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silax

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About silax

I forgot my previous account name fuuuUUUU.

I run a clandestine dev shop. I've built a few v1's for headliner startups. I've been a paper centimillionaire 3 times, and a liquid centimillionaire 0 times. I'm pretty cynical about overcapitalized SaaS companies as you might imagine.

High school dropout. Reformed ultra computer nerd trying to branch out into natural sciences and the humanities. I have a shit ton of hobbies.

You might be here because I shit talked you for being a crabby computer nerd. Nothing personal. But I will destroy you.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #31821758

    Based big thought here. It's curious that industry tooling is arguably plateauing around then, but it's also amazing that the database , er, SaaS is on such a long run, like from a…

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    Comment #31821697

    Devil's advocate: the "state of the art" tech will always be what's fastest to implementation for high-travel use cases, and that's not a totally bad thing. If you got good at mach…

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    Comment #31614523

    Most cars have this starting in 2016. Later this year every single car will be mandated to have automatic emergency braking. At least Tesla will have millions of miles of practice.…

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    Comment #31614496

    ^ It's this. I haven't been honked at yet, but I have felt a little apologetic to people behind me. I recently updates my follow distance from 3 to 4 and its helped tremendously.

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    Comment #31614455

    Damn, lots of strawman rage in the responses. Remember that I'm still gripping the controls and looking out the window. I don't allow the system into any kind of corner case unless…

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    Comment #31614266

    Love this. Chrome extensions are the most underrated platform to spit out 7+ figure recurring revenue businesses on. Mac App Store close second. I'm hesitant to even mention becaus…

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    Comment #31612642

    2022 Model Y with FSD. I use Autopilot 50+ miles a day, and use it 98% of the way on trips from San Diego to SF. It infrequently phantom brakes, and more often brakes hard and late…

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    Comment #31513135

    This is such a boss response. Good inspiration to incorporate attacker attacking into systems I build going forward. "Heh I might've just bricked you" -> "I don't think so, but you…

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    Comment #31511416

    In general, I agree. But for Bolt in particular- they have a 2500x ARR multiple, and their top customer is suing them for "utterly failing to deliver on its promises" due to incomp…

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    Comment #31510785

    Nice. I've used this for years. I love self-descriptive code so I use a `flowerbox` and `flowerpot` bash script daily, with flowerpot being just an alias of figlet.

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    Comment #31510737

    Do you run your whole dev environment with the internet off?

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    Comment #31510696

    This is a great product. Surprised there's not a popular version of this already. Bummer all these people who apparently are too covert to use web apps are sucking the air out of y…

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    Comment #31510586

    The best thing they could do at this point is give employees and investors their remaining cash. They won't, but I bet they'll wish they did.