I read it, and was hoping I would be more sympathetic to their side, but it was essentially 'they violated the rules our newly added non-contributor board members set, and by those rules, we kicked them out'.

Essentially this 100% confirms the Collabora story, just elaborates a bit on how the administrative takeover was done.

So essentially 'we f**ked you over but we still expect you to do the work'?

For free!

Personally, when asking others about their opinions on various cloud providers, AWS tends to emerge head and shoulders above the rest for one simple reason - AWS works.

And the reason AWS works is that AWS runs on AWS (in stark contrast to Azure and GCP which afaik is not what MS and Google use internally). And when AWS doesn't work, support is there to help you.

To add nuance to this statement, the other providers have their own strengths and standout features, but if you have to approach every single one of their features with suspicion that means you wont build stuff on top of them.

I've also noticed AWS tends to have less "magic" global services and tends to favor cell architecture with partitions and isolation.

These super duper magic global services seem to be the cause of most outages since the blast radius is so huge.

On the other hand, the proposition of a magic, infinitely scaleable service endpoint is nice from a developer perspective.

Even on AWS, if you go for the managed magic version of the thing, they'll make you pay more, lose some flexibilitym and the relinquished control will change things in a way that benefits AWS (slower scaling, limitations, unnecessary overprovisioning, overhead).

An example - if you scale things manually by provisioning and starting EC2 instances via API - it will be more performant and cheaper than either Lambda or ECS Fargate (or Batch...). But those things at least work reliably.

With the other two cloud providers, you'll likely run into a bug you cannot fix yourself, and you will have no support to help you.

The thing that strikes me as odd is how is it that Delve becomes an unicorn superstar (by iself), and the company they steal stuff off of, is much much less of a success story.

It would make more sense that the people who actually built the thing would do the thing better and do it first.

I think in real life, cheaters win.

Without proper punishment, groups who "play fair" are at a strict disadvantage against those willing to break the rules.

At least in the US, we seem to be rapidly moving away from punishing groups for breaking the rules. All the mega successful companies (and people) seem to break a lot of rules to get there.

Conversely, the honest "play by the rules" groups can't be mega successful. Without punishment, the cheater always wins.

The U.S. has always idolized charismatic grifters. Tech revolutionized charisma, by showing that interpersonal charisma isn’t the correct filter: asociability, or perhaps the more familiar amorality, is. The ability of someone to extract and upstream value without engaging in ethics is correctly labeled as more important than being warm and friendly.

The words for this is "regulatory capture" and "deregulation". And yes, its been happening for a long time.

And now that right-wing groups are buying up all the media, we wont be hearing about it for much longer.

When politicians and pundits talk about deregulation the viewer is thinking about less hassle to set up a company or do inter state trade.

What really happens instead are ecological, ethical and financial stresses of all kind.

> At least in the US, we seem to be rapidly moving away from punishing groups for breaking the rules.

Famous recent example: prediction markets are unlawful under the Dodd-Frank's act but the Trump appointed CTFC's head has stated it will ignore it.

YC backing. That's all it takes. Taken an existing idea that has legs (preferably one you find in Europe or Asia), then take it to the US, apply to YC and say you already have validation see 'startup x'.

> Adding to the awkwardness: Sim.ai was actually a Delve customer, Karabeg told TechCrunch. Both startups were grads of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, and Y Combinator alumni frequently buy each other’s products. So while Sim.ai paid Delve, Delve did not do the same for Sim.ai.

So it’s not all it takes.

<s>Cheating</s> sorry hustling and <s>bullshitting</s> sorry storytelling are more important.

It's a special level of disgusting, that's for sure. And I though Installmonetizer was pretty bad, this one goes well beyond that.

Actually building something useful and fun and spending your time convincing investors to give you enough money to maybe turn it into a profitable business some day are not really complimentary personality traits.

Steve Wozniak alone could've maybe built Apple without Steve Jobs, but his time would be wasted by doing something he (presumably) didn't enjoy very much and it would've been a much bumpier road.

Basically YC + MIT background is a license to raise infinite capital. So they just needed to check some revenue boxes etc.

Even if the prospective investors smell a rat, they might decide that it's likely that a greater fool will arrive on the scene later - justifying investing in a known scam

--reasoning_effort: xhigh

I replaced my old iPhone XS when they stopped making IOS updates for it. I was also curious what the news ones could do.

Turns out not much more.

I switched from an 11 to a 15 because my friend got the 14 and it took amazingly stabilised videos while snowboarding.

Photos taken in the dark also became much better.

The default photos app can find words inside photos and translate without going on the internet. My wife’s 13 couldn’t even though we had the same OS.

I’m sure there’s more that I don’t even know about.

And it does the word search and image recognition locally, which is the killer feature for me

Anyone can do it in the cloud, but I don’t want them looking at my photos

The only two changes that matter to me are: no more iPhone Mini and no more hardware switch to mute the phone. Instead they got a new "thinnest iPhone ever" that's actually thicker than my 4+ year old one when measured honestly.

I don't see myself replacing mine any time soon.

HODLing my iPhone 8 here. I can’t use a lot of apps, but Venmo and Lyft work on it still.

The problem is that due to how templates work, each compilation unit will end up with its own copy of templated function, which creates extra work, code bloat etc.

The compiler also doesn't really inline or optimize functions as well across object boundaries without link-time optimization.

But the linker is single threaded and notoriously slow - with LTO, I wouldnt be surprised it would take up as much time as the whole unity build, and the results are often suboptimal.

Also, C++ syntax is notoriously hard and slow to parse, the clang frontend takes almost as much time to run as LLVM itself.

So probably modules would help a lot with parallel parsing, but that would help unity builds just as much.

> each compilation unit will end up with its own copy of templated function, which creates extra work, code bloat etc.

Yes, that's what causes the parsing bottleneck. Unity builds don't need to create multiple copies of templated functions.

C++20 modules could fix that because the function is parsed before substitution. Tbd on if that optimization works yet, I tried it on Clang 18 and it didn't.

> But the linker is single threaded and notoriously slow

I think most linkers have parallel LTO and `mold` provides actual parallel linking.

Not that I approve of that, but when image generation was hot and new, the insane amount of refusals I got from the major ones for apparently no reason, exacerabated by the general slowness, quotas and inherent trial and error workflow has completely soured me on them.

Does this mean that before june SpaceX will do something highly noteworthy, to justify the IPO price?

Elon will announce roborockets that pick you up and fly you to Mars in under 12 hours while you hypersleep in the ExaShip. Production starts definitely next year.

I mean for some reason this was downvoted, and your answer is sarcastic, but my question was genuine. As far as I can tell, SpaceX's business model is doing government contracts, and selling space internet, and they had serious cashflow issues before, I mean building Starship has brought them close to bankruptcy multiple times.

They would need a very good story to sell to investors.

This made me think of something - at work, if we wfh, we have to use one of those MITM proxies that intercept HTTPS at the kernel level. Imo such a thing can easily read the traffic and thus is indistinguishable from a distillation attempt from CC's PoV. I've had CC freak out on my machine, and sometimes generate pretty bad results, the CoT is often also not available.

I wonder it CC thinks I'm trying to distill the model. This is a common enough use case that I think the devs at Anthropic should consider.