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When they release Kimi Design and I'll consider moving over

That is not even close to trolling. It's called a joke where you exaggerate the premise because it's an amusing thought.

Codex CLI and Grok Build are both in Rust. OpenAI’s web still use react. Previously their CLI was React Ink until they ported most of it to Rust

Not every comment on the internet is 100% serious

You want the government to monitor people's profiles on dating apps? The ministry of dating photos

TLDR research teams at nearly all the big Wall St banks wrote bullish reports on SpaceX and recommended buying it, some with very optimistic projections. The author says you can't always trust these reports because these banks also have a financial incentive to sell management services. Also covers how there is existing government regulation by Spitzer from 2003 dealing with this situation, where research teams are kept independent of the sales side but implies that doesn't eliminate financial incentives entirely, but also claims the regulation is still well enforced within banks. Other Wall St investment firms allegedly don't rely on these reports heavily and do their own research before investing.

Nothing too deep here.

Nice to see Lobsters is made with ruby

DHH has made a big deal about using SQLite in rails

This might have been published before they released their tech blog, I don't see one

The purpose of the company is also rarely defined by it's name. Brands aren't inherently descriptive and it's normal for companies to evolve over time.

Most likely, SpaceX killed the code uploading yesterday so they are definitely concerned about the backlash

The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that all previously uploaded user data will be deleted.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promis...

This seems pretty silly.

Microsoft pretends they do this with Azure where they'll let you signup with a credit card but anyone who has used Azure knows that the web admin is absolutely terrible and almost always requires speaking to a disinterested human to set it up properly.

I'm skeptical Oracle fits into the wider SaaS business category vs enterprise sales.

I remember reading a book about an FBI investigator who specialized in recovering stolen art and it mostly turned out to be low-rent sad hucksters. The chase is always more interesting than the stories of who took them.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6827652-priceless

Enterprise companies typically don’t just add credit card forms, they push you through a sales process and don’t care much for small accounts.

They never had a proper mandate or real power to do anything, so it was mostly bullshit (see canceling software contracts) and the administration/Elon deserves criticism for pretending otherwise merely for PR.

It should have been something that they pushed congress to establish as a new agency or heavily expand the OMB with a wider purpose/budget. That way it would have included careful public monitoring under existing rules and been able to take on DoD/education/healthcare spending which is where 90% of it goes.

But everyone knows Congress doesn't want any more people questioning where the money is going. Half their job is gaming the system to push federal money into their states. So DOGE was left with fake data collection jobs while feds fired probationary workers to pretend it saves money.

sahil also said:

"The public was seeing news reports of mass firings that seemed cruel and heartless, many assuming DOGE was directly responsible," he continued. "In reality, DOGE had no direct authority. The real decisions came from the agency heads appointed by President Trump, who were wise to let DOGE act as the 'fall guy' for unpopular decisions."

He also only very briefly worked with a single agency (VA), and his positives comments were about how the VA already had some open source Github repos and had a previous project to 'reduce claim times from "133 days to under a week"'. He was also critical of how they don't fire people with seniority, regardless of performance (which is enshrined in a reduction-in-force law from 1944) which explains why new and probationary employees were the ones let go when Trump's people took over. https://sahillavingia.com/doge

Energy prices are cheaper in Canada as a whole than the US which is cheaper than Europe. While China it's still significantly cheaper that those since they invested in every sort of energy instead of fighting it.

Usually they add “chronic” like chronic Lyme disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease

GPT was falling behind coding/work stuff vs claude, but I never felt it was a poorer generalist Chat agent.

I've used both quite a bit back/forth and this is just my personal opinion.

News coverage showing her boat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D5XrFQHCuE

Claude has never been the best Chat agent. GPT and Gemini have the lead there. But Claude chat is still perfectly serviceable if you don’t want to pay for two.

The article mentions access to NBR latex being an issue, but doesn’t explain that this is less commonly produced in America because they produces much more shale gas these days which doesn’t result in enough butadiene needed. So the most important supply chain to build the product is mostly coming out of Asian and European crackers. Giving an advantage to the Malaysian factories on top of the other lower costs of business there.

Which makes you wonder why the government thought it was a feasible investment or if they didn’t care and hand waved it with ‘national security’.

Most of the issues with datacenters could be solved by a) investing in energy b) ramping up RAM and chip production, and c) enforcing already long established rules around industrial water management.

These tech companies are already investing heavily into solar, natural gas, and nuclear https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/data-centers-love-solar-he... this would be normal stuff in China where they spend the last decade investing heavily in solar and are bringing something like 60 nuclear reactors online.

These datacenters aren't particularly consumptive of water compared to most other industries in that regard and we've already seen states enforce rules against Meta who immediately paused their datacenter when water issues were detected (following mandatory monitoring).

Chip production is lagging but most projections I've seen is it will normalize in about 5yrs. Not to mention there will be further demand for robotics and self driving cars, so ramping up chips should be a normal thing like ramping up green/nuclear energy. Delaying it won't solve any current issues.

These developments are always facing local resistance. I previously lived in a place where they were building a quarry 30min outside of town and tons of houses had anti-quarry signs on their lawns. It was a big deal to appear anti-quarry even though it had little to do with their neighbourhood specifically (except maybe increased highway trucking traffic).

Most industrial development face local protests like this and it's often has large crossover with those NIMBY who resist stuff like housing developments, and show up at town/city councils.

All news is influenced by what’s popular social media these days. And that becomes part of what people talk about through the grapevine.

But no doubt there’s plenty of organic NIMBYism, anti tech growth stuff, and run of the mill fear of change and loss of control as society grows more abstract/centralized.

NYT reported today that Russia and China are funding anti-datacenter and anti-ai hysteria on western social media.

Always easier to boost something already existing on social media than manufacture it themselves, then wildly blow it out of proportion to make it seem urgent and important.

I have a friend who lives 1.5hrs outside Toronto and needs Starlink because ISPs don’t offer anything useful. Same with a family member with a house even closer to Toronto. These aren’t far off North Ontario rural houses and there’s tons of people living up there.

All journalism is terrible these days. They just want a catchy headline for the ad view and nothing else matters, including whether the headline is true or not.

I recently set up Posthog in production on 3 apps and Posthog's MCP and integrated AI chat were very helpful for onboarding (verifying integrations, setting up and recommending dashboards, debugging an event not being tracked properly, etc).

To each his own though.

Eslint is like an anchor on upgrading anything (including Eslint itself). I'll be happy to move on from it.