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New comment by somsak2 in "Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success"

somsak2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:05:40 +0000

i think it's the opposite right? people that didn't mind spending an hour in traffic are now unwilling to pay $9.

New comment by somsak2 in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

somsak2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:29:15 +0000

> At smoothbrains.net, we hold as self-evident the right to put whatever one likes inside one’s body

appreciate seeing this. I've long identified as someone that's much more muscular than I have been in the past. it's interesting how steroid use for this subset is seen as so different from that same use in the gender dysphoria subset.

New comment by somsak2 in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

somsak2 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:27:04 +0000

trading one drug for another?

New comment by somsak2 in "Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job"

somsak2 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:20:48 +0000

#10 should be near the top. hugely important

New comment by somsak2 in "Major outages across ChatGPT and API"

somsak2 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:17:13 +0000

I don't think it's so dire. I've gone through this at multiple companies and a startup that's selling B2B only needs one or two of these big outages and then enterprises start demanding SLA guarantees in their contracts. it's a self correcting problem

New comment by somsak2 in "Seeing like a bank"

somsak2 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:52:33 +0000

I've heard alot of great reviews of this book but personally found it pretty disappointing.

New comment by somsak2 in "Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss"

somsak2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:15:09 +0000

https://archive.ph/sgHix

New comment by somsak2 in "New models and developer products"

somsak2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:54:31 +0000

Any examples?

New comment by somsak2 in "New models and developer products"

somsak2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:49:02 +0000

It seems like the "Turbo" models are more about being faster/cheaper, not so much about being better. Kinda similar to the iPhone "S" models or Intel's "tick-tock"

New comment by somsak2 in "New models and developer products"

somsak2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:47:47 +0000

Was there an assertion that it doesn't?

New comment by somsak2 in "New models and developer products"

somsak2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:45:47 +0000

I don't know if I'd say "miles ahead." AWS had 7 years of basically no other competition -- all of the other big clouds of today had their heads in the sand. OpenAI has a bunch of people competing already. They may not be as good on the leaderboards now, but they're certainly not having to play catch up from years of ignoring the space.

New comment by somsak2 in "New models and developer products"

somsak2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:41:54 +0000

How do you square this with OpenAI's assertion that they never use data from enterprise customers for their own training? Are you suggesting they're lying?

New comment by somsak2 in "New models and developer products"

somsak2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:40:32 +0000

piece of feedback: it's weird to have a drop-down on "OpenAPI Links" when there are no other options.

New comment by somsak2 in "Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek"

somsak2 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 08:52:05 +0000

Mind me asking how many hours that is? Does it include meetings?

New comment by somsak2 in "Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek"

somsak2 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 08:50:53 +0000

source for this? what I've seen suggests that this trend isn't growing more than it historically has been.

New comment by somsak2 in "Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek"

somsak2 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 08:48:08 +0000

You used a single personal data point and then pulled numbers completely out of nowhere and are comfortable making general statements about housing affordability on that basis? Bold.

New comment by somsak2 in "Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek"

somsak2 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 08:45:47 +0000

> why won't I just hire good English-speaking talent in Costa Rica (more likely Brazil) at a tenth of your expected comp?

you can try! but you'll find that this is basically impossible -- the folks that are good enough aren't going to take 1/10th of the comp they could be making.

New comment by somsak2 in "Reflections on quitting my job"

somsak2 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 04:51:21 +0000

>I recognise this is an incredibly privileged thing to do, not working is something that many people can only dream of.

It's crazy how often you see this kind of statement these days. I often wonder if it's made in earnest or mostly to avoid a culture war about privilege happening in the comments. Would love to see the Google Trends data on this

New comment by somsak2 in "California employers must reimburse remote workers for all necessary expenses"

somsak2 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:01:24 +0000

Very interesting how a company run by irrational humans can be counted on to make "economically rational" decisions!

New comment by somsak2 in "Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI"

somsak2 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:44:02 +0000

It's interesting how most don't consider programmers artists, even though coding requires quite a bit of creativity.