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enterprise software @ spacex+starlink / rocket enjoyer / entropy herder

[zack @zackR154]

related

[Jeff Ermann @Jeff_Ermann]

Am I missing something, or does $20 mil seem way low to RENAME YOUR CONFERENCE AFTER AN ENERGY DRINK

[zack @zackR154]

some crazy error bars but also $150k/day for Madison Square Garden is crazy low, isn’t it?

at either price I’m a little surprised some AI startup hasn’t done something mildly tasteless there

[zack @zackR154]

this is, of course, Matt Levine

https://t.co/jE75aeXNgA

[zack @zackR154]

I don’t think I’ve seen this criticism of prediction markets articulated this clearly before

well aside from waving your hands and shouting “GOODHART’S LAW WINS AGAIN!”

[zack @zackR154]

this seems like it might not be a complete privacy disclosure

[zack @zackR154]

@xuelinda7 this is super cool - I see lots of startups try and solve perceived problems, find out the bottleneck isn’t what they thought, and die, but this is the first time someone’s actually written it up

can all the “let’s solve tech hiring” startups do this next

[zack @zackR154]

mildly infuriating hotel room

[zack @zackR154]

I think maneuvering your bag through crowds at the airport should be an Olympic sport

[holden m. accountable @noahpasaran]

have dined with orc before? orc do things differently here. orc actually recommend start with two or three small meat to share. meat get bigger as you go down menu. orc restaurant rated highly in new orc times

[zack @zackR154]

1) what

[zack @zackR154]

this guy is apparently named John Strong and he spends a billion hours before every match memorizing every player’s biography off of flashcards

https://t.co/XgArT4d83q

[zack @zackR154]

still thinking about the commentator here

how do you come up with “IT’S INCREDIBLE! IT’S REMARKABLE! IT’S ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE! IT’S CAPE VERDE!” on the spot

do they practice freestyling like this or is it just something you discover you’re good at?

[will brown @willccbb]

i think almost everyone in SF would benefit from having spent a year or two inside a large NYC financial institution. not a good idea to do it now, but talk to friends who have, absorb their stories and context. the impact of technology comes from making contact with reality.

[zack @zackR154]

Aaron and @ForestKatsch are once again cooking here

[Aaron Grider @aarongrider]

Over the past few weeks we’ve improved the obstruction and alignment experience across the entire Starlink platform.

The obstruction map is higher fidelity and refreshes faster.

It’s also no longer just in the app. You can pull it up on https://t.co/HkjqT1Kf1w and on your local network in the refreshed web UI (rolling out now).

Alignment also now supports a wider range of setups, including flat mount install for supported configurations.

[zack @zackR154]

pdx mentioned

[Avi @avikrishna]

portland doesn't have much, but it is in fact the global capital of timber

portland international airport (PDX) had a $2bn renovation a few years ago that doubled it's capacity while also making it look very sexy

timber is probably the most slept on building material

[zack @zackR154]

@brianryhuang have you been to Taipei? similar vibes imo

[zack @zackR154]

relatedly the biggest mistake I see consumer UX making is assuming your customer cares *at all* about the technical intricacies

they’re paying you to appreciate the wonderful little details; anything in the end product that requires actual thought from them is just friction

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

The tech industry is always making content where the hero is tech, but humans only care about stories where the hero is human

Even the best scifi stories are centered around humans. Dune isn't about stillsuits, Star Wars isn't about droids

Right now, the hero people care about about isn't the chatbot that answers medical queries, but the desperate father takes research into his own hands to figure out his kid's illness. Many other examples

Trying to make tech the hero is forced, astro-turfed, self-congratulatory. The only heroes are human

[zack @zackR154]

what’s with trendy apps doing a little trailer for themselves when you open them for the first time

who started this trend? I just want to talk

[zack @zackR154]

@parker__conrad @github can I mail the CD-ROM back to them so they can deploy it to their website maybe

[zack @zackR154]

hey @github your status page says an incident with Pages deployments has "been resolved" but my Pages deployment job is very much still failing with "try again later"

https://t.co/zfFhlIY1Hx

[zack @zackR154]

over the past ~year I have gained a new respect for the incredible data model complexity underlying a standard-issue clothing e-commerce website

let alone anything with dynamic pricing

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

No one thinks billing systems are hard until they run a SaaS company and realize plans/accounts/billing/usage are a really hard data modeling problem