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This is interesting - what I've found with Ex-Googlers is they sorta can struggle not having access to Google infrastructure - these guys are much higher-level and I'm sure can hir…

I've mainly heard of successes of the networking stack in FreeBSD at Netflix and Whatsapp - but largely, I don't know anywhere else that uses it in production.

For a firewall/router I use Ubuntu - it's what I use for everything else, so it's comfy. I do believe OpenBSD is very very good software, but I do wonder if just given it's small i…

Founder culture definitely has fraternity vibes - people with no other discernable talent other than being above average looking and having connections with other similar people en…

Sorta amazes me how people in various levels of power will not say the obvious thing or actively discourage saying the obvious thing because it might offend Elon. Recently all the …

Yeah, but he has a lot more money now - grifted literally billions - so I guess more is more, so idk.

It's probably as much about PR as it is about money - Puffy is a heavy lift on the PR side...

Spreadsheet + GOOGLEFINANCE("AAPL")

I tried using refurb'd Thinkpads as my travel machine for a long time - they're very brittle hard to fix laptops - kinda like Macbooks. The Framework on the other hand is so easy t…

My team is working in the character animation space which might complement this: https://uthana.com/ Example: https://uthana.com/app/preview/cXi2eAP19XwQ/mH7opbcqZE4P

The fuhrer will be disappointed.

I tend to use a few services on each cloud as possible so it's easy to switch between them; spinning up an Ubuntu VM that's identical on nearly every cloud is a superpower. And, so…

Crypto was always sorta a casino - and there are just better casinos today - sports betting, prediction markets, etc.

I should try this myself, but I also rolled my own https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty In the spirit of Saltstack with full python throughout including Mako templating. It has…

Pretty interesting to see the drop off in impressions - Twitter/X really is just a megaphone for Musk to deliver his "probably next year" wrt various product releases for the Elon-…

Framework Laptop + some form of Linux - MacOS keeps getting worse and the hardware exceeding hard and expensive to repair.

If I could play GTA6 on Ubuntu at release, I'd probably switch, but as-is, I'll probably stay on Windows 10 indefinitely for gaming. I've used Kubuntu as a daily driver at work sev…

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I don't have it at hand, but if you look at all the products and apis they cut - and then all the users who abandoned it in the first few months, I think that's how this was derive…

He also cut 80% of the traffic... And the fact that it kept running with him willy nilly pulling network cables is a credit to the work they did to make it resilient to failure.

This is becoming the problem with all of his businesses - Tesla has a crazy valuation and it really seems like they're having huge trouble getting Robotaxi going in Austin given th…

Worked in this space briefly - the footguns in defi are crazy - nobody should use or trust any of this stuff ever.

Extends to the extreme levels of SaaS-ification of fairly basic app functionality as well. It's often simpler to build something you know than to integrate a 3rd party service, but…

Even if the AI piece isn't really true - smaller flatter teams will move faster anyway. I always wonder having worked in a lot of startups with 10-50ppl, what on earth a business d…

Wow, these are large increases - 38%.