It's a solid machine at a surprisingly reasonable price from Apple, and too many vendors for Windows just release absolute garbage at that pricing tier.

Will I ever use it? Nope. Not a machine for me. But it's hard not to suggest for a non-technical user on a tight budget.

I've had pretty terrible experiences with SQLite and Longhorn/NFS.

It's just not the right database for pretty much ANY network based filesystem, where the locking primatives aren't as robust, and you might get two processes trying to hit it at the same time.

Frankly - they say this themselves: https://sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

As someone who runs a fairly big personal cluster backed by a mix of giant NFS storage for media, and relatively large longhorn SSD drives for configs/temp data...

I avoid sqlite backing like the plague. It will get corrupted. Period. It's not the db for this use-case, and I'll take postgres/maria/mysql/mongo/ANYTHING else over it.

If you do it - back it up ALL THE TIME, because it's going to get corrupted.

If anything - as an investor I'd call those core concerns about how I'll make my money back.

Further... this company isn't actually making ANY DAMN MONEY. Of the bundled orgs, only Starlink is profitable, and not profitable enough to offset the losses on spaceX and xAI/Grok. (starlink +4b, spacex -700mm, xAI -6b = -2.7b..., with 30b in debt).

So... no... right now this company is not "Coca-Cola". And that delusional comparison is part of why I think it's correct to be wary right now. On a scale between Enron and Coke... I'd wager we're closer to Enron.

I'll pick up some shares by default given the ETFs I'm in anyways, and that's enough for me...

I think that's a Rosy take. I remember the macs from before the intel generation, and they were hardware garbage (there's a reason they finally gave up and went to intel)

Then the intel macs were nice looking exteriors with very lackluster internals.

So for a long time it genuinely was an overpriced laptop from a performance point of view.

I'd say it really wasn't until the M1 that Apple has been at the top on both sides of the hardware equation.

But they are there now. I'm waiting to see if we get some real competition opening up in that space (hopefully).

And that's basically what SpaceX is right now after you account for xAI and twitter in the mix.

So I'd love to own a piece of the SpaceX from a decade ago - but the current offering smells pretty bad.

Combined with the fact that at this point, Musk clearly isn't opposed to running a business with dramatically inflated valuations based on vaporware, lies, & hype (cough - Tesla - cough) it just makes me far more skeptical than I might otherwise be.

I think caution is warranted here.

Essentially - I want to own the SpaceX that could have been if we didn't end up with the shoddy k-hole version of musk in charge of things.

And I'm not saying that as a negative - my Framework 13 is my favorite laptop by a fairly wide margin, but it's clearly not at the hardware level of my work issued mac.

Apple produces fantastic hardware. It's a shame I can't stand them as a company, and that they cripple that hardware with their OS.

Prior to framework, I'd be buying something along the lines of a Dell XPS (developer edition for linux compatibility) because a mac is just a non-starter for me. But a mac hands-down the best hardware you can get for a personal laptop right now. Turns out that's not the main driver of what laptop I want.

Because I've literally seen managers who believe firmly that AI is going to replace their entire engineering organization, and are acting on that assumption as though it's a thing to take for granted, not discuss/consider/evaluate.

And my understanding of delusion is

> a fixed, false belief that is firmly held despite clear, contradictory evidence

which seems to apply pretty well in this case.

These folks are operating with the same abandon that the folks who have AI telling them they're gods are - and both are incorrect, arguably delusional.

At best you can try to argue that maybe the contradictory evidence isn't clear, and they're going to be correct. I think that's a very tenuous argument to be making, though.

It's a mental state, not explicit illness and it's literally defined as

> Psychosis is characterized as disruptions to a person's thoughts and perceptions that make it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what is not.

Further, if you go and look at the actual source... it's repeating a claim from Box founder Aaron Levie.

Who is quoted as saying:

> “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI,”

Which is why the title is "apparently".

> I bought this house new, and didn't live there very long

End of story.

End of story. That's the entire conversation right there.

