wickedsight

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

This quote stops me from shorting pretty much anything.

People unable to patch PHP probably aren't the same people who can be trusted to audit every piece of open source code they interact with. Even in the advent of AI.

I'm sure you have the best intentions. I still think anyone trying to fix a massive security hole by running random 10 minute old code from Github isn't really being smart about it.

"If you don't want to be vulnerable just install this vibecode project from a 10 minute old repo someone posted."

Doesn't really feel like it's a good way to handle security to me.

Isn't this true for any type of (software) development though? Once the size of an organization grows, everything slows down because processes are formalized, hierarchy is created, etc. This all becomes worse once a company goes public.

When WhatsApp was acquired, they had around 50 employees. By now, it's around 1500. It's still just a messaging app.

And seed phrases. I'm pretty sure it's mostly about seed phrases.

> Also true of being able to go over 90 MPH

Kinda, but not really. In Germany you can do that on public roads. And there are many circuits you can do track days at that only require a street legal car and a helmet.

Meanwhile even the suction functionality of the roadster will probably be banned at most track days because it throws a bunch of rocks and dirt at cars behind you.

> Tesla Sales Slump in Third Quarter

This isn't special though. 2023 was their best year and sales have been slowly declining since then. The share price has mostly been climbing since 2023. But soon they'll have a huge driverless fleet and robots or something.

In the kickflip video it launches straight up and then proceeds to do a flip mid jump. The straight takeoff looks pretty solid to me.

Makes sense though. First time I saw video of two falcon rockets doing a synchronized landing I felt the exact same way. Our brain is used to this type of stuff in movies and we know it's CGI. So when it happens for real and is filmed in 4K and a cinematic color scheme is added, it's hard for the brain to adapt.

For people looking for alternatives, I highly recommend the Beurer BF 720. It syncs with Bluetooth to the app, which doesn't require you to login. App syncs with Healthkit and that's it. Also works really well with multiple users who connect their own phones. And it's pretty affordable.

Only issue I've experienced is that background sync just stops working sometimes. Then I need to open the app manually to sync.

I feel like this might be inherent to software and hardware development.

With hardware you pretty much get to restart on every product you make. Sure, you have many of the same (types) of components, but with every iteration, you move them around and pretty much have to rethink how every part fits together and interacts. And it has to work when devices get to consumers, because you can't visit everyone to solder on a wire you forgot. (You can always tell people they're holding the phone wrong though.)

With software you have this continuous blob that you keep adding features to. You never really get to rethink how it all goes together from the ground up when the design changes, you just slap a transparent UI on top of you existing code and call it a day. If it turns out there are bugs, not a problem, you just push an update and hope that fixes more than it breaks.

> Remove LLM and 80 pct of people will have to jump to start.

Isn't the same true for every service and technology we start to rely on?

Remove GPS and people will have to figure out how to read maps again.

Remove search engines and people will have to figure out how domains work.

Remove Wikipedia and we have to go back to the library to check encyclopedias.

Exactly. Meanwhile, nearly all my personal data is stored on servers owned by US companies. Feels much more risky.

Yes, I definitely think they are willing. I don't think all farmers are, not even that many of them are, but I think some are.

Some of them already dumped asbestos on highways, which to me is beyond what any reasonable person would do.

Yeah, my bet is on the farmers. The locations where this happened are all pretty rural and farmers have announced havy actions today.

We in NL need to be more concerned about domestic terrorism than the Russians at the moment. Though I'm sure Russian money and bots are involved in some way.