williamDafoe

Never found a startup on the premise that someone else's product will be inadequate forever.

The recent rewrite of github search has probably made sourcegraph irrelevant. If you may recall, original github search used almost the most horrible algorithm possible. It dropped all punctuation and spacing and just searched for identifiers. No patterns allowed, no quoting allowed. One of the only meta-arguments was filename:xyz.

Now that github has improved its basic search functionality, sourcegraph might be doomed.

I used sourcegraph at Lyft which (at the time) had unlimited money to waste on software tools, and installed the open-source version at Databricks but nobody cared.

Did you ever hear of groups.google.com? About 30Y older than reddit, the original Usenet groups system started in the late 70s ...

This used to be false! I have my dad's copy of the ~1910 encyclopedia Britannica and they were still trying to cover the entirety of the field of mathematics in those years!

World Book was always the most terrible Encyclopedia when I was growing up 1968-1984. Overly short articles and tons of color pictures; only suitable for 10-yrs and younger. When sent to do a book report in my elementary School library I knew I would always come up short on information if I relied on "The World Book."

Encyclopedia Americana was the thing to own and was IMHO better than the Brittainica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Americana . We owned the Encyclopedia Americana, The Book of Science (a 10-volume science encyclopedia), and a family medical guide.

Not really. It was Lisa's decision to stop shipping CPUs with locked clock multipliers! She also made the decision that eight cores and 16 threads would become the industry standard for laptops and desktops! These are major strategic decisions which made her a hero to computer buyers!

NVidia loves to cite steam surveys to mislead customers but the truth is they have 0% market share in consoles (not in steam surveys) and the new AMD M780 iGPU (7940hs APU) just wiped out NVidia's entire MX product line and is literally 2x faster than Intel's best iGPU and equal to an m1650 laptop GPU! If they are not careful NVidia could fall below 50% of the graphics market very very soon!

I remember a time when ATI 9600 was the #1 card on the market. It can come again, and quicker than you think ...

Obviously you stopped buying AMD products 4Y ago when Raj Koduri left. Without his corrosive effect, many reviewers are saying AMD adrenaline tools are NOW MUCH BETTER than NGreedia ...

Rx 7900xt is $760 and it's an incredible bargain now, IMHO ...

Jim Keller had nothing to do with the rx6000 series of AMD graphics cards and this is the best series that AMD has ever produced! I think you have the credit Lisa Su with firing Raj Koduri who went to Intel to make his flaky-driver hot graphics cards there! Raj is now laid off at Intel, too!

AMD wasn't very profitable until 2018. The company's debt to equity ratio was terrible (due to previous CEO mistakes 2000-2012) until they paid off their huge debts with Ryzen 3 in ~2020. Be patient, grasshopper ..

https://www.google.com/search?q=amd%20debt%20to%20equity%20r...

AMD's focus was always on pure compute power at a good price. And they always beat NVidia at that game. AMD cards always had the highest hash rate per dollar in crypto mining. AMD has 100% of the console market and the fastest iGPUs by 2x over Intel.

NVidia decided to use gimmicks to sell their cards including texture compression, lighting tricks, improved antique video encoders, motion smoothing, bad proprietary variable refresh rate, ray tracing, cuda and now machine learning features.

Nvidia is fortunate that machine learning has taken off. That is masking AMD winning market share from weak overpriced NVidia 3D products!

The real point of CPR is to bridge their life while you rush to get them an AED. Without the AED the chance of their heart restarting permanently is vanishingly low ... Last few times I had first responder training it was said to be less than 15% chance of survival for a patient given CPR, and you'll only hear about this if you ask.

The last time I had first responder training the guy sitting next to me was drowned by a surfing accident but it was his great fortune that on shore there was a national expert giving rapid water rescue training and they had this guy out of the water and his heart restarted in 5 minutes. So that is why he was taking first responder training himself!

My favorite thing on the TI SR-50 was to calculate 69! ... It was the largest number that the 2-digit exponent could hold and also the slowest calculation. I also discovered the 1 hidden digit of precision (13 digits) by subtracting know digits of pi away from the pi constant to reveal the invisible digit in scientific notation ...

Their massive early investment in Uber distorted their reality and they expected ride sharing to be incredibly successful in other markets when it's not even successful in the USA - it's a fraud that pays below minimum wage off the backs of people who cannot do math. It has never made money anywhere ...

ARM has had a laziness problem ever since the Apple A1 chip - there's a reason why nobody uses their 6-yr old layouts. ARM almost killed Qualcomm when they adopted A57 for the snapdragon 808 using the 64-bit arm design - that chip melted quite a few phones and this gave Exymos it's start!

