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New comment by gundmc in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

gundmc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:15:03 +0000

> Meta is going to surpass Google this year in revenue. I agree on the diversification front though

Meta might surpass Google on _digital advertising revenue_.

Google's overall revenue is still ~2x Meta's

New comment by gundmc in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

gundmc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:04:35 +0000

In 20 years I expect basically all of these to move to web-based interfaces and away from thick clients. You're already seeing graphics heavy use cases like CAD do this (Onshape has been hugely popular and is cloud native on Linux). Even behemoths like SAP are increasingly web enabled through fiori.

New comment by gundmc in "UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence"

gundmc — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:47:16 +0000

Mythbusters made a version of this in an unaired segment of their 2006 episode about passing gas https://youtu.be/RHcDP_Yew-g?si=T7AONGdXPd4d_gM3

New comment by gundmc in "Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs"

gundmc — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:46:33 +0000

The 5080 is 16GB VRAM, not system memory. I don't think you can get 24-32GB VRAM in a $500 box

New comment by gundmc in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

gundmc — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:14:20 +0000

Not on the same scale as AI, but my first ever AirBnB host still owns harley.com. He made his money writing "The Yellow Pages of the Internet" physical books and had turned down numerous lucrative offers from Harley Davidson.

Really fascinating and quirky guy as you can probably infer from the site.

New comment by gundmc in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

gundmc — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:27:54 +0000

Yes, I've been waiting for a real breakthrough with regard to 3D parametric models and I don't think think this is it. The proprietary nature of the major players (Creo, Solidworks, NX, etc) is a major drag. Sure there's STP, but there's too much design intent and feature loss there. I don't think OpenSCAD has the critical mass of mindshare or training data at this point, but maybe it's the best chance to force a change.

New comment by gundmc in "A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked"

gundmc — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:00:18 +0000

In this case it's not a direct duplicate of the link, but another post on the same topic. I find there is value in reading through the previous discussion that I may not have otherwise seen.

New comment by gundmc in "Anthropic is Down"

gundmc — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:02:47 +0000

Gemini CLI is open source too, though I think the consensus is it's a distant third behind Claude Code and Codex

New comment by gundmc in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

gundmc — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:54:45 +0000

I've never experienced any of these on Caltrain in the last ~10 years, for what it's worth.

New comment by gundmc in "GPT Image 1.5"

gundmc — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:36:18 +0000

I find including "don't change anything else" in the NBP prompt goes a long way.

New comment by gundmc in "Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI"

gundmc — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:23:57 +0000

"If you show revenue, people will ask 'HOW MUCH?' and it will never be enough. The company that was the 100xer, the 1000xer is suddenly the 2x dog. But if you have NO revenue, you can say you're pre-revenue! You're a potential pure play... It's not about how much you earn, it's about how much you're worth. And who is worth the most? Companies that lose money!"

New comment by gundmc in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

gundmc — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:59:13 +0000

Action against DMCA abusers has happened in a few instances, but it's still largely an unsolved problem without sufficient deterrence from abuse.

https://techhq.com/news/dmca-takedown-notices-case-in-califo...

New comment by gundmc in "Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset"

gundmc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:31:06 +0000

It's a Samsung product though

New comment by gundmc in "Career Asymtotes"

gundmc — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:03:04 +0000

Do more than 20% of engineers really believe they'll be E6 at a FAANG by the time they're 37? I think most folks are more grounded than that.

New comment by gundmc in "Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence"

gundmc — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:34:14 +0000

Not surprising. Search and browsing history has been used as evidence for some time.

New comment by gundmc in "Expanding access to Opal, our no-code AI mini-app builder"

gundmc — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:37:55 +0000

Seems like cool framework, but I'm bothered by the example image around having AI research and generate a blog post. This is exactly the sort of thing I don't want.

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

gundmc — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:51:42 +0000

AFAIK geo-replication between regions _does_ replicate the entire dataset. It sounds like you're describing RAID configurations, which are common ways to provide redundancy and increased performance within a given disk array. They definitely do that too, but within a zone

New comment by gundmc in "Extract-0: A specialized language model for document information extraction"

gundmc — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:42:24 +0000

It's not novel research, but I think it drives home the point that many narrow applications of AI do not require the largest, latest (and most expensive) models. And in many of those cases, a small fine-tuned model is the most performant and cost-effective.

It is probably obvious to most who follow the space closely, but you'd be surprised how many engineers don't recognize this.

New comment by gundmc in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

gundmc — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 03:04:19 +0000

This matches my experience exactly. I use a standard QWERTY setup on the moonlander, with only changes being the thumb clusters and changing caps lock to backspace. After a few days of practicing, it feels natural and seamless to switch back and forth.

New comment by gundmc in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

gundmc — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:58:47 +0000

Google doesn't sell data, they sell ads