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Very difficult to sense check that substack post without access to the TLB credit agreement. There are likely management service agreements from xAI proper -> SPV to cover precisel…

That's trailing and mighty impressive. However when you decided to quote Q1 earnings. $62bn of Q1 earnings ends up at only $10bn. The LTM numbers are less relevant. AI-related cape…

Yes, earnings are essentially hype/BS. Focus on cash/cashflow.

Perhaps requiring webauthn credential for any post/comment with a whitelist of permitted webauthn hardware devices which must have touch/interaction enabled. I'd have to read the F…

Damn!

> And that if there is a clear and direct contradiction between the Supreme Court and the president, the former trumps (no pun intended) the latter. The extent to which members of …

Tighter (read better) integration with VSCode and Github than what you could get running claude code on the side. Your question does raise a valid point - Github Copilot's value pr…

> It's a fundamentally substantive difference in the two structures Yes, it is a substantive difference but it does not follow that this difference provides the 'constitution' prop…

>It doesn't look like a duck Some special amendment procedure is not the only or even defining feature of constitutional law. There is non-constitutional law that has this property…

Repo hosting is the kind of thing that ought to be distributed/federated. The underlying protocol (git) already has the cryptographic primitives that decouples trust in the commit …

fixed rates embed best current (market) estimate of path of future floating rates. The fixed rate payer/receiver is protected but they typically pay for that protection.

Except FPGA chips/boards aren't free from malware either: https://www.iacr.org/archive/ches2012/74280019/74280019.pdf Nor will you be immune from AMD Vitis/Vivado sideloading crap …

You're not adding the +nightly switch and the required flags to compiled std. Just setting panic=abort in cargo.toml isn't enough. One can get binaries pretty damn small (low-mid t…

I habe a few lying about. My fun project is to implement a usb CCID (smartcard) device to create a pkcs11comiant HSM from scratch (FYI the ESA dis this on MAX10s for one of their s…

I can't speak for you personally but I think its simpler than that - Java is unfashionable because it's ubiquitous. It's the Ford of programming languages. Not every problem needs …

Also - don’t discount all the new features JVM and Java have added or are adding: virtual threads, structured concurrency, FFI, class primitives, SIMD. JVM is highly compute perfor…

Firstly, as long as there is still a broad need for software engineers - there is a future for Java. Together with dotnet - it has huge market share of enterprise middleware, lots …