vlucas

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Co-founder of Techlahoma (https://www.techlahoma.org/), co-organizer of ThunderPlains Developer Conference (http://www.thunderplainsconf.com/).
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Comment · 1 day ago
It happened yesterday, on a Thursday.
Comment · 1 day ago
Why does this even need legislation? Isn't this the default for all companies?
Comment · 8 days ago
If you want a specific type of food, you don't go to the everything restaurant. You go to the restaurant that specializes in the food you want. One company doing everything has never turned out well in the long run.
Comment · 29 days ago
Nah. Website builders have been around for a long time in various forms. This isn't much different.
Comment · 2 months ago
Same. There is huge, real demand for memory and storage everywhere you look. New capacity takes 3-5 years to come online. Every vendor has completely sold out capacity and is backlogged on top of that. This 5-year estimate is actually pretty realistic to me. I think we are stuck with high prices on these components for at least the next 3 years, minimum.
Comment · 2 months ago
Over for now, or at least a little while until production ramps up to our new reality (~5 years minimum is likely).
Comment · 2 months ago
Very true, and ran into this one specifically myself when going down the "HTML can do this!" road. HTML can NOT, in fact, replace a good combobox with search input. Datalist has significant shortcomings. I wound up using a React island for this single input inside otherwise normal HTML, despite my own objections, because it really it just that much better than the native options.
Comment · 2 months ago
I use Grok 4.5 High Fast in Cursor (Agentic window), and it's a genuinely great model.

I don't give a shit about Elon's politics in the same way I don't give a shit about Dario or Altman's politics.

Comment · 2 months ago
> YC startups are abandoning .com

They are not "abandoning" .com domains. They are just really hard to find available or cheap enough to buy, so they launch with something else instead!

.com will always be king

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Comment · 3 months ago
Weird how these streams of immigrants are always young men, and almost never families or groups of women and children actually fleeing some real war or oppression.
Comment · 3 months ago
If environmentalists and governments really wanted to solve this problem, they would be all in on nuclear energy. It is by far the safest, cleanest, most carbon-neutral form of energy we have that we can produce reliably at volume (base load). We went decades without building any new nuclear power plants in the US.

Instead, what you actually see happening is environmental groups actively working to _shut down_ nuclear reactors before alternate power sources are ready and available, like in Germany and New York. This of course then results in higher prices, brown outs, and burning more coal and natural gas until more alternate power sources can be built to meet demand, also making the pollution issue much worse in the short term. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Comment · 3 months ago
Definitions vary for sure. I just mentioned them because they did well at the box office, which is what will keep "cinema" alive.

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