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My Acer Aspire S5 laptop fan failed, and its replacement fan also failed within days. After that I ran it fanless for ~3 years without problems. Actually, the machine crumbled apart mechanically, but it was probably not caused by the extra heat.

When it comes to AI, Apple have been far behind for last 10 years. Not sure what their strategy was. It seems like they've decided not to compete

Surrealism had continued to evolve and exists to this day, but it's not labelled as such. For instance David Lynch, and Francis Bacon are to some extent, are some surrealists of recent times.

I get new bots trying to follow my account nearly every single day. They all follow the same pattern : young asian lady posting platitudes and holiday pics.

Maybe X management actually find value the illusion of activity that bots provide. It's probably not fooling anyone, but...

This. Night shift is probably fewer than 5 staff, but even then, 24 hour care is not cheap.

Serious suggestion: If interviewers want thoughtful answers, they should try sending the questions in advance.

It's the kind of joke that could cause a little spike in heart attacks...

> Where is the skill, though?

100's of competing accelerators popped up but none could match these results : https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

For context, here is the misstep Google is hoping never to repeat (2015):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/01/google-so...

But now, clearly they've gone too far in the opposite direction.

A bit extreme, but it's true that too many entrepreneurs seem more interested in finding funding than finding customers...

Why not ? Boostrapping + Kickstarter for instance is a well trodden path at this point.

They always say that finding great investments is much more important than avoiding bad investments. This is because the upside is unlimited, whereas you cannot lose more than 1X what you put in.

However, Techstars always had an adverse selection problem : the best companies usually prefer to join YC.

I would assume that the worldwide yearly cost of data corruption is orders of magnitude larger than the cost of mandating ECC everywhere.

I'm not sure why it did, but it's not his fault that this has made the top spot on HN.

If picking investors is a bit like a marriage, it's a bit scary. Who'd want to commit to having Garry in their cap table for the next 10 years? I say this as a potential applicant.

It's very wide, most US HW startups could probably apply under this RFS

But Danny will have a $80k gaping hole in his cash flow for half a year. Some businesses would not survive this

Savage : "Unable to muster up even a mite of marketing insight, they chose to compete on only one axis: salary..."

The author has 30+ years of experience and was applying to jobs paying less than 6 figures a year (USD). His expectation were modest, compared to the average US developer.

Move if you have to. Be ready to work 100% onsite.

Look up "permission marketing"

Geoff Ralston was doing fine? Bring him back?

YC shouldn't become a no-go zone for anyone who leans "progressive".

Not sure, it's something I heard on Twitter.

It's easier to learn from history if we look beyond our own short lives.

Agree with the first part.

Mark Zuckerberg is not laying people off because "higher interest rates => no one wants to invest in Meta any more". He's laying people off because he has found the excuses he needed. Rightly or wrongly, he simply wants to follow Elon in building a much leaner organisation.

The "ZIRP" meme is way overdone by now. ZIRP doesn't explain much. Interest rates had been rock bottom since the 2008 crisis, were already quite low since the 1990s, and are still not very high today.

IMO the "vibecession" meme explains what's going on within tech a bit better. Tech CEOs and VCs have decided that the tech industry had to shrink, notwithstanding that the wider economy was and is doing fine.

Interesting that you'd find Villeneuve's Dune "devoid of life" ; I feel the opposite way. I don't even normally like Villeneuve's work ; found Arrival and Blade Runner a bit empty. But I found that with Dune, he finally hit the mark.

The cause for poor health-and-safety conduct appears to be cultural, rather than "market dynamics"