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scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Nasdaq 100…

https://www.morningstar.com/funds/spacex-ipo-how-index-funds...

> Nasdaq was the first to consider a rule change that would grant mega IPOs like SpaceX early admission to its flagship Nasdaq-100 index. The exchange and index provider began a consultation period in February to assess the viability of and industry response to a proposed “fast entry” rule. The change was approved on March 30 and will be effective on May 1.
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
There is a difference between a SaaS offer where you are running your code and serving multiple customers on one server/set of servers and running random customer code like Vercel.
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
And the latest version of Firefox requires the version of Android released in 2017… is that really a win?
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
This is completely different. While for Uber and AirBnb as the person delivering the service I have to worry about a private citizen either doing harm to my property (more statistically likely) or my person (much less likely), if I am pulled over by a cop carrying illegal goods I have to deal with the law enforcement.

Insurance can take of property damage.

My personal threat model is:

1. Law enforcement with qualified immunity and a “monopoly on [legalized] violence” .

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99. Everyone else
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
You would be equally as dumb to do that unless you are delivering from a commercial establishment.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/unfortunately-i...

https://www.freedommag.org/news/uber-drivers-used-as-unwitti...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13107193/Uber-drive...
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I have no idea what you are talking about but I just checked the scarface_74 user on Reddit (he not I) last posted 8 years ago and mostly on the r/bitcoin thread.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Scarface_74/

And I have no idea what TREZOR is…
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I review AI generated test of AI just like I reviewed tests of developers on a team I was leading.

There is no “morality” when it comes to my job. Outside of my feeling morally obligated to give my employer the benefit of all my accumulated skills for 40-45 hours a week in exchange for the money (and in a previous life RSUs) in my account.

I feel accountable to my coworkers and customers to deal with them fairly and honestly.

What other moral obligation should I have besides my employer, coworkers and customers?
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
And then as experience developer you would have to try one of the other tools in your toolbox. Why should someone tie a hand behind their back and not use an LLM out of some sense of nerd pride?
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
That would require the logged in user to do something stupid. That’s like saying what’s to prevent the authorized user from emailing his credentials to a random person.
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
And that same user is already trusted to have admin access to the entire organizational AWS credentials - I did say it was an internal management site.

The lambda itself only has limited permissions to the backend. The user can’t do anything if the lambda only has permission to one database and certain rights to those tables, one S3 bucket, etc.

Heck with Postgres on AWS you can even restrict a Cognito user to only have access to rows based on the logged in user.

And the database user it’s using only has the minimum access to just do certain permissions.
scarface_74
·3 mesi fa·discuss
My responsibility is to make sure my code meets functional and non functional requirements. It’s to understand the *behavior*. My automated unit, integration, and load tests confirm that.

Someone thought I was naive when I said my vibe coded internal web admin site met the security requirements without looking at a line of code.

I knew that because the requirements were that anyone who had access to the site could do anything on the site and the site was secured with Amazon Cognito credentials and the Lambda that served it had a least privileged role attached.

If either of those invariants were broken, Claude has found a major AWS vulnerability.
scarface_74
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Exactly this, I lead cloud consulting + app dev projects. Before I would have staffed my projects with at least me leading it and doing the project management + stakeholder meetings and some of the work and bringing a couple of others in to do some of the grunt work. Now with Gen AI even just using ChatGPT and feeding it a lot of context - diagrams I put together, statements of work, etc - I can do it all myself without having to go through the coordination effort of working with two other people.

On the other hand, when I was staffed to lead a project that did have another senior developer who is one level below me, I tried to split up the actual work but it became such a coordination nightmare once we started refining the project because he could just use Claude code and it would make all of the modifications needed for a feature from the front end work, to the backend APIs, to the Terraform and the deployment scripts.

I would have actually slowed him down.
scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
He already does. He is cutting funding for blue state initiatives that were already allocated. Of course Congress should have the power of the purse. But the Republican Congress is spineless as is the Supreme Court.

Before now, Republican representatives would never let even a Republican President usurp their power.
scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Oracle is not fine. They are borrowing money hoping to get paid back by money losing OpenAI propped up by VC funding.

No business is going to run workloads on OCI outside of ones running Oracle. They a They are a way distance fourth in cloud. I’ve been working in cloud consulting for five years including the first three directly at AWS (Professional Services). No one worried about having talking points about competing against Oracle.

Microsoft, Google and Amazon have both internal products that can benefit from inference and cloud hosting.
scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
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scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
You should listen to the latest episode of the Acquired podcast about Google.

Google also has GCP and unlike OpenAI who is dependent on VC funding and Oracle who is borrowing money. Google throws off cash like crazy and self funds its infrastructure which is already better than everyone else’s
scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
It’s still the 48th worse place for kids.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/06/11/mississi...
scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
These are the APIs that are part of Google Play Services

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services
scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
We do? Have you been reading the news where the President is firing AGs who won’t go after his enemies and firing FBI agents who didn’t agree to perp walk his enemy? Not to mention he just pardoned 1500 domestic terrorists in January.

Public companies are outright bribing the President to get mergers passed (Paramount) and the entire confiscating TikTok to give it to his buddy at Oracle on the cheap can’t be ignored.

On the federal level, there really isn’t any legal standard anymore.
scarface_74
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Surely you aren’t talking about Android as “open source”. To a first approximation no one wants a phone running only AOSP without Google’s proprietary parts.