Note how much money he made on the house he lived in for a decent amount of time... (~330k, minus minor investments on repairs)

Renting is better than buying if you're not going to live in the house for any real duration (real meaning 5+ years).

Otherwise... at least in the US... the financials around 30 year mortgages and a target inflation rate mean buying is going to work in your favor.

Will this blow up at some point? Meh, maybe? But for now, owning is FAR better assuming you actually hold onto the property. The longer you hold, the better it gets.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

It's entirely compatible with the clients. It also removes a lot of "rug-pull" potential, and gives you the ability to access all the nice features (ex - multi-org, multi-user, shared vaults, totp, etc...)

Honestly - part of the reason I like Bitwarden is that if they ever go full "enshittification", it's going to be relatively easy and straight-forward to just move entirely off their projects and onto open-source forks.

I think part of the problem here is that this is usually hidden from visibility (intentionally) by officials because it reflects negatively on them.

It may make the news for a day or two, never get seen by the majority of voters, and get swept away later under the deluge of distraction most "infotainment pretending to be news" provides.

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Go further and just list all government settlements/court judgements underneath the elected official in charge of the branch responsible.

You're already deep into the bowels of implementation specific behavior by the time we talk about dynamic linking. The C standard doesn't have anything to say about it at all.

My read on the above conversation is basically a discussion about asking/requiring vendors to properly document their implementation, as opposed to leaving it undocumented (the default - given my experience with hardware manufacturers...).

I don't think the real takeaway is that "instructions should be eliminated in case [blah blah blah]" it's that "Something is going to happen, please tell me what that is on your system, instead of leaving it as UB" (Basically - make UB in the standard implementation defined behavior from the vendor).

My read is that this won't happen because it's genuinely incredibly difficult to do, and this isn't a space overflowing with capital to allocate to the problem. But I do think there's merit to the idea of pushing vendors to provide coverage in this space AT SOME POINT.

But just because those forms are common, doesn't mean the behavior is actually defined.

Ex - I might be using a vendor specific compiler for custom embedded devices where dynamic linking isn't available at all, and which might have complicated storage mechanisms that look nothing like standard memory pages.

The length of the pedals keeps changing, and you'll notice that neither of the pedals actually rotates around the hub: consistent with your point about the center of gravity being too far back, the circle the pedals are making is also shifted back too far.

It's just wildly unprofessional from management, in no particular order my frustrations are:

1. A majority of planning documents from management have become LLM output, which no longer actually matches the desired/required work (but it sure looks nice if you don't have to read all of it).

2. Management undertones are pretty clearly: "Figure out how to use AI to replace yourself."

3. The visibility of leaderboards that promote spend with no relationship to output - ex: employees who spend the most tokens are rewarded, even when there's no equivalent boost in productivity.

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My take is that AI is actually a managerial crucible - aka, a great filter for companies with poor management practices and processes.

Company management needs to shift in response to AI more than engineering, and I don't think most are prepared.

So it's not impossible to have things that seem orthogonal, like generation speed or context length, have an impact on quality of result.

Technically, I can also just directly pull the epub from Project Gutenberg, but sometimes the formatting leaves a lot to be desired.

Once you get an e-reader that runs a semi-capable OS (ex - stock android, even an older version), it's hard to go back to something like a kindle.

> since you can't select text in most delivery apps on iOS

This is all you need to know about mobile to understand we're in a complete duopoly that desperately needs a modern "ma bell" style breakup.

The fuckers who make these devices have zero interest in allowing you to do anything other than spend money with them, of which they will take their cut.

The whole thing feels optimized for trapping users, not enabling them.

So I'm not certain how to tie that back to the original discussion about not needing a special case to handle people accumulating multiple residential buildings.

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Side note - I don't see this case pretty much anywhere (and I'm literally in the process of looking at homes). I do see cases where a home sold 6 months to a year ago and the new price is ~10% higher, and I do see cases where a home sold in 2021/2022 and now the price is 2x higher.

But what I don't see any of is doubled sales price in a 6 month window with just a new coat of paint.

So I'm not certain how this is relevant at all given it's non-existent in any of the markets I'm looking at.