Nextgrid

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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> How's the company behind uv making money? It doesn't have to make money now . But it's clearly pouring commercial-project-level of resources into uv, on the belief they will somehow recoup that investment later on.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
They believe they do or that they will in the future and act accordingly. (whether it will pan out or not is another matter, but in the meantime we got a decent open-source package manager out of it)
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
FOSS can sometimes get stuff done but I'd argue it gets stuff done in spite of all the bickering, not because of it. If all the energy spent on arguments or "design by committee" was spent productively FOSS would go much
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
I think too many people happens because a company would rather hire 10 "market rate" people than 3 well-compensated ones. Headcount inflation dilutes responsibility and rewards, so even if one of the "market rate" guys d
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Office politics happen when people determine they can get more money by engaging in politics instead of working. This is just an indicator people aren't being paid enough money (since people politicking around is detrimental to the com
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It's trivial in terms that it will cost them nothing, because it's very likely there are no changes to the kernel, or nothing of value nor commercially-sensitive anyway. It's not trivial in terms of big company bureaucracy -
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It's not just greenfield-ness but the fact it's a commercial endeavor (even if the code is open-source). Building a commercial product means you pay money (or something they equally value) to people to do your bidding. You don
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
For knowledge you only use occasionally and always in a context where reference (conventional or AI) is available, why not? That frees up memory/resources to learn more important stuff, the stuff where consulting reference might be too
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> if I spend a few years writing some code, you should get to copy it for your own interests If you publish the code, there's an argument to be made that yes, others should freely use it: if you could (or did) monetize the code your
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Not sure about which one is faster to read for a static value - most analog simulated instruments are relative which means you still need to read a digital readout to get the absolute value. One thing analog instruments/tapes do that a
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Can’t disclose too much yet without nuking my competitive advantage, but basically it’s using LLMs to parse lots of scraped data to identify prospective customers in a certain niche - not in the way “these guys might need it” but more like
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Automatic transmissions (for EU where manual is popular - I guess this doesn’t apply in countries where everyone drives automatics already) are generally only available with higher trim levels and yet don’t cost much more to rent, so this m
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Tech skills: * Building LLM-backed products. I’ve recently had a real use-case for AI (as opposed to slapping a useless chatbot on everything just to claim to use AI) and for now I’ve been calling the APIs directly from Django; which whil
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Unfortunately this shit is contagious so even non-Big-Tech companies eventually start to imitate it.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Which also sets broken incentives where nobody (not even renewables) are actually incentivized to dethrone gas/etc as it would reduce their own profit margin.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
I'm happy for employees to be accountable for their own actions to the same level companies are (currently that's none at all). Although in some of the scenarios you describe, it seems like someone can coast for a year doing nothi
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Post-pandemic we are all being treated like shit every day as consumers . Enshittification is bad, but if it's the new normal I find it desirable for the companies practicing it to get the same treatment in return from their own suppl
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> monitoring Most monitoring solutions support Postgres and don't actually care where your DB is hosted. Of course this only applies if someone was actually looking at the metrics to begin with. > backups Plenty of options to c
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> the actionable choices side so much I just have a knee-jerk reaction to the double standard between companies and individuals. Enshittification appears to be the new normal, no reason they shouldn't get a bit of their own medicine
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> lying to employees Not necessarily to employees, but in general - could be customers or other businesses too. > everything is viewed through the lens of business versus employees Not business vs employee but business vs individual.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The cURL author also receives lots of crazy emails because his address is listed in the licenses of any product that embeds it (and unfortunately some of those licenses are too accessible to the idiot): https://daniel.haxx.se&#
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> minor OSS celebrity Look into any kind of OSS drama and you'll realize the OSS community may have a higher proportion of crazies.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> What’s not okay is signing up to a company as an employee Oh no, someone dared to lie to a business , the horror! Only the reverse is acceptable. You should not do this because you haven't found a unicorn that is both cheap and w
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> outsource their work to low paid overseas assistants Literally every business is based on the idea of tacking on a margin onto someone else's work and profiting from it. Markets are based on imperfect information distribution at t
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Same reason that when a person lies (sometimes even by omission) it's called "fraud" but when a company does it it's just business as usual, or at worst, a "mistake" resolved by employee training.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
When you need to scale up and don't want that $160 to increase 10x to handle the additional load the numbers start making more sense: 3 month's worth of the projected increase upfront is around 4.3k, which is good money for a few
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Because it's not stealing . Stealing is a problem because it deprives the original owner of the item - whether the thief subsequently uses the item or not doesn't change that. This doesn't apply to dematerialized content: th
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
But if I'm pinning it to dedicated machines then Kubernetes does not give me anything, but I still have to deal with its tradeoffs and moving parts - which from experience are more likely to bring me down than actual hardware failure.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Music piracy is already a thing, not to mention you don't even need to torrent nowadays when music is available for free on YouTube. Those who don't want to pay already don't pay so nothing changes there. The value of Spotify
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Ironically you need a bit of both. You need to be expert enough to make it work, but not "too" expert to be stuck in your ways and/or influenced by all the fear-mongering. An expert will give you thousands of theoretical re

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