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mwilcox··on Monitors for Work
Larger monitors are inversely correlated with productivity

Especially a second monitor. Often just used for watching youtube videos during work

mwilcox··on Codex-maxxing
Slop
mwilcox··on Radiant Computer
Urbit by BlueSky, with LLMs
mwilcox··on NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
Just get 5 Mac minis.
mwilcox··on OpenAI can stop pretending
No they can't. They need to keep up the charade so their models follow the leader.
mwilcox··on Plain Vanilla Web
aNd jaVaSCripT
mwilcox··on Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor
Can you open source it
mwilcox··on 'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'
Understandable
mwilcox··on Tarpit ideas: What they are and how to avoid them (2023) [video]
Maybe YC is the problem
mwilcox··on Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
Clearly given he is excited to receive the traffic
mwilcox··on HypChain, the first completely hypothetical blockchain
Bobchain already did this
mwilcox··on Zooko's Triangle
21e8 fixes this
mwilcox··on Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate?
$2180/hour mining magic numbers
mwilcox··on The Web3 Fraud
web3 is just a javascript file
mwilcox··on QNTM on memes, anti-memes, and knowledge that doesn't want to be shared
21e8
mwilcox··on Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding
This whole presentation is ironic. Get to the point
mwilcox··on The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds
8gbit symmetrical available residential here in NZ
mwilcox··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
21e8
mwilcox··on Clubhouse Payments
I think because then they have to give 30% to Apple
mwilcox··on Physicists have filmed the oscillation of a time crystal
I would say that gravitational waves break the idea that empty space is symmetrical
mwilcox··on [dead]
cringe
mwilcox··on Proof of X
#21e8
mwilcox··on Member: Decentralized Twitter alternative, uncensorable, open source
https://twetch.app is similar but more popular. Uncensorable isn't the word I would use - the data is stored on the blockchain but the website is just like any other. The difference is instead of needing to 'export' your data - it can be instantly accessed through the bitcoin network
mwilcox··on Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org
These are namespaces with their own browsers, not browsers with their own namespaces
mwilcox··on Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code
Because any attempt to do that gets quickly flooded by responses about how it's just totally impractical.

Apple can do it because all of their legacy architecture and organisational structure was put in place before the internet

mwilcox··on Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects
Came here to say this. If we can't forecast the economy at the scale of millions of people and trillions of data points you're not going to be able to forecast a company. We should focus on building organisations that are robust enough to withstand challenges that are thrown at them
mwilcox··on Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era Interconnect
Most of the cost of a supercomputer is from energy consumption
mwilcox··on Rocket Lab gets NASA certification for official smallsat launches
They are going to catch them
mwilcox··on When good ideas make bad business
He should obviously be selling to clinics / hospitals

Plus when did the 'we don't have any budget' excuse stop a SaaS company? That's what you raise VC for - build the product, hand it to the customer for 'free' and charge them what it was really worth based on their usage when you threaten to take it away

mwilcox··on Sam Altman and Andrew Yang talk UBI
In reality Amazon is accumulating cash faster than it can spend it, same as the rest of big tech. If it had things to reinvest it into it wouldn't be such a problem
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