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Building @neosynccloud - Open Source Synthetic Data Generation and Orchestration | @YCombinator S22 | @ChicagoBooth

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🚀 Launch Announcement🚀 I’m super excited to finally launch the open source project that we’ve been working on for the four months. Neosync is an open source data replication and anonymization pipeline designed to help developers create safe, anonymized test data and sync it…

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GitHub’s real time events and stats board at the GitHub HQ is sick!

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@roshanpateI bro is about to get a chief of staff role and convince himself that he's next in line when the CEO steps back to angel invest full time

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@NuanceBro @CurrentRevolt Wait, you went up to a group of black people at an airport and asked "what country?". That is wild (and extremely racist).

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You wanna know how silicon valley startups really work? I'll tell you. A founder/co-founders will start working on a startup while they're still working at a bigger company. They'll put together an MVP and socialize it within their group of friends who are other founders or…

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Gemini won't return C++ coding help if you're under 18 because it "wants to preserve your safety". h/t: @warptux

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@alexanderisorax @d4m1n 1527 commits in one month? On one project? So 50 commits/day? 4 commits/hour every hour for 12 hours, everyday? Seems legit.

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@nikitabier “After 4 long years, I’m finally fully vested and no longer handcuffed by the millions of dollars I stood to lose if I left early. I literally learned nothing and did the bare minimum to not get fired. “ Fixed it for you.

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@schizarella Guys, I found it. The worst take on the internet.

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@philip_ruffini There are different kinds of 10x engineers too. I've worked with some who are savant-level at coding or in a specific language but the most productive. Others who aren't the best coders but insanely productive. Get as much done in 30 minutes as someone working for 4 hours.

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@nikitabier I love how ruthless you are about exploiting peoples needs for external validation

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@Nexuist this is great talk from defcon '19 along a similar vein

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@wolfejosh At least look at the camera and memorize the damn speech instead of reading off of a teleprompter. This is the most inauthentic thing I've ever seen in my life.

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@MattPaulsonSD He changed his lifestyle (which in turn changed his appearance) because he was chronically depressed for over 10 years. A weird take to make fun of a guy changing his lifestyle so he doesn't kill himself.

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“If your engineers aren’t challenged with a business problem, the. They’ll challenge themselves with technology problems.” Think about that for a minute.

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@nikicaga What is a liter? Pls convert it to freedom units.

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@gdelujo Assembly = directly telling the CPU what to load, add, sub, move, etc. HTML = directly telling the browser what to create, position, style,etc. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.

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>I wake up and open my eyes and I see it >Vercel asking me, “what will I ship?”. >I get out of bed and in order to unlock toothpaste, I have to ship. >my fridge won’t open unless I ship >i must pray to @rauchg >in the distance, screams, sirens

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@bubblebabyboi infinity stones of e/acc

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@eyeslasho So this is why college is getting so expensive? Michigan costs $32k/year to attend (tuition, room & board, etc). If they cut 90% of these positions, they could easily reduce the cost by $5k/student.

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Deaths per year in the US: 1. Obesity: 320k 2. Alcohol: 140k 3. Drugs: 90k Obesity accounts for more deaths in the US than alcohol and drugs COMBINED.

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@wolfejosh Normally I would think this is hilarious but this is actually a little sad. It shows a lack of self-control and inability to prioritize company > self. Also, idk how Linda Y, as a CEO, can sit there and have him embarrass and undermine you like that.

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@neontaster This is a classic

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@chris__sev collecting config files like infinity stones

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@AleResnik Unfortunately, I don’t think it’ll matter. Harvard still holds massive signaling power to employers, grad schools etc. You could argue Apple, Google and Netflix are just as woke yet applicants are still lining up.

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@var_epsilon All bro had to do was use the dev template, set public access to true and click create database 😭

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@SurrealistShip falcon punched him to oblivian

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@Jason @VCBrags I'm so sorry for your loss - and know that my VC fund has invested in technology that can stop 86% of cyber-harassment. We don't need to have this happen in the future. They'll be raising an A-round soon if you want to look.

