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My recollection from law school is that force majeure is more like a specific subset of "impossibility of performance", which is to say it's not generally the same as "something outside a company's control."

I think scale is less important than other considerations. For me the biggest motivator is when the use case prefers doing something exactly-once, the downside risk of failure is high, and robust failure handling is moderately complex. The canonical example I use is healthcare communications; others use payment/fulfillment.

Also having a unified control plane is handy even at a pretty small scale if your alternative is going full “cloud native” on hyperscaler microservices. The ability to see what’s happening when and where across a single workflow run is a dream compared to all the traditional logging approaches I’ve seen.

Yes, the Gemini that might be “even behind the Chinese models” but is uniquely capable of “watching” video.

All except Gemini which can be rather important depending on your use case.

Do you remember how bad documentation was? I still have nightmares about Twisted.

They’re asset millionaires and maybe gross revenue millionaires, but not typically net income millionaires.

Similar here. Lots of places where we replaced Pandas with DuckDB for transformations. Also have scriptable custom dashboards running on top of BigQuery data pre-aggregated and extracted to parquet on GCS. It's way faster and the only limiting factor is your viz library. It was pretty easy to build and the only big gotcha I encountered was finding, somewhat counter-intuitively, that it's often best minimize partitioning.

Depends on your definition of "customer."

The real biggest unlock is not using unlock as a noun.

How does a $25B offering have $85B in orders?

Yep. I sure do.

You can’t interview effectively by limiting yourself to questions where the applicant knows what you want them to say.

If you're going to have people use AI regularly, it's worth asking so that you can get a sense of their interest/willingness, experience level, and training needs. That said, more specific questions are typically more revealing. Personally I'm fond of "If you could give Claude only 1 instruction, what would it be?"

In what way is “How are you using AI?” an objectively bad question?

Communes typically fall apart when bad apples join and the commune fails to get rid of them.

Biology? Why?

Clean. This comment is the right shape.

Friendly reminder that you don't have to enable PostHog replays at all. I have a site lightly instrumented server-side with the slim bundle, and I'm still gonna double check my account settings but I'm pretty sure it's not even capable of doing the replay telemetry.

Municipal insurers already do that

It also posits that there are only two sides.

Doesn't McMaster Carr still use sprites? Is that like the one optimization they managed to get wrong?

Is this not often trivially solved with islands?

No. Prophet is based on curve-fitting.

Guys they're just disclaiming warranties relax

That's not how jury selection works. You never have enough peremptory strikes to "dismiss a huge fraction of the jury pool."

It’s actually not that uncommon to lose a ton of people for cause in cases that are a good fit for a transfer of venue motion. But of course it does come down to the trial judge. I don’t understand who this “next judge” is that you’re referring to.

Not peremptory strikes, but you have unlimited removals for cause (and admittedly a steep appellate hill to climb if they’re unfairly denied)

You’re always on your own to collect.

I’ll see your Art and raise you Life https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdrey6U5dU&pp=ygUSVGVjaGNydW5...

How does one get involved?