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by apothegm 8mo ago
If VC capital dries up, prices can no longer be subsidized and skyrocket. Many participants in a given space go out of business, so there’s less competition and less of a race to the bottom. Those that survive are the ones that price highly
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by apothegm 8mo ago
To this political faction, it’s different when the customer is the in-group.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Relatable!
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Structured assessments aren’t exactly anything new in tech hiring.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Not to mention the challenges when (gasp!) a single user uses more than one device. Like, yes, some of us have both desktop computers and phones, thanks for asking. This is why I refuse to let most sites set me up with passkeys. I’m conside
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by apothegm 8mo ago
I agree with most of what you said except that most of what Hollywood depicts aren’t solid two-way bonds of affection. Instead it deploys a lot of shorthands (lust as a stand-in for love) and toxic relationship patterns.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Most candidates won’t have code they’re legally allowed to share, even “sanitized” (and most code can’t be sanitized in the way data points can). “Has lots of free time they want to spend on open source” is not a particularly strong signal
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Claude chat has also been buggy the past few weeks in random ways. That they’re heavily vibe-coding their own product is starting to show.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Don’t forget for-profit prisons!
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Against a small-time operator or one with a very outdated approach to hosting, maybe. Most decent sized sites now have DDOS protections and manual scaling if not auto-scaling. And these days human traffic at many sites pales in relation to
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by apothegm 8mo ago
I’m going to nitpick this to death out of sheer boredom. This diagram contains a horrifying omission of cereals and yogurt-oriented or cottage cheese breakfasts. It also misreads quiche as flour-free (quiche comes in a pie crust). Breakfast
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Nope. 90% of my company’s employees are doing highly skilled work that requires interacting with other humans face to face with physical presence. And turning our tech over to AI would undoubtedly be a disaster of security and compliance fa
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by apothegm 8mo ago
The number of users required depends on the website, what hardware it’s running on, what scaling it has in place, and what caching it has in place. It’s called a DDOS — distributed denial of service. It sometimes even happens inadvertently.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Maybe not at super large font sizes. But even lowercase i and l are easy enough to confuse at a glance mid-word in most sans-serif fonts, not to mention uppercase I and lowercase l. You don’t even need “confusable” glyphs to create a domain
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Concern about proprietary tools. Preferring tools written in the language they’re for. Comfort level. Not feeling they need anything uv offers over poetry. Not bought in to aspects of its architecture (ex: centralized deps). Already having
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Most startups that hold patents in very early stages are actually built around something originating in academia, which they’ve been working on patenting in parallel with working on commercializing it. The vast, vast, vast majority of early
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Which of these bullets does obsidian not meet?
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Two sides of the same filthy coin, in a way.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
If you want to be able to retain ethics, among other things make sure not to take the company public. Then you’re basically legally required to drop ethics in favor of profits. Also don’t take investment from anyone who isn’t fully aligned
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Couldn’t care less about HTTP/2 support, but you had me at Django + LiveView. Wish I had time now to try it out. Any sample projects?
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Because task initiation has very little to do with tracking tasks. It’s far more internal than external, and apps can’t really fix that.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Maybe, but… the cycle can be very long. Everyone in Russia is a skeptic or a grifter, and it’s been that way for decades with no sign of grift being on its way out.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Just treat the LLM as an NLP interface for data input. Still run the inputs against a deterministic heuristic for whether the action is permitted (or depending on the context, even for determining what action is appropriate). LLMs ignore in
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Instead of a completely separate DB or logic in each view, have you considered: a) separate managers for live and draft? b) proxy models for live and draft with separate managers? c) live and draft child models of the same abstract base mod
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Nothing quite like a page so memory-intensive that everything beyond the first couple of paragraphs renders blank on mobile safari, and it vacates from memory even the simple HN page it was linked from.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Sales engineers and “field CTOs” are in demand these days, fwiw.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
There is an alternative, which is that $BigCorp for whom a single SWE salary is a drop in the ocean offers to hire the maintainer as a FTE. If there’s only a fraction of an employee’s worth of work to do to maintain the package, they give t
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by apothegm 8mo ago
I also use VSCode and derivatives. Also mostly without mousing. But I don’t HAVE to, because I know how to use CLI tooling to not only edit files as needed but also handle things like version control — which I’ve noticed a disappointing per
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by apothegm 8mo ago
Chunks of that statement from AWS reek of being LLM-generated, too.
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by apothegm 8mo ago
It sounds a lot like a search engine plus custom-titled browser bookmarks.

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