FreakLegion

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by FreakLegion 7d ago
> While he technically holds the votes required to disband the board This is very unlikely. True Ventures almost certainly controls at least one seat. (Until Phil Black left last year they actually held two seats, but that doesn't
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by FreakLegion 7d ago
In most venture-backed companies no, because board seats are one of the things you give major investors in exchange for their money. In this case? Possibly! Ann Dunwoody and Sue Decker look like independents, and he might be able to unilate
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
There's no spoofing involved. DKIM would do quite literally nothing.
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
*> That's not what I said. So close to spotting the mistake you made in your response to skippyfish, yet so far!
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
The onus is always on the writer. No one is owed an audience.
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
skippyfish: > the cost of reading [an infinite supply of arguments ...] remains high you: > The cost of reading this story is not high Do you see where you went wrong?
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
That isn't what the data shows, but we don't need to discuss it further. My reply was to the person interested in learning from other Postgres OLAP designs. This stuff is all pretty immature though and I wouldn't actually bui
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
I'm aware he edited it, but the original version isn't wrong, either. Just like Jarred's > We fuzz Bun's runtime APIs 24/7 using Fuzzilli, the JavaScript engine fuzzer used by V8 & JavaScriptCore isn't
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
pg_mooncake (now effectively abandoned due to being acquired by Databricks, but still up at https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake ) pulled the DuckDB engine into Postgres wholesale, if I remember right. pg_lake a
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
The Fuzzilli PR was merged on Nov 20. The acquisition was announced on Dec 3. A big holiday was in the middle. The teams no longer interacted after the acquisition, and in prior interactions the Bun team would've been correct in saying
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by FreakLegion 2mo ago
Is there a Yoda skill? -> A Yoda skill, is there? There is a Yoda skill. -> A Yoda skill, there is.
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by FreakLegion 3mo ago
I'm generally skeptical of causal narratives like this, but Naroditsky talked openly and at length about the ongoing physical and mental health effects of Kramnik's nonsense. So in this particular case, I'm comfortable blamin
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by FreakLegion 3mo ago
> “we really do not want any distraction now, if you feel that strongly you can always send an unsolicited term sheet to the board to consider” Nope, don't do that. If you receive a credible term sheet at a meaningfully higher valua
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by FreakLegion 3mo ago
Are you under the impression Socrates wrote anything in the first place?
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by FreakLegion 3mo ago
Experienced business travelers want to use their personal credit cards so they get the points, and scaled businesses overwhelmingly disallow this, because they want that value for themselves.
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by FreakLegion 5mo ago
And now we're much less reliant on oil, and more countries produce it and have reserves. The flip side is the economy and financial system already felt creaky anyway (tariffs, inflation, job market, government shutdowns, private credit
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by FreakLegion 5mo ago
Steve Blank the startup whisperer and Steven Blank the economist are two very different people.
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
Because Delve defrauded them.
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
SPY is up at least as much as your Claude bot since the Nov 25 2024 start date, but you show it down 3%. If AI is both doing the trading and reporting the results, you...may have a problem.
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
Investors aren't on the hook for the bad behavior of companies they invest in. Quite the opposite: Defrauding investors (and acquirers, and creditors) is commonly the thing that lands people like Elizabeth Holmes in prison.
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
Reread the comment I replied to: > I would stare longingly into the void, wondering if I can ever work another python project after having experienced uv, ruff, and ty. You think you're disagreeing with me, but you're agreein
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
Ruff is performant but finds about half the issues Pylint does (see https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/970 ). Ty is quantitatively the worst of the well-known type checkers (see https://news.y
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
Probably the handful of dashes (not even em dashes!) and the sentences "It was never just about the candy. It was about being together." Superficially these look like the AI markers people are always calling out, but only superfic
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
The board of a Fortune 1000 financial services company just fired the CISO and Deputy CISO because they did too good a job cataloging all of the risk in their infrastructure. Now that it's documented and defensibly quantified, the comp
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
This was more likely an Intune admin getting phished. Intune has a built-in wipe action: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/remo... .
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by FreakLegion 6mo ago
This is well known in cybersecurity circles. I mentioned here[1] a couple years back that I know CISOs who've had to clean up big messes because their predecessor was on the Cyberstarts payroll, but on the bright side I also know a cou
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
People point to the basic structure of "It's not X, it's Y" as the hallmark of AI, but I find it's more the incongruity between X and Y, especially when figures of speech (invariably strained) are involved[1]. That
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
Happens all the time and doesn't mean anyone got screwed. A couple years ago Lacework sold to Fortinet for around $200m. That sounds like a nice exit for everyone, right? But this was after they'd raised $1.8b at a valuation north
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
Without liquidation preferences BrewDog wouldn't have been able to get the investment. They may have been able to get a loan instead, but the interest would've driven them under that much faster and then the creditor, just like th
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by FreakLegion 7mo ago
They are an alternative to 2FA. Which means they aren't 2FA. If they were 2FA, they wouldn't be an alternative to 2FA. They'd just be 2FA. Anyway, passkeys and FIDO broadly aren't the same thing. You can read the defin

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