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saucymew commented on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07... · Posted by u/xoa
henvic · a month ago
This makes me seriously reconsider continuing with my Ring subscription. The chances this will be abused are 1000%.

* At the moment I only have sensors so that Ring tracks movement inside the house. Only when I'm out of the house for an extended amount of time (days), I turn on the cameras.

saucymew · a month ago
+1 here.

The last time I checked, they're custom (read: expensive) and require building out your own backend video storage.

saucymew commented on Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think   verdikapuku.com/posts/bus... · Posted by u/frenchmajesty
n_ary · 4 months ago
The article reads… interesting. A business depends on its demand, competition, scale, operation costs and numerous other factors. If the product is a tech, a technical founder can have immense impact on future success but marketing, customer acquisition, sales, networking, fund raising and other huge headaches are often burdens carried by non-technical counter part.

Of course, the person building something from a vague idea to life wields magical power, but the other aspects of business are more so important.

As an engineer myself, I can see 500 ways I can improve things at my employer’s business, but while I have a technical vision, the non-technical founders of the business has broader picture and what I may wish to spend time optimizing might just be a pocket change issue not worth solving.

We technical folks undermine the mountain of difficulties of marketing and sales as well as interacting with people to convince them to part with their money. Of course, I have seen a fair share of over confident wanna-be founder who would just be next trillionaire if someone would build the 10000th Airbnb clone but for pets so they could sell it and give 5% equity to the builder because their idea was the main thing, but in broad sense of things, tech is just a means to an end for a successful business and simply building is not the 100% of execution step.

saucymew · 4 months ago
Great points. Good founders are on both sides of selling and building. If you don't believe in sellers, you've never worked with good ones.
saucymew commented on Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game   gizmodo.com/nearly-25-yea... · Posted by u/ulrischa
saucymew · 6 months ago
I was seven years old, and T2 was the first rated R film I saw which gave me horrific apocalyptic nightmares (see: Sarah's dream).

Completely worth it.

saucymew commented on Amazon MGM Studios will gain creative control of the James Bond franchise   aboutamazon.com/news/comp... · Posted by u/croes
saucymew · 6 months ago
Everyone's got a number they can't refuse...

Defenders will say Bond deserves a modern update beyond the Daniel Craig era.

But if I'm reading the tea leaves from Lord of the Rings, I am not bullish on Amazon's MCU-ification of the Bond franchise.

saucymew commented on California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots   veeto.app/bill/1955756... · Posted by u/alexd127
rappatic · 7 months ago
The requirement doesn't kick in until 10 million monthly US users. I don't see why this shouldn't apply to smaller businesses.
saucymew · 7 months ago
Contrarianly, startups should have a little maneuverability to be naughty. Any slight edge against incumbents is directionally sound policy, imho.
saucymew commented on David Lynch has died   variety.com/2025/film/new... · Posted by u/wut42
saucymew · 7 months ago
Having just read Lynch's Catching Big Fish, two quotes stood out to me:

"There's safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner. "

"The light can make all the difference in a film, even in a character. I love seeing people come out of darkness."

What an interesting man. RIP.

saucymew commented on Maggie Smith has died   variety.com/2024/legit/ne... · Posted by u/asix66
saucymew · a year ago
Maggie Smith's character in both Abbey and HP brooked no BS. We're reaching the time now when more of the Harry Potter teachers are leaving this world, I am not looking forward to the students.
saucymew commented on Reflections on Luck and Skill from the Part Time Poker Grind   thehobbyist.substack.com/... · Posted by u/jjxw
saucymew · a year ago
"Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill is hard, but they're wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck. That's philosophy. Understanding luck is philosophy, and there are some people who aren't ever gonna fade it. That's what sets poker apart. And that's what keeps everyone coming back for more." -- Shut Up & Deal
saucymew commented on One of the first music videos made with Sora   youtube.com/watch?v=f75eo... · Posted by u/saucymew
saucymew · a year ago
It's happening.

u/saucymew

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