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We spent one day 1 building a system that immediately found a mid 7 figure optimization (which ended up shipping). In the first year, we shipped mid 8 figures per year worth of cost savings as a result. The key feature this system introduces is the ability to query metrics data across all hosts and all services and…
tldr: Apple thinks it is fine. I do not. On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker. We get a lot issues filed most days so this fact alone was hardly anything out of the ordinary. We read the reports, investigate, ask follow-up questions to see what we can learn … Continue reading the…
I'm a full stack web developer with a preference for Python. I also enjoy discussions on entrepreneurship and software marketing.
[M]ortgages were acknowledged to be the most mathematically complex securities in the marketplace. The complexity arose entirely out of the option the homeowner has to prepay his loan; it was poetic …
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
If xAI defaults on its debt, Apollo Global Management ends up in the GPU rental business.
The free Web tutoring service “Khan Academy” has gotten much well-deserved attention, including a feature story in the current issue of Wired . That story includes a quote that literally took my breath away :
In a truly historic moment, New York City became the first city in the nation to protect freelance workers against client nonpayment today on October 27, 2016. This landmark victory is a testament to what can be accomplished when we stand together for the rights of the new workforce. Today,
Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.
Zach Williams is currently Director of Data Science for the Portland Trail Blazers.
Sixteen years ago, we started StumbleUpon to help people discover new webpages. The idea was simple: click a button to find a cool webpage…
PlanetScale is the first database designed for developer workflows on top of the technology of the hyperscalers.
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We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
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When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few d…
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.
Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, so that I could sell my house and buy an even nicer house. Also, I would like to
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
