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I was actually pretty hyped for her at first, and she seemed to be doing a good job. It was only with time that I saw that she actually couldn't seem to hire good leaders, at all, and that she seemed to disdain the parts of the business that actually made money.

On the other hand - she did a great job at marketing herself. I wouldn't even call her trajectory "failing upwards", she made her moves intentionally and did it well. Fuck the rest of us though, I guess.

Man, what a sad end for Instacart. The leadership team that took over in 2021 absolutely squandered the amazing machine the founders had built, filling the top spots with cronies and sycophants, none of whom had very much interest in the actual core offering of Delivering Groceries. They brought Facebook-lite management and drove out the actual product and business acumen.

By the time the CEO bailed to OpenAI, the damage was done - billions of dollars of opportunity, totally wasted. She left an organization gripped with paralysis, apparently too broken to fix and remain independent.

I think the discount is the risk of the deal not closing; there will be regulatory approvals, financing, all sorts of offramps ahead.

Also, the market has consistently undervalued Instacart since they went public to begin with, so why stop now? (signed, a not-at-all-bitter former employee)

Surely you mean $1m per project and not per board, and projects are at a large scale?

It means that Hex and their suppliers are themselves not in contravention of the MSA, and that they promise they are diligent in screening for compliant labor practices.

For a SaaS, it's more or less just compliance-flavored magic words.

I used to make hardware products and it was very hard to sell in to bigger UK and Australian businesses until we could certify here.

I need to sweep these mines!

Oof, that hit me right in the nostalgia - I grew up with that style of Macintosh UI and miss it quite a lot.

(and also, how cool is it that we can run whole computers in our web browsers, just like that!)

As if the transatlantic slave trade wasn't a thing. What a perfect illustration of our industry's self-absorption and self-regard.

Low risk of lockout, but about as high-severity as one can imagine. Yes in theory sites should offer a password fallback, but how many actually do? And of those that attempt it, how many get it right?

Not even Google reliably lets you fall back to a password, according to the comments in this article. Losing access to your google is anywhere from major inconvenience to professional disaster.

Expecting every user (site using passkeys) to implement complicated flows is a time-tested recipe for disaster, and it's a bummer to see that unfolding yet again with passkeys.

Hell yeah, I loved beanshell! We used to use it in Android development to give our apps a debug repl, telnet-style. It was so nice, if antiquated even back then. Excited to see this worthy project continue.

slop slop slop, tastes delicious

Not since the venerable Joe McCarthy has America taken this threat with the seriousness it merits. I can only count the days until we get a proper House Antifa Terrorism and Extremism committee.

NSA, if you're reading, please relay this to Mike Johnson post-haste. America is so close to being great again!

96.5% accuracy at 85 WPM. Would've been better except that they had _one_ space after periods and I'm still used to two - the UI didn't really indicate it very well for me.

Full stops should mean something dammit! (/s)

Just like you can recognize Hemingway's prose voice from a few sentences. After dozens-to-hundreds of hours with Claude, you can tell.

Oh, that's awesome, thanks for making it! I'll take a look.

> Homelab tinkerers are essentially a non-market.

Sadly, I agree.

> They barely want to pay [...]

Not so! I've conservatively dropped $10k on my homelab so far, and have cobbled together a passable VM host/network/home-auto system in a half-rack. I would happily have paid more for an integrated (hypothetical) MicroOx! As fun as it is to play with cage nuts and to crimp cables, I love doinking around with a functional system even more.

There must be literally dozens of us out there...

I have seldom wanted anything as much as I want an Oxide rack at home. Maybe in 40 years we'll start to see the first ones show up in surplus auctions...

So Panfrost is an OpenGL ES implementation for Mali-type GPUs then? Thank you for that. Still confused about the role of a compiler here because I'm uninformed. So Kraid is a GLSL compiler that is specific to those GPUs? Neat.

Windows and especially Macintosh UIs from the late 90s/early 00s were by far the most functional UIs we've ever had since the dawn of the desktop era - user research was a serious discipline, accessibility was baked in to the frameworks, and the HID guidelines that devs adhered to gave us uniform conventions that we users could rely on.

If the biggest criticism of Bonsai is "it ain't pretty but it works", then long life to Bonsai - give me more, please!

I'm very confused as to what Kraid actually does and who it's for. It's a compiler of some sort, but for what? GLSL? What's significant about it beyond the target backends?

Sanskrit is an amazing language - it is so BIG! Because of its extensive case system (10 different cases, IIRC), word order is highly flexible. The formalized rules of how spelling changes based on word adjacency (sandhi), and the ambiguity of interpreting long compounds, combined with the free word order, are so rich with poetic possibility that English seems baby-talk in comparison.

It's hard to describe just how cool this language is. Even the alphabet! The way we learned it, it is arranged in a grid with all of the letters in a row corresponding to one sound, and each column based on where in the mouth you make the sound.

I wish I could do it justice, but words fail. IMO it is absolutely, intrinsically, worthwhile to study.

> I'm surprised how few competitors there are in the Dropbox space.

There used to be many more - Sugarsync, AeroFS, Syncplicity, just to name a few - all bit the dust. Box.com found a niche serving business document flows; Gdrive, iCloud, OneDrive, all survived thanks to being features in a broader Big Tech suite. Everybody else? Outcompeted, plain and simple. Dropbox was just a cut above.

(I used to work at one of the companies named above, so although it's just one person's opinion, it's at least as informed as anyone else's here :) )

Right! Naturally, our Congress is full of technical and administrative expertise and totally has the time, patience, and will to cleanly and carefully craft the wide body of regulation we've grown to require for a smooth and healthy and productive society. No reason for those awful technocrats to usurp such authority when we've got a capable and knowledgable legislative branch capable of doing the work just as well.

Nobody pays MSRP at that scale

Gotcha, I must have encountered them later on then - thanks for posting the receipts!

I was a happy user for a while, but eventually some bugs drove me back to iTerm2 (in my case, hanging forever after certain terraform commands finished). Ghostty has filled my need for a better terminal since then.

Warp was always an AI thing, as I recall - the seem much heavier on AI bandwagon nowadays, but their whole thing was a terminal for teams where you could share knowledge and command palettes and generate stuff.

The semantics are very relevant, since you presented it as a supply-chain attack. If you call a library vulnerability a supply-chain attack, then your argument has lost coherence.

> The OC is somehow under the illusion...

Avoiding package managers with shitty policies is the silver bullet for this attack vector. I get that it can be useful in the moment to retract published artifacts, or update them in-place, or run some code after your artifact is downloaded, but all of these are false economies in our hostile environment.

Log4Shell was hardly a supply-chain attack - just a latent bug in a widely-used library. That can happen anywhere.

Maven to this day represents my ideal of package distribution. Immutable versions save so much trouble and I really don't understand why, in the age of left-pad, other people looked at that and said, "nah, I'm good with this."

As if Apple doesn't berate you with unskippable notifications to sign up for iCloud, buy more space, etc etc?

I don't see the incongruity. It's one thing to mandate that retailers not sell alcohol to children, but it's quite another to require that all computers must report on the identities of their users just so that children don't see porn. The proper analogy would be require verification on the part of the porn sellers.