I Won’t Invest (2019) by dustingetz

Between the pre-seed and seed rounds for Griffin we pitched nearly 200 different investors. These are some of their reasons for saying no. It’s too early [1] *sound of investor ghosting* Brexit The market is too small The market is huge, but only if you expand to the US, which we don’t think you can

ByHackTechJanuary 22, 20250Comments

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I Won’t Use Next.js by cdme

You’ve got a new project to work on. Or you’ve got an existing project you’re motivated to upgrade to a more modern approach. Or perhaps you’re dissatisfied with your current modern framework or second-guessing yourself and you’re investigating alternatives. In any case, you’ve got a decision to make. There are lots of “modern” frameworks to

ByHackTechOctober 27, 20230Comments

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VW Won’t Make Its Electric Dune Buggy, but Your Kid Can Still Have One by PaulHoule

Concept cars live a funny life. Many of them get made on paper, literally drawn out and sketched. Some of those napkin designs make it to a larger drawing pad to refine details and lock down a thesis. Even fewer make it to the stage of rendering and making a complete design. Barely any actually

ByHackTechOctober 14, 20230Comments

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I won’t pay on your website by vedantkhairnar

Mehak Samaiya, Ajeet Kumar and Aman Maurya If money is the object, payment is the force. Payment puts money to work. So, less the friction in the process of making payments, the easier it is to put money to work. Payment is the force One would think that making payments online should have been solved

ByHackTechJune 21, 20230Comments

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Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data? by digitalrealme

Large language models, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, are trained on vast datasets of real, human-generated text.And when it comes to training data, more is better. That’s why Google’s access to huge troves of user-generated text and speech — via its search, docs, mail, and voice assistant products — is often cited as one

ByHackTechMay 31, 20230Comments

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I won’t spend more than $250 on a new smartphone by thesuperbigfrog

I won’t spend more than $250 on a phone. I know what you’re thinking: that doesn’t sound like a lot of money considering how expensive some phones are these days. (And by these days, I mean yesterday, and by expensive, I mean the Pixel Fold’s eye-watering $1,800 price tag.) But yesterday, I also ordered a

ByHackTechMay 12, 20230Comments

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Game Over: Steam won’t Run on Windows 7 and 8 after January 2024 by PaulHoule

closing windows — Windows 7 still runs on more Steam PCs than every version of Linux combined. Andrew Cunningham – Mar 29, 2023 3:03 pm UTC Microsoft PC gamers sticking with old versions of Windows may finally need to upgrade if they want to keep playing the games in their Steam libraries. Valve announced this

ByHackTechMarch 31, 20230Comments

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Germany Won’t Tax Bitcoin, Ethereum Sold After One Year of Possession by RadixDLT

Germany’s federal finance ministry (BMF) issued the country’s first guidance on the income tax treatment of cryptocurrencies, as well as other blockchain-based tokens. The 24-page document issued Tuesday covers various aspects of crypto-related issues, which are explained technically and classified in terms of Germany’s income tax law. Most important, the sale of acquired cryptocurrencies like…

ByHackTechMay 12, 20220Comments

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Why won’t anybody teach her math? by williamstein

Lots of discussion in my feeds about this Daily Princetonian piece, “Why won’t anyone teach me math?” by first-year student Abigail Rabieh. She just took Math 202, an intro to linear algebra, and the experience was so lousy she’s done with Princeton math for good. That’s bad! So what was wrong with Rabieh’s class? “Though…

ByHackTechFebruary 14, 20220Comments

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