mattbillenstein

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by mattbillenstein 1mo ago
This is interesting - what I've found with Ex-Googlers is they sorta can struggle not having access to Google infrastructure - these guys are much higher-level and I'm sure can hire the talent they need to build the lower-level st
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by mattbillenstein 2mo ago
I've mainly heard of successes of the networking stack in FreeBSD at Netflix and Whatsapp - but largely, I don't know anywhere else that uses it in production.
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by mattbillenstein 2mo ago
For a firewall/router I use Ubuntu - it's what I use for everything else, so it's comfy. I do believe OpenBSD is very very good software, but I do wonder if just given it's small install base if there are vulnerabilities
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by mattbillenstein 2mo ago
Founder culture definitely has fraternity vibes - people with no other discernable talent other than being above average looking and having connections with other similar people end up in positions they have no real idea how to do. In other
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by mattbillenstein 2mo ago
Sorta amazes me how people in various levels of power will not say the obvious thing or actively discourage saying the obvious thing because it might offend Elon. Recently all the big bank CEOs involved with the SpaceX IPO - a lot of money
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by mattbillenstein 3mo ago
Yeah, but he has a lot more money now - grifted literally billions - so I guess more is more, so idk.
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by mattbillenstein 3mo ago
It's probably as much about PR as it is about money - Puffy is a heavy lift on the PR side...
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by mattbillenstein 3mo ago
Spreadsheet + GOOGLEFINANCE("AAPL")
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by mattbillenstein 4mo ago
I tried using refurb'd Thinkpads as my travel machine for a long time - they're very brittle hard to fix laptops - kinda like Macbooks. The Framework on the other hand is so easy to work on and get parts for - I know this isn&#x27
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by mattbillenstein 4mo ago
My team is working in the character animation space which might complement this: https://uthana.com/ Example: https://uthana.com/app/preview/cXi2eAP19XwQ/mH7opbcqZE4P
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by mattbillenstein 4mo ago
The fuhrer will be disappointed.
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by mattbillenstein 4mo ago
I tend to use a few services on each cloud as possible so it's easy to switch between them; spinning up an Ubuntu VM that's identical on nearly every cloud is a superpower. And, so if you keep it simple like this, it's not to
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by mattbillenstein 4mo ago
Crypto was always sorta a casino - and there are just better casinos today - sports betting, prediction markets, etc.
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by mattbillenstein 5mo ago
I should try this myself, but I also rolled my own https://github.com/mattbillenstein/salty In the spirit of Saltstack with full python throughout including Mako templating. It has a very simple set of operators mostly
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by mattbillenstein 5mo ago
Pretty interesting to see the drop off in impressions - Twitter/X really is just a megaphone for Musk to deliver his "probably next year" wrt various product releases for the Elon-gelicals who bid up Tesla stock to meme level
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by mattbillenstein 6mo ago
Framework Laptop + some form of Linux - MacOS keeps getting worse and the hardware exceeding hard and expensive to repair.
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by mattbillenstein 6mo ago
If I could play GTA6 on Ubuntu at release, I'd probably switch, but as-is, I'll probably stay on Windows 10 indefinitely for gaming. I've used Kubuntu as a daily driver at work several times - imo it's superior to a mac
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by mattbillenstein 6mo ago
I don't have it at hand, but if you look at all the products and apis they cut - and then all the users who abandoned it in the first few months, I think that's how this was derived.
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by mattbillenstein 6mo ago
He also cut 80% of the traffic... And the fact that it kept running with him willy nilly pulling network cables is a credit to the work they did to make it resilient to failure.
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by mattbillenstein 6mo ago
This is becoming the problem with all of his businesses - Tesla has a crazy valuation and it really seems like they're having huge trouble getting Robotaxi going in Austin given the very slow progress there.
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by mattbillenstein 6mo ago
Worked in this space briefly - the footguns in defi are crazy - nobody should use or trust any of this stuff ever.
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by mattbillenstein 7mo ago
Extends to the extreme levels of SaaS-ification of fairly basic app functionality as well. It's often simpler to build something you know than to integrate a 3rd party service, but it's highly frowned upon by a lot of devs and man
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by mattbillenstein 7mo ago
Even if the AI piece isn't really true - smaller flatter teams will move faster anyway. I always wonder having worked in a lot of startups with 10-50ppl, what on earth a business does with 10000.
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by mattbillenstein 7mo ago
Wow, these are large increases - 38%.
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by mattbillenstein 7mo ago
Maybe, but you're paying through the nose continually for something you could learn to do once - or someone on your team could easily learn with a little time and practice. Like, if this is a tradeoff you want to make, it's fine,
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by mattbillenstein 7mo ago
If you have a database, you still have work to do - optimizing, understanding indexes, etc. Managed services don't solve these problems for you magically and once you do them, just running the db itself isn't such a big deal and i
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by mattbillenstein 7mo ago
Depends on how data-heavy the work is. We run a bunch of gpu training jobs on other clouds with the data ending up in S3 - the extra transfer costs wrt what we save on getting the gpus from the cheapest cloud available, it makes a lot of se
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by mattbillenstein 7mo ago
Honestly, the way I've seen a lot of cloud done, they need _more_ people to manage that than a sensible private cloud setup.
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by mattbillenstein 8mo ago
restic to s3 has been very reliable - haven't tried borg.
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by mattbillenstein 8mo ago
The key I think with s3 is using it mostly as a blobstore. We put the important metadata we want into postgres so we can quickly select stuff that needs to be updated based on other things being newer. So, we don't need to touch s3 tha

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