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shapefrog··on 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time
200? You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.
shapefrog··on Postmortem: Co-founding a Web3 startup as a crypto skeptic young dev
> MMDDYYYY

People who use this notation (and its derivatives) are committing crimes against humanity.

shapefrog··on Postmortem: Co-founding a Web3 startup as a crypto skeptic young dev
Weak grindset.
shapefrog··on You only compete with one thing
They could always try to get better at picking winners
shapefrog··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
For the reccord, got to 11am before before tweetdeck is dead with rate limits.
shapefrog··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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shapefrog··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
Likewise you can have a "poor quality" 1x employee who has knowledge of how everything within the stack is glued together; where there is chewingum and where there are steel beams.

They are potentially more vauable than the 100x engineer who has intimate knowledge of how googles shipping container datacentres work.

shapefrog··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
> Seems more like a thinly disguised attempt to force people to purchase subscriptions. Blue checkmarks and all.

6k tweets a day even with the blue mark of shame makes something like tweetdeck functionally useless.

Obviously Elon and I have different uses for "The Worlds Town Square"

shapefrog··on Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B
Beats over here where the government basically thinks "education bad" and starts making lots of schools crappy out of a realisation that anyone who can add two numbers together wont vote for them come election time.

The result is of course a population that isnt qualified to do anything but sit at home watching propaganda on tv.

shapefrog··on Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank
Scotty normally manages to fix things when the antimater containment fails.
shapefrog··on XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens
> Why have there been thousands of overnight AI/GPT startups and products in the last few months and NOT a single simple intuitive "fine tuning wizard" app?

Vapourware GPT startup inc is valued at $2bn the afternoon after you form the company and buy your first macbook.

Actual usage of Ai, fine tuning etc. I can offer you $100,000 for 30% of your company if you can demonstrate a fully working product.

shapefrog··on Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
I highly doubt that. If the pair of things being compared was self titled tech "elites" and used car salespeople; there is a small (non zero but maybe zero if you rounding to the nearest number) chance they meant used car salesmen.
shapefrog··on Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
Normally I would agree, but tech workers (especially those that dub themselves elites) deserve it.
shapefrog··on Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
> morally no better than expensive prostitutes

expensive prostitutes care way more about their clients than tech workers.

shapefrog··on Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
> The UK is for some reason very surveillance-friendly.

Yet in the free very surveillance-unfriendly haven of the world, everyone has a camera recording their front porch and uploading the video to amazon... (and then posting the video of any person who dares walk past their front door on the internet)

shapefrog··on Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
Can your elaborate on your trigger here?

Was it someone daring to suggest that molesting a 3 year old is actually bad, like really bad?

shapefrog··on Why Does Google Kill So Many Products?
It just printed a cheque for 180mil. I am sure there are a few small time domain registrars who have have seen their theoretical paper net worth go from $2.50 to 20mil.
shapefrog··on Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
Are they going to undelete all of spez's comments where he is begging underage girls for nudes?
shapefrog··on Probability and Markets [pdf]
trading-interview.pdf
shapefrog··on Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?
Product Manager sounds like a made up generic job title that covers everything from A-Q in the alphabet.
shapefrog··on If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times
Nahh, 10am clashes with morning tea and 2pm with afternoon tea.
shapefrog··on Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
> he has had a commendable commitment to free speech

and a love of r/jailbait

shapefrog··on “But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments in Coinbase's defense
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is
shapefrog··on 10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
> Snowden basically exposed the rot in a branch of government.

What we have learnt from the Snowden leaks as evidence by "what has changed" is that it wasnt a branch of government that is a problem, but the entire country its laws, its values and its people.

shapefrog··on Snowden Revelations 10-Year Later: Greenwald Speaks with Snowden and Poitras
The average civilian never gives two thoughts that about OpenAI collecting their data (and selling it for billions), never gives two thoughts that about corporations collecting their data (and selling it for billions) and never gives two thoughts that about the government collecting their data.
shapefrog··on Pentagon contracting Starlink to provide satellite communications for Ukraine
They are pulling up the drawbridge behind them.

Get rich by being a western oligarch - then gerrymander the system so that you have no competition.

shapefrog··on Never trust a programmer who says they know C++
People who are honest about their skills dont get the job. People who say they are the living embodiment of sunshine and rainbows get the job.

They say it as it is the correct answer in an interview, maybe they believe it, maybe they dont - they however are saying the things that they need to say to be employable.

shapefrog··on Ask HN: Struggling with Productivity and Procrastination
> Getting things done at the last minute all the time because of procrastination is a trap people who do not know how to manage their ADHD fall into

It is also a trap that smart people can fall into - say you have coasted through school, picking things up easily, slapping together the homework on the morning of in 15 minutes before you hand it in and achieved good grades. Why wouldnt you continue to do the thing that got you where you are now?

shapefrog··on Fallen Pizza Startup Zume Shuts Down After Raising Millions
They should have pivoted to blockchain
shapefrog··on ChatGPT Forgot My Startup
OpenAI Employee: GPT-4 has been static since March - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155267
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