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> Five of the most dangerous words in startups are “¿Por qué no los dos?”. So are the prior products going to be shut down? If not, then when? if not when, then why not?
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Macs let you disable suspend just like (or possibly better) than any other operating system. The point being made is that it's the wrong tool for the job, precisely because of the user desired compromises made to create a great mobile computer.
Probably not great for the battery to be running all the time
You can ssh into your vps's from anywhere and they could really work 24/7 without having to worry about battery or the whole opening mac up while moving because an agent is running thing.
Sprites are a beautiful place to make an abstraction. But I have never used a buggier infrastructure product in 30 years of development than when I tried sprites. Data loss left and right, sprites going into unconnectable zombie mode. Couldn't use even load snapshots because half the system seemed to think the sprite was fine, and half seemed to think it was dead. I gave up after two weeks of losing stuff over lunch…
I evaluated Fly.io itself several years ago and found it unacceptably buggy as well for any real use case at the time, but I kept an eye on it and today I operate a few production workloads on it that are very stable and reliable—I figured the same would be true for Sprites and it seems to be taking shape that way.
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Ahh ok I just did a search on hn.algolia.com for fly.io and nothing came back with 10+ comments in the past year (until I posted this). But now I'm realizing they just don't include the url in the search, even though it says they do
Right, just go to the front page and click on the linked domain on this story, it'll take you to all the previous submissions from our blog. It's been a light summer on blog posts, to be sure! But that's nothing new.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fly.io
…/from?site=$domainSprites are clearly the future. Are there plans to give it a web UI? I haven't minded ssh'ing in, but I've wanted to share this with my wife who would use a sprite on her iPad. Basically, ChatGPT but with a full sandboxed Linux environment that can host stuff is a pretty compelling offering.
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The title was the point of the post. I have acquaintances who are still sore at me about it. But the problem wasn't that people disagreed with me about LLMs; the problem was that we were locked in an unproductive and static equilibrium of people talking past each other and hedging their way out of any direct, empirical confrontation over what was happening. It's easy to forget how different early 2025 was to today. Y…
> The title was the point of the post. I still find it incredibly troubling. Not because the substance was wrong, but because a person of your caliber has stooped to the level of writing provocative headlines and language to attract attention. I strongly believe world-class technologists are supposed to be above that sort of thing. Leadership matters: not just thought leadership, but attitudinal leadership.
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> The title was the point of the post. I still find it incredibly troubling. Not because the substance was wrong, but because a person of your caliber has stooped to the level of writing provocative headlines and language to attract attention. I strongly believe world-class technologists are supposed to be above that sort of thing. Leadership matters: not just thought leadership, but attitudinal leadership.
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Writing is often difficult. That's what makes good writing so distinctive and valuable. Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's not worth putting in the effort.
> "You are all fucking idiots" is sometimes a reasonable starting point.
It might be a good starting point in one's head (which, admittedly, it often is for me, but I then try to convert that into something more persuasive and less divisive). I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
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Probably not great for the battery to be running all the time
Yeah exactly, I don't understand the trend of it to be honest. Buying a VPS (even a low end vps like 500mb ram or 1GB could be good) and you can use maki.sh (written in rust) as compared to opencode/claude-code etc. which I have had OOM errors with at low end vps's. You can ssh into your vps's from anywhere and they could really work 24/7 without having to worry about battery or the whole opening mac up while moving…
I don't know if it's worse that Kurt is taking some bozo Youtube devfluencer seriously, that he was surprised that there was doubt in the future of Fly (whose reliability--but not customer service!--has been a joke for years), or that they continue to prioritize interesting engineering over basic success.
Bro, you just had to make a reasonable clone of Heroku. That's all you had to do.
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> consider how difficult it would be to find a nice way of writing an article Writing is often difficult. That's what makes good writing so distinctive and valuable. Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's not worth putting in the effort. > "You are all fucking idiots" is sometimes a reasonable starting point. It might be a good starting point in one's head (which, admittedly, it often is for me, but I then…
In a saner timeline I'm right there with you. Certain types of policy and cognitive errors, though, remove the floor on communication decency--some popular conceptions are just so incredibly backwards that it's seemingly a disservice to treat them as anything worthy of more gentle correction.