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New comment by beckingz in "ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database"

beckingz — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:41:55 +0000

There's value in 'backwards compatibility' from a process/skills perspective. I agree that companies usually pay too high a premium on that, but there is value.

New comment by beckingz in "Burn After Wearing"

beckingz — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 03:13:33 +0000

If the margins are high enough, then it's optimal to overproduce and then sell to everyone who will buy at a certain price point. If discounts will reduce your ability to sell the same brand in the future at that price point, it can be financially optimal to destroy it instead.

THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

New comment by beckingz in "How to Be More Agentic"

beckingz — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:27:23 +0000

On average your luck cancels out.

New comment by beckingz in "It is time to recognize the major issue of 'boreout' at work"

beckingz — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 05:14:21 +0000

Once again it turns out that good management is important. Give people direction and the tools they need to do their work well and you get a lot more productivity!

New comment by beckingz in "Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)"

beckingz — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:47:17 +0000

Business epistemology is not about knowing Truth, it is about knowing currently useful information and practices, and it is expensive to validate or generate this knowledge.

Hence we get the same thing over and over again until someone convinces people there is a better way, or simply does something different and makes more money.

New comment by beckingz in "I'm skeptical of low-code"

beckingz — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 05:46:33 +0000

And PowerApps is slow as balls.

Power Automate is great, but PowerApps is just a mess where every click in the dev interface takes like 5 seconds. On paper it looks so good, but in practice it is so painful to get that on paper performance and functionality.

New comment by beckingz in "LLM Visualization"

beckingz — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 17:19:05 +0000

Just lots and lots and lots and lots of vectors.

So Black Magic!

New comment by beckingz in "You Win or You Learn"

beckingz — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:44:13 +0000

Tumblr has better checkmarks.

New comment by beckingz in "Omegle 2009-2023"

beckingz — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 04:59:59 +0000

Good for them!

Knowing when to call it quits is very wise. I mourn the end of a characteristic internet site, but I respect the founder.

New comment by beckingz in "Sam Bankman-Fried: guilty on all charges"

beckingz — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 04:04:48 +0000

He'll probably get 45 years and serve 13ish.

New comment by beckingz in "Open Data Is Dead"

beckingz — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 23:26:40 +0000

Indeed, the trend in corporations is to be actively hostile to web scrapers as well. Programmatic access is not encouraged so they can sell more ads.

New comment by beckingz in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

beckingz — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:49:49 +0000

Probably billions of dollars in R&D and extremely clear executive guidance?

New comment by beckingz in "Getting Started in KiCad 7.0"

beckingz — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 17:32:18 +0000

Start by building a prototype proof of concept on a breadboard or prototyping board!

New comment by beckingz in "Lumber prices down 11% YoY"

beckingz — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 03:47:17 +0000

Classic Tarkov issue. Real bitcoin ruined the economy for a bit.

New comment by beckingz in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

beckingz — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:36:33 +0000

Privacy. The iOS improvements to privacy with advertiser ID becoming opt-in instead of opt-out has been brutal on targeted advertising.

New comment by beckingz in "Prophet: Automatic Forecasting Procedure"

beckingz — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:27:22 +0000

It's the classic data nerd trap.

"I'm pretty good at statistics and can predict things using software... I bet I could make money in the stock market"

And then they realize just how hard it is.

New comment by beckingz in "Airtable Lays Off 27% of Firm, Shifts Focus to Big Clients"

beckingz — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:05:51 +0000

Not to mention the original microsoft access database.

New comment by beckingz in "Airtable Lays Off 27% of Firm, Shifts Focus to Big Clients"

beckingz — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:04:46 +0000

I was wondering when this was going to happen. Airtable is a cool technology, but seemingly overhyped at their price point.

New comment by beckingz in "Apple supports right-to-repair bill"

beckingz — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 03:16:58 +0000

Apple thinks they'll make more money this way. Good for them.

Long term, I hope this increases competition for quality hardware

New comment by beckingz in "NYC Lost 100K Homes in Apartment-to-House Conversions"

beckingz — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 01:01:42 +0000

Intercity/ interstate migration is a huge contributor to the pressure in major US cities. If NYC or SF were 1/4th the cost I would move there immediately, but the value would be marginal at this point.