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fnikacevic

120 karma · joined December 17, 2021

In-between things.
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fnikacevic··on False canopies on fighters work, one almost killed me
DCS = Digital Combat Simulator to save other's Googling
fnikacevic··on n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool
Sorry for the loaded question, but can you share examples of companies using inngest in production and roughly what scale? Your product appears to fill the exact gaps in Supabase's current offering.
fnikacevic··on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
It's voluntary colonization.*

* The volunteers being a limited group of decision makers.

fnikacevic··on Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages
They are called vanity measures for a reason. In this case I think it's appropriate since the source is Amazon PR looking for favourable coverage.
fnikacevic··on W3C invites applications to be our next CEO
While W3C is globally impactful, they do only have 48 listed employees on their website. So there is less management complexity.
fnikacevic··on Remembering Bob Lee
One of my old teams also liked to mispronounce it as "Gucci" for extra style
fnikacevic··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
Might become the largest case of the innovator's dilemma ever.
fnikacevic··on Bard and new AI features in Search
Assuming you can find the sources of the AI response this is a game changer.
fnikacevic··on Supabase Vault is now in Beta
Very nice. I'm building a new startup MVP with supabase it's been lovely so far. Now if there could be an EC2 competitor I may be able to avoid (re-learning) AWS entirely.
fnikacevic··on As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing
It's not strictly about actual unethical behavior. It's also about not ever creating the appearance of unethical behavior which erodes trust in government institutions. It's half of any ethics course on the job.

My friend who is a lowly public servant is not allowed to hold anything besides index/mutual funds already and has to report any trades of those before they happen.

This is for an individual with no tangible insider info.

Elected officials with significant insider info need to be held to a much higher standard.

fnikacevic··on Inside the Proton
Or my npm dependencies
fnikacevic··on Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network
The problem with that is that Apple's strategy is to draw in a user into completely relying on their ecosystem. I'm guilty of falling victim to this myself. So even while they only track across Apple's apps, the tracking of the phone, news, music, app store, watch, fitness, laptops, etc. will add up to a monopolistic advantage.
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