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by solatic 7mo ago
> Not a single founder wakes up in the morning thinking to themselves: "oh I wish I could make my company XYZ-123 compliant!" Somehow I doubt that you are in the B2B/Enterprise space. When you're pitching demos and yo
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by solatic 7mo ago
> a lot of companies that need their own package repositories Every company needs its own package repository. You need to be able to control what is running on your environment. Supply-chain risk is very, very real and affects anybody
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by solatic 7mo ago
Both Artifactory and Sonatype have somewhat restricted open-source options, which is part of their "get a foot in the door" product-driven sales strategy. There are no competing open-source projects because such projects would nee
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by solatic 7mo ago
Rent control is literally the removal of the right to evict a tenant who refuses the otherwise-uncontrolled rent increase you request. The inability to evict them for refusing the rent increase is what de-facto keeps the rent from increasin
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by solatic 7mo ago
> 'adversarial tenant/landlord' is that the theory doesn't line up with reality So disconnected from reality that it beggars belief. Anytime you put two or more adult people into a relationship together and at least o
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by solatic 7mo ago
> it's the notion that 'homes are markets' that is 'warped' A market in this case isn't a literal street market with vendors hawking their goods. The word "market" describes the relationship betwee
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by solatic 7mo ago
The way the post is written, I wonder if the author is working for a company going through a growth spurt and where, through sheer size, everything is becoming more "corporate". There's a huge difference between having AI c
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by solatic 7mo ago
The larger you are, the larger the rounding errors are, the more money that can disappear due to a failure and explained away or extended or written off or whatever euphemism you want to pick. But the sum of rounding errors is less likely t
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by solatic 7mo ago
To add some context - > Imperfect enforcement is too easy for law enforcement officers to turn into selective enforcement. By choosing who to go after, law enforcement gets the unearned power This is by design, in an American context of
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by solatic 7mo ago
Average daily USD-NIS trading volume (per Bank of Israel: https://www.boi.org.il/en/communication-and-publications/pre... ) is on the order of magnitude of about $15 billion. There are multiple founders getting bi
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by solatic 7mo ago
> laptop for a computer science student ... most likely outgrow 8 GB RAM faster than laptop CPU A couple years ago I would have agreed with you. Today I'm not sure how reasonable it is to try to future-proof via expandable RAM. Imag
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by solatic 7mo ago
Agree that AI is a force multiplier in small-cap and a better search at best in large-cap due to internal bureaucracy. The bigger question (that remains to be seen and played out) is whether AI will be a forcing function towards small-cap.
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by solatic 7mo ago
> 120Hz refresh rate would be nice to have, but there is no display I’m aware of that meets the macOS pixel density requirement while also providing faster refresh rates. Is this still true, meaning, is the new Studio Display XDR the onl
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by solatic 7mo ago
This is Netflix, they have thousands of engineers. So you have two approaches to solve the problem: either write enforced policy-as-code to prevent people from deploying images with too-high layer count (and pray they never need to rollback
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by solatic 7mo ago
Hypothetically, the amount of money that could be negotiated away is something like the sum of net incomes of US pharma/med device/insurance/healthcare, which is something like $100 billion annually. which sounds like a lot b
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by solatic 7mo ago
> Is it this MBA idea that management itself is a profession I don't think that you can take somebody with a finance background, take them straight out of their MBA, and drop them in an EM position. That's a bad fit. Good EMs
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by solatic 8mo ago
No priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window - even if they were skilled enough to do so, unless the model was locally hosted, doing so would be a violation of their vows of silence. Good homilies are
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by solatic 8mo ago
Perhaps, but the larger question is whether the price of hydrogen itself can be sufficiently reduced. $36/kg is not justifiable for distance trucking or planes. If the price of hydrogen dropped sufficiently, then there's more dema
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by solatic 8mo ago
OpenAI is dependent on same hyperscalers (most specifically Microsoft/Azure) as everyone else, and even have access to preferential pricing due to their partnership. A better explanation is to point out that ChatGPT is still far and aw
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by solatic 8mo ago
I have no idea how you got that from my comment. How much you make, how much you save, how much you spend, and how much you give away are all independent, and neither is it a zero-sum pie (for example, sometimes investments go down in value
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by solatic 8mo ago
Sure, but if the economics of hydrogen motors worked out for planes and shipping, the argument is that it would also economically work out for cars.
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by solatic 8mo ago
I sympathize with the author, and in principle I find myself nodding along with his prescriptions, but one of the benefits of Dependabot (and Renovate) are that they are language-agnostic. Depending on how many repositories, and how many la
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by solatic 8mo ago
There are three things you can do with your money - save it (e.g. investments), give it away (e.g. charity), or spend it (e.g. housing, vacations). Whether or not somebody's investment strategy (i.e. saving) is optimal for their income
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by solatic 8mo ago
A lot of people are often surprised at how non-frugal their lifestyles are. I'm not suggesting that people living on $50k/year aren't already frugal, but yeah, there's definitely people who take out car loans, take out m
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by solatic 8mo ago
The RFC wording is a little weird. If the zone has DNSSEC configured, then the wording should be stronger and use MUST wording, and not imply that CAs will be compliant if they choose to avoid verifying signatures despite the presence of si
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by solatic 8mo ago
I'm surprised that this doesn't require DNSSEC or at the very least actively encourage configuring DNSSEC. While I used to be fully in the camp that DNSSEC was way more trouble than it was worth, in particular when access was de-f
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by solatic 8mo ago
> tents don't need to be strong in compression - there's no weight on the roof But there is on the floor, unless you expect the inhabitants to sleep more or less directly on the ground, including themselves, whatever is used as
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by solatic 8mo ago
> a footgun is a surprising defect that's pointed at your foot and easy to trigger Close, but not the way I think of a footgun. A footgun is code that was written in a naive way, looks correct, submitted, and you find out after
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by solatic 8mo ago
> The point is, even if I were Jesus Christ himself, someone would find a flaw that makes me undateable in their opinion. Well yeah, Christ isn't really dateable because he would never be able to be vulnerable with you (after all, i
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by solatic 8mo ago
Eh, I'd say that Rust has a different set of footguns. You're correct that you won't run into use-after-free footguns, but Rust doesn't protect you from memory leaks, unsafe code is still unsafe, and the borrow checker a

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