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>friday night >fiancee gone for the weekend >36 linear tickets in to-do >18 hours of dark techno playlists queued up I'm figuratively, spiritually, emotionally and metaphorically about to cook.

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@tszzl some like 25 year old PM will see this as inefficiency and say "we need to create a product that helps teams communicate better", not knowing that the inefficiency is a feature not a bug

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@roshanpateI At the time it was pretty revolutionary. The tech was one thing but it was the social acknowledgment that an electronically signed contract was as real as a hand-signed one. But they've lost their way and turned into a financial engineering company instead of a product co.

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@swlkr idk why more people don't just set up hot reloads from local to their prod box using rsync. Just bypass github and shipping directly to prod from local.

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@luke_metro Weird take. They can already do this today with surface to air missiles. Air travel is fine. Why would this change when they have drones? (They already have drones)

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@andrew__reed i don't even have to look at his linkedin profile to know that the description just says "wrote some code"

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@tunguz I just know voldy is dropping the filthiest dark techno that would make @saralandrydj jealous

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@10x_er me when i take a day off and walk around downtown and there's a line for something, "why aren't these people at work, no one works anymore"

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gmail has the worst search on planet earth yet is able to parse your email and find a tracking code, and then create a deep link using that tracking code to your shipment

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The @ycombinator founder community is the best. Hands down. Have really come through for us in the last few weeks. We'll pay it forward.

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@Austen Take it one step further. They’re increasingly closing off the product and it’s implementation as well.

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e/acc maxis @BasedBeffJezos

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@sahir2k I see these guys pop up in tiktok and crawl out of my skin in second hand embarrassment every time.

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@Nexuist i won't even step foot into a chinese restaurant if there isn't a 12 year solving partial differential equations while checking people out

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@creatine_cycle No pre workout or headphones. Just the demons of driving 11 year olds around the human body for years fueling her.

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who's making the founder version?

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@shrihacker time to update it boys

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@thecaptain_nemo this honestly goes so unbelievably hard

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@jayhp every FAANG PM who "grew product to tens of millions of users" after only being there for 1 year has entered the chat

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@dustingardiner @Cruise Funny how some people and the gov’t expect SF citizens to have unlimited patience for drugs, crime and homelessness but as soon as someone tries to make the roads safer and decrease pollution by advancing technology, there’s zero patience. SF progressives are anti-progress.

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@webdevcody Whoever wrote this deserves jail time.

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You mean McKinsey effectively made up research that drove companies to implement new programs that they had no experience implementing thus relying on the McKinsey to lead the implementation? Wow. It's almost like they had an incentive to exactly just that.

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Over the past few years, @McKinsey has released at least 4 studies claiming a positive relationship between DEI and firm performance. A new paper published today in @EconJWatch finds these results can't be replicated. ''Our inability to [replicate] their results suggests that…

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@lpolovets i made this same point when someone said that in 2023 $27.B had been wasted by startups that had shut down. When Stripe IPOs in the ~$60B range, that justifies the $27B wasted on everyone else since Stripe alone would return at least 2x that. Power laws are a real thing.

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@nabeelqu they're the only ones who are in it for the love of engineering. everyone else is an optimizer driven by kumon, the need for validation from their immigrant parents and statusmaxxing

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@alexrkonrad Way less than the $20B that Adobe offered. At 6x-10x NTM which is where it seems like most deals are getting priced, if Figma is on track to do $400M, you’re talking about $2.4B - $4B. Makes sense for Adobe to pull the deal and pay the break up fee.

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Has UCLA tried calling all of the immigrant parents of the kids who are protesting? If my Albanian mother who escaped communism to come to the US found out I was protesting instead of studying, she would have single-handedly broken up an encampment in her slippers.

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im done with twitter today

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I'm excited to announce that @usenucleuscloud has raised a $2.1M round from an incredible group of investors. Check out our coverage from @TechCrunch here. @ycombinator @baiogi @massimosgrelli @Austen @Soma_Capital @BiedermanRob LFG!

