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Look for a local installer who expects to sell panels for cash (because that makes it expensive for most people, so they’re competing against the default to do nothing.)

String inverter, commercial panels on your roof, and helping you calculate the number of panels with the max ROI are other things to look for.

Even then, you may not be in a state where you have good installers, unfortunately.

So, you’ve spent a good amount of time on it, to where you hope there’s only a week left, it does a lot less, is less accessible, you can’t fully use it yet, and it’s buggy.

I think the only lesson for SaaS providers, yourself and myself included, is how willing people are to cut off their noses to spite their faces. :)

I don’t see how this could be faster (and not buggier) than generating a script to make what you want in Blender for you.

You’ve likely just switched hobbies to your Blender clone instead of what you wanted to make.

I share the pessimism, but people are thinking about these problems, and with enough automation, some issues with excess speed should become unbearable. Hopefully.

We can conceive the bureaucratic work that introduces a deliberate slowness to a system being replaced by a more overt waiting or human-making-sure step after automated work. (Understanding why we were waiting won’t come equally easily to every organization.)

As a native English speaker, please believe me that it doesn’t read well. It reads like Claude or another LLM wrote it. Not only is it Claude’s voice, but the outline of ideas is hard to understand. It’s not a good idea to generate text at a level above your mastery of the language because you won’t know what specific feedback to give. (Similar to the problem with vibe coding and then trying to make it production grade.)

That looks good; thanks. Growing up, I loved the firsthand account published in the 80s. Probably mentioned as a source in this newer book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100634.Skis_Against_the_...

I was intrigued by the comment about the escort ramming local police off the road! Is there footage anywhere of this?

You should admit it’d be a bit silly to give notice to yourself that you are processing your own data!

It was often not organizationally feasible because you needed permission to spend those weeks up front, instead of working on something else, just to get to where you knew enough to give approval to finish the work.

Now, you can make enough progress with one developer’s quiet afternoon to be confident and finishing the work also takes less time.

The technical grasp of the legacy codebase was a factor, but often not the largest.

I didn't know that about the daughter!

It's a great show. We actually thought we bounced off it, but he inhabits the character and his little world so well that we kept thinking about it and were drawn back.

It’s Nash Edgerton, and yes, he’s good.

Love the idea of their parents calling them Joel and Noel. :)

I don’t think so, other than it’s an opportunity for younger companies to enter the market and they charge less. We should be seeing good price competition right now just from the age of all these new companies.

I don’t have a good model for what lower B2B prices would look like when company age/growth aggression/pricing unsophistication are factored, though. I don’t take the presence of some downside for granted because projects like this can be taken by incumbents and bundled into high margin services (copyleft helps a bit here.) Would welcome data.

This model to depress prices does definitely work in B2C, but it’s not necessary to develop an open source app to get cloned to drive down prices there; it happens to everyone.

It's fine to do; it's just not solving a problem for greater software or developers.

I am both a buyer and seller of this business model, myself.

That’s just a commercial SaaS suite using open as a marketing hook, unless I’m missing something. Many companies start this way and become entrenched.

There's still a pipeline of them coming to Proton from Google and Microsoft, with about as little research as when they decide to leave Proton.

Try having a hook log the usage, and then feed the usage into the session when it’s high.

You can tell Claude Code to detect and watch its usage. Have it refuse to work at 90-95%.

You could ask that about any company that sells B2B goods and services. Not every person or company is great at vertical integration.

No, but if you're on a 3-5 year refresh cycle and this is your year, it'd be lame to not have the latest chip!

It's simpler and better for both hardware makers and buyers to just keep refreshing instead of trying to get clever about who deserves the current series of chips in their form factor, assuming the refreshes are of similar cost, utility etc.

There’s a good model by or popularized by Patrick Lencioni that I’ve rarely seen. It sorts values into aspirational, accidental/historical reality, permission-to-play (I.e. mandatory values in your industry), and the rest. According to the model, the rest are the only good ones. You rarely see them because the other three types are easy and safe to say to leadership.

I was wondering how many bad faith questions you were going to ask before something like that. They were still good clarifying questions, though, even though intended otherwise. Hopefully you understand the issue with the word ownership better now.

No, there is only one physical copy for you to sell, and you’re not granted ownership of the music itself. However, if a law were to be passed that grants ownership of the music on the CD, you would be able to sell unlimited copies of the music.

No. You can sell your one copy of your book you own. It’ll leave your possession when the sale completes. The new owner can sell it.

Software has different properties. If you own it, you can sell it without losing your copy, so you can keep selling it.

It’s software, so if you own it, you can sell or give away as many copies as you want.

It’s hard to stop because it means denying a dollar or two to a human in front of you who wants it and tried to earn it during your transaction. It’s not immoral, just less than ideal, so it’s endured.

Thanks. Just something to consider! You’re right that it wouldn’t be a big deal to add two or three devices individually.

Neat. Thought about syncing the key with iCloud Keychain towards supporting any of the user’s devices connecting? Optionally; I understand the appeal of the current storage method.

Yes, that is correct.

Does Muse support sharding?