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So sad, we were born in the same year. Interview was great

At $700k/day that would put it at ~260mil/year, with 200mil in 2023, I think this start-up is doing a lot better than most. That 700k can probably be lowered and has probably already been lowered. You would also assume they set the price of the subscription to scale with the user's use. Even at the price right now, lots of the users I know of, are super happy with their subscription, and share it with their family members (similar to Netflix).

When it comes to choosing between a Mac and a PC, many people opt for a Mac because of its superior build quality. However, it's worth noting that Apple products have consistently received low scores from iFixit, indicating that they are difficult to repair. For Microsoft to win, maybe the strategy is to advocate for repairability and encourage Apple to prioritize it in their designs. Thereby taking Apple s focus away from innovation to repairability.

iPhone 14 was underwhelming in sooooo many ways, but it's repairability went up! My sense is that the iPhone 15 will lack innovation due to the USB C conversion... and we will see what the iPhone 16 will bring.

But legal troubles force Apple's hand, and they can't focus on adding value in other ways.

Yes and the solution is to have a warehouse of stuff that makes the stuff close by. But you probably need lots of manufactures to make that warehouse make sense. etc.

When I was doing my master's degree I would bike down to Rotterdam where the largest importer of piping supplies in Europe was. I just wandered off the street and every part imaginable they could just pull off the shelf for me. I was converting all kinds of wild stuff, from metric to imperial and vice versa, there are about a billion different thread standards and manufacturing standards, they had convertors for everything. And cheap stuff to go the distance.

The funny thing was, I didn't know it was there, there was an Italian researcher visiting that told me about it. However, he said that in Italy where he did his research he needed to travel over an hour to get to something similar. After that, I realized there were many pieces of my project that had large warehouses like this in Rotterdam due to the harbour. They often had tiny little windows with people with plus 20/30 years of experience, just taking orders, and coming up with solutions for your problems with a list of parts that would get you there. Then you would walk away with 50 bits, and a bill that was less than 40 euros. Madness.

There are two bits to this, all superconducting materials are diamagnetic it’s simply the property that a material creates a magnetic field that is opposed to the applied magnetic field. All materials exhibit this property but it’s not strong enough to levitate.

One thing that strongly diamagnetic materials tend to have is very I high resistance, and this material has both low resistance and this diamagnetic property. Something very interesting.

Samsung's like Apple's profits are cyclic in nature, when the new phone hits the market they have a massive/profit revenue increase, and that's how it goes. Saying that a quarter earnings are lower in profits, is because the base of appliances that Samsung sells have low margin (everything from washing machines, to tanks), while the phones they sell have a high margin. So The phone quarter you see larger margins, their December 2022 profit was around the 33%, while right now it's around 2-3%.

I mean, remove it, and replace it with RCS-Rich Communication Services I hope? Generally this could be a good thing.

> AI Site Generator takes several prompts — any descriptions of sites — and uses a combination of in-house and third-party AI systems to create the envisioned site. In a chatbot-like interface, the tool asks a series of questions about the nature of the site and business, attempting to translate this into a custom web template.

> ChatGPT generates the text for the website while Wix’s AI creates the site design and images.

Looks like they are blending their own work with ChatGPT.

The first thing I do when I work in an editor with a mini-map is -- turn it off. I find it mostly the most useless feature for coding, and for sites it seems to be equally useless. Why?

1. Stuff is too small to really make out where I'm going or navigating.

2. Short or long pages, both don't really benefit from the loss of screen real-estate. Or the distraction really.

3. Other tools like a proper index with descriptive headers, or the search function work so much better to navigate the page.

Where mini-maps could be awesome are large images, or maps. They tend to visual in nature, and when zoomed in you can look at the mini-map to see where you are in the whole. Which is useful.

So, cool future, but this doesn't really seem like a great implementation.

Compared to the first 72hrs? Of course people are going to be less active.

Things will pick up over time, I’m getting lots of notifications on Instagram of my friends using and posting on threads even though I haven’t even installed the app. That kind of notifications will over time continue to drive people there.

This story resonates with me — apparently we are on phase two. And we need dedicated team members to take care of this. Thanks for sharing your lessons this was hugely valuable. Don’t let the negative comments get you down, when building things it’s hard and it’s all a big learning game. Congratulations on building a great piece of software.

They should make a movie out of this guys life. Absoluut sounds insane!

This is insane. Thanks for sharing this gem.

Doesn’t the bathing come in the form of write offs and investments? Sales decline is never good. But it’s hard to say they have any good products Ive considered buying in the past two years or so. I actively right now wouldn’t consider a pc option if it came with intel.

So many opportunities and how to pace yourself. Keeps going. So much is about being in the right places at the right time. Learning this for the first time you going to make mistakes.

The lock screen issue is really funny. Because I have the same experience where I will come home and say hey, Siri lock screen to close the navigation. However, now it doesn’t seem to work anymore and I have tried some of your prompts and some combination does work.

When I was doing my phd I noticed many advantages those that had parents which already navigated the system. Building up my C.V. with publications, workshops, presentations, teaching work, writing in public etc. (evidence of competence) is an impossible job to do when I figured out I needed this at the the end of my PhD to get the professor job. My colleagues that knew all this portfolio building and what is in and what is relevant had a huge leap up. I was just happy to finish with my publications and thesis.

There is also a tonne of relationship building opportunities that I didn't realize I had after I finished. So, many things are also unsaid that when my children go in I will know how to help them navigate.

Clojure compiles to jar files, that run on JVM. So, it’s both compiling and JIT in the REPL. In a weird way.

The top anything in any field will get this. Top actors are getting 10-20 mil per movie. Top interior design artists are earning 10-20mil a year.

This says very little about the job and more about cost of the top. Not sure what the point is if this tweet. Be the top of your game and make a tonne of money.

My two favourite songs by George are Give me Love, and my sweet lord.

Casio stainless steel version is pretty dope.

Canadian university here it’s between 15-25%. Which we often negotiated down to 15% or didn’t pay at all if the grant agency required no such fees. Secondly, students still pay tuition even though they got stipend from grant. So the uni still made some money from the whole thing.

On a side note, I haven’t been able to login to Twitter for a long time. Every time I try with email, phone or username it prompts me that they can’t find user. When I search my own username without logging in it just shows up perfectly. The login has been broken for a long while now.. I hope they are tooling away and fixing it, but unsure

I broke my x1 in 2020 after using it daily while travelling the world doing just about everything with it for four and half years. Never had crazy heating issues and speed issues. And it just straight up died for no reason. Just 3 weeks after handing in my PhD thesis. I loved that thing.

Hi there, I’m also a Silvia owner. I steam first then pull a shot. Easier to go up to steam then come down.

Lisp is making a comeback

Very cool, did you try to add prompts such as try to add reasoning features; add creative features allowing you to reason about the meaning of life. Maybe it will come up with 42. :)

Very cool little project

One thing it also needs is variable margins with margins based on page side. That way the text doesn’t get too close to the spine.

They did get quite a lot, but you need majority vote in the senate to shoot down new laws. In practical terms they can delay laws but probably can’t shoot down anything. Netherlands is a country of polderen (1).

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder_model

For those interested most coffee is not decaffeinated with this chemical. Most use a critical CO2 process.