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by bandrami 7mo ago
Though at this point it's not clear that anybody who's agreed to give OpenAI money is actually going to do so
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I think having a single 9 of uptime is a relatively new thing even for GH
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by bandrami 7mo ago
And this kills the Disney deal: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-sh...
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I've found fencepost errors but AFAICR it was always somebody calling somebody else's code with the wrong semantics.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I've found a lot of bugs in software in my career and basically none of them were at a single spot in a codebase. They've all been where two remote spots (or even more frequently to spots in two different codebases) interact. This
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by bandrami 7mo ago
But we don't even seem to be getting faster time-to-ship in any way that anybody can actually measure; it's always some vague sense of "we're so much more productive".
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by bandrami 7mo ago
It's deeply surprising to me that LLMs have had more success proving higher math theorems than making successful consumer software
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I can't think of any free or open license that requires you to leave your code available for any specific period of time if you are not simultaneously distributing binaries.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Just made an order from them. It's weirdly comforting to know there's a company that knows I need clevis bolts and is willing to sell them to me for a transparent price.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
As of now, at least, nobody is actually seeing an increase of productivity from AI that shows up in any measurements anybody is making. So some of this talk is really getting ahead of the facts on the ground.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
As someone living in a non-net-neutral country this really is the big advantage everybody in net-neutral-land ignores: Meta and Google pay for nearly all of my data use (one of them even seems to cover HN).
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by bandrami 7mo ago
If the purpose of every business were making profits every business would be a hedge fund (at which point there could be no hedge funds, but that's a separate issue). Profits are a necessary component of a businesses's activitie
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by bandrami 7mo ago
And in a lot of cases they're making the right call. Change is incredibly expensive and risky and if the only real payoff is "it's slightly faster" that's probably not worth it.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
It was a janitorial temp company and they didn't really care about computers. Whoever had been their IT guy before me had made a pretty neat website that would let clients book cleaning staff and give them a birds-eye- view of upcoming
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Dude I still get contracts in ColdFusion. You guys have no idea how slowly actual businesses actually move.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Nobody could find it back in 1994 either! That was part of the fun. You stumbled on a webring or somebody's curated oracle and found a bunch of interesting weird tiny websites.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
That's why we had (and for that matter still have) webrings.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I swear by Kagi and will never go back (until they inevitably start including ads after a bad earnings report)
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Oh Lord you need to take on some non-tech companies as clients if this surprises you. I've had clients who forgot they had a website and thought that monthly hosting bill was just for something to do with the back-office Internet con
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I still in 2026 do not understand the absolute manic drive websites have to push me to the app. I've administered services that have both a web client and an app client and the metrics just really weren't better, certainly not eno
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I flinch at "everywhere", particularly when people keep asserting they are places that they aren't (and in fact can't be). Nothing with a hard zero can be normally distributed, for instance, but people will keep insistin
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by bandrami 7mo ago
That would have worked better a month ago. The money is drying up. And the Gulf money is gone for the next 3 quarters in the best case.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
There's a lot of reasons you don't want to IPO in the near- to mid-term, many based on energy suddenly being a lot more expensive than everybody thought and others based on money being a lot more expensive than everybody thought (
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche
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by bandrami 7mo ago
The big discontinuity is Dunbar's number. When you get to ~200 you stop being a single company and divide into fiefs. There's a reason militaries have always had the smallest maneuver unit be a little more than 100 people.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
Also basically everything DHH ever said (I stopped using Rails 15 years ago but just defining data relationships in YAML and typing a single command to get a functioning website and database was in fact pretty cool in the oughts).
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by bandrami 7mo ago
How do you "paste content into your website"? Did somebody build them a CMS?
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by bandrami 7mo ago
It's a trend in Sri Lanka for some reason to put your menu on Instagram... as a reel. Because you don't want your customers to have more than 15 seconds to view what you serve.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
No really we want to know when it's open, what it serves, and how much it costs. The quality conversation is completely separate.
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by bandrami 7mo ago
I directionally agree with this but, what do you do in three months when you change to the summer menu?

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