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Ahoy! I'm a climber! And I love to talk about "sales for nerds", so this HN thread is delightful to me.

Would you mind if I free-associated through your page, from the perspective of a climber, while speaking a bit to the sales side of things? (I've done B2B Enterprise sales in a past life, and for the consulting stuff I'm working on, I'm now doing more/different sales.)

Phew. Here we go:

1. Your primary value prop is "Use Less Chalk"

As a climber, I don't care about using LESS chalk (it's extremely cheap, afterall) I care about _sending_. So maybe instead of "Use less chalk" it's "Do more moves before you have to chalk up".

I.E. "You know that long crux sequence on your project? You have to slap like 8 compression moves in a row? With regular chalk, you're desperately wishing you could chalk up before doing the last move, but with ChalkRebel chalk, _you don't_ and you can fire the move without chalking"

(Er, I was at the Red River Gorge, Kentucky for the last month, and almost sent a climb the 5th go, but it was slopey crimps with difficult rests, and humid, and as after I fell on my last attempt, I saw damp fingerprints on the last hold. Terrible.)

So - you're not "selling chalk", you're trying to help people accomplish their goals!

Climbers spend so much money on shoes, a lighter rope, travel to the climbing area, etc.

We spend weeks/months/years hanging off tiny little edges, hanging weight off our bodies, to try to squeeze another few percentage points of strength into our muscles.

I dedicate an incredible amount of time and effort to climbing. HELP ME BE SUCCESSFUL! Sell me your chalk!

Start getting testimonials. ASK FOR TESTIMONIALS!

I'm doing this work for some other (software related) products I'm building, and the selling goes SURPRISINGLY WELL when I force myself to... sell.

I have very limited time right now, but I'd love to talk more about all this! I'd love to hop on a call to talk through it! There are some super successful sales folks leaving comments, I'm not "super successful" (yet) but I'm in a similar spot as you, I've just happened to done a bunch of sales in the past. So... we should deff talk. We'll both enjoy it! Send me an email, or visit my website (HN profile) or set up a coffee call: https://josh.works/coffee

Good luck! I'll buy some of your chalk soon!
Assuming you’re starting with a significant amount of altitude, otherwise the laws of thermodynamics would like a word
They still sell an Intel Mac mini with more RAM and better I/O. This wouldn't be a revamp of the current M1 mini but replace the Intel Mac mini as a high end model.
> They regret it now because no one at our company can work on it

> Sure someone could learn it, but we’ve got more important things to do

If they can't give you 2 or 3 days to learn a language then they don't regret it that much I guess.
The spec doesn't exist. It's undefined. "Must support up to 100" is not a limit, it's a lower bound.
How are you finding it? I'd be interested in getting a device that runs a de-Googled Android nicely. Ironic if it happened on a Google-branded device, but still...
They could not care less. Their own government will never let them have anything in EU.
"There are plenty of editors who would love to be able to edit 4 8K (or 12K!) streams in real time :)"

Is that really a common scenario? I can see editors at the big studios using monsters like this (because the studios can afford it) but are we talking about a market of hundreds or thousands? Is this something a free-lance video person would use?
For PCIe there are such things for remote control of servers. (A lot of them are specific to manufacturers and won't work in other systems, but not all) E.g. Asrock Rack makes one called "PAUL".
I'm not sure there's a coherent argument here for me to follow. But the centre of my argument is: if you can't open criticize a government, you have little recourse if it decides to put your interests last in the name of, say, moving some economic lever that profits people in wealth and power. The western world has funnelled much of its money into a China, and this has given China the economic resources to uplift its own citizens out of poverty. What it hasn't given them is the right to criticize the government, or workers' rights that much of the western world takes for granted (Foxconn being an example of one of the better workplaces).

If you live in the west, and you like your lifestyle, you ought to be worried about what's coming, and for the US, regression of workers' rights in the name of being globally competitive is already in full swing. If you had the option of being able to challenge your government in a democracy, or a centrally managed autocracy that might throw you in jail, which do you choose?
> and "said that someone should study deadly pathogens".

