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"Just use AI" is definitely not the solve for the problems Github faces.

The prospect of cleanup duty has never stopped anyone at war. Fields of landmines maiming children for decades, unexploded ordinance in cities, etc etc. Near earth orbit will be a …

I was on team dynamic for a long time and have moved to team static. For any long-lived code base, dynamic piles up invisible problems over time. It's great for short-lived throwaw…

Anyone finish burning the files yet? I tried... but it looked like it would take awhile...

Why unjust? Who promised you that the way software is made will stay static? Our software industry has specialized, for decades, in "rug pulling" / changing / "disrupting" other in…

That was a great read, very interesting!

Direct quote from Peter Thiel: > I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible

My dad was Woz's RA in the Berkeley dorms. He often tells this story: One night, dad was on duty, probably smoking pot with his student residents. The phones all stop working. So d…

Pretty hilarious write up and interesting frontier research project. I love it.

Same situation over here. Multiple family members only know chatgpt / think that chatgpt knows them and have never heard of the competitors.

> it’s clear that Labubus are on the downswing On the other hand, they've only recently penetrated my greater social circle, so I'm not so certain as this author that the trend has…

FFMPEG, at no cost to Google, provided a core piece of their infrastructure for multiple multi-billion dollar product lines.

I really like the way you said we emit meaning. It is kind of funny, that we seek meaning and/or purpose in everything - our lives, our actions, our thoughts - but there is a nice …

Anthropic literally stated yesterday that they suffered degraded model performance over the last month due to bugs: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c Suggesting p…

Grafana log search does this if change the currently-applied log filter, and then they charge you for search volume! I've had to adjust my UX usage so that I don't get billed for e…

I've worked with many people who directly stated that they went to grad school because they "didn't know what else to do". As well as several who couldn't get a job, so they went b…

No, instead, they had two annoying CEOs who grandstanded their own egos.

Top notch monday morning rant!

I'm curious what you'll "blame" the next 50% price increase on.

If I sell a bitcoin on Coinbase, Kraken, or any of the other highly regulated exchanges, I am sure as shit getting USD and not USDT, which does not exist on the bitcoin chain.

Sounds like you were on a scam, fake version of the channel.

Don't accept that premise!

Your communication style in this thread is adversarial and curt, yet you aim to provide good service. You clearly have a very, very long personal journey ahead of you if you want t…

Great write up, thanks for sharing this. As a founder, I'd always though that >1x was predatory with no excuses, but your #2 really clarified that an appropriate situation.

Why is it that SMS is so damn expensive? (or more specifically, what is it about Twilio et al's businesses that makes them cost so much?)