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by lolinder 1y ago
The author's description of vibe coding seems to have confused it with getting into a flow state in a vaguely AI-adjacent way. Vibe coding as originally coined by Karpathy [0] can't pay the bills because it would be wildly irrespo
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The next step for Cursor and Windsurf both is that they need to work together to provide an answer for what it means to be a VS Code fork in the new era where Microsoft is trying to strangle the forks. If they're not already they shoul
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If it acquired those customers in an environment where Microsoft was not enforcing their marketplace terms it very much does matter if they have a plan for supporting plugins in the future. Are Cursor and Windsurf going to ask plugin devs t
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by lolinder 1y ago
This piece appears to be a quick summary of a much better and more thorough piece by the same author that was discussed extensively a few months back: How I ship projects at big tech companies (1425 points, 381 comments) https:/&#x2
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by lolinder 1y ago
So the non-profit retains control but we all know that Altman controls the board of the non-profit and I'd be shocked if he won't have significant stock in the new for-profit (from TFA: "we are moving to a normal capital stru
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by lolinder 1y ago
The author has an entire series of posts on how pre-modern generalship did and didn't work, including a post on issuing commands. The tl;dr is that there cannot have been a generalized order to fire on cue because pre-modern armies did
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by lolinder 1y ago
And the rest of the questions? My understanding is that the idea that Christians destroyed vast numbers of ancient texts was heavily exaggerated by anti-Christian polemics during the Enlightenment. There were some isolated instances, but
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by lolinder 1y ago
Only as long as Matt deigns to allow your server to access his servers and deigns to allow the plugin authors who you depend on to log in to his servers. WordPress has no governance, it just has Matt, and wo betide anyone who ticks him off
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by lolinder 1y ago
Wordpress in 2025 has a very dangerous pair of traits: * It and all its plugins must be kept up to date or else you will be compromised. * The BDFL is a maniac who is happy to block access to deliver or receive security updates for petty pe
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by lolinder 1y ago
You've clearly never worked customer support. A very disproportionate number of people who call in to customer support are totally and utterly unreasonable. That's why it's such a pain to interact with customer support as a r
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by lolinder 1y ago
Which centuries did you have in mind? In what countries were these purgings? Which authors were purged and by which sects of early Christianity? I ask because "Early Christianity" as a period ends with the First Council of Nicea,
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by lolinder 1y ago
Yeah, the whole "they give nothing back" line might be the worst part of the PR around these changes. It's obvious to anyone familiar with the ecosystem that it's not true, which damages the credibility of Redis's a
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by lolinder 1y ago
The watermark is actively distracting from the enormously important work of reading the complaint in detail. This isn't a question of formality for formality's sake, it's a question of ensuring that the processes run smoothly
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by lolinder 1y ago
There's all kinds of cryptography available for solving trust problems. I guarantee you that within six months of third party cookies being removed someone will have built an impression signing system that is satisfactory to both the a
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by lolinder 1y ago
> The reason it's viewed as bad is because that behavior undermines the community at large. Participants need to contribute back proportional to their benefit when realistically able lest the community decline over time. Why? No one
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by lolinder 1y ago
Yep. This is true for all languages that I've tried, but it's particularly true in Rust. The model will get into a loop where it gets further and further away from the intended behavior while trying to fix borrow checker errors,
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by lolinder 1y ago
To hurt enough to be worth changing the fines don't have to be a fraction of their global revenue, they have to be significantly more than the benefit gained from the illegal behavior. According to that article TikTok made $10B of that
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by lolinder 1y ago
Corporations are collections of humans. There are certain ways in which extending human rights to corporations a mistake, but allowing them to use free software isn't one of them: either the individuals in the company are able to use t
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by lolinder 1y ago
> a list that can be changed later? No legal department will ever approve using software under a license like that. Who wants to risk being the next addition to that list?
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by lolinder 1y ago
> contributing nothing This is a line that gets thrown around very casually, but every assessment I've heard says that the big dogs are quite prolific contributors to these projects. > capturing the lion's share of the enter
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by lolinder 1y ago
Not a religion, but a term with a specific meaning, which meaning implies a collection of freedoms granted without discrimination. People are welcome to use licenses that revoke those freedoms, but calling them FOSS is confusing and muddies
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by lolinder 1y ago
It's not really that it's an exception to Goodharts Law, it's that Goodhart's Law only applies to measured proxies. If the goal of a company is first and foremost to make money, then sales is the only organization within
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by lolinder 1y ago
This is a very interesting point. I wonder how many roles there are like this: low valued because they are low valued, in a vicious cycle. We hire people to fill a prescribed low-value role and don't expect much of them so we don&#x2
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by lolinder 1y ago
I'd argue it doesn't "just so happen" to benefit AWS, it was causal: Open Source created AWS. AWS is structured the way that it is in order to benefit from Open Source, and it grew to its current size by so benefiting. I
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> The solution is clear: start your new database with an "equitable source / source available" license from day one. Nobody will complain about a relicense since your license will handle the hyperscalers right off the bat.
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It's really not though. The OSI quickly loses credibility when they try to push a definition that the community doesn't like (see the Open Source AI kerfuffle). Both the OSI and the FSF are agreed that Source Available with bans o
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by lolinder 1y ago
> being thrown around like a rag doll by Amazon Can you elaborate on what exactly Amazon did to Elastic? I read all of their blog posts and the only thing I really got out of it was "they sell hosted Elastic cheaper than we can&quot
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But that has always been true, from the beginning. It's baked in to the FOSS model and always has been. If the companies had made a bad call in structuring their business and owned up to it I think we'd be having a very different
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by lolinder 1y ago
I don't buy that justification. These two companies (and the others like them) set up a model for funding their business knowing full well that they would have to compete with others who were able to provide the same service they were.
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by lolinder 1y ago
They require a Contributor License Agreement [0] whereby you grant them the copyright to your contribution. Which means they become the ultimate decision-maker for all contributions and can relicense however and whenever they wish. [0] htt

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