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by acdha 9mo ago
The other thing I see is that only existing holders have much loyalty to that particular blockchain. Nobody else has a vested interest in using their funds to re-inflate the net worth of people who bought Bitcoin before them, and it’s easy
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by acdha 9mo ago
Think about if this happened in the real world. Like if I ran a book store, I’d expect some scammer to try to schmooze a discount but I’d also expect the staff to say no, refuse service, and call the police if they refused to leave. If the
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by acdha 9mo ago
Why don’t you tell us, focusing on what will be sticky? For example, will wealthy Chinese people evading capital controls or Russians avoiding sanctions stick with Bitcoin at a loss?
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by acdha 9mo ago
Why? It’s a pure fiat currency with limited real-world adoption, what reason will people have to favor it over the alternatives next week which they don’t have today?
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by acdha 9mo ago
That last part is really interesting to me: humans are notoriously bad at things like looking at a large block of code and recognizing that something is missing from the middle. Offensive LLMs guided by control flow analysis are probably go
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by acdha 9mo ago
This was also a really neat compilation for discovering artists I’d never heard of: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-mogadis...
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by acdha 9mo ago
Yes and LLMs also shift the economics for writing new versus reusing code as well as generating attacks so I think we’ll see some odd variations of old bugs which can’t be widely attacked (not many copies in the world) but might be surprisi
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by acdha 9mo ago
> Much of the "cloud so expensive" crowd are just engineers too narrowly focused on a small part of the picture, or in denial about their ability to compete with the competence of cloud providers This has been my experience as
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by acdha 9mo ago
I have no doubt that was your experience. My point was that it wasn’t even common in SV as whole, just the startup scene. Think about headcount: how many times fewer people worked at your startup than any one of Apple, Oracle, HP, Salesforc
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by acdha 9mo ago
They haven’t been truly novel if you want to say that, for example, the Lisa was covering Xerox PARC ideas but I think you’d have to ignore a lot of significant work to say they didn’t substantially innovate in GUIs, personal assistants and
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by acdha 9mo ago
It’s a group psychosis fueled by enormous financial pressure: every big tech company has been telling people that they’re getting fired as soon as possible unless they’re one of the few people who can operate these tools. Of course that’s g
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by acdha 9mo ago
Heroku was popular with startups who didn’t have infrastructure skills but the price was high enough that anyone who wasn’t in that triangle of “lavish budget, small team, limited app diversity” wasn’t using it. Things like AWS IaaS were fa
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by acdha 9mo ago
> developers and users increasingly trust code they haven't personally reviewed. This has been true since we left the era where you typed the program in each time you ran it. Ken Thompson rather famously wrote about this four decade
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by acdha 9mo ago
The value of the store is curation: if the random scammers who put up “Totally Acrobat PDF” websites can’t get listed, it’s safer for people who aren’t security experts to trust the installer isn’t blatant malware. The problem is that this
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by acdha 9mo ago
If you trust Microsoft enough to run their operating system, you trust them enough to develop a package manager. Suppose, for example, that they caught up to where Debian was 30 years ago and Windows shipped with a default list of sources f
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by acdha 9mo ago
True, but that’s going to be a noisy process until there are a few theoretical breakthroughs. I personally would not leave myself legally on the hook hoping that Grok faked something hermetically.
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by acdha 9mo ago
That sounds awfully difficult to do perfectly without personally signing up for extra jail time for premeditated violation of local laws. Like in that scenario, any reference to the unsanitized file or a single employee breaking omertà is p
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by acdha 9mo ago
That’s a valid choice. I’m just saying that you should pick ideally one tool for that class of work. For example, if you support one tool for Mac and Linux users that’s probably worth more than supporting two similar tools even if one of th
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by acdha 9mo ago
It’s a question of feedback time and consistency: e.g. if you run Prettier/Ruff in CI, someone has to wait minutes rather than milliseconds and you either have to fix build failures or grant your CI system commit privileges and deal wi
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by acdha 9mo ago
I note that their accomplishments tend to be in the past, prior to his Twitter addiction absorbing his attention. Tesla is a solid decade late on FSD, cutting models, and losing market share rapidly thanks to his influencer stunts. SpaceX h
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by acdha 9mo ago
This thread specifically excluded the big investors, but they too have nothing but loss popping the bubble: Musk has been talking up the value of their investment. If they criticize in public, they’re just costing themselves money — much sa
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by acdha 9mo ago
They don’t need the grid if they’re deploying their own solar. I find it exceedingly unlikely that there is nowhere in the U.S., much less the world, that they couldn’t use some of Tesla’s battery experience to deploy a boatload of solar pa
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by acdha 9mo ago
You’re really asking whether anyone at a private company is publicly speaking up against the famously emotional and vindictive owner?
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by acdha 9mo ago
Use the real product names and that problem largely goes away: MacBook Pro (M5) MacBook Pro (M4 Ultra) MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) Mac Pro (M2 Ultra) Once you remember the general rule that Pro costs/does more than the base model, it’s really
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by acdha 9mo ago
I’d broaden that slightly to say you should try to have as few mechanisms for elevating privileges as possible: if you had tooling around sudo, dzdo, etc. for PAM, auditing, etc. I wouldn’t lightly add a third tool until you were confident
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by acdha 9mo ago
> A production environment should usually be setup up properly with explicit roles and normal access control. … and sudo is a common tool for doing that so you can do things like say members of this group can restart a specific service o
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by acdha 9mo ago
SysV was this weird blind spot for many years. I remember installing daemontools on the OpenBSD server my office ran on because it was nicer to work with, and thinking that the Linux world would switch to avoid losing that particular featur
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by acdha 9mo ago
It’s not just explaining but whether you have to support it on more than one distribution/version or handle edge cases. For a simple learning exercise, it can be easier to start with but even in the 90s it was notably behind, say, Wind
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by acdha 9mo ago
> it seems to me customers are mostly business clients, who would are more inclined to spare the expense of purchasing said licenses, since they're not personally buying it themselves, and would want to have support and liability Tr
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by acdha 9mo ago
I wouldn’t be so quick to write Wikipedia off but I do think there will be changes. The SEO abusers might not have cost us editor anonymity but LLMs might push in the direction of needing real-world validation or friend of a friend referral

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