simonebrunozzi

Deja-vù: 15 years ago I was working for AWS, and at some point (2010-2011) tens of startups came out to provide cost optimization, cloud switching, etc.

If memory serves well, I think none of them survived or had meaningful exits. I might be wrong. The main reason could be that this is a feature that gets commoditized really quickly.

A picture of one of these toilets would have been useful.

> Welcome to Immich v3.0.0!

> After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0!

A quite amazing open source project, that COMPLETELY FAILS to explain to a newcomer what it is, what problem it solves, etc.

Nicely done! For completeness, this refers to a 20+ years old meme that went around, specifically related to why anti-spam solutions would not work. [0]

[0]: https://trog.qgl.org/20081217/the-why-your-anti-spam-idea-wo...

Great idea!

Thanks Chris, great work!

All right, when someone will do this for Railroad Tycoon Deluxe, Master of Magic, Master of Orion II, I will have to waste hundreds of hours playing these again... And it will hopefully be much more fun, because the computer "AI" will most likely be stronger / more interesting.

As an example, My VPN (NordVPN) auto-renewed at 3x the original price, without warning. Thankfully I catched it and was able to cancel the subscription.

Companies should not be allowed to do this... But they do.

Have a friend lawyer that will send them a proper letter. They will take you seriously that way. And if you live in EU, use GPT... Actually, use Gemini (!) to craft another great response invoking a number of articles etc that they are in violation of.

Thanks for sharing this one, Jeff. I was a big fan of Twilio since launch, and I think I remember that article (I was at AWS back then, in a Tech Evangelist role, so most "new" startups on the block passed in front of me one way or another).

I'm sure there are thousands of stories about Om, and only some of them are here in this thread.

I briefly met him in 2012 or 2013, but didn't really interact with him much. But I kind of liked him a lot, and kept following his writings.

RIP.

How do you make money, and how will you pay for your salaries?

It was one of the most influential civilization in all of recorded history. It's not about glorifying it, or justifying it. I think that a lot of people see it much more "civilized" than many others, before and during it. And perhaps after it too.

Interesting comment, but the comparison with hard disk drives is probably unfair.

The IBM 350 was commercialized 70 years ago; it took 70 years for someone like you to be able to compare that to a multi-TB SSD.

Furthermore, nothing says that Moore's Law will necessarily apply to LLMs, for decades to come.

Reminds me of the TV Series "The Last of us" [0], which: "... is set decades after the collapse of society caused by a mass fungal infection that transforms its hosts into zombie-like creatures". Of course, minus the zombies.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series)

Quite the opposite. They use proven reactor tech, and they are now going straight to commercial, vs other startups that need to go supercritical first.

> The business is sucker farming: manufacturing a product whose counterparty is a retail customer who does not understand that he is the one being farmed. It could have played by the existing rules. It has decisively chosen not to.

Bingo.

pretty good. Which browser do you use?

Sad for this.

I am wondering: what's the data on how safe, or unsafe, "private" planes are, e.g. compared to commercial jets?

Lovely! Thankfully no one (AFAIK) has done a similar work with Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe... Otherwise I would be easily spending tens of hours playing it. One of the games I have loved the most in my life!

He went on to ruin Ferrari now :)

Doesn't sound like reality to me. The article looks very much AI-generated. Nothing to do with not being an English native speaker.

Watch a lot of Ben Felix. Tons of good advice for you.

I would bet that there is a nice clause in that contract that gives exit options to Google at year 1, 1.5, 2, etc.

Perhaps they only need to pay $11B, or $16.5B, before exiting the contract.

Plus, instead of getting nothing for these $11B/year, they surely get some compute power that should have some value.

What should Apple do, in your view, to "embrace" it?

I absolutely LOVED learning SQL on PostgreSQL, roughly 26-27 years ago (so, close to the 30 years cited there). I think I still retain at least 70-80% of all the knowledge I built back then, and it is the case probably because the way in which I learned was by DOING.

What an amazing comment Johnny! Super thanks

The actual Venice in the lagoon is fine. Nothing like suburbia.

My worst was with Digital Ocean, a dozen years ago. Total shitshow, top to bottom.

Are you talking about Condoleezza Rice ?