It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what a “Pugina” was, should have just clicked the link

WW3 material for New Yorkers, right there

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I’ve thought about this a bit (but by no means extensively) and I feel like the stakes are different for tech companies because growth doesn’t require as much capital as a non-tech business.

For a SaaS tech company to scale from 10 users to 1000 users doesn’t mean a bunch more sales people and a new factory, it means having a great product and turning on new servers, likely only incurring a higher hosting bill from AWS (or similar).

In that sense, I feel like it’s easier for the sentiment to be “we’ll be better off with 1000 more users” over and over again until people start to want to optimize the business. Which means doing more traditional “shareholder value creation” that big companies do today.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see it happen, but i think tech just scales so differently and easier than other business types.

I feel like this section is rather disingenuous for the article author to just drop without mentioning that this is how all machine learning models are trained. The idea is that now (and for the next year or whatever) it’s trained manually until the system is good enough to do it on its own with a good enough accuracy rating to not lose money.

Now, since Amazon is shuttering this, it’s totally possible that they determined they’d need too many years of training data to break even, but at the very least this is standard industry practice for any machine learning model.

Their job is to report what is said exactly, not give their commentary on it (otherwise, you get fox news). Now, good journalists also provide the current news in context of past actions, but they should still let the reader decide if it will happen again.

Woah, you wanna let a whole day go by?! Every 6 hours I need an email status update. But, if you forget to send an email, I know you’re not doing good work. Then, at the end of the day I can ask you in person about the contents of your emails that I didn’t read.

Totally fair, cars are more and more like smartphones these days…with all the good and bad that comes with it!

Not trying to tell you how to live your life, I totally understand the mentality, but for me it was a revolutionary jump in technology.

From having to drive in stop and go traffic to just letting the car do it has been magical for me. I can now do a 6+ hour drive and no longer be absolutely wrecked at the end. Not that I do it often, but it’s usually for a family thing or a vacation, so both things that I kinda want to be cognisant for.

That plus all the safety stuff like a backup camera, the beeping when getting close to stuff, etc. has made my driving life so much better

There are few things that have changed my life overnight, but a (much, much) newer car with updated tech was totally one of them.

I did the same. I think the last news I heard was that they didn’t want to lose all their assets which is why the sale was taking so long.

I guess they’ve won back some goodwill by seemingly trading secure jobs for their employees for 3 years in exchange for their assets.

Still not great that it took this long…

1password does this, too and it’s magical. I’ve had my SMS go to my browser via Google Messages for a while, but it’s so much easier to just auto-fill it instead of copy/paste