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I think Galileo is an example of how the EU with ESA can create an alternative to a critical US capability. At the same time it is also an example how difficult it is, on a financial, political and commercial level.

The US wasn’t happy with it and tried to put pressure not to proceed. In hindsight , It’s good that it did got into orbit.

ESA tends to favour French, Italian and German big state owned corporations rather than small start ups. So it will always be a political thing and slow.

There just isn’t a company in the EU that can operate like Elon Musk. Even if there was imagine a European company ceo holding that power. How would they use it, can they be coerced by EU countries? Should such a capability be in private hands at all?

Thank you. I once asked Claude the same. It reminded me of the flag from the tv show community

Could it actually be that the United States is in a plain old recession?

I know the stock markets are higher than ever due to AI investment. But the real economy may not be in a great shape hence the layoffs.

While the cause may be not be AI, but instead policy, e.g. tariffs. But also multiple conflicts ( Ukraine , Iran, Lebanon), leading higher oil , gas, critical raw material prices. China heavy exporting economy but not having domestic demand to fuel growth and bilateral trade with other countries.

All leading to less consumer consumption, slower economy , more layoffs to cut costs, less consumer consumption etc.

So no ai related but many external factors at the same time. But ai is hiding the pain due to the high stock market valuations. Which may explain that despite all the usual recession symptoms we aren’t treating it as a recession.

I am curious what other think.

Why did databricks and snowflake buy Postgres vendors?

Are there local models dedicated to programming already any good? That could be a way to deal with anthropic or others flipflopping with token usage or limits

I have been looking for something like this. I know openbao, hashicorp vault.

But they require to be placed on a separate server, and come with their own infra management.

Is the idea of this project to embed this into you app, instead of relying on .env or an external vault?

How do you market your software? Did you learn how to become a marketer and took it as a persona? What have you learned how to market your software in the past 20 years as a developer?

Good article, sometimes a bit hard to read with all the links to other blog posts.

However there are some good nuggets in this article like this one: "That’s when I realized: we’d built a dependency on one person’s specialized knowledge. And that knowledge had nothing to do with our actual product."

I see that at more smaller orgs, where they want to have technology X but fail to realize it requires a small team. Not because its a 3 man job to operate but because if 1 leaves or is unavailable the knowledge is gone. The knowledge can be acquired but it takes some time, and that in between period can be painful. When you tell them that and then they start to calculate the costs, it can be sobering.

The advice to keep the tech boring and widely embedded in the organization is something I agree with.

I really liked reading about the history of your homelab. How do you like the 3d printed rack enclosure? Is it strong enough to hold the weight and heat from the server?

If all manufacturers jump into serving the ai market segment.

Can this not be a opportunity for new entrants to start serving the other market segments?

How hard is it to start and manufacture memory for embedded systems in cars, or pc?

Is nats not written in go? Or does this foreshadow a switch to zig?

Man, this is such a fun project. I understand where you are coming from. You can do this with music too. There a lot of children audio books or songs where you have the same “issue” that a parent has to operate YouTube or Spotify.

I just realized a new thing what i dislike about scrum. That is this argument people bring up:

“Scrum works … if it is being properly implemented and followed.”

Sure that is with almost everything. In addition if you need an army of scrum coaches to implement scrum and you see many failures in the industry isn’t it time to rethink the process how we create software?

Maybe scrum isn’t the solution but just a stepping stone that came after waterfall.

I dislike the story points. Maybe 5 people in the world who understand them how to use it correctly. Often, it's just translated to hours.

The scrum guide 2020 doesn't mention story points at all.

I don't know how to fix this. But maybe we should just go back to plan in hours..

I don’t have the source, but I read that before the Dutch VOC came there were also quite a lot of Arabic traders active in the region that brought with them their religion.