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The debt amount is very roughly proportional to the size of the economy. It's also a system that is unstable in non-booming economies, drifts over time and needs periodic resets (t…

And at the risk of being a downer, I'm not sure Open Source LLMs is actually viable. Training a model requires two or three orders of magnitude more investment than the typical OSS…

Well, it has proven itself to be a very useful military asset in Ukraine. The rural & underdeveloped area and the niche applications (ex: ships and planes) will bring-in some cash.…

I feel this is way too fear mongering heavy against developing in Open Source. I published nearly everything I code on my free time, that's ~100 git repositories. Out of these, ~15…

> was very common for individuals and teams to publish projects to open source repositories under Google-managed Github orgs. I have the feeling these projects were not deeply inte…

I don't recall any current car manufacturer with such lineage. Honestly, at Oracle scale, doing the "let's destroy and rebuild the company mid-flight" seems like a losing propositi…

A sample size of 3 is hardly statistically significant. From what I could found, billionaires die on average at ~83 years old. ( https://strygin.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-die…

And the troubleshooting? Given the number of moving parts, I would be terrified to have to look under the hood of what Talos deployed for me.

It's probably not something that original, and I'm betting something like that already exist, but here we go: Here is whim-proxy, a client + server combo helping developers tests w…

In the end, Nix is just a thin veneer on this stuff. Given how many quick & dirty sed patching or exec commands I've seen in the few nix package/modules I've read, I would not exac…

Also, the *BSD are structured somewhat differently to a Linux distro. It's not like the Linux world where you have distinct projects like the Kernel, GNU, OpenSSL, and then it's th…

Bun is effectively dead. Anthropic bought it in a somewhat dumb attempt to solve their "performance" issues (not realizing their horrible code was the issue in the first place). It…

After having way too strong opinions about this, and even if Go is my go to language, I've stopped caring for this kind of statements. In the end, the language doesn't really matte…

Well, it depends. Managing and coordinating a bloated organization always has a cost and an overhead, from communication issues to technical inefficiencies. And I also doubt the fr…

It's not always the case, for example Japan has very low immigration. And there is also the demographic disparity at play here. The US is attracting migrants mainly from Latin Amer…

Are these principles really about sustainability? It seems to be far more geared toward promoting some sort of misplaced post-collapse resiliency. In other words: solving some hypo…

Pretty standard in highly regulated fields like aerospace, finance/banking or industry. Sometimes for good reasons, like thorough validation need or operational constraints like sp…

For the home page, I would recommend the "UnTrap for Youtube" browser extension.

Your toaster is well... a toaster. And even something as simple toaster might need some customer support. These things do fail quite often, sometimes dangerously. Increase complexi…

I feel this report is missing something when it puts all OSS developers into the same bucket, and somewhat fails to define what an OSS developer actually is. There is tons of varia…

Honest question, is leetcode tests an actual failure from the recruiting company perspective? Sure, it means that from time to time you will reject people like the Homebrew creator…

On the other hand, most pieces of software in this world are kind of mediocre code written by unmotivated employees within tight timelines. In such context, I think Go might be a b…

I think the gain sits in the middle: if the giant server starts to get iffy (moderation, content, policy, technical issues), people can leave it somewhat easily and form or grow an…

Concrete example: A few years back, our support team needed to do some network capture with tcpdump. The quick and natural way to allow that was to add a sudo rule for it, with ope…

I feel like more money would not have helped that much. Maybe it would have enabled a few of the devs to work on it full time, but I doubt it would have brought more people into th…