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Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices | TechCrunch

Nucleus, a startup building a management platform for microservces, has raised over $2 million from Y Combinator and other backers.

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@pitdesi If the person in front of me reclines first then I will. Otherwise, I would never recline.

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@buccocapital @alex WeWork has entered the chat

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If your friends are talking about: - starting a family - moving to the burbs - getting a stable job cut them off You need to focus on buying new .ai domains, scaling your indie saas and shitposting

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@shadcn this is one of my favorite types

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@Nexuist i just make an api call to the endpoint that hydrates the UI with the article before the paywall hits client side and it works like 80% of the times

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@sama Standing up an alt-college isn’t really the problem. The problem is that employers need to willing to accept and equate an alt-college transcript/experience with the traditional college experience. Until then your “buyers” will never believe you’re selling an equal “product”.

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@wagieeacc @ilyasut @sama If true, his last few tweets take on a whole different meaning…

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if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time

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@AbhayVenkatesh1 Elon got into stanford, had an internship and full time offers from a bank Palmer was fired because Facebook didn't like his politics, Sam was fired because he was wasn't focused on just YC they didn't do anything magical that made them "unemployable"

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@andrew__reed I love the Veeva Systems and Emergence Capital story. Emergence puts in $4m out of the $7m total raised in a series A (I believe?) and Veeva doesn’t raise anymore and IPOs in 2013 at a cap of $1.2B. Now sitting at $21B.

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@sarthakgh More points if by the time you worked at that late stage startup, all of the operational and technical infrastructure was already built and you contributed zero original ideas but still claim to have “built a rocketship”

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@shadcn Someone actually created a @shadcn extension multi-select, it's not bad, but i had to really clean it up. Otherwise, react-select is what I've always used.

shadcn/ui expansions

shadcn/ui expansions collect lots of useful components which shadcn/ui does not have out of box. All the components are base on shadcn/ui. Just copy and paste. The component is yours.

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Please keep @neosynccloud and our @ycombinator S22 batch mates in your prayers this week. Our free startup plans at Datadog, Auth0, Hubspot and AWS are all running out and we'll have to actually pay for SaaS tools now (or go open source...)

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@tomfgoodwin This has always been the case. Good employees will be good anywhere. Bad will be bad anywhere. The problem is the middle group who are easily influenced. Remote brings out the worst in them while in person brings out the best.

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@yishan If someone throws a ball at you and you catch it, you’ve performered “analytical internal calculation” and you understand physics.

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@mooritzvc @tszzl Allows someone to triage the communication, make it digestable and relevant for other teams and prioritize it. Obviously too much inefficiency is bad. But many teams need someone who can see the bigger picture and keep everyone on track.

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Yesterday, we announced that had raised $2.1M dollars and today we have an even better announcement. The Nucleus Platform is officially LIVE! We also updated our look on our website. Check it out!

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Introducing Neosync

Open source Data Replication and Anonymization for Relational and Tabular Data

www.neosync.dev

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@realGeorgeHotz Then a team not meeting their goals would be considered a hallucination. If so, then the % of hallucinations is way higher in corporate america than in any LLM.

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New conference gear came in. Ready for Open Source Summit in Seattle with @linuxfoundation and @GopherCon in Chicago!

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I turned 33 today. Here are 33 lessons I’ve learned. Many the hard way. (Serious edition) Life: 1-11 Relationships: 12-22 Career: 23-33 1. The most interesting people I’ve met were always the most curious. 2. Your friend group can either inspire you or stagnate you. 3.…

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@eshear Education is easily the best use-case of AI. Imagine kids having an infinitely patient and creative teacher that can move with them at their own pace. Gamechanger.

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@wagieeacc Want faster compilations and 100x easier to write and read code? Come to the GO dark side.

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Best city on earth

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@terronk sequential ids as primary keys 🚩

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@jaltma For the first 6 months of an employee's job, my role is to help you understand where we're going and why. After that, my role is to remove roadblocks from your way and no longer to tell you what to do on a weekly or monthly basis.

