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Gotta hit that high IRR as a fund manager and the clock starts when the cash comes in so capital calls are appreciated by fund managers. Unless they are emerging managers (the startup equivalent in finance) and their LP’s are less than institutional and ghost them when the capital call hits.

This. Unless in 2026, we suddenly see Costco sell personal quantum computers for sub $2k, with practically unlimited high speed crystal storage, all cooled/powered by unobtainium fusion reactors that are made with 3D printers at your neighborhood coop, then we either must accept private entities that do this kind of indexing at scale or we should ask government to offer it on taxpayer expense.

My post Mortem sentiments exactly. The lack of Nvidia GPU support for the M series Mac Pro models kneecapped the platform for professionals. If Apple had included that in those they’d be the defacto professional workstation for many more folks working in AI tech.

Electron apps also basically don’t work in Wine. I miss having Evernote on Linux.

Codex high reasoning has been a legitimately excellent tool for generating feedback on every plan Claude opus thinking has created for me.

Agreed. Windows 10/11 can run just fine on 4GB of RAM. You just can't run anything inside of Windows 10/11 with 4GB of RAM.

The last version of Windows that felt like 4GB of RAM was performant for me with applications was Windows XP. Not that every computer running the 32-bit edition of Windows XP could even see/utilize a full 4GB of RAM properly, but at least it was fast.

Neo is powered by a fast and battery-friendly chip. It's definitely not a novelty any more than Chromebooks or Windows 11 notebooks with integrated graphics have been.

We use them as well. Great product.

It’s be great if Google just revoked antigravity access if terms were violated. No need to disable the entire account.

Sometimes I forget programming languages aren't a religion, and then I see someone post stuff like this. Programming languages really do inspire some of us to feel differently.

I’ve met many more $5M/year “SaaS” entrepreneurs who built a Wordpress plugin than a custom SaaS platform. Your point is well made.

White flight all over again but this time it’d be white collar flight.

I switched to Ubuntu last week for my desktop. First time in my 25+ year career I’ve felt like Microsoft was wasting my time more than administering a Linux desktop would take. The slop effect is real.

Half of the country has been left behind to the extent that they are worse off financially than their parents at the same age and have no path to improvement. It just keeps getting worse for them. The other half of the country thinks they are uneducated buffoons who are morally bankrupt for and need to do more to help themselves.

They blame the other half of the country for calling them “deplorables”, immigrants, globalization, religion, gender, education, science, and anything else that is an easy scapegoat. Blame whoever you want but the symptom of this illness that the institutions failed to resolve is the current political reality.

I’d just drop them.

Americans can’t afford healthcare or rent. They aren’t happy supporting the UN anymore. If the world needs the organization it’ll find others for funding.

Trademarks and other intellectual property rights prevent cloning those.

I’d pay a monthly fee for a browser where I’m not the product anymore and it respects my privacy.

Meanwhile Firefox keeps undoing its own track record. There really is no perfect solution to browsing the web these days.

I bought a corded electric snow blower this year for my driveway. My neighbor has a gas powered one. I sold mine after two uses because it was so ineffective it mostly just clogged. It is a highly rated unit on Amazon. My neighbor has used his for years.

I hope this kind of environmentalism never comes for winter gear. At least not until we have fuel cell technology that far exceeds what batteries can offer.

I welcome the spam calls from our asterisk overlords.

I bought the JetBrains AI last year to support them even though it wasn’t good. It never improved. I didn’t renew. Now, I’m questioning if their tooling is something I’ll even renew at all. All of these AI agents integrate so well into visual studio code…

Are you sure there is an age limit for that kind of behavior in humans?

Users have largely been trained to click okay when asked to give permission without thinking.

The mishandling of how they rewrote section 174 of the tax code also caused a lot of layoffs of developers.

Patents and trademarks are the only ways to create legal monopolies. They are/were intended to reward innovation but despite good intentions are abused.

They know it’s cheaper to buy/lobby congress to limit their liability and will do so long before they payout real money.

There are extended certificates that did matter in our sales process for some hosted solutions back about 15 years ago if I recall right… no one has ever cared since…

I cut my teeth developing for the web using GoLive and will never forget how they used tables to layout a page from that tool…

Yann was a researcher not a productization expert. His departure signals the end of Meta being open about their work and the start of more commercial focus.