erulabs

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by erulabs 6d ago
I'm happy to pay for passion, for community commons, and I'm happy to compensate people for the work they do for pure enjoyment if I want it. Trade and exchange are natural and human and friendly and cooperative and loving parts o
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by erulabs 6d ago
I love to see this but as a heavy Vitess/MySQL user I do fear the split focus from PlanetScale. Hoping to see continued improvements on the Vitess side as well. Selfish doubts aside, congrats to Planetscale on the launch!
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by erulabs 8d ago
Agreed! To clarify: I think they deserve a wage for their work and have previously donated, and that 'capitalizing' on their work is more than justifiable. I also think it's fine that they don't care!
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by erulabs 8d ago
yep, "just worked". Seems to be much better at properly categorizing some of the more stubborn corners of my library as well. Congrats to Jellyfin maintainers!
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by erulabs 8d ago
"Capitalistic" is, I'm sure, meant derogatorily. I disagree with the sentiment, and I think the Jellyfin maintainers deserve at least a living wage for their time and efforts.
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by erulabs 12d ago
If there are consequences they will be naturally arising, as there is no violation (that I'm aware of) here. It's _stupid_, and it _looks bad_, and it's _not a good idea_, and it _ended badly for Nixon_, but it's not ill
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by erulabs 20d ago
mind if I ask what dictation tool you are using?
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by erulabs 22d ago
The open web is dead. The open web remains dead. And we have killed it. I'm actually much less anti-Musk than the average HN commentator but it should be universally agreed here that a small handful of mega-corp websites dominating the
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by erulabs 28d ago
SRE team debates correctness versus availability for the 540th time this year You're both correct, of course!
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by erulabs 1mo ago
No, DOGE only recommended personnel and contract changes within various agencies. Trump promised not to touch entitlements and to increase military spending. Note this was not the point of the original comment or my reply. You can in fact r
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by erulabs 1mo ago
Two arguments that have so far, been talking completely past each other with no desire to understand each other: 1) efficiency means "use software to identify and cut federal programs that could reasonably be taken over by either the S
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by erulabs 1mo ago
Entitlements and debt payments are ~60% of the budget and the entire defense expenditure is ~12%
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by erulabs 4mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment that SpaceX today is not worth anywhere near 1T+, it's worth understanding that: a) SpaceX is currently trading at ~>1.5T in secondary markets and b) most of what the market is reacting to is the _
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by erulabs 4mo ago
Feels risky to push the S-1 a day before the latest starship launch. If there is a catastrophic failure OR a perfect success it feels like it would be material here. Also I’m concerned that if AI “works” (ie: country-of-genuses-in-a-box) th
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by erulabs 4mo ago
Because their job, definitionally, is to increase profit. If you increase efficiency, you've done your job well. The people who hire and fire CEOs care primarily about this metric. There's no need for insults. Have you considered
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by erulabs 4mo ago
By that measure anyone who manages employees must be a psychopath. You must consider employees as a resource, in both the positive way (these are my teammates and owners of my company and human beings with lives of their own) and in the r
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by erulabs 4mo ago
> This is the kind of thinking that has resulted in an economy where losses are socialized and gains are privatized Socializing losses is definitionally a byproduct of government action, not of a private business. > There is strategic
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by erulabs 4mo ago
They are, and being a resource does not make something less valuable. A nuclear bomb and Jesus Christ are both resources and capital. The denotation is not demeaning.
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by erulabs 4mo ago
Obviously a stupid thing for a leader to say about his own employees but I think getting emotionally upset about this statement is also pretty silly. Having employees represents deployed capital. Some of that "human capital" is lo
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by erulabs 4mo ago
"I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that anyone who wants a job in tech should get one" I understand your point, but this is the least bad world we're in. If you mandated no-firing or mandated year-long comp
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by erulabs 4mo ago
Huge gulf between "sometimes you need a job" and "employees are pigs to the slaughter". "I've gone from making plenty of money to 100k+ in debt and having less money in the bank than I need to pay the rent + bu
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by erulabs 4mo ago
no no no you have to ignore that people like the product, its more important to mock production manufacturing from the armchair. I personally don't like the cybertruck and wish they made something much closer to Rivian, but getting ups
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by erulabs 4mo ago
I think you have to squint pretty hard to think that's the case in software engineering. LA Times suggests there are 6.9 million job openings (1). I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that anyone who wants a job in tech
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by erulabs 5mo ago
Awesome project! We need more eBPF projects, and congrats on launching. Assuming I hijack a production pod, can I not just make an http call to myself with the `kloak:...` secret and get back the real secret? Is there a way to validate dest
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by erulabs 6mo ago
The initial modern flat earth movement was absolutely trolling, no doubt about it. But as the myth grew, enough grifters and actual idiots glomed onto the idea that it became what it originally mocked. Poe's law and all that. Similar t
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by erulabs 6mo ago
Genuinely: regulation. Every other benefit is conceptual at best. If SpaceX controls the entire heavy launch market _and_ they control data-centers in space, then absolutely no one on earth is in a position to control or regulate such a dat
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by erulabs 6mo ago
Technically if it takes 500 years and $17T it is still possible within "years" and "billions"
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by erulabs 6mo ago
"If it's going to be made legal, it needs to be justified" is troubling - it's supposed to work the other direction: unless justified, it should be _legal_. I agree with your sentiment that there should have been a deepe
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by erulabs 6mo ago
9950X3D2? AMD, who is making you name your products like this? At some point just give up and name the chip a UUID already.
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by erulabs 6mo ago
0.5% increase in credit delinquency rates over 3 years feels... underwhelming. I'm not a gambler and I personally find gambling morally questionable and intellectually embarrassing, but golly I'm tired of sports gambling being poi

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