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secos

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About secos

email me at matt nimblelogic >dot< com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48152530

    | I would add the caveat "...as long as you have no competition." If you're in a market where alternatives exist, and they have the certification, you're definitely transparently l…

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    Comment #48054049

    Talked with someone this morning who is using "formal methods" to validate their AI generated code. They are using the same AI to generate the proofs.

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    Comment #48054017

    ah yes. Lets indeed treat non-deterministic output exactly like we treat deterministic output.

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    Comment #47627842

    This. I remember many a time pmarca getting so upset and just blocking everyone who disagreed with him on Twitter. It was the weirdest thing.

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    Comment #47227167

    3x deeper than MBTI... ... that sounds horrible

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    Comment #47037374

    He didn't say anything close to "Shooting people in the street is wrong!" How did you get that from the linked videos?

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    Comment #46888272

    You do not need optimism to do good. It helps motivate, but its not required.

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    Comment #44411983

    To me it feels like an awkward API that creates opportunities to work the limitations of a normal API... which to me is not a great thing. Potentially useful, sure, but not great.

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    Comment #44411971

    Blitzscaled? Yep.

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    Comment #44216882

    Ranked Choice Voting goes a long way to solving this as well.

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    Comment #43932973

    I meant the article was dumb. The clickbait title on HN doesn't match the meat of the article.

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    Comment #43931014

    Really? This is... dumb.

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    Comment #43624609

    I'd forgotten all about this library, its certainly come a long way!

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    Comment #43143923

    or raise taxes.

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    Comment #43143910

    This planet money article lays out the arguments for both with lots of interesting links to follow. https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/02/18/g-s1-49...

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    Comment #37240955

    Well said.

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    Comment #35400083

    The ones I use today: - Facebook - Instagram (finally opened in the last two years) - Youtube - Linkedin Perhaps I'm not getting your point, but... most of the major social platfor…

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    Comment #35102718

    Thank you for reminding me why I dislike this place so much. I've literally got the email right here: "As I mentioned on the phone, we structure them as a monthly subscription base…

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    Comment #35102630

    "Trust us, bro"

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    Comment #35101780

    That remains to be seen... I would not be surprised if he could have offered the api $420/mo and 100x more apps were willing and/or able to pay.

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    Comment #35101189

    The last time I talked to Twitter sales (about 2 years ago) they were asking for 6k/mo.

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    Comment #34619012

    That's something we can all agree on.

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    Comment #34105764

    The only person I saw suspended during that insane period was PG. Hundreds of people in my TL were saying "FU heres my mastodon ban me if you want Elon" and didn't see any repercus…

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    Comment #34047095

    Do you still feel this way after they suspended PG?