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Voda van nálam is, szépen lehet szaturálni a gigabitet még a német exit nodeokon keresztül is. Igaz, vidéki kisváros, nem bp.
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Encryption=required + Mullvad VPN. Nincs az a packet analízis, amelyik megtalálja a linux isokat.
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Promising, thanks!
'First you write a sentence' is one I'm working through right now, and is slowly becoming my new favorite.
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The Nothing phones are not as colorful, but they have that tech industrial touch.
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Do you have a One True Book you always return to?
I've heard you praise The Innovator's Solution before.
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A dotted grid notebook has always been my go to. No need for the trio to be digital.
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Are you joking, that's the best part!
But can I sit next to someone who has the faintest idea of what we're building?
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Excellent writing, David, enjoying every piece you put out.
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Genuine introspection is the trait I most value in leaders.
The 'self-aware to a point' type is trouble, because they do the talk and _some_ of the walk.
It just takes too long to differentiate between the two (and figure out which one I am).
Or am I too harsh with this characterization?
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Yes, however saying the difficult truth doesn't cut it, if the leader then doesn't own that truth.
"There I acknowledged it, look how daring I am, now you go team and find a way out."
Lived through this more than the silent denial, and in some ways this is worse.
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I think this is correct. People who built an audience before BlueSky got a head start, and they can have actual conversations. The rest is mostly exchange of memes.
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You can spend 4 days in almost any country, and not see any of the damaged side of it. You don't even need to be as wealthy as that tweeter.
Let's try 4 weeks. Or 4 cities. Or 4 public institutions.
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No they don't
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Or, how unfair that the self-hosting is not as polished as the paid version. Or if it is, then why is it a container image, and not a single binary. Or if it is, why is it not written in Rust.
Devs are a difficult bunch to satisfy.
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Here's to 20 more!
If you were to start today, would you compete in this product category?
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Some of these prompts may very well have been decent Lovecraftian literature, but we'll never know. :<
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Heard anything about music generators? Suno.com announced a new version of their model, and it actually impressed me. I'm also sure it was trained only on music they recorded in the office garage.
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When it starts to grow?
I have my queues ready before `git init`.
Makes everything so much better in exchange for some upfront planning.
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I've been avoiding drinking alcohol!
Not sure how grateful I'd be in the morning.
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Scary. The AI rewrite helpfully gets rid of all the grammatical cues that this might be fraud.
No more tips for the family other than lock their phones and throw away the keys.
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Tenni ellene egészséges operációs rendszer használatával lehet* FTFY <3
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Publicity. Bad news is good news when the mainstream drinks from your palms.
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The primary constraint is time, not money. I'd outsource some chores, and walk more, read more.
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Ah gotcha! Yes that makes sense. There's always exceptions I guess (like Aaron Francis's database course), but generally I feel everyone finds their favorite creators, and audiences keep fragmenting.
I'm glad you called out Theo, though. Not all creators are created equal.
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I heard it on www.dontsaycontent.com which I'd say is more insight than edutainment.
Reason I was skeptical is exactly because it's in their interest that the content well never goes dry, but it's plausible and I couldn't disprove it so far.
Maybe content is not declining on all fronts?
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Agree one shouldn't marry a career path for life. Mental hygiene comes first (though I feel folks give up and start over too early).
I've heard content marketers say there are still huge opportunities in content (to my surprise, given the industry we're in). Maybe the long tail is still growing?
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There's going to be fierce competition everywhere.
And I don't live in the US, so 300k+ comp is in fact a more realistic goal with a content business here (my speculation).
The trick is to pick something tenable you can do for decades, so leverage can compound.
But hear you on the cultural issue.
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Great piece. I share this concern. Limitless funding in tech and the Eternal September mean convergence towards content with empty calories.
The silver lining in my view is VC money somewhat drying up (or thrown into flames at AI altars), so sustainable companies can restore some order, maybe?
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But any significant pivot or move up-market can be considered a new idea, in the sense that the founders need to redo some of the exploration, right?
To my jumpy mind this sounds riskier than starting a new business. :)
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How long do you feel a transition between these two states can last? Can it reverse? All too often PMF is not a visible line, one in every three decisions are detrimental to it, sometimes markets move fast, plateaus make it confusing, some scale is required early, it's a mess.
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I'm sure they're manning a contact form so at least folks can opt-out manually. Right???
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The email newsletter doesn't show this glorious cover image, so glad I've opened the original.
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2026. Can't wait.
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Responses to this list all kinds of physical products and services, but that misses the point, because business costs don't closely follow customer usage.
Jason suggests product categories that are commodities so that everyone has them, but are more of a set-and-forget nature.
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A percentage point of wiggle room is fair!
After all, I probably wouldn't have seen the point of founding a blog hosting company in the previous decade, and look how things have turned out. ;>
Maybe there's a disruptor among the AI wrappers as well.
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This framework spells out exactly why I'd never in a hundred years join an "AI startup". Differentiation is minimal, and trivial to copy. Even great marketing will not be able to dig a moat for a shallow product.
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Especially when a purchase is a group decision, individual emotions take a step back, except maybe for one that says 'let's spend this money in a way that doesn't get us all fired'.
Fear of blame is a huge objection all vendors should handle, but it's hard to frame as an emotional sell.
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"A hívott számon adófizető nem kapcsolható"
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Maybe you can extract an interface under the same name just for the IDE?
Sometimes you need to be a little creative just for DX sake.
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I have dead dreams even from my teens.
An annual reminder of what could have been only at registrar cost thanks to Cloudflare.
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To be fair a 65k line _anything_ should indeed not exist.
But hey circumstances are gonna circumstance.
Having no autocomplete is running with scissors.
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No disagreements, but proper study is underappreciated in our circles. "I'll just figure it out" is recipe for trying the last thing one hears about, instead of vetting ideas through a coherent decision making framework that can only come from sitting down and thinking for a bit.
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Wisdom is great.
You said on a podcast that it is hard to learn from mistakes, but it's equally hard to learn from successes either.
A nugget of wisdom that still randomly pops into my mind on rainy days.
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Why do people in AI safety workgroups not know how language models work?
Who pays these "researchers" to play with chatbots all day and write hollow papers?
I'm tired of my own relatives who had revelatory discussions with the GPT God. Expected more from professional "AI doomers"!
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Looking at age of founders might be a survivorship bias.
I do believe people from all age groups start companies, but as you all know, most companies fail within the first 2 years.
My theory is that young business owners are out there, but they churn at a faster rate to be visible on age charts.
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Looking at age of founders might be a survivorship bias.
I do believe people from all age groups start companies, but as you all know, most companies fail within the first 2 years.
My theory is that young business owners are out there, but they churn at a faster rate to be visible on age charts.
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First movers are favored in fresh industries. It's rare but it writes the headlines, so the successful but ignorant 20-somethings are idolized.
Most industries (now including many in tech) are cemented, and instead favor those who can harness compounding effects (in expertise, relationships).
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Oh that's why it kept saying sync failure. Some data gets through, so didn't notice the severity of this.
A multi-day downtime can really ruin the mood in the engineering team. Hope you're doing okay @vivaldibrowser.bsky.social! Wishing you good luck with the recovery.
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The numbers are crazy high though for a representative survey :> (which I know it is not).