doesn't seem to be it.
3. Well, hard to tell. To me the geek information bubble is the conviction that Twitter is dying. Also, I think Zuckerberg is a lot more famous that you account for. But I could not find data on it.
1. Twitter is all about who is there. How will they make people start posting on this?
2. New platforms take off because they innovate, not because they do what others do but slightly tweaked.
3. I have a really hard time seeing people mass escaping twitter to this du to morals. Facebook/Zuck is just as reviled as Twitter/Musk. If not more reviled. Mastodon has the moral high ground, but still can't take off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlTF
(note Wikipedia capitalizes it weirdly in the URL but in the page title it is correct)
Assuming it's batteries though, since the company makes battery electric cars.
It seems there is an analogy to python and web programming here - a lot of people can work with things in python/js that are like alien artefacts to them.
Are some areas more prone to alien artefactness than other areas? What about deep learning - how many folks doing it actually understand things vs just use neatly packaged alien artefacts?
For me there are different tasks and different days. Some days I want uninterrupted flow. But some days I feel more productive by chopping it up with a few meetings and some office trash talk. A laugh every now and then, teasing a co-worker for screaming at his code - it gives energy to me. Talking through a problem or pausing for a while in a meeting and then returning to it - that can be a great way to see new things.
Now don't get me wrong here, I am not saying meetings and distractions are good for everybody. But it's just that for me at least the picture is not as clear. Some days I feel I would have been more productive if I had had some meetings to distract me.
Am I really the only one to feel this way?
As for FAANG layoffs - I think it is happening all over, but also that it is overreported. The graph of hires over the past few years should be references whenever number of people layed off is mentioned. Over the past 1-2 years I think the tech giants are way up in head count.
Perhaps there's a startup idea here: identify the way communication is done with these teams (PRDs? I have no idea...), and create a service that takes that as input and creates results using LLM? There for sure should be room for fine-tuning models for it, as well as learning to have the LLMs create and run tests for all the code, according to requirements/specs.
The hardline opposition to adding hevc etc support to rtmp came from ffmpeg+gstreamer afaik, and from the document it looks like at least ffmpeg is on board.
...Might have to brush off our broadcast software and add this :)
Latest commit seems to be "on Aug 9, 2022"
I find that this is no longer working. But I also remember it being reliably working at the time of first reading this. Anyone know when/why it "broke"?
But at least the algorithm and how they got to it seems dope.
This will be big.
https://www.hiab.com/en/digital-solutions/hivision/hivision-...