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In American cities, as long as you don’t look like a bum, hotel lobbies are usually accessible.

I think nurses in the Bay Area make like 200k a year

this sounds like an absolutely wholesome story where multiple strangers donate their attention and time to help somebody who was not a victim in any way but just merely lost.

I wouldn't want my wife lost in Compton either but if the good guys outnumbered the bad guys by Inf% then it must not really be that bad. What would happen if it were Kinshasa instead of Compton.

This looks solid! We are also going for a single-executable (typescript/bun in our case), but we are specifically going after agent monitoring in the first version. We think people shouldn't have to send all of their agent conversations to a vendor like DataDog or Sentry.

It doesn't take very long (because compute and storage are separate in most of them) but good lord does it get expensive. Every time you click that upgrade button you are doubling your cost. It's really painful when you have a spiky workload that is performing fine like 95% of the time but you are watching the p99 and need to double the cost of a very expensive infra component, only to improve the experience of the heaviest 4% of your workload. This is to say nothing of the gambit you then have to play with reservations/prepays.

Definitely encroaching.

Our last product (SaaS observability) uses Clickhouse.

Our next product (self-hosted observability) uses DuckDB.

my kids are not teenagers yet, what am I missing? the iPad I let them use has child safety enabled and it seems to do exactly what the comment above you is suggesting.

No it doesn’t track. In his example, observing license plates is perfectly legal without a warrant. Looking in your phone is not. These are not at all alike.

The most likely conclusion is that she was fired. To quit before your equity cliff things would have to be so terribly bad that you fear you are committing a crime to stay. After 11 months you feel like you’ve already earned that money.

All you had to do was put in an order with your broker (robinhood, E*Trade, etc). Some brokers did not get much allocation (Schwab) but this was not a hard stock to get at $135.

Putting 2 servings of ice cream in a thick plastic jar was always a dumb gimmick.

Borrows from Business Operating System (BOS) - in use for decades.

Yes, you nailed it. Old data is important sometimes, like when a problem has been identified and investigated, but most workloads are looking at the current state of the system. So we keep the hot data cached locally (not nas/ebs) and s3 is always the source of truth. DuckDB over parquet files on a local ssd is fast enough you don’t need a traditional database.

We are using DuckLake with a “lakehouse” architecture for the observability agent.

At Cronitor we use ClickHouse, but we're leaving it behind for our next product and building directly on Parquet and DuckDB.

We think the future of observability in the AI age is self-hosted directly on NVMe backed by cheap and limitless object storage. I don't want to send customer conversations and agent thoughts to a giant multi-tenant borg SaaS database like Sentry or BetterStack.

Flew into CDG two days ago. US citizens. Passport control did not take fingerprints from any of us.

You might just be taking people too literally.

I've heard the same thing -- if they take a job they will lose money. What they really mean is that if they take a job (trade time for money), they will lose some of the pension they have already earned. This is a real economic loss (even if they might have a few more bucks at the end of the week) to say nothing of their lost time.

You seem to be using family income and not household income for 1970.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N

This is a great addition to the neighborhood!

That’s a charitable read. Remember she also thought that New York would “lose millions” if Amazon put their hq2 there. Just because she’s in congress you can’t assume she understands how building a business works.

Taking your interpretation at face value I would add that yes we call it “capitalism” not “laborism”.

I setup a few systemd timers last year and created https://systemd.guru to play with different options in OnCalendar expressions.

The answer for me has been actually more tokens, and create even more layers of automated verification

Is the website done with Claude design? It gave me a very similar theme recently.

Things were so much worse in the 1970s.

You're definitely burning more tokens with the back/forth and multi-step approach but assuming you swap who does the authoring from time to time you can definitely get the max out of each plan. Review doesn't use as many tokens.

I prefer having codex author plans and implement, and claude play reviwer. I do swap them from time to time and i have a lot of respect for claude 4.6 and 4.7 but for my domain I think codex does a better job with the authoring.

You can get a lot done with agentic programming without going "all in" on a gastown-like system, but I think there is a minimum viable setup:

1. an adversarial agent harness that uses one agent to create a plan and implement it, and another to review the plan and code-review each step.

2. an agentic validation suite -- a more flexible take on e2e testing.

3. some custom skills that explain how to use both of those flows.

With this in place you can formulate ideas in a chat session, produce planning artifacts, then use the adversarial system to implement the plans and the validation layer to get everything working e2e for human review.

There are a lot of tools you can use for these things but I chose to just build the tooling in the repo as I go.

I adopted a couple of these, the api design and ui testing ones have been particularly helpful.

Such a long blog post with so little evidence.

How hard would it have been to create a test repo, make a branch with monolithic specs, make another branch with these scattered specs, run the same exact task against them both? Pick a few tasks. Run them a few times each. Analyze the results.

I think we are so far apart on our world view that I wouldn’t even know where to begin.

Yeah it distorts the property market. It doesn’t create a budget crisis as suggested.