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honestly no, but it’s not just them. no “social network” is relevant on its own anymore. big content is cross posted everywhere. features are copied. differentiation between them is mostly lost

user bases will remain separate as not everyone reads every network. but a new app on its own isnt that compelling. even ones that specialize in a niche like be real will have trouble finding large scale relevancy

i (nearly) wrote only scala for 10 years. if i was starting a project today i would not use scala. its still a great language.

it is only a matter of time until people start asking for more facial recognition. as a whole facial recognition has a bad reputation. but if you ask people if they like walking out of an airport without waiting in line at customs they will say yes. when it helps identify criminals who would otherwise have gotten away they will support it. over time it will become normalized

it looks a lot like java 21+

you can get a prescription for marijuana within 15 mins of walking into a doctors office. we are past the peak of this, but 10 years ago you used to be able to go to a doctor that did nothing but marijuana prescriptions. and the line was out the door to the office. you walk in, pay $100-$150, and walk out with a prescription for 1 year

supreme commanders very high unit cap leads to crazy end games. it allows your economy to grow exponentially for the entire game. which has a big impact on late game strategy

going from sixth and market down to mission st is quite a walk

i heard snow crash was a great book so i start reading it. immediatley it gets deep into pizza, the deliverator, the extreme attention to on time delivery, universities that specialize in franchising a pizza shop

and then a little farther on you learn part of the book takes place in the virtual internet world. and i’m absolutely sure the pizza stuff is all part of this virtual world…

one of my favorite books

his research on ergotamine was in 1938. he randomly decided to recreate that specific lsd-25 in 1943. this is the crazy part: there’s a 5 year gap. why?

he writes in the book synthesizing compounds that are not under active research is not allowed by the lab. but something he couldn’t let go from 5 years ago got him curious

i find the story of albert hoffman synthesizing lsd to be entirely unbelievable. he details it in his book and the story is:

- in 1938 he had a list of compounds to synthesize and inject into mice

- most do nothing, one of them, the 25th item in the list, causes restlessness. he notes this and moves on to the next

- none of the many compounds tested produced any significant results and nothing comes of this

- 5 years later he just one day remembers that one lsd compound, number 25, that produced restlessness and decides to remake it and ingest it himself

this is the kind of totally unbelievable macguffin type stuff you see written into the 7th movie of a long series when they run out of ideas. this is like when a show jumps the shark with some flashback to an earlier season with a “it was planned all along” trope

plastic is in all of us. there is no way to avoid it completely

and the verbosity of very old java

this isn’t a europe vs u. s. issue. many cities in asia have lots of rail services. this is about high density cities vs medium/low density.

the u. s. doesn’t have enough housing density to support passenger rail that people actually want to use

you could build the rail first and hope the dense housing comes later, but that would saddle cities with an expensive rail network no one uses

even in the bay area we have decent rail solutions given the size of the area, and most people prefer to drive. because they live far enough from the station that driving to the station and then training, and the destination stations are far from the destinations

without all this investing in roads and highways will have the biggest direct impact to most americans

yea it will be so weird. i can’t imagine living in a world where people’s jokes aren’t original. like a world where most of the jokes are just quoting a tv show or movie…

that’s what she said

you could design a similar product to do the opposite and anonymize your work automatically

this isn’t reduced to something so basic as “right wing media.”

there was a real problem. the city as a whole thought it and voted to recall their district attorney for his policies of not prosecuting crimes

great step to figuring how we can prevent / cure these protein changes

ai is a national defense industry and every major country would like their own if they can afford it. just like energy, defense, space, telecom, etc. ai might have a cheaper barrier to entry (for now) than the others

for the most part, things are much better than they were 10 years ago. you can go to a baseball/football game and your phone works. you can go to a concert and your phone works. a big part of this has been capacity upgrades, protocol upgrades, and a shift from telecom traffic to internet traffic

it has always been difficult to contact emergency services following an earthquake / massive fire. it might actually be more scalable now. and you have more options of who/how to contact

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i agree and tell candidates this. “you can use google, chatgpt, and any tool available to you as you would during the job”

if your questions can be answered by chatgpt (or google), you are asking the wrong questions

one company (netflix) delivering the majority of streaming content wasn’t “digital streaming freedom”. you enjoyed the price compared to cable. it went from $100+/mo to $10/mo

and now the price is going back to where it was to get a similar content experience

mistral will be successful as a matter of national security for the EU. it literally cannot fail at this point

day to day monotony is boring

those edge cases may be some of the most memorable and impactful days of the year

being able to have those times is always going to outweigh canceling them out. even if it makes more sense day to day

it downplays the negative impacts of dams. dams prevent sediment from flowing to the ocean which leads to sand loss and erosion

reducing costs is nice for consumer… making cpu higher cost that goes brrrrt is better for business

because this is what computing used to be. you would download some random executable off some random website and hope you didn’t get infected with malware

except the stakes are much higher on your phone than your 1998 computer because your phone is more powerful: your phone has more personal data, financial info, and can consume costly telecom resources

this is inevitable. at some point companies like this will be too big to fail like air bus. maybe it’s already there