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This is incorrect, their existing contract had these red lines and more until this January 9th memo: https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/12/2003855671/-1/-1/0/ART... which led to Do…

There’s no such thing as general tech priorities, it’s just an amalgam of a bunch of individual priorities. In most of the cases I’ve seen those priorities are very reasonable. If …

Maybe consider that we have literally hundreds of priority tasks, all of which are legitimately very important, and that while we can spend the time necessary to install and mainta…

I replaced Rails with PostgREST, which is written in Haskell but for me as a user is just a binary that I run in front of my database, so now I don’t have to write any backend code…

The following isn’t the top reason I recommend Postgres, but is the reason I think least likely to be echoed in a dozen other comments: Postgres has some of the best documentation …

My background is more like yours. For me it’s likely a difference in size and type of companies worked for. > I was hoping that the article would explain what devops really means t…

I assume eatonphil is correct, but to be honest I’ve never even tried, and in my view that’s actually part of the point: full commitment to immutable infrastructure, made really ea…

I’m using Fargate for almost everything now, and am never going back. It’s extremely simple and easy, does exactly what it says it does, and saves me a ton of time and headaches. (…

Linear Dynamical Systems by Stephen Boyd of Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1264iFr-w&list=PL06960BA52... Programming Languages by Dan Grossman of University of Washing…

> The second case is more risky Not if they're otherwise identical companies, it isn't. There may be reasons to expect a correlation between risk and cash holdings, or something to…

I'm arguing nothing of the sort. While it probably feels good to strawman everyone who disagrees with you, it certainly isn't helping you persuade anyone, nor is it allowing you to…

adventured is having a really hard time with your phrase "two identical companies". The answer to your question is yes, if you had two identical companies and then gave one of them…

> The digital economy is giving us a world in which the benefits are concentrated among consumers and the Big Five who serve them. Everyone else just lives in it. This is a really …

> The law should be handling sexual harassment. I think people on both sides of this issue would love it if the law showed itself capable of handling sexual harassment cases. Unfor…

'Not useless' is not a high enough bar in software. Flexibility always adds complexity, and complexity is a cost. Sometimes that cost is worth it, but the benefit needs to be much …

1. Not even close to true, check Dan's other post here: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ 2. If you're that good at picking startups, become a VC. 3. Common shares are priced l…

My company just hired a Haskell developer; it took less than a month and we had plenty of highly qualified applicants. It actually made us reconsider how many engineers we were pla…

> You are right that most information is "non excludable" (if that actually is a word). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability Maybe do a quick search before implying someone …

I don't recall seeing 95% confidence intervals that narrow. Even the 90% confidence intervals I see are usually like 5-150 or something. (Also it would be super weird to me if the …

Nobody thinks we won't notice when it's more imminent; the concern is that capability research has always been faster than safety research. If we wait until it's imminent, we risk …

I distinctly remember a paper about AI figuring out how to either get wifi or send radio waves without access to the relevant hardware. Can't find the link at the moment though :/

Nobody is saying human-level AI is ten years away, people are saying there's some chance of it in ten years. Median 50% estimate is quite a bit longer. But a 10% chance just means …

Seems pretty clear neither of us will convince the other in this venue, so I'm going to leave it here. Thanks for the discussion :)

The word "just" feels awfully out of place in this context. If you were doing some kind of broad-based polling of public opinion, of course you'd want a bigger sample size, but 29 …

You can restrict your attention to the TOP100 group if you prefer.