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Co-founder, Sentenai Inc. https://sentenai.com

Sentenai helps test and maintenance organizations transform messy operational data into better decisions, by digitizing all phases of T&E.

Co-founder, Hyperplane Venture Capital http://hyperplane.vc

Hyperplane is a deep capital reserve venture fund that invests in early-stage hard technology startups. We actively lead seed rounds, writing checks up to $1.5MM.

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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
"Once great literature—now great litter."
Comment · 1 month ago
I got one of those about 6 months ago. It’s great. No complaints whatsoever.
Comment · 3 months ago
I've been using Haskell for 20 years. I've been running a company built on Haskell for 10. I have a very large legacy Haskell codebase. I've invested in several companies built on Haskell. Your anecdote is about your own lack of familiarity, nothing more.

Yes, companies can get into trouble with Haskell compile times, memory use, etc., but enforcing disciplined coding rules and advances in tooling solved the majority of the problems by 2016.

We use LLMs to assist in writing Haskell and have for several years. We keep track of compile times to catch regressions and on our largest code base an agent-driven change takes an average of 96 seconds (as of this month) to compile. Agents looking to do quick compile checks during code writing can run with flags that make the compilation run in less than 5 seconds. In all cases, running out test suites takes a lot longer than compile times.

The only time this isn't true is when you compile from cold start, as you would when using multiple work trees...which is the expected behavior when vibe coding features. So yes, I believe the issues they're running into have a lot to do with vibe coding. Check out all their integrations...Haskell's probably a poor match for what they do, but vibe coding integrations is probably what they need to do to get new customers.

Comment · 3 months ago
I was puzzled by this article at first, but when you put it that way it makes more sense. The author also had a presentation awhile back about why Haskell is a terrible language for startups to adopt. I imagine that in the current venture environment vibe coding is being pushed heavily by investors since companies are effectively in an arms race where feature development cost is moving towards zero and investors don't care about individual companies because they have a portfolio of bets.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's people over 65. Cell phone ownership is pretty much universal, but only 78% of people 65+ own a smartphone. I don't think that's really surprising at all. I wouldn't expect an 80 year old to adopt a smartphone when their cognition, fine motor control, and/or vision is going. And who needs one in a nursing home? I bet if they broke it down further you'd find that the non-ownership skews towards people who were already elderly ~15 years ago.
Comment · 4 months ago
Tragic. Most of the crew onboard were almost certainly aerospace engineers tasked with collecting sensor data.
Comment · 5 months ago
Perhaps unsurprisingly, in New England jam seems more popular than jelly. The FDA regulates the labels...jelly is made from fruit juice, while jam is made from fruit chunks. The only jelly I routinely see is concord grape jelly. Jams are usually apricot, raspberry, or strawberry.

Given the number of small batch jams available at various farmers markets, my guess would be that for smaller farms, making jam is more practical than jelly.

Comment · 6 months ago
> Reviewing code is important, but it's only 50% of the learning process, at best

I don't know about everyone else, but the code I reviewed as a Junior was high quality code I was expected to learn from. That's entirely different from doing code review on whatever CC outputs.

Comment · 6 months ago
BitTorrent also enabled search engines to be built easily, which created discoverability. Unfortunately it's a much harder problem for git repos, especially when competing with GitHub search.
Comment · 6 months ago
Oh, that's pretty cool! Now I can't decide whether that approach or one based on AT is better...
Comment · 6 months ago
Is there really nothing like BitTorrent for git, or have we just not heard about it because of GitHub's network effects? It feels like this problem was solved long ago for binaries.
Comment · 6 months ago
Things Fall Apart

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned

Comment · 6 months ago
Except ASML licensed the technology from the US Government, after the government labs built the first EUV fab in 2001. Not to take anything away from ASML...all the US companies that also licensed the tech failed to commercialize it, but the US Government blocked Canon and other Japanese companies from acquiring the technology. The entire reason ASML has the technology and nobody in Japan does is geopolitical.

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