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That's still completely separate. It's bog standard PE, not VC.

Investment banks are always involved in the IPO. That's not going to get Wonder into the Russell 1000 or anything like that.

> Which in some cases means the general public via IPO.

You're talking more about VC tech firms.

These distressed PE targets loaded with debt are often sold to another private buyer, or if they are taken public (sometimes not for the first time) they are much too small or have too bad of financials to be in the indexes that regular people are buying.

In America the next administration hides them for you because they will never set the precedent of punishing a president for exceeding their power.

Obama could have had Bush against the wall at the Hague for his war crimes... and then Trump could have had Obama against the wall at the Hague for his war crimes... and then Biden could have had Trump... and on and one we go.

True but for example in California we have it extra bad where it takes weeks for votes to get counted. Even the most idealistic person with respect to how people should process election results must admit that it taking this long either:

a) Undermines trust or

b) Creates a more fertile ground to undermine trust

This was hard enough to enforce when it was just people writing code, and once one of those stupid incrementing integer IDs go in a public API or important codepath, it can be a real pain to rip out.

They all got trained on the same books and internet cesspools, this is not some great mystery of consciousness.

Whereas functioning CI is just arbitrary shell scripts with glue and tape as a service.

It's been a lot worse recently but the increase in instability is fairly well correlated with how long it's been owned by Microsoft.

People have been on here complaining about GitHub being unstable for years and years

When it's broken is the only time it might not be an active security threat

Gotta be able to stop fraudulent payments while maintaining privacy before ecommerce would have any interest in adopting a more private system.

I've worked at plenty of companies that have no interest in tracking their customers but still need to be able to pin IDs to credit cards, etc. to have any hope of stopping mountains of fraud.

Honestly one of the coolest things you can do for this sort of problem offer a version of the Talos Image Factory, where people can select the combination of plugins and the architecture and get a build.

There can be a lot of permutations to create of course but each one only needs to be built once per version you release.

To limit permutations you can always create pre-selected bundles of related plugins (like package groups on Linux distros) and let people select those bundles. They can always fall back to building it themselves if they really need to be picky about the plugin selection.

They also seem to really bias towards tacking on new code to "work around" what's there, rather than breaking down what's there into smaller more composable bits that can serve the pre-existing use case and the new requirement elegantly.

Wasn't their previous revenue increase more than twice as big?

That would very much not be great for Anthropic, they need to be accelerating growth to keep valuation, doubly so as interest rates on corporate bonds continue to rise.

The British press really never misses a chance to do the wrong thing huh.

Agreed and everyone’s talking about Docker Compose while I’m putting everything in k8s.

SQLite has a bunch of cool stuff happening around it right now too like Turso and Litestream.

Intellectual property is terrible for society on the whole.

You could just as easily argue "why are 200 companies burning through people and natural resources to come up with the exact same thing and then marketing it as different" as you can say "why would anyone create anything without the ability to making oodles of money by restricting imitation".

Waaaay too easy to end up a bricked router with no working recovery options.

Only do this if you rescued the router from the trash bin, not if you spent money on it

In any corporate structure it's 10000x easier to get approved to just buy something from a vendor than it is to set up donations for an open-source project/foundation.

PLus you're missing the licensing aspect, part of this is AGPL if you use the free version, lots of places are happy to throw down money to get a commercial license rather than hem and haw over AGPL.

Well they are not, but this is a startup that's actually buying/creating computer hardware and the most expensive and competitive time in history to source it.

The economics are going to look different than all the sloppified enterprise SaaS startups that charge crazy amounts for a crappy data lake product on S3.

Taking on debt is MUCH faster and easier way for all shareholders in a startup to end up with $0.

Loans are a lot better when you're in a more stable scenario - lower growth and/or lower risk of implosion due to just being more established.

As well as Oxide is doing, startups are still volatile and taking on debt that might need to restructure or be defaulted can create a lot worse outcome for shareholders than just "we diluted and then stopped growing as much".

We're racking hardware right now to move off the cloud providers and but it's just a (small tens-of-millions-of-dollars) test run to start so we didn't want to complicate things by learning anything Oxide-specific, but they are certainly on the radar as the vendor for a larger rollout.

Reminds me of this LLM port of Liquid template language to Go, where it decides to emulate Ruby duck typing by making everything an interface and constantly casting it to different types: https://github.com/Notifuse/liquidgo

I mean compete at least in part on the price that end-users will be charged

More applications should mean they have to compete on price tbh.

Sure if AirBnb wants to administer .airbnb and charge a lot, whatever.

But `.bit` domains should be some bargain basement price if so many people want to run it.

Seriously that is the sort of thing that could get you hunted down by angry nerds.

I am NOT going to use .home.arpa.

I have been looking for an expansion of TLDs that are short, have a decent ring for self-hosting stuff, and don't sound too scammy.

Like `.link` is pretty cool but it's expensive because one of those personal-link-inbio companies created it and wants to cash in on it.

Just from scanning these, maybe:

* .air

* .bit

* .hub

* .iam

* .index (long but I love how universal it is)

* .lab

* .log

* .pod

* .port

* .self is really interesting, wonder if that would take off

* .sys

* .zen

Yeah Mimir cleared a billion series years ago prior to several recent re-architectures that make it faster and more efficient to run.

And packaging + distribution is ridiculously easy.

We are moving every script we can to Go. Compared to bash it's a no-brainer, every dev can understand it, it has approximately .0000000000001% of the possible footguns, a great debugger, etc.

> Conclusion

> Looking at the visual timeline, we can see that changes to example.com happen sporadically.

I am glad to see someone else struggling to write a non-awkward conclusion to a technical blog. I always feel like I am just restating the obvious to the point that it is borderline insulting to the reader. But I don't have much more to say and removing the conclusion makes it seem like the whole thing just fell off a cliff.