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Since time immemorial acquired companies have claimed this sort of thing and then the acquiring companies have shut it down quick. Practically a meme at this point.

I read the post and felt a lot of sympathy. Then I saw your response and re-read the post and it comes across as quite manipulative (if your statements are factually correct). My comment is less about this person (great library, btw), but more how it is Interesting how context can totally change how words on a page are received.

Setting aside the founder or company itself, philosophically and ethically the “ends justify any means” concept is deeply flawed.

This is a very weird take. Lots of people want to actively work on things that are interesting to them or impactful to the world. Places like Meta potentially give the opportunity to work on the most impactful and interesting things, potentially in human history.

Setting that aside, even if the work was boring, I would jump at the chance to earn $100M for several years of white collar, cushy work, purely for the impact I could have on the world with that money.

They’re pretty sophisticated people and weighed the trades. It’s not as if they’re deserving of any sort of sympathy.

My Garmin doesn’t get 30 days but does routinely get 2 weeks, which is fine with me. The battery life is probably the only reason I have never tried the Apple Watch, and I check every generation to see if there has been an improvement. Even the large sport / epic one only gets pathetic 36 hours. It’s mind boggling how Garmin can be so good at this and Apple cannot.

Related: Funnily enough I’ve been getting a ton from robo applications who prepend a whole page with ascii art declaring that this is a robot application and the applicant (whose CV follows) is a “great match” and that I should reach out to the ai application mill with feedback. Naturally those are straight to the bin, but it’s just insane.

It didn’t work on you. You’re so smart and savvy.

Just kind of summarizing from the comments in this topic (I also couldn’t be bothered to Google Palantir’s thesis): sticky/useful tools to combine and enrich data sources with a focus on a sector where there is a lot of compliance-driven security, data sources that aren’t easily queryable outside of their direct users, and high barriers to entry.

BAH was the “bad guy” in the sense that they were grifters competent at only winning contracts and then extending them indefinitely through incompetent delivery to suck as much money out of the government as possible at the expense of having good systems and taxpayer money.

Palantir is good at delivering what they promise.

I love that the employee’s (CEO’s?) response to a “there’s no pricing on your website” comment is a link to a review on another kinda random website of a testimonial that getting pricing from them sucks and was marginally above the baseline of “the customer didn’t get scammed.” Ringing endorsement, along with the implied “we’ve been doing this ten years and still haven’t been able to implement self service sign up or even an html pricing page on the site.”

If I get one more resume from a “seasoned professional” who has “decreased X by N%” I am going to close hiring, quit tech, and go be a hermit.

N.B. I received such a resume while typing this comment and am absconding to Outer Mongolia as I type

Who exactly is online gambling? And out of that subset, who is doing super shady appearing online gambling? I don’t mean to be flippant, but who exactly is falling for this slop? At some point, permit me to victim blame, the victim is somewhat to blame.

Very bullish on this team! Congrats. I’ve been pushing my company to adopt their hardware, and we have!

So, not unlimited?

Correct, not “unlimited” as in the dictionary definition of unlimited. Unlimited as in the plain meaning of unlimited as it is commonly used this subject matter area. i.e., Use it reasonably or hit the bricks, pal.

I would absolutely do this if I ran anthropic. Of course unlimited implicitly means “unlimited without abuse.” There are always these “power users” who run it 25/8 and use all the resources, or sell access to others. To Anthropic: of course the “power users” are also going to be the top 5% of extremely online folks who are going to angrily pen long form tweet storms and this whole thing will die down soon for the other 95% of us. Weather the storm.

This seems to me to be exactly what the post is about.

Basically they’re saying implicitly to be principled about adopting frameworks and other dependencies, evaluating whether they’re needed for one’s project before adopting them. It’s a pretty thought provoking post, even if it may be too subtle for some folks.

So I see what you’re saying. You’re talking about the whole system. Take land and then plant trees, the trees sequester carbon as they grow, some of them fall to the forest floor continuing to sequester carbon. But, I think the issue with your argument is, this process isn’t indefinite. The natural cycle is that these trees will decay, fall, rot (releasing carbon naturally) or natural forest fires will burn them anyways (releasing carbon naturally). Then more trees will take their places and sequester carbon, ad infinitum in the cycle that has taken place for the last 2 billion years since the Paleoproterozoic era.

But I see no difference between humans speeding this cycle by planting quick growth trees, cutting them down, releasing their stored carbon, planting more. It’s the same thing being sequestered and released continuously.

To be fair, I think the implication was that there would be a class of folks whose jobs it was to create and then indefinitely prolong strikes, not that they should have no jobs.

Costa Mesa seems like a random addition here?

Are you saying they want to reduce the number of people trying it out with friction?

From my post:

[B]ecause they love the subject matter and not because it is an angle to “create content” or “gain followers” or show ads.

I think the main thing to be worried about is that this model is undermining the fundamental economic model the internet's currently based on.

This would be lovely.

I think the worst case scenario is that people stop publishing content on the web altogether. The most likely one is that search/summary engines eat up money that previously came from content creators.

More than likely, people return to publishing content because they love the subject matter and not because it is an angle to “create content” or “gain followers” or show ads. No more “the top 25 hats in July 2025” AI slopfest SEO articles when I look for a hat, but a thoughtful series of reviews with no ads or affiliate links, just because someone is passionate about hats. The horror! The horror!

KEY FEATURES :key-emoji:

CONTRIBUTING :handshake-emoji:

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Well, to be fair writing documentation is tedious (as are changelogs, and writing code). So they outsourced it to an LLM.

They’re clearly not complaining at how you use it, they’re calling out your misrepresentations. These are ethical issues and you should examine your own moral framework.

This is a vibe coded project. It doesn’t work very well at all, not going to rehash what others have found, but these projects have been a major plague to the Go community over the last six months. They’re essentially the code version of littering.

I also have regularly used hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes since college. Way preceding LLMs. Now I second guess my literary style.

I’ve always wanted to do this, but I fly to Singapore from the USA about annually. That means that I essentially skip a day (take off on day 1, land on day 3) so can’t qualify for the streak. Also why I couldn’t do the 366 day streak in one year.