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Zuck is so back I’m literally speechless.

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I love when people from McKinsey, BCG and Bain publish future of industry reports and then a small dev team develops new tech that they could have never predicted and totally changes the game. Anyone who says they know what's next, has no clue what's next. #RIPblockchain

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i'll never understand CEOs hiring McKinsey, Bain, BCG. You're hiring someone else to come in and tell you how to manage and run your business? That is literally your entire exec team's job. You're just admitting that you and your exec team are incompetent. Brutal.

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Look at my cracked CTOs desk. 4 different mugs Chopsticks Split keyword tilted to absolute oblivion Random wires and tools Two mice You may not realize it, but this is what peak performance looks like @NickZelei

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Alright, last night we implemented: - softmax - binary cross entropy loss - categorical cross entropy loss - data loading (load and save) - tests Today, we bring it all together with a model framework and forward and (maybe backward propagation)

GitHub - evisdrenova/gotorch: A barebones go implementation of pytorch

A barebones go implementation of pytorch. Contribute to evisdrenova/gotorch development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@pitdesi Wonder if PLAID thought their valuation was too low given significant growth in the past year and called it off to go public via a SPAC. Or just get acquired by Stripe and call it day already.

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500 by the end of the night, help me internet friends 🫡

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@defaultalive Chesa came prepared with data. Everyone else came prepared with anecdotes. Someone would say that it feels like robberies are up and he would respond with well they’re down 27%. Can’t bring anecdotes to a data fight.

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@var_epsilon As soon as you’re like “I need to hire a contracting team in India to build my app”, you’re cooked. Hang it up.

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@thogge Steve Balmer is the biggest CEO grift of all time. CEO - 2001 -> 2014 MSFT Stock Price: 2001: $30.41 2014: $45.15 MSFT Market Cap: 2001: $228.4B 2014: $381.72B Net Worth: $122B

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@abacaj Mistral: want us to drop a new model? it's gonna cost you like $100M

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@PacificJD @tylerhnorris @DeTahmineh You don't. The only thing preventing countries from conquering others is the cost of war. Technology has risen the cost of war which has led to more "peace". So now, the cost of war is greater than the value of whatever they'd win in that war. So they don't fight. Incentives.

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@ID_AA_Carmack I had this experience at my last physical where the doctor hit my knee with that reflex thing and then was like yup you’re good. Like really? That’s how you’re checking for CNS/neurological problems? There isn’t a better way to check that’s still fast and not invasive?

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@Albz321 i think you have the outlier autists but the best engineers i've ever worked with are also great communicators. Whether its communication or writing code, it all comes from clarity of thought. Bad communicators can't communicate because they can't think clearly.

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we were able to get to feature parity with our main competitor (who has been around for 6 years and has 100+ people) in like 6 months with 3 people. small focused teams > big unmotivated teams

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I tweeted this yesterday and it’s getting some views so thought I would follow up to it. 1. I never said this was good or bad, it was just an observation. 2. Obviously not every founder does this, but anyone who claims this doesn’t happen is lying to you. (Keep reading I’ll…

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You wanna know how silicon valley startups really work? I'll tell you. A founder/co-founders will start working on a startup while they're still working at a bigger company. They'll put together an MVP and socialize it within their group of friends who are other founders or…

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@ylecun No one. It would be like suing every hyperrealistic artist who draws a picture of a logo, celebrity, etc. As long as the image isn't copied but generated, copyright shouldn't apply. Just as in code, if i write the same code as you but I wrote it myself, it's not copyright.

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@benhylak With a phone, you can do everything with just your thumb. With this, you have to raise your arm to the pin to execute commands which gets insanely tiring. Also, the magnetic binding between the battery pack and pin is ... interesting. How strong is it? Does it hold while I run?…

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There’s nothing cooler than seeing someone who is extremely successful that is still super technical. Some people who come to mind: - Elon - Wozniak - Jensen - Bezos - GDB - Karpathy - Jeff Dean - Wolfram

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