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You're right, but what pron is saying is that it doesn't matter much from a security standpoint because they can't be exploited.

That's scary! And wrong...

Mostly agree, but then you have to take care of replication, failover, and backup. By using a replicated block storage, you can mostly externalize that problem.

Yes, but in practice they are extremely hard to exploit. It has been discussed extensively here on HN and in other forums.

That's because Zig offers spatial memory safety (e.g. buffer overflows and index out of bounds), but no temporal memory safety (e.g. use-after-free). I suppose the "and" before "memory safety" is a typo.

Very cool.

Does it support interior pointers?

I'm in the same situation. But I was shocked discovering it goes both ways: many new Gemini functionalities are only accessible using a consumer account instead of a Workspace account. Also, Gemini is now the only major AI assistant with no support for MCP connectors. Instead of adding this to the core product, like ChatGPT and Claude did, somebody at Google decided that it was smarter to add this fundamental feature to a new product instead: for enterprises this is Gemini Enterprise (which is a product completely different from the Gemini app); for consumers this the new Gemini Spark agent (meaning that you can use MCP within Spark but not within a "non-agentic" chat)... It's clear to me this a symptom of Google shipping their org chart, which is a disaster from a product perspective.

Also a big proponent of Google and Gemini, but their stubbornness in artificially splitting their consumer and enterprise products is extremely annoying. It's pretty weird that I have access to more powerful tools when using my personal Google account compared to my corporate Google Workspace account.

uv is solving these problems for the kind of things Scarf is developing.

Same. Almost everything works out of the box, with great defaults.

But I don't think you can implement RAII in Zig?

Yes, I'm so happy it has been accepted. It will particularly useful to pass named parameters to functions.

> The only thing I'm jealous of with regards to python is how seamlessly you can do JSON schema enforcement on HTTP endpoints.

Yes, it is much easier in Python because type annotations are reflected at runtime.

Python type annotations are available at runtime, which can be used for serialization and validation (for example in FastAPI).

I was referring to the case where the founders and investors sell the startup to larger company. Of course, if they don't sell, and the company stays founder-led, the outcome is often better. I didn't know Zoho never took (serious) VC money.

I'm afraid this is a form of reversion to the mean. Successful startups are made of exceptional people: the founders, the initial investors, the first employees, the first clients. But when they get acquired by much larger companies, they are necessarily diluted in pool of people that are more "normal", less exceptional. This includes the customer base that is more "normal" as well. Slowly but surely, the extraordinary product/service the startup has been developing reverts to the mean. This is quite sad, because it feels inevitable. I'd like to know how to avoid it.

Did you mean nanoseconds instead of microseconds?

Not an ad at all. I've been using Linear for the past 4 years. Been using Jira, Trello, GitHub Issues, and other issue trackers before. Linear is simply incredibly better compared to Jira. I had tons of colleagues in my current team and former teams who were skeptical at first, tried it, and 2 weeks later wre saying they would never come back to Jira. I've seen many similar comments here on HN over the past few years.

Jira's UX is crap. Try Linear.app, which is truly great software, equally appreciated by both software engineers and project/product managers using it.

Yes, but that requires eliminating aliasing and expressions with side effects?

Sveltia CMS looks good!

I don't understand. Why the disappointment? Pi is still open source. Nothing is changing. Earendil's majority owners have a perfect track record when it comes to open source. Armin is a super star in the Python and Rust ecosystems.

Fair enough :)

I agree. I was just wondering if Userify had a solution for distribution the server signatures to the users.

How do you solve TOFU?

I don't get it either.

Would be really good if Google Docs could support custom brand fonts by letting their customers upload them in the admin console.

Exactly. PC manufacturers have so many SKUs and are changing so many things from one model to another that their brand doesn't mean anything anymore. Buying a Dell, HP, Lenovo or Asus branded laptop doesn't say anything meaningful about what you're actually going to get. Unlike Apple (or Framework) where the brand still means something.