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Let's not kid ourselves that maintaining 10TB with resiliency handling and other controls built in is something that is trivial. It is only trivial due to the offerings that Cloud computing has made easy.

Self-hosting implies those features without the cloud element and not just buying a computer.

It's all non-taxable service/infrastructure/personnel deals and not cash.

And all of it just driven on vague statements of "AGI next year" (a year ago) and now "cancer cure on 10 gigawatts".

Almost every podcast nowadays is just "Where is all this money coming from?", "This is just infinite money and you are just out of the loop." Feels so weird to hear.

You might be onto something. Don't stop that train of thought. Keep going.

>Open layout with people yelling on calls

I would never again want to put up with it.

>It's really hard to bond with people exclusively through chat. Especially if you hide behind an anime avatar or refuse to switch on your video.

If they are not bonding virtually, I don't see how much better that relation is going to be when I force these people to be in a corporate space.

Have had the same experience over the last 5 or so years and that too working in early stage startups.

Everyone is free to get their personal lives in order and in turn they organize and execute everything with much more dedication than i've every seen them in a corporate environment.

No more laws to be enacted on AI in the USA for 10 years thanks to the billionaires. Pouring money into the elections have been a great ROI for the ultra wealthy.

Smoothness and frames per second is the core of why they were building a very optimized editor. Not sure if it is just your machine that it is not leveraging the right bits.

For me the extension ecosystems is something I really like about VSCode, but that is an entirely different matter.

Meanwhile an entire lake has evaporated in Northern Canada to deliver me a slightly different version of yet another payment options page.

The only sources of information we currently see about protests happening across the US are by small broadcasters. There is plenty of news that is being systematically being suppressed by the top-down information chain because it is so effective in clamping down dissent.

IMO, free flowing information still remains the best safeguard against tyranny.

And that's exactly why I want to collaborate with folks who are striving towards the same direction in society.

There are numerous conversations that led to me losing respect for people because they see fascism as a completely valid step forward. I now make a conscious choice to support and lead folks that share similar political leanings because if I don't respect your sincere beliefs, I cannot support you in proliferating those beliefs in society.

Because their argument will be immediately defeated with the current push to remove gay-marriage from law.

Cannot believe how it could stand up to that high expectation.

But then again, all of this is a hype machine cranked up till the next one needs cranking.

Reading the first 20 lines of text that they have broken down in to:

Company Name Single line Headline

Problem Our Solution

Gives you the entire company premise and product description.

Nothing stopping us to live the hermit life in the mountains. But here we are trying to get bits and bytes to write that JIRA ticket instead of us.

You seem to be a well informed technical person. The goal is to eliminate roles like yours with everybody building trillion dollar businesses by themselves and a handful of agents.

That seems to be the narrative. Happening any day now. Looking at you COBOL.

FYI: non-Western countries exist.

>I don't know what happened to them. When AI breakthrough happened, I expected them to put up a fight. They never did.

Apple always had the luxury of time. They work heavily on integrating deeply into their ecosystems without worrying about the pace of the latest development. eg. Widgets were a 2023 feature for iOS. They do it late, but do it well.

The development in the LLM space was and is too fast for Apple to compete in. They usually pave their own path and stay in their lane as a leader. The impact on Apple's brand image will be tarnished if Google, Meta, OpenAI, MS all leapfrog Apple's models every 2-3 months. That's just not what the Apple brand is associated with.

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Orbstack on MacOS

Had to onboard a Windows user the other day and the Docker performance seems to be even worse than I remember the last time I built on Windows.

Orbstack really makes working with Containers a almost-native experience.

This might not be an engineering problem. It just doesn’t feel like anyone at MS actually cares what their users care for. Doesn’t seem like they use the OS themselves.

At this point, I've given up having hope for Windows to be actually a good experience for anything at all.

Development has been a pain over the last decade. MacOS has it's rough-edges, but it has become a pleasure to code on.

Normal everyday experience is just a pain with unintuitive settings pages, slow Files Explorer, and a horrendous start panel experience.

Gaming seems to be the last thread my Windows machine is around for anymore. Although I have not tried moving to Linux for this, the gaming community seems to be happy enough for more and more games every week.

Was not aware of Camoufox. Looks great.

I meant from Open AI.

After a lot of the drama and a ton of talent leaving all they seem to have left now is a pile of cash that they can spend eliminating competition. Meanwhile like others have rightly pointed out, talent at Google and even Mistral have been crushing it.

What else are they going to do with all that money?

Raise billions and billions under the guise of AGI coming tomorrow and they just become a too big to fail company gobbling up any competition.

You don't hear anyone touting AGI anymore do we?

The smaller models are becoming even more capable now. Add that with a suite of tools and integrations and you can do most of what you do online within the infra at home.

>"lay off all the employees first, then figure out how to have AI (or low cost offshore labor) do the work second"

Case in point: Klarna.

2024: "Klarna is All in on AI, Plans to Slash Workforce in Half" https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/klarna-is-all-in-on-ai-plans-to-...

2025: "Klarna CEO “Tremendously Embarrassed” by Salesforce Fallout and Doubts AI Can Replace It" https://www.salesforceben.com/klarna-ceo-tremendously-embarr...

I think that comment is saying that there is a difference between building a project and building a feasible company that productizes the project. There are many other aspects of company building that purely technical folks often trivialize as unimportant.

One can have 3 technical cofounders but the paperwork still needs to be done and someone has to do it.

Although I have not used it as DO, I have been using it for durable workflows for a few years. The cached results of the workflow activities could give the feeling but the latency to read and write would be a dealbreaker for many. There is a lot of overhead in writing the interface between application code and Temporal workflow (for example, you can have conflicting object IDs that can be configured).

Self hosting Temporal with a Postgres datastore is usually how I deploy it and it works great, but at that point I'd just write it to a Valkey store if I just wanted a easy DO interface.