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Comment · 2 years ago
what tool are you using for this wonderful data?
Comment · 2 years ago
I've seen the exact opposite - many projects are going back towards monolithic structures and then decoupling a minority of components that need to horizontally scale.
Comment · 3 years ago
upvoted and +1. Theo has been an important leader in OSS for decades: his brevity and impatience is a net positive. also he is usually correct.
Comment · 3 years ago
individuals / companies that cannot afford their own workflows will fine-tune models with heavy preexisting biases. The upper-class of the market will train their own models, producing advantaged outcomes. Data is the moat.
Comment · 3 years ago
>> Almost nobody will also train their own models ...

If the value is in better training data then everyone will train their own models. We should have a goal where we have domain-specific models that make us more efficient, but also constantly train a context-aware model based on individuals. Model composition is the future.

Comment · 3 years ago
> According to the sources and the February 2021 bank record seen by Reuters, Binance mixed customer money and company revenues in a third Silvergate account, belonging to a Zhao-controlled Cayman firm. Binance converted money from this third account into the dollar-linked token BUSD, according to the person with knowledge of Binance’s group finances and company messages

> These accounts were not used to accept user deposits; they were used to facilitate user purchases” of crypto, said spokesperson Brad Jaffe. “There was no commingling at any time because these are 100% corporate funds.” When users sent money to the account, he said, they were not depositing funds but buying the exchange’s bespoke dollar-linked crypto-token, BUSD. This process was “exactly the same thing as buying a product from Amazon,”

The article has a lot of details and infographics - but ends with no conclusion, just guesswork. I appreciate the work and time that went into an article like this - it would be nice if it was more factual and less "blind-sourced" extrapolated hypothesis.

Comment · 3 years ago
The content in article doesn't even satisfy the headline/title. The quotes in the article specifically state what the accounts are for but the author hand-waves on what "could" be if many hypotheticals are reality. Do better Reuters.
Comment · 3 years ago
^this. What a blown marketing/product opportunity. There should at least be some easter eggs for Don Clipp....
Comment · 4 years ago
this is cool. edge and decentralized applications are going to be a topic of focus (IMO) in the next 5 years.
Comment · 4 years ago
I was going to post similar. I respect all builders - but why. Similar to the Postgres WASM in a browser post from the other day. Why....
Comment · 4 years ago
Adobe already had xD - a direct competitor to Figma. Adobe purchased Figma for many reasons; if you want a single reason why Adobe purchased Figma it's because Figma was successful: all the things that go into executing a vision at scale.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not adding insight to this thread, but I love the OpenBSD project. Theo and the team are goat engineers and industry advocates.
Comment · 4 years ago
security. I dabble with system programs and it's nice to get the speed/portability of native optimized code and know most memory issues won't occur.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is great - will be experimenting with one weekend soon...
Comment · 4 years ago
mootools was awesome. I always wondered why it was so fun(for me at least) to use.

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