You have too much of a reliance on fake info from stale web articles. The only active ingredients in current chloraseptic are benzocaine, menthol, and dextromethorpan hydrobromide. I have a box of the useless kind in front of me. No actual antiseptics any more, just cover up the problem; do nothing actually.

That is NOT chlorascepric. It's new "this doesn't work" -a-sceptic. AS I SAID, medical professional have been moving to castrate OTC medicines. I have a hoard of original chlorasceptic with actual working, antiseptic ingredients ...

Nurse practitioner prescriptions have to be reviewed by a superior doctor that's how the AMA keeps its Union controlling everything!

My former employer Qualcomm hired about three people to have an employee-only GP medical department. It was a great deal because the very simple treatments could be done very economically and when your company has more than about 500 people it pays actual medical costs directly and the insurance company just runs the books they don't actually do insurance.

Do you think AMA would allow Congress to increase residencies? It's a union after all. The AMA might just stop performing deluxe congressional healthcare if the Congress crosses them! And those Congresspeople are a very unhealthy bunch!

I use horse medicine (burow's solution / used to be star-otic but now that stuff is reformulated to remove any active ingredients) for an ear infection.

The ear nose throat medical profession is so corrupt. They got the only medicine that works taken off the market so you have to see a doctor. By the time I see a doctor the infection is either gone or three times worse. So I buy the horse / dog / cat medicine instead. It's the same as a human medicine but the human medicine has been taken off the market! You can't talk me out of doing this because it's been working for me for 3 decades!

Lots of medicines have been castrated and/or taken off the market to drive more people to see doctors more -

1. Chlorasceptic 2. Burow's solution

Deregulate medicine. The AMA restricts the supply of Doctors way too much to achieve $500,000 salaries . .

I am currently suffering from a torn Achilles tendon and the medical system in Palo Alto responded instantly (2hr walk-in care wait) on Saturday and with a 7am MRI and 10:45 a.m. follow-up appointment on Monday

Wrong, it's 5%.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

For regular P/E ratio regression to the mean would mean a P/E of 15x. Right now the regular P/E is 24x. So we could still see a 33% drop in stocks due to all the bubble blowing from the fed.

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

I'm from Missouri, the show-me state. Show me a fed funds rate that exceeds the inflation rate by 1% or more, because that's what it took last time we had high inflation to kill the beast.

5% fed funds is not enough to kill 5% inflation in the CPI.

Powell seems ignorant of this fact!

You are talking about the foxes that killed all the hens when Powell printed his 15 trillion dollar bubble in April 2020 and exactly that fox is now guarding the inflation hen house. Of course he's going to say "one and done" every time he raises rates because he's a fool and doesn't want to draw more attention to his big life mistake!

In return for this feature a class of lower income users are able to buy hundreds of millions of phones and pay for them over an extended period using monthly payments on their phone account. This is the trade-off Google makes.

This would only be a problem not when you first buy the phone but only if you buy a very very old used phone that has never had the OS replaced and google has exited the phone business and if you wanted to replace the OS.

I was in the chrome dogfooding program at Google, testing pre release hardware and I used panopticon. They locked it down a short while later. I could see all the acer Chromebooks in the wild before the lockdown. I imagine they renamed it and/or came up with a new tool named panopticon since it's a common term for a special type of prison where from one location you can observe every prisoner at once.

Google has a console called panopticon where they can see every Chromebook in the world. This monitoring facility is used to measure bug / crash prevalence in e.g. 802.11 driver software and to determine how much of each fleet is running the latest ChromeOS security patches.

They can do this because Unlike Microsoft Google ports ChromeOS onto new laptops and tests the crap out of them (including the verification that the manufacturer meets about 25 min performance requirement standards for Chrome hardware like LCD viewing angles and speaker volume). They also test the laptops by giving them to employees and then demand hardware improvements of the manufacturers to get the Chrome branding logo.

I bet the have a similar system for for their HTC phones. So your Pixel is probably registering with a panopticon type system because 99.9% of customers are gonna use the stock OS. They do this so their users perceive and experience higher hardware reliability. So it may sound creepy but the goal (100% fleet registration) is hard to meet without forcing 1 internet connection at the 1st boot. It will be hard to meet your freedom goals and google's reliability goals at the same time ..

I have to agree that Heathkit instructions often carried completely bogus theories of operation. I remember my 3-transistor experimental circuits set. When the manual tried to explain transistors it had a little guy at the top of the stairway which was the emitter waiting at a door that was opened and closed by a guy from the base wire and when they went through the door they went out through the collector (PNP transistor). Semiconductors are so simple that it would have been easier to give a real explanation than this ridiculous piece of bologne!

I am wondering if 2-3% of GDP is accurate? 2-3% of GDP was spent on 0.2% of the population ... Really?