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It's not so much typing that is valuable for vibecoding, but being able to give the agent hooks into tooling that provides negative feedback for errors. The easiest is typing, sure, because it's built into the compiler. But you ca
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PANW's current strategy is "platformization" - to be a one-stop shop for anything cybersecurity. The CYBR acquisition fills large product holes in the current PANW portfolio, with little overlap. The $25B price doesn't r
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EV is not a reasonable metric here. When the ventures are 99+% likely to fail, and individual funds don't invest into more than a few handfuls of companies, you don't have enough variance to promise that fund returns will approach
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> All kinds of places overcome these things Yes, but it requires political will. America is rather characteristic (I want to say unique, but that's probably false) in its lack of political will to increase density anywhere that isn&
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> make on average This completely misses the boat on venture capital, which is almost by definition the riskiest of all risky bets. Any smart LP throwing $X into a fund has a portfolio valued, at the very least, at 100 if not 1000 times
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SF is surrounded by water on three sides. Palo Alto was the suburb. San Jose was the exurb. You could build 50 story towers all over San Francisco and it wouldn't suddenly make it feasible to build on water. New York has a similar stor
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Your overall point isn't wrong , but... > Bakeries radically undercut the cost of home baking This is not always true anymore. I bought a (nice, expensive for its product category) bread machine on Amazon for something like $300. I
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> it is called training Even if I take you at your word for the sake of argument, what percentage, do you think, roughly, of gun owners are going to take "a few years, several thousand rounds of ammunition, and periodic maintenance&
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It's rather debatable whether it should be legal for store owners to shoot robbers and call it self-defense; not all states protect shop owners in such circumstances, and state law may differentiate between when robbers pull lethal wea
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> The reason manual safeties are going away is that for side arms, time matters A LOT. Gun fights are typically over within just a few seconds and the person who fires first has a huge advantage. I know there are a lot of people who shar
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Yeah there's a very serious bias when an E9 is telling people to work 18 hour days like he did when he was getting promoted every year at Microsoft. Of course an E9 has a latent interest in seeing more lower-level Facebook ICs put in l
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Author points to TigerBeetle as an example, which I wasn't familiar with, so I went down a rabbit hole. Wow. Yeah. If you're writing a financial ledger transactions database from scratch in Zig, where safety and performance are yo
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University enrollment doesn't drop sharply evenly across all universities. The lowest-desirability universities will go bust while the Ivy League continues to have hyper-competitive admissions and yearly tuition increases that outpace
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Yeah, if they're going to market this as kid-safe, they need to have videos of what happens when child-size fingers are intentionally fed into the machine, when hair is intentionally fed into the machine, etc. Almost by definition, you
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That doesn't make them public companies or ensure that they serve the public interest; it ensures that they cannot abuse their natural monopoly. Placing handcuffs on someone to prevent them from abusing others is not the same as someon
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> The utilities are there to serve the people Are they owned by a democratically elected government? Do their profits return to the public purse? No? Then they don't exist to serve the people. They exist to serve their customers. As
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Scalpers are only a retail-wide problem if (a) factories could produce more, but they calculated demand wrong, or (b) factories can't produce more, they calculated demand wrong, and under-priced MSRP relative to what the market is actu
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The promise of both Kubernetes and serverless was to abstract away the infrastructure from the developer, who can stick to writing line-of-business code. In both cases, companies end up needing to hire infrastructure teams to manage the und
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Well you hit the nail on the proverbial head. The compact will handle 99% of people's use-cases, the truck will handle 100%. People don't want the hassle of renting something or paying for help for the 1% of cases their compact wo
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Or, you continue to grow the population through immigration. The US is unique (or maybe there are a handful of others, I don't know) in its ability to welcome immigrants who, within two generations, largely see themselves as Americans
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Sounds a lot like https://priceops.org/ , but Tier (Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33429972 ) seems to have shut down. Any insight into why they failed and wh
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If you work for a large enterprise, there are so many dev teams supporting so many products that "we haven't figured out what's actually worth logging" is just disconnected from the developer incentives in those teams (s
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No, I ran three-node etcd clusters for years that Kops set up. Kops deployed an etcd-operator to babysit them and take care of backups and the like. It was set-and-forget. We had controlled disruptions all the time as part of Kubernetes con
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I don't get the etcd hate. You can run single-node etcd in simple setups. You can't easily replace it because so much of the Kubernetes API is a thin wrapper around etcd APIs like watch that are quite essential to writing controll
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It's a double-edged sword. AI agents don't have a long-term context window that gets better over time. People who employ AI agents today instead of juniors are going to find themselves in another local maximum: yes, the AI agent w
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If your Security folk are trying to draw up a wall around the enterprise (prevent using stuff not intentionally mirrored in) but there are no network controls - no IP address based firewalls, no DNS firewalls, no Layer 7 firewalls (like AWS
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OP isn't really arguing against SaaS (after all, OP recommends in the end either Cloudflare or Supabase, which are provided as a service ...), that's just the clickbait title, rather OP is arguing against signing up for a hundred
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> associated docs/README Many (I would even argue most) professional codebases either do not have their documentation (including tutorials and architecture diagrams) in the codebase alongside the code, if there is even such formal d
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Human coders are necessary because writing code is a political act of deciding between different trade-offs. antirez's whole post is explaining to Gemini what the trade-offs even were in the first place. No analysis of a codebase in is
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How big of a problem is it really, with CAA records and FIDO2 or passkeys? CAA makes sure only one CA signs the cert for the real domain. FIDO2 prevents phising on a similar-looking domain. EV would force a phisher to get a similar-looking

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