In 2014 when the US stopped gain-of-function research for being too risky, Fauci started funding it in Wuhan through EcoHealth. That's a lot more than just "said someone should study deadly pathogens".
This is not the fault of Elixir. It’s the fault of trigger happy CTO’s who chase shiny new objects without thinking about the long term, big picture. I’ve made plenty of unsexy decisions when my heart was pulling me in a different direction - because it’s the right thing to do based on the team you have or the direction you’re headed.

Adopting Elixir, like Clojure or Haskell or any of the more esoteric languages is a commitment. Don’t do it if the benefits aren’t there or you aren’t willing to make the investment.
I hate to tell you this but 90% of your friends are silly, all mine talk about miles per gallon.
You can higher a sales guy on commission give them 20%.

If you want to learn to sell get a job in a car show room. If you can get one with the sleaziest car salesman you can find, people don't like dealing with them because they are a caricature of a person but thats what you need to do, sales is a performance.
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It scales better than green production of hydrogen does
It's a fact that all humans are overconfident. That's why we have biases that make us confident in what we "know", and make us reject information to the contrary even if the information is factually accurate.

The overconfidence is not a trait endemic only to male "nerds".

Of course, it's still helpful to concede that humans should recognize and be aware of that weakness in themselves. Overconfidence is the reason so many spend the healthy end years of their lives so much less well off financially than they spent their healthy prime years. It behooves us all to be on guard against our overconfidence.
The chicken or egg problem with charging is one of the reasons I tend to down-weight the opinions of EV owners when talking about the future of transportation.

People that own EVs have to deal with the lack of supporting infrastructure, and have a vested interest in steering public opinion to go in a direction they have already personally committed.

That doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong about the future, just that they have incentives that could cause them to hang onto some bad ideas because they adopted early (and want to save face).
What are personal blogs for?
Under the Paramount decrees of 1948, it was decided that the theaters plus the studios were creating a monopoly. After all, it's not like anyone had screens at home.

That was vacated last year, in observation that TV and the internet now exist.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-moti...
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Your comment made me chuckle.

Back in 2008 Chrome was the breath of fresh air, with absolutely spartan look, total lack of extensions and amazing speed, while IE was the opposite. There was good reason for its initial popularity.

And now, looks like Chrome lived long enough to see itself become a villain...
The Nexo is much less aerodynamic than the Model 3. One is an SUV/CUV, the other is a low sedan which looks like wet poop. The Nexo has more frontal area and a higher CD. And the Tesla is known for rigging its EPA tests for higher, but illusory, numbers.
Are there high barriers to creating content? The internet has lowered the barrier to distributing content to basically zero, compared to before the internet. I do not see how keeping a middleman around between distributor and creator would help consumers.
They say the update is coming in June.
to be fair t3.medium is very small for a production deployment ($30/month on-demand) so I read this as having cycles to spare
this means that amazon will have about 4% of the industry

