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bmiller2··on How to build a $20B semiconductor fab
I don't know why you're being downvoted. There is a reason why development volume across states is asymmetric.
bmiller2··on NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of Paul Cristiano to NIST
> SAMUEL ALTMAN, an individual, GREGORY BROCKMAN, an individual, OPENAI, INC., a corporation, OPENAI, L.P., a limited partnership, OPENAI, L.L.C., a limited liability company, OPENAI GP, L.L.C., a limited liability company, OPENAI OPCO, LLC, a limited liability company, OPENAI GLOBAL, LLC, a limited liability company, OAI CORPORATION, LLC, a limited liability company, OPENAI HOLDINGS, LLC, a limited liability company, and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive

Kinda seems like it's not

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mu...

bmiller2··on Vim Boss
Larry David had the same thought, and it was the theme of the episode "The Covid Hoarder" in Curb Your Enthusiasm wherein Albert Brooks stages a funeral for his non-deceased self.
bmiller2··on US Army Physical Fitness Test: Normative Data on 6022 Soldiers (1994)
Is 11/100 not the almost ideal marine infantryman score?
bmiller2··on Expensify S-1
When my startup was acquired, we had to migrate from using Expensify to some god-awful corporate nonsense (SAP Concur).

Lord, how I miss Expensify. It was the epitome of intuitive.

It makes me sad that Expensify was not a first-mover in this space. Once SAP or whatever garbage-ware gets baked into corporate enterprise architecture, it takes an act of God (or equivalently the CTO's dedicated focus) to replace it.

bmiller2··on US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds
CPAs absolutely have their license on the line and are required to validate and sign off on the returns that they prepare. They are liable for claims against the validity of the return.

Tax attorneys are different; they don't validate returns, they handle legalities around tax lawsuits and IRS negotiations. I don't think a tax attorney would generally be involved with preparing a return, except maybe for reviewing ultra-wealthy clients for potential legal consequences.

bmiller2··on Facebook requiring U.S. employees to be vaccinated to return to work
Yes. Section K: https://www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-covid-1...

Good for them. Glad to see this becoming a standard policy across many orgs.

bmiller2··on LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
Having never heard of bitchute, I just checked it out. It’s basically just right wing nut job stuff. I think LiveLeak at least was a little more “balanced”, in that it was about entertaining content, regardless of the political ideology.
bmiller2··on What's Salesforce? (2019)
Service Now is the bane of my existence. Pray tell if the behind-the-scenes code base is as bad as the experience.
bmiller2··on Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
The worst I’ve seen was Nord VPN. Three or four modals / screens where the action to stop your subscription was the smaller, secondary UI element, almost not even noticeable. How a dev or PM can live with themselves while implementing that I have no idea.
bmiller2··on FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack
Own/compel one of the ends.
bmiller2··on Programming is hard
Thank you for trying
bmiller2··on GameStop Stock Breaks Records as Reddit Traders War with Short Sellers
No gamer loves GameStop, where’d you get that idea? They are known for buying back your 60$ blockbuster game after a month for $3, and reselling for $55.

They should be dead in the water, and the shorts will eventually be correct, if they can’t pivot to a digital presence (which they can’t, because why would anyone go outside of the native platform stores?)

bmiller2··on Update on an Employee Matter
> Earlier this week, the company hosted an “empathy circle” to “build understanding with members of the team on things that affect us.” It did not go over well with employees.

Maybe they got fired for this terrible idea

bmiller2··on Update on an Employee Matter
Well they left all the juicy parts out

Context: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/15/22232766/github-employees...

I can’t believe people talk like this on a work public channel.

bmiller2··on Platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far
The end result is the same, but the mechanisms that create and persist that phenomenon are now a billion dollar industry driven by very smart people with shareholders that they answer to. The result is that the effectiveness and pertinacity of these creations far outstrip anything ever seen before in human history.
bmiller2··on Platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far
History doesn’t have any precedent for this. Algorithmically defined echo chambers are a new frontier for society to tackle. We’ve tried the option of waving our hands and hoping for the best, and what we got was a literal riot at the holiest of holies. Maybe it’s time for society to reject extremists on the internet, like we reject them in our local communities.
bmiller2··on Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+
Buy PTON now then, at least 18 million potential subscribers out there
bmiller2··on When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
Any resources you can share? Sounds amazing
bmiller2··on When X-Rays Were All the Rage, a Trip to Shoe Store Was Dangerously Illuminating
My dad used to tell me about these. He commonly would use them when his parents took him to the shoe store in the early 50s, Northern California.

He occasionally has related this fact to podiatrists pals, who generally are shocked to discover such a thing ever existed.

bmiller2··on Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including 'Dr Johnny Bananas'
Dr. Banana’s meta analysis on fecal flinging was groundbreaking, he doesn’t deserve this.
bmiller2··on Celery 5.0
I’ve found celery to be extremely useful and reliable at handling > 1MM daily async tasks with non deterministic latencies. The programming interface melds beautifully with Flask.
bmiller2··on Google Asks Workers Who Went Abroad for Covid to Return
I think he means South East Asia
bmiller2··on How to form a California LLC without a lawyer
If California can tax it, oh they will tax it.
bmiller2··on You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?
Always include a duck https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1220...
bmiller2··on Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
Just curious, What’s not to like about ember?
bmiller2··on I got my first $50/mo customer
Interested, but your price point is way to high. It’s also pretty easy for me to go to each vendor you mention on the landing page and fill out the opt out request form they are mandated to provide.
bmiller2··on Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
Fall of NOSQL?
bmiller2··on Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’
“We need to stop confusing human value with economic value. We don't exist to serve the market. The market exists to serve us.”
bmiller2··on Jeff Bezos warns US military it risks losing tech supremacy
Jeff Bezos built a website / online marketplace. Why does anyone care about his opinion on global military matters?
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