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New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:42:46 +0000

We already have a mechanism. Contract law.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:59:27 +0000

Just stop thinking of software products. There are a million businesses offering solid value propositions that need a lot of software to run, but software isn't the product.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:40:08 +0000

Nope, they don't.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:11:04 +0000

It's not only too large - we can't even enumerate all the edge cases, let alone handle them. It's too difficult.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:58:12 +0000

Path dependence is a thing.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:55:36 +0000

Maybe, but how exactly are you defining "code quality" ?

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

danielmarkbruce — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:53:26 +0000

This is an absurd statement. There are many complex undertakings in sport where even the very best get better with practice and can't tell you why. In fact, the ones who think they can tell you why are the one's to be most skeptical of.

You are just making stuff up or regurgitating material from a pop science book.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

danielmarkbruce — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:39:21 +0000

Saying ML is a field where deterministic code would work just fine conveniently leaves out the difficult part - writing the actual code.... Which we haven't been able to do for most of the tasks at hand.

What you are saying is fantasy nonsense.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

danielmarkbruce — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:01:12 +0000

"Designed" is a bit strong. We "literally" couldn't design programs to do the interesting things LLMs can do. So we gave a giant for loop a bunch of data and a bunch of parameterized math functions and just kept updating the parameters until we got something we liked.... even on the architecture (ie, what math functions) people are just trying stuff and seeing if it works.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

danielmarkbruce — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:12:30 +0000

No, it's not common for the startup itself to make capital calls. The phrase (and your link) refers to capital calls made by VC firms to their limited partners. Same thing in PE.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:08:39 +0000

You don't have an email address listed - could you ping me at my username at googles popular email service to chat on tools for institutional investing?

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:06:01 +0000

Sure but the default (and usually correct) assumption when working at google (as an example) is basically "all numbers are big", so you you have to cluey about algorithms and data structures and not default to brute forcing something.

At 99% of shops it should be the other way around .

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:11:26 +0000

UI + functions on top of schema if you've designed the schema well. Otherwise, it's a whole other thing.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

danielmarkbruce — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:09:34 +0000

This very much depends on where you work... and basically isn't true for most people. It's extremely true for some people.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

danielmarkbruce — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:13:25 +0000

You are just out of your depth in this area. You don't understand what Cantor has done here, you don't understand what Howard can or cannot do in his role.

Howard Lutnick's positions have been directly opposite of what Cantor has bet will happen. Cantor has 10 or 12 thousand employees and is constantly doing all manner of things. Howard has no power over the supreme court. His son is the chairman, he's miles away from being in the weeds on what specific things they do. He isn't going to be comped like crazy as the chairman.

There is no conflict. There is only the appearance of one and it only appears that way to people who don't understand the situation.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:42:26 +0000

It's an investment bank. They have a million things going on, sometimes counter to each other.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:41:22 +0000

And a small army of folks to do his bidding. Cantor has over 10k people, he's the chairman.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:35:02 +0000

If the market dip is directly caused by X, and you think X is going away or misunderstood, it's specific conviction.

In this case X was the tariffs. You are out of your depth.

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:16:43 +0000

Nope, wrong. Most companies have black out dates around earnings releases. Otherwise, good to go.

(and/or have an explicit approval workflow that effectively does the above).

New comment by danielmarkbruce in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

danielmarkbruce — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:14:37 +0000

Cantor Fitzgerald is an investment bank. Rather than claim a straw man, think about what they do and how it interacts with the administration. Everything they do is heavily regulated. If they couldn't do anything that gave an appearance of a conflict, they literally couldn't do a single thing that makes up their business and would be hobbled.