this isn't even slightly a monopoly by the legal definition
As I understand it, the same thing that makes the Pixel easy to upgrade to a new version of Android entirely is the same ability that makes it possible to put Graphene on it -- but I'm not 100% sure about that.
That top link screams scam. Replies from the "Product team at Microsoft Autofill" on a personal account, reviews about it taking up to 30% CPU all the time (possible crypto miner), and not using assets from the Microsoft brand.
I think it’s a great fit for web APIs, as long as you have a means for distributed concurrency control.
I really wonder how many performance cores they could pack in a Mac Mini before the thermals broke.
The Ruby community is 4x bigger than Elixir and I am being generous to Elixir, and even Ruby is considered smallish.
I don't think what you're looking for is sales, but rather marketing. But if I'm wrong and you really are looking for sales, I learned a lot at what was basically a "hard selling" course. It was 3 days, the audience was basically people selling IT projects, but the background of the teacher and the roleplay we did was much more mundane - think selling cars, phones, that sort of 'sleazy' hard selling. I'm not saying you should actually employ those tactics in the end, but I did learn a lot - about cold openings, parrying objections, script-based interactions, ... You may just learn you're not cut out for it, but it'll help you a lot understanding sales guys if you decide to hire any later on. Mine was pricey - I didn't pay for it myself but I think it was e2500 per person and that was 10-ish years ago. On the other hand, how could I have trusted a teacher who couldn't sell himself to a purchasing department?
Or just charge a battery with the solar panels at much greater efficiency.
To wit, @BlockedVirology on Twitter documents virologists' blocking of people making rational, non-trolling inquiry into lab leak.
When the Pixel 1 first launched in 2016, I saw no shortage of TV advertisements for it. Google made a big deal about the Pixel's camera being the singular focus of its R&D efforts and as a result, it was a cut above that of the competition. The name "Pixel" emphasized its picture quality. But as usual, Google seems to have lost focus instead of pressing its advantage. The Pixel 3 (which I own) was the last iteration that offered definite improvements over its predecessor; recent releases have been treading water at best.
Somewhere in a secluded underground luxury bunker, Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, Larry Edward Page and Bill Henry Gates are fiercely nodding their heads in agreement. ;p ;) xx
Also check out the Rabin rolling hash algorithm for smart chunking of files which can be useful to either dedupe dynamic content or efficiently sync files.
Its for MGM's IP and back catalog so Amazon can literally rent it for a monthly price.
Working 55 hours a week is associated with a 35% higher risk of stroke
Think debtors prisons are a thing of the past? Not in Mississippi
It's weird to read an "essay" about "nerds" from a 56 year old. It's like he never got over the high school caste system of cliques.
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That's not true. You can't buy lossless ALAC files from Apple.
I think the two biggest sellers of Hydrogen electric over battery electric, are the fact that batteries have a useful life. That life degrades over time. Hydrogen doesn't have this characteristic. Secondly, cold weather doesn't affect Hydrogen electric vehicles the way that it does with battery electric. If one lives in a cold weather climate, owning a Tesla isn't as advantageous.
Selling is a skill and you can learn it. Read these two books:

"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini

"Persuasion Engineering" by Richard Bandler & John La Valle
They used to sell a higher end mac mini. It seems that they are simply bringing back that configuration.
It was the wrong long-term solution for sure. But I think it forced publishers to reevaluate their priorities with respect to bloat and loading times, whereas prior attempts at quietly calling attention to the problem apparently didn't make a shred of difference...
Those cars have 10,000 PSI tanks, and Hydrogen is notorious for leaking through everything. It's not an option for places with no infrastructure.

Trickle charging a battery with a small solar panel is what no-infrastructure places are moving towards for charging phones and other electronics. That's not enough energy for cooking or transportation, yet, but I can see it moving towards that.

Another option is synthetic fuel. Currently horribly expensive because it is energy intensive and still experimental, it may become viable if solar energy prices continue to drop. It's much less efficient than an EV, but it works with existing gas/diesel/kerosene infrastructure.
That what I meant in my comment, but over long enough time frame it will be a carbon neutral process: a building will eventually fail into disrepair and will rot or will be destroyed by a fire. A ship will likely last even less.

Anyway I see no reasons to avoid using wood if it is harvested responsibly.
Yeah, but ideally they'd be swappable. Similar to propane tank exchanges. Or even how some EVs were thinking about battery swap stations.
> Apple plans to launch the redesigned MacBook Pros in 14-inch and 16-inch screen sizes. They’ll have a redesigned chassis, magnetic MagSafe charger and more ports for connecting external drives and devices. Apple is also bringing back the HDMI port and SD card slot, which it nixed in previous versions, sparking criticism from photographers and the like.

