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lifeisstillgood commented on AI is killing B2B SaaS   nmn.gl/blog/ai-killing-b2... · Posted by u/namanyayg
gspetr · 4 days ago
This is the prime example of Law 1 of Robert Greene's "The 48 Laws of Power": "Never Outshine the Master."

The core principle is to always make those above you - your bosses, mentors, or superiors feel comfortably superior.

If you display your talents too aggressively, you risk triggering their deep-seated insecurities, which can lead them to sabotage your career or remove you from your position.

Galileo Galilei handled this really well. When he discovered the moons of Jupiter he strategically named them after the ruling Medici family.

By making the discovery about their greatness rather than his own intellect, he secured their lifelong patronage.

However, if your superior is a "fading star" or is clearly about to fall, you do not need to be merciful. In these cases, it may be strategic to outshine them to hasten their downfall and position yourself as the natural successor.

lifeisstillgood · 3 days ago
>>> Galileo Galilei handled this really well

Errr… Galileo was asked to write a book discussing both sides of the heliocentric / geocentric debate … and so wrote a book with two characters having a debate while walking in a garden - one named (I paraphrase for effect) “Galileo” and one named “Pope Simplehead”

Needless to say the next twenty years under house arrest gave him a lot of time to think about character names :-)

lifeisstillgood commented on Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign   theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/breve
lifeisstillgood · 8 days ago
To me this is just one more pillar underlying my assumption that self driving cars that can be left alone on same roads as humans is a pipe dream.

Waymo might have taxis that work in nice daytime streets (but with remote “drone operators”). But dollars to doughnuts someone will try something like this on a waymo taxi the minute it hits reddit front page.

The business model of self driving cars does not include building seperated roadways and junctions. I suspect long distance passenger and light loads are viable (most highways can be expanded to have one or more robo-lanes) but cities are most likely to have drone operators keeping things going and autonomous systems for handling loss of connection etc. the business models are there - they just don’t look like KITT - sadly

lifeisstillgood commented on I mocked the Saudi leader on YouTube then my phone was hacked, I was beaten up   bbc.com/news/articles/cj6... · Posted by u/tartoran
lifeisstillgood · 9 days ago
To me the issue is not security agencies use Pegasus, but foreign security agents physically assault British citizen in London, MI6 does bugger all.

I’m not sure what I want from our security services, but security sounds good.

Also I wonder if there is a background level of foreign agent activity they accept and how is that related to the police’s paradox of using confidential informants

lifeisstillgood commented on I mocked the Saudi leader on YouTube then my phone was hacked, I was beaten up   bbc.com/news/articles/cj6... · Posted by u/tartoran
bicepjai · 9 days ago
I did not know about his videos until now :)
lifeisstillgood · 9 days ago
It’s almost as if the world is wide and we are siloed.

For example “High School Musical” Made a billion dollars withoute even knowing such a thing existed.

Edit This is the first I heard of this as well, but it bothers me. Along with the Salisbury poisonings I would be interested in how any criminal activities foreign agents are suspected of doing in the UK (Russia presumably heading the list)

lifeisstillgood commented on Television is 100 years old today   diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/qassiov
retrac · 13 days ago
There's a synchronous and instantaneous nature you don't find in modern designs.

The image is not stored at any point. The receiver and the transmitter are part of the same electric circuit in a certain sense. It's a virtual circuit but the entire thing - transmitter and receiving unit alike - are oscillating in unison driven by a single clock.

The image is never entirely realized as a complete thing, either. While slow phosphor tubes do display a static image, most CRT systems used extremely fast phosphors; they release the majority of the light within a millisecond of the beam hitting them. If you take a really fast exposure of a CRT display (say 1/100,000th of a second) you don't see the whole image on the photograph - only the most recently few drawn lines glow. The image as a whole never exists at the same time. It exists only in the persistence of vision.

lifeisstillgood · 13 days ago
>>> The image is not stored at any point.

The very first computers (Manchester baby) used CRTs as memory - the ones and zeros were bright spots on a “mesh” and the electric charge on the mesh was read and resent back to the crt to keep the ram fresh (a sorta self refreshing ram)

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