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amccollum commented on TiVo exiting legacy DVR business   mediaplaynews.com/tivo-ex... · Posted by u/TMWNN
bigtunacan · 3 months ago
I loved TiVo 20 years ago when it was relevant, but honestly I had no idea they were still around
amccollum · 3 months ago
They're not, at least not really. From Wikipedia:

  In April 2016, Rovi acquired TiVo for $1.1 billion.[8]
  
  In December 2019, it was announced that TiVo would merge with Xperi Corporation. The merger completed in May 2020.[9]
Xperi itself also split apart in 2022, so it's effectively 3 companies removed from its original roots. Basically at this point it is only valuable for the vague nostalgia consumers have for the brand.

amccollum commented on Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs   ryelang.org/blog/posts/pr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
amccollum · 5 months ago
If everyone is using LLMs to write new code, and LLMs are trained on existing code from the internet, that creates an enormous barrier to the adoption of new programming languages, because no new code will be written in them, therefore LLMs will never learn to write the code. It is a self-reinforcing cycle.

I've experienced this to some degree already in using LLMs to write Zig code (ironically, for my own pet programming language). Because Zig is still evolving so quickly, often the code the LLM produces is wrong because it's based on examples targeting incompatible prior versions of the language. Alternatively, if you ask an LLM to try to write code for a more esoteric language (e.g., Faust), the results are generally pretty terrible.

amccollum commented on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/Topfi
n2d4 · 5 months ago
> said we'd have self driving cars "in a few years" back in 2015

And they wouldn't have been too far off! Waymo became L4 self-driving in 2021, and has been transporting people in the SF Bay Area without human supervision ever since. There are still barriers — cost, policies, trust — but the technology certainly is here.

amccollum · 5 months ago
People were saying we would all be getting in our cars and taking a nap on our morning commute. We are clearly still a pretty long ways off from self-driving being as ubiquitous as it was claimed it would be.
amccollum commented on Potatoes in the Mail   facts.usps.com/mailing-po... · Posted by u/mooreds
thecosas · 8 months ago
amccollum · 8 months ago
The story of the bank built from bricks sent through the mail reminds me of the time I completed a move from Austin to Boston by packing all my possessions into rubber tubs and sending them by parcel post.

The delivery date was a range, and I wasn't there on the day of the first attempted delivery. When I called the post office about it, their response (in a thick Boston accent) was, "oh, so you're the tub guy, huh?"

All in all, it was a really convenient way to execute a cross-country move, assuming you don't have a lot of stuff!

amccollum commented on Lessons from my first exit   mtlynch.io/lessons-from-m... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
aimazon · a year ago
“My lawyer warned me that when I sell my business, I lose limited liability protection. If the purchase agreement didn’t limit my liability to the buyer, the buyer could later sue me for any amount, even if it exceeds what they paid in the acquisition.”

“Sales below $1M are usually asset sales, meaning that the buyer is purchasing assets from the business but not the business itself. So, I technically still own a company called TinyPilot, but I transferred all of its physical and intellectual property to the new owner.”

Aren’t these contradictory? If it’s an asset sale, the deal is between TinyPilot LLC and the buyer for the assets.

amccollum · a year ago
I don't know about the author's case, but often asset purchase agreements will make the principals / shareholders party to the agreement personally with specific liability provisions. If there are no assets left in the company, the buyer has no recourse against it, since it is essentially an empty shell (in certain cases, insurance could be an exception to this). As a buyer, you will want to have some protection against issues you don't know about at the time of sale (perhaps because you weren't told about them, or the seller was negligent).
amccollum commented on Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages   asmirnov.xyz/doppelganger... · Posted by u/furiousteabag
NoraCodes · 2 years ago
A meta-comment, but, what is the difference between "learnings" and "lessons"? Why use the former when we have the latter?
amccollum · 2 years ago
This usage of "learnings", while certainly more common in "business jargon" today, was used by Shakespeare:

https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view....

amccollum commented on SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file   github.com/gildas-lormeau... · Posted by u/crbelaus
tzs · 4 years ago
> For security reasons, you cannot save pages hosted on https://chrome.google.com, https://addons.mozilla.org and some other Mozilla domains.

Interesting. What is it about those pages that makes saving them raise security issues?

amccollum · 4 years ago
Maybe because JS files (specifically add-ons) run from the local filesystem are given escalated privileges compared to normal usage, perhaps for ease of development. I'm just speculating, though.
amccollum commented on An unsolicited streaming app spec   hypercritical.co/2022/02/... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
amccollum · 4 years ago
If you're interested in these challenges (and trust me, these things all seem simpler than they are in practice), consider coming and joining us at Philo (https://about.philo.com/jobs/)! We're hiring for basically all technical (and plenty of non-technical) roles/specialties/platforms, so if you're excited about dragging TV kicking and screaming into streaming age, drop me an email: andrew@philo.com

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