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New comment by dbuser99 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

dbuser99 — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:23:31 +0000

Not sure i would trust coinbase with any cyrpto from now on.

New comment by dbuser99 in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

dbuser99 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:00:08 +0000

I don’t get it. This whole thing says single writer does not scale, so we stopped writing as much and removed reads away from it, so it works ok and we decided that’s enough. I guess thats great.

New comment by dbuser99 in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

dbuser99 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:33:24 +0000

Sometimes it is convenient that there are no backups. Just saying…

New comment by dbuser99 in "The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI"

dbuser99 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:47:17 +0000

So sam was getting paid - possibly in egregious amounts while lying to congress?

New comment by dbuser99 in "Three Observations"

dbuser99 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:12:36 +0000

AI has to be the solution to everything to justify the kind of investments going into it right now.

Sam’s a savvy businessman so he obviously understands that and goes few steps further. He promises exponential returns and addresses any regulatory and societal concerns. This piece is strategically crafted, not for us, but for investors.

New comment by dbuser99 in "Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission"

dbuser99 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 01:52:35 +0000

Don’t think you will become as rich as musk, sam

New comment by dbuser99 in "Founder Mode"

dbuser99 — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:25:13 +0000

100% agreed. If you read this piece from the lens of a SV executive or VC it makes perfect sense and serves the interests of all parties. Content? Who cares

New comment by dbuser99 in "New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google"

dbuser99 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:34:52 +0000

What are you on about? They publish their research advancing the field. And gemini has caught up with openai and anybody else.

New comment by dbuser99 in "Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting"

dbuser99 — Wed, 29 May 2024 01:45:22 +0000

Financial rewards. Money.

Investors could not take the risk of disturbing the value of their investment.

It is that simple

New comment by dbuser99 in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

dbuser99 — Sat, 18 May 2024 03:53:15 +0000

Man. No wonder openai is nothing without its people

New comment by dbuser99 in "Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL?"

dbuser99 — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:06:34 +0000

In this particular case of sharding a postgresql solution, in my opinion, the parent is right. Any major cloud provider would give companies of their scale assistance. This is their bread and butter. The posts likely hide the requirement of stay on aws, but we don’t know they did not talk about that. Likewise cockroach or yugabyte were also available options.

New comment by dbuser99 in "Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends"

dbuser99 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:43:30 +0000

That’s wildly inaccurate. Musk regularly displays a much higher level of tech skills compared to most CEOs, with the exception of a few, like maybe Jensen. You may not like musk, but musks way above someone like altman in technical skills

New comment by dbuser99 in "OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman"

dbuser99 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:48:18 +0000

OpenAI is nothing without its people!

New comment by dbuser99 in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

dbuser99 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:06:41 +0000

Once again the house (the VCs) wins. I for one don’t trust openAI for one bit after this soap opera

New comment by dbuser99 in "Sam Altman, OpenAI board open talks to negotiate his possible return"

dbuser99 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:07:36 +0000

The kind of pressure microsoft is able to exert here is mind blowing. The hero worshipping they were able to cultivate, with so much media pressure, they truly control our lives

New comment by dbuser99 in ""Et Tu, Ilya?""

dbuser99 — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:07:35 +0000

They should not have expected the OpenAI staff to follow Ilya after Sams exit. Sam’s policies are a lot more lucrative for the openAI staff. The staff is acting in their own interest as well

New comment by dbuser99 in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

dbuser99 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:32:30 +0000

The talent also goes wherever the money is

New comment by dbuser99 in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

dbuser99 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:31:45 +0000

Obvious manipulation by microsoft. Its like 1999 again

New comment by dbuser99 in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

dbuser99 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 15:45:21 +0000

They are obviously a duo that were pushing things together. But we will learn more over time.

New comment by dbuser99 in "A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode"

dbuser99 — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 20:58:40 +0000

Leetcode is not a good indicator of quality code by any means. It's basically a filter. If one can't solve these programming questions, there is a higher chance that they are not good at programming compared to one who can.