Same here. My job as a software dev does not require me to self-host services we need and use. Quite the opposite. But, I am reluctant to hand over all control to AWS or equivalent for several reasons that I will get into here.

I have found that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern tools like opentofu, ansible, combined with frontier AI models and harnesses gives you superpowers in this space. Almost all of our self-hosted services are fully managed by these tools. e.g. We perform backups and test them more often now than we ever did before. Entirely because it is so much easier to do all of that now.

It is not.

The difference is quite big in my opinion. When given the option to pick a Japanese vs American vehicle for about the same price/features, most people will pick the Japanese vehicle. American vehicles have improved over the years, but quality and reliability are generally better for Japanese vehicles even today.

Linear is based in San Francisco. And has offices in New York and Finland. Which one of these is an apartheid state?

Relay does optimistic updates well. However, frustratingly, Relay does not do any persistent caching to disk, like Linear does. This means, first page load will always have to fetch data from the server.

> 50% performance gap is good.

I am somewhat confused by this. How much time did the default DrvFs take? Or did you mean DrvFs when wrote virtiofs?

You are likely to get better results if you do not use the same model for review that wrote the code. I typically use Opus for code editing and GPT 5.5 for peer review using an automation with skills.

Training set is different between models. If there are gaps in coverage in one model, you want a different model reviewing the work. The second model will its own gaps, but the gap list is not identical.

Users.

In Portland, Oregon area Craigslist was popular, but is now a ghost town. Everybody has moved to Facebook marketplace.

Their pitch is not to you, the dev. But, to the investor class. We are in this funny place in the market where you can make more money by catering to the investor class than to customers. In other words, an upside down world.

I don't live in Spain. And this is the first I have heard about their politics keeping tourists away. Can you elaborate?

Something like this might work?

It is not specific to a crypto company. But the element of it being a crypto company cannot be ignored. Crypto companies are not like ordinary businesses. They have very unique qualities to them. Same with crypto industry as a whole. Ever been to a crypto conference for example? I have read about and have seen the videos. These things have the highest concentration of the scammers and the gullible any one place.

There are providers in the US who are offering Deepseek API for the same price. Is the Chinese govt. subsidizing those people too?

$10K for full autopilot on Tesla in 2018 was essentially a fraud. I have since then learned not to trust anything Elon says.

Maybe that will be true someday. But, right now, they are burning billions of dollars every quarter. Their expenses far far outweigh their income and they are nowhere near profitability.