numbsafari

> > I'm still surprised people use CrowdStrike

> I mean, LastPass is still in business...

I mean, Microsoft is still experiencing massive growth.

I assigned myself to re-read "Flowers for Algernon" based on my current frustrations with the team / cultural impacts of AI usage.

It's mildly orthogonal, but I think the metaphor is really quite apropos.

This puts an entirely new spin on Elon trolling Binance on Twitter.

Environment variables are a terrible place to store secrets.

I'm just going to say it, since having said it non-stop for over 20 years, nobody seems to listen and we keep circling this drain.

The 12 Factor manifesto was 100% wrong on this point.

Use environment variables to point to where secrets are located, not to store their values.

Examples?

Capitalism's main principle is not competition, it is merely the private ownership of the "means of production".

Try having a discussion with anyone here in the US about not using Amazon. The free market is a myth.

Reflecting on the ways that LLMs seem to empower individuals and teams to access seemingly limitless intelligence, but the team seems to lose its skills and capabilities for judgement and planning rather quickly after adoption.

Hah! Not every day my neighborhood gets a shout out on HN. I’ve swam in that pit in the video. Neck deep you can see your toes. Found a couple pipe bombs… definitely gets a lot of attention from bored people.

No, it’s that if there’s nothing to hide, then they shouldn’t jump through so many hoops to avoid basic industrial reporting requirements.

It’s not any one thing, it is the litany of things they do in order to avoid any transparency or accountability. It is undemocratic and contradictory to the idea of good governance of public resources.

If anything, a little sunshine here would probably be the best medicine. Trying to be opaque is what allows conspiracy theories to exist in the first place.

Also the unforced error around NDAs and attempts at bypassing environmental and other reviews. People don’t like the idea of their local elected officials bypassing the rules in the dark.

I understand these companies want to move fast, but this seems to be one of those cases where going slow gets you there faster.

Call the police. That’s wire fraud and theft.