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Aren't worth what? The tax? Or the vice being legal in the first place?

What, are you expecting them to just work for good vibes?

Objectively untrue, unfortunately.

"Just use AI" is definitely not the solve for the problems Github faces.

The prospect of cleanup duty has never stopped anyone at war. Fields of landmines maiming children for decades, unexploded ordinance in cities, etc etc.

Near earth orbit will be a field of debris until gravity takes over.

I was on team dynamic for a long time and have moved to team static.

For any long-lived code base, dynamic piles up invisible problems over time.

It's great for short-lived throwaway stuff, but as soon as you know you'll be maintaining a large code base for a long time, the "easier" part of dynamic actually becomes harder than just spelling stuff out.

It's obviously a trade-off and not everyone agrees, but that's my personal experience having run large eng teams for both types.

Anyone finish burning the files yet?

I tried... but it looked like it would take awhile...

Why unjust? Who promised you that the way software is made will stay static?

Our software industry has specialized, for decades, in "rug pulling" / changing / "disrupting" other industries on a massive scale.

I find it pretty ironic when engineers make these statements in that context.

That was a great read, very interesting!

Direct quote from Peter Thiel:

> I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible

My dad was Woz's RA in the Berkeley dorms. He often tells this story:

One night, dad was on duty, probably smoking pot with his student residents.

The phones all stop working.

So dad goes down to the maintenance closet, opens it up... and sure enough, there's Woz digging around the building's phone wiring. Woz immediately says "I'll fix it, I'll fix it!!".

He was down there installing one of those phreaking devices for free long-distance phone calls for everyone in the dorms.

My dad let him do his thing.

Pretty hilarious write up and interesting frontier research project. I love it.

Same situation over here. Multiple family members only know chatgpt / think that chatgpt knows them and have never heard of the competitors.

> it’s clear that Labubus are on the downswing

On the other hand, they've only recently penetrated my greater social circle, so I'm not so certain as this author that the trend has ended.

FFMPEG, at no cost to Google, provided a core piece of their infrastructure for multiple multi-billion dollar product lines.

I really like the way you said we emit meaning.

It is kind of funny, that we seek meaning and/or purpose in everything - our lives, our actions, our thoughts - but there is a nice change in perspective in considering it as something that we produce rather than find.

Anthropic literally stated yesterday that they suffered degraded model performance over the last month due to bugs:

https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c

Suggesting people are "out of their mind" is not really appropriate on this forum, especially so in this circumstance.

Grafana log search does this if change the currently-applied log filter, and then they charge you for search volume!

I've had to adjust my UX usage so that I don't get billed for every character I type, rather than the string I'm looking for.

I've worked with many people who directly stated that they went to grad school because they "didn't know what else to do". As well as several who couldn't get a job, so they went back to school.

It definitely isn't always for the love of academics.

No, instead, they had two annoying CEOs who grandstanded their own egos.

Top notch monday morning rant!

I'm curious what you'll "blame" the next 50% price increase on.

If I sell a bitcoin on Coinbase, Kraken, or any of the other highly regulated exchanges, I am sure as shit getting USD and not USDT, which does not exist on the bitcoin chain.

Sounds like you were on a scam, fake version of the channel.

Don't accept that premise!

Your communication style in this thread is adversarial and curt, yet you aim to provide good service. You clearly have a very, very long personal journey ahead of you if you want to satisfy the good service objective.

Great write up, thanks for sharing this.

As a founder, I'd always though that >1x was predatory with no excuses, but your #2 really clarified that an appropriate situation.

Why is it that SMS is so damn expensive? (or more specifically, what is it about Twilio et al's businesses that makes them cost so much?)

Very cool work and explanation!

Hypothetical use case I've been thinking about:

Say I want to log all http requests to the server (I know I said a keyword of log) and then process those logs into aggregates, stick them in a time series.

Would it be insane to "log" everything into kafka? Or what would be the more "correct" tool for that job?