The salvator mundi was bought at an auction for $1.2k, restored & appraised, then eventually sold for $450 million. The art/collection world is fascinate everything latches onto experts putting their reputation on the line, precious metals and gem stones make way more sense to me as their authenticity is undeniable for now
Yeah no mention of how it would effect marine ecology is bad, but the avg startup/mega-corp doenst care see how far people are trying to make deep sea mining legal, even with its obvious implications of destroying the sea
Correct me if im wrong, but isn't the pain points for mobile devs, the need to have intimate knowledge of both pl to build & maintain a good "backend/functionality" of the app over time and that the UI portion of the app is quite simple to learn, build and maintain.
So is it necessary for the swift team to try get swift ui onto android, versus a developer building their app "backend/functionality" in swift, compiling it down for both ios and android, then bridging the android bindings with a UI made in kmp etc
I recently learnt that amo and protonmail use this solution but instead of swift android, they were using uniffi-rs and seemed to have great results, I think proton ditched react native for this solution, which to me sounds like a more streamlined way of getting native performance without needing the overhead of managing multiple language. I guess we will have to see how mature swift android gets and if it can replace uniffi-rs etc which would save even more time
idk google is so flaky, one must not forget that they had the llm concept first and couldnt really materialize it into anything commercial until chat gpt came around. Google often could dominate a market, yet they kill the product/tech instead of keeping a small team to maintain it.
I think the winner will be between xai or meta, im leaning more with xai since elon seems to always have 100% conviction even with seemingly bad ideas and he is way more technical than sam & zuck
apple is quite smart with this, there was a time when people thought they were dumb for not buying up tesla and ultimately shutting down their self driving division, but now it seems like a good bet.
Thats so interesting to me, I always assume companies like google who have "unlimited" dollars will always be happy to eat the cost to keep customers, especially given gcp usage outside googles internal services is way smaller compared to azure and aws. Also interesting to see snapchat had a hacky solution with AppEngine
These are the best additional bits of information that I can find to share with you if you're curious to read more about Snap and what they did. (They were spending $400m per year on GCP which was famously disclosed in their S-1 when they IPO'd)
The "unlimited dollars" come from somewhere after all.
GCP is behind in market share, but has the incredible cheat advantage of just not being Amazon. Most retailers won't touch Amazon services with a ten foot pole, so the choice is GCP or Azure. Azure is way more painful for FOSS stacks, so GCP has its own area with only limited competition.
I’m not sure what you mean by Azure being more painful for FOSS stacks. That is not my experience. Old you elaborate?
However I have seen many people flee from GCP because: Google lacks customer focus, Google is free about killing services, Google seems to not care about external users, people plain don’t trust Google with their code, data or reputation.
Customers would rather choose Azure. GCP has a bad rep, bad documentation, bad support compared to AWS / Azure. & with google cutting off products, their trust is damaged.
Google does not give even a singular fuck about keeping their customers. They will happily kill products that are actively in use and are low-effort for... convenience? Streamlining? I don't know, but Google loves to do that.
Ive only used ruby a handful of times, so my comment might be ignorant. But other than community , what does ruby and ror do better than say elixir & phx, i feel like the latter is leagues ahead simply because nothing can compare to the beam platform for soft real time systems, you have fault tolerance, nifs, actor model , you can have millions of processes running at the same time for cheap, easy to reason about concurrency , fp makes code concise imo, otp, the beam gc doesnt stop the world etc I just think on paper phx is superior thanks to the beam platform
That being said use what you like and hotwire native sounds cool will give it a try. I also think the author of the blog shouldve went a bit deeper with his points
One of the arguments is how noisy the languages are. Elixir is without a doubt more powerful, more scalable and more sophisticated than Ruby.
What Ruby has though is ability to express what you are doing in a clear syntax. Elixir has a lot of ritual (albeit less than erlang) to set up your most used things like GenServer - you don't abstract away the concurrent flow (which is good, concurrency should be obvious), but you also wouldn't write elixir without it, so code inevitably becomes filled with technical concerns.
I'm biased, I write elixir for a living after a decade in Ruby, and I'm happy with that tradeoff. But there are times where you need to do an imperative thing and make it clear as day, and Ruby often does a better job here.
Rails is also somewhat more ergonomic for fast prototyping than phoenix. ActiveRecord is a blessing and curse, it's insanely productive for making things do things in minutes, but lacks composition later on.
but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s
Yeah its weird how he explicitly states he wants a peace prize and then turns around and does very hellish things, rips up Aid programs, impose one sided tariffs without caring about your allies, belittle a president desperately trying to fight for his countries sovereignty, mafia style negotiations for said country minerals without a security guarantee in order to send weapons, trash nato allies repeatedly, taunt allies that you wont honor security guarantees if they dont do x , remove historical names for no good reason from various government objects , alienate out entire class of people with your rhetoric while using a platform thats supposed to be bipartisan, deport & arrest people while bypassing judges as much as you can
This is a misleading miscapitalisation. USAID isn't about aid. It's about "international development" - i.e. soft power in ideologically contested nations.
>but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s
Ugh giving me flashbacks to the “the office will change him” arguments. Can’t believe people actually said that out loud.
If he somehow got the peace prize as he balloons a department sneaking around in plain clothes with their faces covered rounding people up at work and terrifying/ripping families apart then the prize is truly a joke. Luckily there’s no way he’s getting it.
call me naive, but I thought game pass was going to be used as sort of a loss leader and gives them the avenue to build out other things like in the azure side of their business or cloud gaming etc
ik alot of people on here hate crypto, tether has been making billions each quarter for the last few years. I dont think there's any more real thought to this, than the genius act providing a framework and cf trying to get easy money
The genius act will change how fintech and neobanks operate, so expect to see more companies offering similar services
