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by cj 8mo ago
For me it’s things like boot speed. How long does it take to restart the computer. To log out, and log back in with all my apps opening. Mac on intel feels like it was about 2x slower at these basic functions. (I don’t have real data points
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by cj 8mo ago
People are getting retatrutide from random websites (not what’s being shut down here) not from compounding pharmacies.
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by cj 8mo ago
It’s unfortunate that shutting these companies down will result in less people gaining access to the drug. GLP-1’s might be the best thing to happen to medicine this decade - I personally want everyone who would benefit from it to have acce
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by cj 8mo ago
> I don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to really assign much value to as it’s incredibly unlikely. In my experience the systems/tools needed to debug production issues are often only used when they’re needed. Which now means you
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by cj 8mo ago
> Why are we acting like it's hard to set up? Because the current generation of “full stack” engineers are great at spinning up react apps, but struggle with infrastructure and systems management. It’s really not any more complicate
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by cj 8mo ago
When you’re in the middle of a production down event and your whole team is diagnosing the issue, and your log server is unresponsive, who do you contact for support? No one, you pull an engineer off the production issue to debug the log se
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by cj 8mo ago
What I struggle with is developers wanting to leave platforms like Datadog for open source equivalents that need to be self-hosted. I hear all of the cost savings benefit, but I never see the team factoring in their own time (and others tim
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by cj 8mo ago
Tangent: what is the appeal of the “no capitalization” writing style? I never know what message the author is intending to convey when I see all lower case. Normally I can ignore it, but the font on this blog makes it hard to distinguish w
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by cj 8mo ago
I've seen VC's who care a lot about understanding how their companies are going to spend the money. And other VC's who don't even ask the question, or accept generalities like "hiring, scaling" with equally loo
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by cj 8mo ago
You’re describing an event that would wipe out the US economy and trying to protect against that with stable coins, or at least that’s the impression I’m getting. If the US falls apart, your startup will too. No matter how well preserved yo
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by cj 9mo ago
This is intersting. Occasionally in YC founder circles a new founder will raise a bunch of money and then ask something like "What's the best way to invest all the money our company just raised?" The responses are always alon
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by cj 9mo ago
Check back in 2 years to see if your statement is still true. SpaceX is planning the largest IPO in history aiming for over a trillion dollars in market cap
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by cj 9mo ago
And importantly: stick with it for a few weeks before deciding whether you enjoy it. Virtually no one falls in love with the gym (or whatever fitness activity) the first time they walked in. Getting started isn't always fun. But over
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by cj 9mo ago
You could look at the inverse: Not exercising causes the brain to look older. Knowing all of the ways not exercising is harmful is probably a good thing. But I agree, it would be better if everyone exercised!
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by cj 9mo ago
I was one of those pesky users who complained when o3 suddenly was unavailable. When 5.2 was first launched, o3 did a notably better job at a lot of analytical prompts (e.g. "Based on the attached weight log and data from my calorie tr
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by cj 9mo ago
If that's the case, the winner will likely be cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) who do compliance and enterprise very well. If Open Source can keep up from a pure performance standpoint, any one of these cloud providers should be able
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by cj 9mo ago
No, only certain less popular configurations are backlogged. Pretty normal for that to happen. Here's a link to a base model Macbook Pro 16" - ready to ship immediately. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac&#x2F
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by cj 9mo ago
Tangent: what does the govt do with seized crypto? Does it eventually get liquidated?
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by cj 9mo ago
They don’t. I’m confused why that info is valuable.
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by cj 9mo ago
But, why care? (Yes, we can “care” that there was a leak - but… why worry? what new risk exists today that didn’t yesterday?) The data in the leak (other than follower count, etc) was already available for purchase from Zoominfo, 8sense,
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by cj 9mo ago
iOS. Do a 1 time clean up by manually turning everything off. And then decline for every app you install after that. I can’t believe I used to be one of those people who got every single email delivered to their smart watch.
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by cj 9mo ago
My strategy here is to default notifications off for everything other than calls and texts. And then manually open Gmail to check mail, manually open Instagram when I feel like checking notifications, etc. It’s such a better experience when
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Capital One Strikes $5.15B Deal for Fintech Brex (YC W17)
23 points by cj 9mo ago|2 comments
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by cj 9mo ago
oh man, you just gave me a flashback to my roommates a decade ago changing my WiFi router password since they thought I was working too much. That was not my finest moment as far as practicing conflict resolution goes :) But that’s also the
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by cj 9mo ago
Thank you Dang and team for your moderation efforts. You’ve done a remarkably good job maintaining the quality of the community - we appreciate you.
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by cj 9mo ago
We deal with soft delete in a Mongo app with hundreds of millions of records by simply moving the objects to a separate collection (table) separate from the “not deleted” data. This works well especially in cases where you don’t want to was
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by cj 9mo ago
There’s very little you can do wrong by sending someone a genuine email. Now if you use AI to automate the personalization and start blasting it out indiscriminately, then yea, please don’t. But if you are being genuine and hand writing e
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by cj 9mo ago
I also regularly get cold emails from candidates. Most often for marketing roles, rarely for technical roles. Cold emailing definitely wont hurt your chances at the job. But to be effective, the outreach needs to be heavily tailored and per
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by cj 9mo ago
Not having a robots.txt is fine as long as it's a 404. If it's a 403, you'll be de-indexed. I have a feeling there's more to the story than what's in the blog post.
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by cj 9mo ago
The first time I read this I assumed you were joking about hooking up a virtual dom. But I think you're being serious. Why hook up a virtual dom when you have a real one? Unless you're saying AI can't interact reliably with a

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