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Desktop app situation is truly a mess for the trillion dollar AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic.

After updating codex, it disappeared and chatdpt was still the old version. So I downloaded the latest chat gct from the website and it just said: "Couldn't install ChatGPT"

So I had to open Claude which was just a completely blank screen to try and debug the installation of ChatGPT.

Dropbox spun out Zulip because it was a failed project they were going to shut down.

This is completely different?

Respectfully, I don't think it's "very" smart. It is a fair option given their limited options? Everyone is doing FDE or (customer engineering to be more transparent) because otherwise they will just be seen as markup on token cost. And the Neo-SaaS companies will take the money instead.

Who else will buy their AI?

and what other options do they have?

Yes, a replacement will cost money. But probably less than a year contract with Palantir.

Mistakes were made (I would argue intentionally because of local wallet minima with stakeholders), there is a sunk cost to using Palantir. The country can't even develop it further, because it's Palantir's. That's not an argument to keep using it.

The country needs to develop the ability, to develop critical national infrastructure (this includes software, obviously is not limited to it). I would also argue it already has the ability, we need to prevent it from withering away.

Palantir will do the same as local companies (building on top of open source) except it needs to make a large tech profit and with its monopolistic ability, It will capture the value for itself.

Procurement has a misaligned efficiency incentive. Procurement and governments want a single provider so it's less direct cost on them on managing projects. Sadly, they've actually unnaturally forced a monopoly, resulting in serious costs and inefficiencies in the long term. We need a way to encourage multiple providers for the same thing, and allow new companies to join in even when they're late. Just like B2B and B2C.

I wonder if anyone has some thoughts in this area

It was on development branches. The threat actor was trying to delete development work.

Their main branch was already protected. I don't think it makes sense to protect every single branch in a repo? Since not all devs will have the ability to turn this off

You should try cloudflare. 6k views is nothing on the free tier. Shocking to see your website taken down for 6k views

Btw it's down again

Even if they did provide more money, it doesn't mean it'll go to the right place. Government money is not the solution here. Money is already being spent.

I think there's a typo?

> Less expensive are paint properties. A paint property does trigger layout, but it does repaint a layer, and then re-composites.

It doesn't trigger a layout step?

Maybe they went with burgers because it's low effort: everything else is the same (bun, salad, fries). Just replace the patty, which still goes through the same process.

Again, missing the opportunity that vegetarian/vegan food can be healthier, not just removing of animal cruelty and death.

I recently travelled the US (California, Arizona, Utah, Ohio), I found it really hard to find vegan options. Some restaurants that used to sell vegan burgers or vegan options have stopped (McDonalds, Applebees) - because not enough people ordered them. Some restaurants that have Beyond Meat burger patties as on option "don't have any in stock" - probably for the same reason.

According to GPT o4-mini, these are the restaurants that have stopped in the past few years: Habit Burger & Grill; McDonald’s; Carl’s Jr.; TGI Fridays; Del Taco; Denny’s; Dunkin’; Wendy’s.

I will say beyond meat tasted pretty good, and I would prefer to eat that than to go hungry at US restaurants. But it's very expensive and very annoying to cook at home (smoky). Not sure how healthy it is either - highly processed?

Also, people who are vegetarian/vegan know the health benefits. They're not going to pay more to get less healthy.

Drone startup | Product Engineer (Typescript) | 1 day/week in the office (London, UK) | Citizens of the UNITED KINGDOM only

You'd be working with engineers who previously worked at Google, Amazon, Helsing, Darktrace and an F1 team. We build drones (software and hardware)

We're looking for engineers that straddle real world problems, and use technology as a solution. We prefer personal projects or relevant hobbies, not hard leetcode questions. We value collaboration: pair programming, discussing, teaching and learning from others. We're looking for mission-driven engineers. People who see problems in the world and want to help solve them.

You'd be working with me to build the most intuitive, performant, and modern mission planning and flight monitoring software for drones, and related applications (tools for drone design and manufacturing). For my project, we use React, Tailwind, Node, drizzle-orm, Postgres, SQLite, deck.gl, Python, FastAPI, asyncio, and more. You're allowed (and compensated) to use AI services.

Because we are a small team, you will be noticed and rewarded for performance.

*Please don’t apply if any of these resonate:*

• You prefer narrow ownership—“I only touch the backend or the code I've written”.

• You think it's more about "who you know, not what you know".

• You haven’t actively learned a new tool or hobby in the last year.

If interested, email my temporary email: [email protected] with your CV and some personalised information about why you'd be the right fit.

My personal website, if you want to know who you would work with: tlduck.com

Edit: sorry my original post had a broken email