wadefletch

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and also git

which makes more sense i guess

You can't have any other connections while a Copy-on-Write is happening, not even a logical replication slot. So you keep a read replica that then gets all connections briefly cut for the COW to avoid locking the master instance. Then you re-enable the logical replication slots on both the new, copied instance and the "copyable" read replica to get both back up to date w/ master.

flip-flopping on pricing has led users to feel nickel-and-dimed

i like cursor fine, but check out the forum/subreddit to see people talking like addicts, pissed their fix is getting more expensive

i think this aggressive reaction is more pronounced for non-programmers who are making things for the first time. they tasted a new power and they don't want it taken away.

the founder is on a vesting schedule set with the vc. walking away forfeits his ownership in the company (not sure of the specifics of this weird deal, but this is true in 99% of situations) which returns his ownership to the VCs either directly or functionally.

the only reason he'd walk away is because he thinks other opportunities are higher EV. if he believes this, a) the investors investment is likely worth virtually 0 anyway and b) if it's not, removing a leader who doesn't want to be there probably increases P(success) for the company and further increases the value of the investment.

founder departure isn't good for the narrative, but it's a symptom of an investment going bad, not often a cause.

Good article, but the ChatGPT voice here is strong.

> When you check in, you’re ready to act – without first sifting through a pile of unresolved issues.

> That’s not just a nice feeling – it’s practical. The UI is cleaner. The choices are fewer. The next step is obvious.

> It’s not about urgency. You don’t have to check constantly. Once a day, once a week: what matters is returning to zero with some rhythm.

It's tough for me to assess credibility of authors like this–is this just a DeepResearch report or someone using ChatGPT to clean up an authentic post?

Same guy

What are the y-axis units?

I'm exploring tooling for building these graphs and would love to pick your brain about your use case, if you're willing. No pressure! wade at tractorbeam dot ai

Wouldn't shifting online-first games to access-subscription based pricing make better accounting sense for the publishers too?

Seems like this is less an issue of actual support and more an issue of pricing/access model disconnect.

When a SaaS product ends, it can be frustrating for sure, but it rarely feels like a betrayal in the way ending access to a one-time payment product does.

Or games just shift online-first game pricing to subscriptions. (Fortnite and others have done this already to great success.) The issue here is in a disconnect between pricing model and access model. Mandated uptime seems impractical and unlikely for reasons you listed.

There's a proposed framework[1] in the EU that's rather restrictive. Seems like they're just not even bothering, perhaps to make a point.

[1] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory...

Only way to do this today would be environment control like LockDown Browser used for college exams during COVID. Even still, a second computer with ChatGPT open is fully possible; it's only an 80% solution.

Here's the text directly from the FAQ:

> Can I use AI to get on the global leaderboard? Please don't use AI / LLMs (like GPT) to automatically solve a day's puzzles until that day's global leaderboards are full. By "automatically", I mean using AI to do most or all of the puzzle solving, like handing the puzzle text directly to an LLM. The leaderboards are for human competitors; if you want to compare the speed of your AI solver with others, please do so elsewhere. (If you want to use AI to help you solve puzzles, I can't really stop you, but I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you.)

I feel like "automatically" and "handing the puzzle text directly to an LLM" imply that copilot-style, really-good-autocomplete AI is permissible, but passing the entire problem into the model isn't.

There is some nuance though: sticking the problem in a comment and then letting Copilot complete it is a clear "handing text" violation, so Copilot is not 100% approved.

(Edit: missing word)

What is the CSS effect as you enter the page? Are they streaming the CSS itself, or just an animation in the browser? Very cool effect.

PostgreSQL was created by Michael Stonebreaker and Larry Rowe, neither of whom are imprisoned. Who are you talking about?

We use Expensify at work, which seems pretty similar but adds reporting + approval functionality (obv not relevant here). How does this stack up?

Aren't a bunch of little unions equivalent to independent employees advocating their own interests?

When you say you made yourself available, what does that mean in practice? Targeted network outreach? A LinkedIn post?

Vercel

I think that's very true in the context of sales jobs, or more generally anything that requires the same action of frequent, mission-critical person-to-person communication.

I'm not so sure it applies in the context of a remote SWE.

1. How likely is it BofA-ML has short positions or investments in funds who do?

2. Isn't Citadel's deal with Robinhood dependent on the flow being "dumb" and not having any broad effect on the market? That's obviously no longer the case, if it ever was. Robinhood is still venture backed, so they're feeling the pressure to show growth in users and profits. Is it possible the market for their "much-less-dumb-than-previously-thought" flow has shrunk substantially?

Also, the retail traders involved and the press surrounding them have (accurately imo) painted this as a populist "sticking it to the elites" movement. What if the so-called elites really do want to disenfranchise and mitigate retail investors impact on the market? BofA, Citadel, and peers might have an interest in maintaining the status quo.

I would imagine the job of an elementary school teacher is primarily to have a relationship with their kids and teach what general skills they can, whereas a university or even high school teacher is pulled in more directions (curriculum, standards, research, admin, etc.).