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My website is https://blog.kowalczyk.info

Working on https://filerion.com/, a web based file manager (s3, Dropbox and more).

I created https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org

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Comment · 3 days ago
In this case accountant DID NOT take liability for mistakes.

It's not the accountant that paid $20k for his mistake but the accountant's client.

Comment · 15 days ago
And yet, here's one in Poland, which is in EU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nfMEz8eJZc

I personally saw one in Krakow, Poland.

Cybertruck does not have EU homologation so Tesla can't sell it in EU. Because at the moment they don't want to.

You can buy it, import it and certify for legal use. It requires minor modifications but is perfectly legal.

Comment · 1 month ago
https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/main/

https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors?from=6%2F...

Zero commits are from DHH. It seems he already handed reigns over to other people.

Comment · 1 month ago
consider this a constructive criticism: improve the landing page.

The video is a good idea but not like this. It's both large and I can't see anything, just things moving.

When I fullscreen, instead of getting larger video, I get the same thing.

Record a video (and upload to youtube) that does a well-paced walkthrough of doing an analysis, with narration, maybe demonstrating how it's unique / different from windbg.

Comment · 1 month ago
What a brazen lie clearly intended to create some holocaust sympathy play.

WWII ended in 1945.

The law creating ICC was adopted in 1998 and the actual creation of ICC happened in 2002.

Some aftermath.

Comment · 1 month ago
1. It's at speed of 42 miles/hr. You can't compare those numbers to EPA or even WLTP numbers.

Hypermiling records using Tesla cars:

  - 1078 km, Tesla S, 25 mph, 
  - 975 km, Model 3, 20-30mph
  - 909 km, Model 3, 50mph
The last one is comparable and available today.

2. It has solar panels. That tells me those are not serious people (or a PR stunt).

Solar charging math on area that small is so brutal that adding cost / weight of solar panels on a car is sheer stupidity. Adding few miles of range per day (on sunny day parked outside) doesn't make sense.

You're more likely to have a regular outlet in your garage and recharge 100 miles overnight.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Except they are not "rolling it out".

What exists is a web page where you can express an interest in that offering.

But you can't buy a cybercab today.

This whole article is much ado about nothing.

Tesla has a page to gauge interest in something they might offer at some point in the future.

That's it. That's all there is to it.

Comment · 2 months ago
In latest pre-release it does editing too (annotations, filling out forms, extracting pages, deleting pages etc.)
Comment · 4 months ago
Cursor has $4 billion annual revenue rate so $60b is 15 years of future cashflows.

That's not crazy because if past predicts the future, that revenue will grow quickly. At $8 billion/year it's just 7.5 years, which is a reasonable investment.

Comment · 4 months ago
Per latest reporting, Cursor's current annual revenue rate is $4 billion.

So SpaceX is buying 15 years of future cashflows, assuming no change in revenue. Which is bad assumption given past growth was gigantic.

They are also buying 300-400 employees with proven record of training good coding models.

Their expertise will be used to improve Grok Build coding agent.

Also, they're using stock, not cash, so effectively they doubled the amount of money raised.

Comment · 4 months ago
You're extrapolating from an exception.

EGCS was created because Cygnus, a company whose business was based on GCC, wasn't getting their patches to GCC, maintained by non-company FSF.

Cygnus outcompeted FSF by so much that FSF folded and made EGCS maintainers new maintainers of GCC.

I just don't see average open source project being forked and improved by so much that it eliminates the original.

This requires 3 rare things to happen:

- the project is important enough

- the project is half-dead

- someone is willing to out-compete the original project

That won't happen to e.g. Laydbird. Yes, it's important but it's making rapid progress and they also use ai, so you can't outcompete them just using ai. It's a full-time project for at least one person (Andreas Kling) so unless you manage to find a band of great, unemployed programmers I don't see how you would compete.

Comment · 5 months ago
Or maybe it's very rational because their 2021 (IPO year) revenue ($7,839m) was higher than their 2025 revenue ($7,181).

Granted, their profitability is better but in 2021 they were (rationally) valued based on Great Expectations which didn't pan out.

Now they're (rationally) valued on Much Less Great Expectations.

So I think it has nothing to do with skills of early investors (not the boogeymen, irrelevant private equity) and everything to do with Coinbase being a fast growth company at the time of IPO and being negative growth company after IPO.

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