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Exciting if true, but slightly a bummer that I feel hesitant to instantly be like “wao cool I beeleev” because recent academia news.
If an LHC collision were to form a blackhole,
1. How long would it last
2. Could we detect it
3. How much mass would need to be collided to suck in Earth?
“Why are we using Uber and Lyft as trusted middle men in the rider-driver relationship? We all know we love the concept of ride sharing. Why don’t drivers get to take home more money for more of their risk and overhead?
“Trade offs”
It’s a close race between AWS and GCP, but we wanted serverless because we didn’t want the hassle of touching anything kubernetes related. Unfortunately, AWS Lambda had some goofy limitations, like requiring every method to be post and only supporting single routes per container (this was my understanding at the time, it may have changed). On the other hand, GCP Cloud Run is built on top of Knative, which allows you to do serverless services.
Also, fuck Jeff Bezos.
Man this one is gonna be hard to advertise
Instead of being a platform that encourages those with experience to mentor and lead, and those without to seek experience, without punishment, it takes the opinion that “dumb questions are the ones that have already been asked and it’s the responsibility of the newbie to know if their question has already been asked.” It seeks to be the training set for its replacement rather than be its replacement.
Then a new product comes around to support the core use case newbies want more directly:
Yeah, of course we fucking left. Because surprise, if you’re constantly learning, you’ll always be a newbie at another thing. If SO had been an actual community, it would merged with an LLM rather than being eaten by them.
Gemini-tler was dumped by a Scorpio
Okay. Now I want to know about non-man made languages.