Nimitz14

I don't think the landing page is bad. Product seems cool. I don't agree with the people talking about extra features. The main issue I feel is that this is something only people with quite a bit of money and leisure can afford (because it's not solving a direct problem, it's just for convenience). So you need something on the page that will unconsciously persuade these people that it's cool. It's an upmarket product but the website doesn't advertise it as such.

Rather than doing online ads I think a promo vid with a progressive looking family / hipsters would be more effective. ;)

You don't seem to realize there are many jobs that parents do which require more travel than 1 week per quarter.

Everyone starts from a different position. I don't think it's worth letting yourself get irritated or depressed by other's success. Just try change the position you're at to a better one.

and.. of course startups have title inflation ;)

Older kids can help raising the others, I think having just one is where you do the maximum amount of work, also because with the later ones you are more experienced.

Whatsapp is the number one app in most EU countries. It's not age but the fact youve clearly never socialized outside of your country (or with foreigners).

In europe casually flying somewhere is fun, cheap and very accessible if one works remote (or one can just go for a weekend). Not everyone plans things in advance.

I think you mean glowing

That's fair, as always context matters. But I feel it was implied the context of our discussion was infinite scroll pages like twitter (he specifically mentioned that), tiktok, instagram etc.

> Why do you pause my video when I scroll down it's just a politician speaking I don't need to see it only listen WHY YOU DO THIS?

So you think the standard should be to keep a video playing even if one's scrolled past it? Are you insane?

That is basically impossible. Becoming a good engineer requires learning from the consequences of decisions you yourself made years ago. Doing internships will not give you that no matter how many you do.

> Why are you hiring a $150k candidate to work on X if a $100k candidate can work on X?

Because the world isn't black and white. There could be soooo many different reasons why you're willing to pay one person a lot more than someone else to do a job.

Nobody is a "competent engineer" fresh out of university.

I think because the stereotype is that in a gaming company work life balance tends to not be that good.

LOL Impossible to argue with such "logic".

Actually having to google something so basic makes your experience suspect. That's almost as bad as having to google for loop syntax in a language you say you know.

He's not upset. He just wishes for a more mature level of discourse. Your inability to understand that makes you someone not really worth engaging with.

edit: Now that I think about it your mentality fits very well with someone from Vienna, you've integrated well.

Humans are quite good at driving cars, as evidenced by the death toll per million km. In fair comparisons self-driving cars aren't even close.

Yes people would prefer to have agency in their lives and die based on their own decisions instead of a nameless programmer (a large fraction of the victims have themselves to blame for their death, this would change with self-driving cars).

It's very well known among ppl who know the field. It's quite good, the lead has a nice blog too.

Nice, but I wish this article were longer and the author would have elaborated his thoughts more.

How the hell is it not?

> Five seconds to say and two hours of lost productivity from the context switch required to hear it

What a gem. Whenever the next "silicon valley" is made I'm waiting for a character to say this. Simply hilarious.

Get off your high horse. You can afford an interruption or two per day.

Yeah makes sense. I have read PG's post on doing a startup parttime and it was in the back of my head the whole time.

Thank you for explaining.

So because you don't barter with your family and friends - while living a top 0.00001% lifestyle compared to most people in history - you conclude bartering wasn't really a big thing in the past and people just gave things away for free most of the time?

I assume no, but I'm not understanding what are you actually arguing for then?

That's so obvious it doesn't require evidence. Of course there was bartering before there was money, you don't need to money to barter, you need to invent money to use money.

I agree it's silly. The fact that 99.9% of researchers dont have the resources to use these large models is a minor detail but a chance to shoehorn in fighting climate change is an unmissable opportunity apparently.

humbledrone made a nice comment explaining why he (a manager) likes going to the office. WWLink's response was a dickish "yeah but I don't", which is irrelevant, because the point of discussion was why managers like to go to the office, not whether or not ICs like going to the office.

Wrong according the parent comments' source.

> Not every learning curve is positive.

It should be, if it's not then someone is fucking up and that fuck up needs to be fixed, rather than giving up on the entire project.

From your source, it's not as simple as you state:

> One reason for rising prices is increased regulation for nuclear power, which has the important benefit of increased safety. A second reason is that the world has not built many nuclear power plants in recent years so that supply chains are small, uncompetitive, and are not benefiting from economies of scale.35

> Both of these reasons explain why the global average LCOE price has gone up. But for nuclear there are large differences in price trends between countries: Prices and construction times have increased significantly in the US and the UK, while France and South Korea were at least able to keep prices and construction times constant.36

> Michel Berthélemy and Lina Escobar Rangel (2015) explain that those countries that were able to avoid price surges are countries that do not stand out in regulating nuclear power less, but in standardizing the construction of reactors more.37 Learning, after all, means transferring the knowledge gathered in one instance to another. No repetition, no learning.

> This is in sharp contrast with renewables in particular. While nuclear technology is not very standardized and gets build very rarely, solar PV modules and wind plants are the exact opposite, very standardized and extremely often built.

The costs are high because noone is building. It's because of all the building that solar is low. If you started building npps the costs would go down a lot.