As they say, I'm not dead yet -- many of the companies listed as dead are acquired or very much still alive. (Domo is still publicly traded, for example.)
Poshmark also is not dead.
Readit Newsdefaultcompany commented on The Startup Graveyard loot-drop.io/... · Posted by u/skogstokig
defaultcompany commented on It's Always the Process, Stupid its.promp.td/its-always-t... · Posted by u/DocIsInDaHouse
>It is the first technology that is truly useful for handling unstructured data.
>Processes that rely on unstructured data are usually unstructured processes.
I appreciate someone succinctly summing up this idea.
This doesn’t ring true to me. Having processes which rely on communication between humans using natural language can of course be either structured or unstructured. Plenty of highly functioning companies existed well before structured data was even a thing.
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defaultcompany commented on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy weplanet.org/post/eu-cour... · Posted by u/mpweiher
I think a good exercise for the reader is to reflect on why they were ever against nuclear power in the first place. Nuclear power was always the greenest, most climate friendly, safest, cheapest (save for what we do to ourselves), most energy dense, most long lasting, option.
How about because spent nuclear fuel will be hazardous to humans for the next ~20 thousand years? How do you amortize that cost? You can't just assume someone else will deal with it and call that cost savings. People talk about burying it but in reality it sits in containment vessels above ground and the more there is the higher the cost to deal with it so the less likely it ever will be dealt with.
Not from the same guy but here's a quine embedded in the github contribution chart:
https://github.com/mame?tab=overview&from=1970-12-01&to=1970...
"The work was originally published in The New Yorker, which had planned to run it over four issues but instead dedicated the entire edition of August 31, 1946, to a single article"
TO OUR READER: The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration of a city by one atomic bomb, and what happened to the people of that city. It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use.
The Editors
This article was 160 pages long when printed in the New Yorker. Modern nuclear warheads are around 30x more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. For comparison sake the equivalent resulting story would be 4800 pages long.
defaultcompany commented on How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007) filibeto.org/aduritz/true... · Posted by u/robin_reala
Not the 10000, but I admin'd a 4500 back in 1999 at Bristol-Myers Squibb at the ripe old age of 21. It was running Sun's mail server, which required constant care and feeding to even remotely reliably serve our 30,000+ users.
One time it just stopped responding, and my boss said "now, pay attention" and body-checked the machine as hard as he could.
It immediately started pinging again, and he refused to say anything else about it.
This reminds me of the “drop fix” for the sparc station where people would pick up the box and drop it to reseat the PROMs.
defaultcompany commented on MCP: An in-depth introduction speakeasy.com/mcp/mcp-tut... · Posted by u/ritzaco
One confusing thing to me was the word "server". An "MCP server" is a server to the LLM "client". But the MCP server itself is a client to the thing it's connecting the LLM to. So it's more like an adapter or proxy. Also I was confused because often this server runs on your local system (although it doesn't have to). In my mind I thought if they're calling it a server it must be run in the cloud somewhere but that's often not the case.
defaultcompany commented on Spaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universe bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
According to Italo Calvino [1] the universe was created from the impulse to make a bowl of pasta.
[1] All at One Point https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cosmicomics/cWMec8TktW4...
I present you, if you're into this sort of thing, one of the snarkiest files on the internet.
https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt
Alan's editorializing on the nature of radians and hertz is my favorite thing.
// Beware the SI's broken definition
// of Hz. You should treat the radian as being correct, as a fundamental
// dimensionless property of the universe that falls out of pure math like
// the Taylor series for sin[x], and you should treat the Hz as being a
// fundamental property of incompetence by committee.