Even if they continue to force the anti-feature that is the Touch Bar onto users, I'd immediately buy an M1 MBP with MagSafe and actual ports.
This is really dangerous advice. Mind if I give you a counterpoint?? We can accomplish anything and everything we choose. It’s painful most of the time, but we can. If OP wants to sell, they’ll be amazing at it. Good heavens, buyers are just as human as sellers.

Edit - Sorry, I forgot to add that the dangerous part of giving up is that it’s just as hard for non-sales people to hire sales leaders as it is for non-technical people to hire technical leaders. OP has to have enough confidence to keep learning, even if it’s just enough learning to make a great hire.
Calling usually works if you are not trying to sell something.
Did you reach out to Patagonia if they are interested in featuring your products? They have sold third-party products before, like the Guppyfriend microfiber washing bag. I think your product vision very much aligns with theirs.
No real skin in the game here, but watching Americans tell the world how rude it is, is fairly hilarious.

Americans are not more rude on average in my experience, but they're usually more passive aggressive and use coded language. I'd prefer someone be rude to my face.
“Make it bigger” does work, but it increasingly stops resembling a car. Check out the range this one can get on a single tank of hydrogen!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas-Centaur

I don’t know what you’d consider the max range here to be, but it’s definitely better than 887km.
There's definitely some eccentric people in the field, but a vast majority people I've met working in tech were hardly the Poindexter type characterized in these articles
An electric charger costs less than the fuel cell does, so it makes very little sence unless this is being used in industrial equipment
I have a Pixel 3 after using Galaxy's and Notes for over a decade. It's by far the best phone I've had.

It's rugged (dropped it many times, gotten it wet, used it in machine shop environments daily), fast, and the battery life is truely awesome.

I've never filled up the internal storage (I don't take huge amounts of pictures or video, but I do sync and upload all of it to my computer every time I connect to my wifi).

The best thing though, is that after almost 3 years of hard use, it hasn't become sluggish or unreliable, a hallmark of Samsung devices.
What was the API?
What sort of good stuff does MGM have? I use Prime Video a lot since it is basically free with my Prime and would love some new quality content.

Edit: Posting this I found because my question was dumb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer_fi...
> My take: A quickening erosion cycle could see an accelerated creation of arches

I think increased erosion would also cause arches to fail faster (run through its lifetime at increased speed).

I think there is no limit to how fast an arch can erode (ie. the erosion can easily speed up orders of magnitude) but at the same time I don't think we could be seeing orders of magnitude more arches created, which would be necessary to maintain the number of arches that are now going through their lifecycle faster.

This lets me believe that overall increased erosion would cause less arches to be present at any point in time.

This is just a thought experiment, I have no data to back it up.
> the same model in fact

It could only be Rigol or Siglent. Fascinating though. I know how slow floppies are, but I wouldn't have imagined an oscilloscope to have the necessary resolution.
The better way to address this would be reducing copyright lengths to 20 years or something reasonable.
As someone who feels like this description of "fierce nerd" applies to themselves, I'd agree. I'm clever, but not particularly so. And I'm not particularly successful either. And my abrasiveness has lost me many friendships and relationships over the years too.

Perhaps it's a flattener of the bellcurve of success. If you only look at the right hand side you will see lots of fierce nerds. But you aren't seeing the many, many more who are just ordinary, annoying assholes.
Germany extends sanctions against NSA-Agents too..oh..never-mind, that never happened.
The SEC and FTC has had their funding cut several times over these past 10 years.

It's hard to bring cases when you simply don't have the people anymore.
They would have noticed a few unusually bad “flu” seasons, but relative to smallpox, plague, measles, malaria, and even some historical outbreaks of the actual flu, it wouldn’t have registered as a particularly generation-defining event as it is now.
What is sort of evidence is there against these groups?

Would it actually hold up in court? Or is it laid out there by authorities knowing well that these cases will never get to court because it deals with people in Russia, China, North Korea.

If so. Then what prevents this from being just pure geopolitics?
Israel isn't big, but there are plenty of less likely (and less dense) targets than the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. Israelis can also leave the country. That's not "luxurious", but those are privileges that residents of Gaza don't have.

