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dzonga

4,257 karma · joined January 27, 2017

All in on Agentic Applications

engineer at everywhere with a knack for product.

email: ptdzonga \\ at \\ gmail dot com

I build things.

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dzonga··on Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released
chinese memory providers can't come online soon enough.

prices shoot by just choosing the 128gb option and even worse the 512gb option.

dzonga··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
he's a wannabe dictator.

yeah - he's shaken u.s institutional protections to their core. but lucky they keep standing. maybe he or someone else will finally make a break through - but most likely it won't be trump due to his incompetency and him surrounding himself with 'yes' incompetent people.

dzonga··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
if fly.io has servers based in the U.S by all means the gvt has access to those logs legally and illegally.
dzonga··on Land Value Capture in Practice: Ethiopia's Urban Land Lease System
over the long run land-leases have proven effective e.g with Shenzhen.

the people that need the land - lease it first - develop it. if you don't develop it - you don't realize any gain from it. thereby removing speculation.

dzonga··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
such as ? mind you I love stablecoins but for a person in a normal economy they make 0 cents to use.
dzonga··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
crypto still trying to find PMF beyond speculation after 10+ years is the crazy thing to me.

asset tokenization doesn't have to be tied to crypto.

the legit use cases for crypto i.e people in poor countries etc are not exactly a demographic for VCs or investors to pump money into.

dzonga··on Genie 4
all the things you've dreamt of - your vivid dreams - now you can replay them.

for all the a.i misery with hardware prices i.e ram.

such a wonderful world we live in now.

dzonga··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
most people in the west ie US and western europe if they haven't travelled to africa etc and other '3rd world countries' miss the solar revolution.

what china has done is massive - cheap solar panels & batteries - means a lot of places that never had grid connections suddenly have power 24/7 for cheap. with electric cars / hybrid cars from china - means even transportation is now cheap too. some places even have those electric mopeds too.

nothing beats free energy from the sun.

dzonga··on Anthropic S-1
religious monarchy - you mean musk & the muskites.
dzonga··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
it's not just windows.

looking at azure - the traditional .net shops will insist on mssql instead of cosmosdb - when cosmosdb might fit their needs.

so many things wrong in the m$ ecosystem that could be fixed with m$ showing a little bit of care and deploying knowledgable engineers or resources to empower their customers.

dzonga··on Anthropic S-1
if i read the s-1 correctly - at current burn rates if anthropic doesn't raise additional money - they go poof in 2 years ?

losses vs assets at hand.

dzonga··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
microsoft should ideally be doing the reverse. hiring more workers or re-skilling.

they've the most deployed software in the world - the software is inadequate most of the times (i.e full of bugs). 2nd the software is prone to misuse cz M$ doesn't have enough people listening to customers and making software meet the needs of its users.

if there was a company that should've done the Forward deployed thingy is Microsoft.

dzonga··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
that's what other people have been tryin' to point out.

no matter the place the judiciary can be stacked to favor a party. in the US right now it's stacked to favor Trump & the republicans.

just like how u r complaining abt the brazilian judiciary.

dzonga··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
> But most white collar workers I know spend most their time either talking to each other, or thinking real hard about what to say the next time they get together to talk.

is that true though ? let's think about finance say a simple M&A deal for TV show rights ?

i think us engineers n i'm assuming u r one - we tend to underestimate the complexities in the world specially in worlds governed by 'words'.

dzonga··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
'a.i' is unlike software before - where it was build then deploy with lack of customization except of a few high ticket items such as SAP, Workday etc.

for 'A.I' to work for the rest of industry outside of software - you need high touch customization.

dzonga··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
blaming Musk for doing musk thing is barking at the wrong tree.

LEO satellites could've been deployed by other satellite providers but they wanted to gouge regular customers and live off of large gvt / telecom contracts till starlink disrupted their model via innovator's dilemma.

Europe etc could easily deploy their own constellation of LEO satellites.

dzonga··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
the PDF thing isn't exploited the israeli hacking group a lot ?

hell wasn't it what caused that Saudi journalist to get killed in the Saudi embasssy cz Israeli's sold the software to Saudis ?

dzonga··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
everyone does PR - whether the A.I labs or your regular startups - but coz it's the chinese doing it is wrong lol
dzonga··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
the only iPod i owned was the touch. but for for an iPod that had a clickwheel that I had then was my gf's.

damn what a pleasurable experience of using a click wheel.

dzonga··on MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada
they need to be banned in the U.S as well.

every ad these days on TV specially during sports is either gambling, pharma - glp1s, some random medicine with obscene side effects or political ads. & fast-food or fast food delivery sprinkled in.

dzonga··on OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
and 49% of OpenAI profits
dzonga··on Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3
will tesla exist in 15 years ?

will the never ending musk promises around his cars - level 4 autonomous driving etc bear fruit ?

can't even talk about the roadster

dzonga··on US Denaturalizes 2 People Who Gained Citizenship Hiding Criminal Activity
forgot about rick scott - commit fraud for billions, then become governor & later senator.
dzonga··on After automation: Solo founding will be the default
delay building as much as possible - unless you're doing something completely innovative such as inventing the iPhone.

research markets, research TAMs (they can be too big or too small - which is fatal) - read books about selling. reach out to potential customers in your target markets that match the TAM you want.

do pilots.

only after that then you can start building.

dzonga··on After automation: Solo founding will be the default
reach out I will give you a free consult since your web page shows an error.
dzonga··on US Denaturalizes 2 People Who Gained Citizenship Hiding Criminal Activity
these r legit cases - however hidden are the multiple cases of people's permanent residency being stripped for non causes, people with that are adjusting status being caught up with ICE.

obama enforced immigration without all the drama and the criminality.

dzonga··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
the chinese legal system somehow in its flaws is able to hold powerful company execs to account.

whereas here in the states - once you're a billionaire - jail or being held personally liable is a foreign concept.

dzonga··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
the thing with the climate goal is just an arbitrary number to the person on the street.

for us that come from poor countries - it fuels degrowth. you want us to shut down coal plants & yet you don't want us to trade with china.

even in rich countries such as Germany - cost of energy has been a factor in slowing down growth because bureaucrats said so. while private planes keep flying, good keep getting shipped from overseas.

china has enabled cheap solar - which in turn has enabled cheap access to electricity. china has enabled cheap electric vehicles. for a bunch of people in 'poor' or 3rd world countries - in the next few years their first cars will be chinese EVs not Japanese 2nd hands or other 2nd hands from western countries.

dzonga··on Revolut down as users report app not working
I don't think monzo is a good example lol
dzonga··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
the banning of sending advanced chips, EUV machines to slow down the chinese was an own goal by the USA and the west.

zAI served their latest model for free on chinese chips, now deep seek is saying run inference for cheap on Huawei chips.

even the RAM madness is about to end once the chinese ram providers unleash Ram onto the market in 2027.

lastly remember the chinese have the largest electricity production and the cheapest.

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