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What bothers me ain't the subscription, but the lack of transparency. I'm asked to pay for future updates and support here, but I don't know what that would be.

Some visibility into the roadmap and operations (an anonymous LLC doesn't really say "Trust") is needed for me to feel good about typing my credit card number into the form.

s/Before/Between/

Holding the title of engineer does not make one a good or capable engineer.

The FCC ain’t doing nothing about it. If anyone thinks they are, then I have an amazing US made router to sell them.

It’s true, and briefly made the news at the time[1]. The CSRB was also decimiated, and the current DHS deputy secretary, in his confirmation hearing, called for wrecking the agency, as he disagrees with their efforts to maintain election security.

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[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...

Many wouldn't, but some people share his values, and given the compensation, it makes saying "no" much harder. Money may not be the most important thing in life, but it does make them extremely easier to live.

I stopped reading once Evans emphasized consumer product. That was never a good strategy to sell SaaS, and I don't see how that changes.

X has only brand recognition right now, and an extremely toxic one.

Big customers may buy but won't give them logos, people who are offended by Musk's worldview won't pay them either. You don't do well with a toxic brand: just look at Ye having to buy full page apologies ads to try and sell a record.

Why is it a good thing? Manufacturing jobs are horrible, ask anyone who had one.

The US built a high margins service economy.

This is two steps backwards, no step forwards sort of a deal.

Every statement in the above comment is wrong:

People born in the 90s wouldn’t have a chance to be old enough to belong to any group other than a preschool before the collapse of the Soviet and Soviet aligned regimes.

For those who were adults before 1990, while they may have been party members for reasons unrelated to political ideology, it wasn’t as common: in the late 80s, only ~10% of adults in Warsaw pact countries were communist party members. Far from “everyone”.

And even if you check that in the DS-160 visa application form, you are allowed to add an explanation. Consular visa officers are very well familiar with the political situation at the countries they are stationed in, and can grant visa even if the box is checked.

macOS is a certified UNIX[0], but iOS isn’t.

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[0] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

otoh: the non regulated should cost more.

It’s kinda like “qualified investors” - you want to make sure people who are wiling to do something extremely stupid can afford it and acknowledge their stupidity.

We don’t need regulation to protect those that can afford to buy protection: we need it for those who can’t.

By default, Claude code keeps session history (as jsonl files in ~/.claude).

It’s wasteful not to save and learn from those.

And multiple years from the boardroom making a decision to build a data center to breaking ground.

We want to protect against the unknown, not the known. The less surface area, the better, and containers have much wider surface area than VMs. Both had their faults, of course.

Not sure if it's intended, but Apple Container is a microvm, providing mich better isolation than containers (while retaining the familiar interface)

Walmart famously refuse to pay the extra couple of basis points that are charged by the various payment-rails-involved-entities when doing NFC payments instead of physical card.

One of the issues. The idea that space is the place (for data centers) is more of a desperate marketing than serious engineering.

If you want people to interview better, you have to both allocate resources to it, and make it count on perf. It’s not laziness, it’s ROI.

No one might be Job-level ahole, but I'm certain Cook ain't less ruthless. It's a matter of priorities, not attitude.

Java bytecode is always dynamically linked.

> But what happens if there was a cosmic bit flip in a dynamic library?

You'd need multiple of those, because you have ECC. Not impossible, but getting all those dice rolled the same way requires even bigger scale than Google's.

If he himself believes he can achieve his off-the-cuff deadlines or not doesn't matter for the rest of us: he already proven himself to be a fabulist, and after so many failed predictions, should know better than to air them in public, especially as he must be acutely aware that making such claims inflates his and his companies' net worth, and hence has legal implications. Only he cares not about those, as none of his past misdeeds had any serious consequences to himself.

Less LOC also doesn't imply simplicity: just look at the demoscene, which often has the former but not the latter.

idk, the OP is all about the author misunderstanding what they bought. Hence a comment about bikes not understanding bikes deserves just as much scrutiny.

My own life tip: there are plenty of good analogies, so no need to choose use an example you are not familiar with.

Your analogy won’t hold scrutiny with a competitive cyclist: newer bikes are also faster given the same rider, even if not as meaningfully as a new CPU.

And modern bikes do make with the need for cable replacement or breakage (hydro lines and electric shifting, while more expensive to service, also require much less of it).

If your threat model is AWS deciding you break their AUP, the issue is with you doing AUP breaking stuff. This ain’t your personal Google Play account.

Even if you do SaaS. Some customers would ask you about known vulnerabilities in your images, and making it easy to show quick remediation schedule can make deals easier to close.

I don't think Forgejo is competitive in the markets GitHub makes most of their money from, nor does it seem Forgejo developers want it to be.

He plead to a crime, which must’ve cut him off from most government work.

He seems to be on a PR tour now, I guess to try and get other work. Some people blast every connection on LinkedIn, he seems to take a different approach and guest on every testosterone fueled and non-fact checked podcast.