This reminds me of a somewhat related topic - who won the space race? Growing up in Soviet Union, we were taught that it was the USSR - when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Then I came to the US, and was taught that it was the US, when Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon.
Readit Newsbrolumir commented on The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/benbreen
brolumir commented on Chronon, Airbnb's ML feature platform, is now open source medium.com/airbnb-enginee... · Posted by u/vquemener
Why do major sites still use Medium as a blog platform.
It's tough to prioritize migrating to a new platform for the engineering blog, without a very good ROI. Airbnb's eng blog was set up on Medium a while ago, it's doing fine, they have no real reason to spend a lot of resources on switching.
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brolumir commented on A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
> - Investing money in a friend's company - this was the most painful as it was perpetuated by our family members who lived here for a while that we trusted
I don't know your parents' experience, of course, but this method of losing money is one of the most popular for everyone. I once saw an expert who provides finanical education to new professional atheletes (known for being bankrupt soon after retirement despite millions in income). Loans to family/friends' businesses was top of their list of no-no's.
On the other hand, many successful businesses have started that way. Many more legitimate but failed efforts also have begun that way. Not everyone has access to VC capital, personal wealth, or a bank loan.
Yeah, I should've been more clear: it wasn't really investing in a friends company. I agree it can be a source of funding when other sources aren't available, but in this case it was a total scam - the company was specifically designed to accept money and fold.
brolumir commented on A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
Really wish this existed in the 90's when my family moved to the US from eastern europe. A non-exhaustive list of scams my parents fell for:
- Investing money in a friend's company - this was the most painful as it was perpetuated by our family members who lived here for a while that we trusted
- Rainbow vacuum cleaner
- Aqualife water filter
- Hiring someone to take us to another city to buy a car to "help get a good deal" - turned out he was working for the seller, and it was not a good deal at all
- A summer job for me selling Vector cutlery
Unfortunately it's easy to scam new immigrants, this happened for hundred years and still happening now.
This is literally me.
I'm very happy with my life - my spouse, my kids, my extended family, my small group of friends that's been together for 20+ years, and my career. I have very little interest in socializing / meeting new people, and would much rather spend all my free time improving my existing relationships (see above), or be by myself.
I know how to socialize / meet new people, but never feel comfortable doing that.
brolumir commented on The Ur-Quan Masters: Open-source remake of Star Control II theurquanmasters.com/... · Posted by u/reidrac
The original team is working on a sequel: https://pistolshrimpgames.com/uqm2/
brolumir commented on Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's monitoring metrics efinancialcareers.com/new... · Posted by u/Terretta
> Kent Beck, ex-fellow at payroll infrastructure fintech Gusto ...
Really weird way to introduce Kent Beck
brolumir commented on GPT-4 API General Availability openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Hmm, when I try to change model name to "gpt-4" I get the "The model: `gpt-4` does not exist" error message. We are an API developer with a history of successful payments.. is there anything we need to do on our side to enable this, anyone know?
Man, all these comments from folks who've discovered this site in their youth many many years ago makes me feel old... because I remember when that site was first started.
I was a member of the metal-rules.com forums (RIP) and the founders of Metal Archives came from there. Many hours of my misspent youth were wasted arguing with the people on those forums, now all gone. Back then metal-rules was THE place to talk about metal on the internet, and MA was an upstart who almost nobody knew about.