I'm not sure why you're responding so aggressively; you asked why Gaza is singled out as densely populated, and that's the answer.
The Chrome Web Store does not require using a GMail address, for example, I don't have a GMail address and have items on the Chrome Web Store [0].

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cackey/lpimdiknnpi...
This is not a good-faith simplification of the situation in Gaza.
Do folks who go climbing generally hang around on FB groups?
Any idea what problem Google is solving by requiring the use of gmail?
OP didn't even use the word monopoly. You don't have to view it through that narrow a lens.

I think it's fair to ask if it is in consumers interest to have to buy an Apple TV to watch Apple produced shows, an Amazon Fire stick to watch Amazon/MGM content, etc. etc.

I know that isn't the world we're in right now but the spats you see between e.g. Google and Roku (and Amazon and Google) feel indicative of a likely future to me: consolidate, then bring down the hammer.
Interestingly enough, I had the exact opposite reaction: this is a great pitch. I land on the page, read three words and instantly know what the product is about and who it's for.
But do they think of themselves as such?
Was this an ad?
The car has an HEPA filter which removes dust from the air which is nice but that's not the whole story, as can be expected from marketing.

6.3kg of hydrogen consumed means 50 kg of atmospheric oxygen consumed, which is 170 000 liters of air. So it purified 450 000 liters but it also removed oxygen from that same air, around 38% of it. I would not breathe that exhaust air, it may not be CO2 rich, but it sure is oxygen depleted.
> And the economy is based on using "waste" renewable energy. The problem is that solar panels and wind turbines don't produce energy when we need it the most (see: duck curve). The idea is to store that energy as hydrogen and use it in vehicles.

I've seem this statement loads of times before. But actually, Hydrogen production is not economical if you do not produce it continuously. Meaning, it does not make economical sense to only use excess energy capacity. Further, Hydrogen for cars is highly inefficient if you take all of the steps into account.

For the foreseeable future the common expectation is that Hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels (e.g. read forecasts from analysts or companies such as Shell). This while at the same time they pretend it'll make this more green.

Hydrogen is already produced in huge quantities btw, but it's somewhat hidden as it's used by industry. Meaning, most people wouldn't even notice it. Unlike e.g. seeing a new hydrogen gas station.
Adversarial red team bug bounty hunters to the rescue?

What if there were a law that any responsibly disclosed security vulnerability must be rewarded with a bounty based on the damage the vulnerability would have caused? Combined with immunity from hacking charges for companies that have a license to operate this way (and strict monitoring on those companies).

It's self-funding, self-enforcing, and as a bonus, trains more "cyberwarfighters" nationally. Maybe the market can solve this problem.
I think the space shuttle may win for most kilometers traveled on a single hydrogen tank.
After a brief scan through the paper, I was surprised that Polar Stroking wasn’t referenced. Do you see a reason why? Both the cusp handling and the survey of other path renderers seem like relevant prior work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer_fi...
While I'm all for fixing bad policing (very, very much so), I have a hard time dealing with reason.com. They wrote an article on a medical condition I have (MCS) repeating "research" by a chemical industry shill group and made it that much more difficult for people like myself to figure out what is going on and how to treat it. I'm referring to the "Environmental Sensitivities Research Institute" that promoted "crazy" as a diagnosis rather and conflating it with other conditions like electrical sensitivity than the now well-accepted "inflammatory disease". The ESRI is long gone, but the reason.com article (https://reason.com/1996/06/01/sick-of-it-all/) is still there - from 1996 - making it just a little bit more difficult for people like myself to function in the world.
I wish we were taught to think on various base number systems from a young age. I imagine there could be elegant solutions to many problems currently being hidden just out of sight.
Based on how well Apple designs thermals, we can only throw dice. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCBYAP_Sgg
> This is not the fault of Elixir.

That's very true. But it's still something to consider, especially for OP who's choosing a new language for a new project.
Why should you care about .NET GC?