There's plenty of riff raff here. Like me :)

>I never felt more motivated to pi-hole the TV.

Or just disconnect from the internet entirely? You already have an apple tv. Why does your tv need internet access?

> maybe other vendors will come out with similar products that come with SteamOS by default

It's already happening. Lenovo released a SteamOS variant of the The Lenovo Legion Go S.

It is interesting that no software engineering or computer science course I’ve seen has ever spent any time on CI/CD.

Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, none of these sorts of things - and I don’t even mean these specific technologies, but moreover nothing even in their ballpark.

Where’s the course on managing your reaction when the client starts moving the goal posts on a project that you didn’t specify well enough (or at all), because you’re a young eager developer without any scars yet?

I once worked for VC backed start-up, I've not been VC backed myself, but I worked for Australia's science and technology research agency, so let's somewhat consider what I worked on was funded, cutting-edge development. Normally too early for VC, and often very shiny thing, or polishing things expected to be shiny in the future.

I've only once worked on main street when I was managing the app for a pizza chain.

One day, sitting in a quarterly planning meeting for the pizza company, they were discussing changes they could make to the app and the comment that stood out in my head was "we forecast this change could help us sell x% more garlic bread".

In my head I thought, "I don't care how much garlic bread we sell...this is not why I'm on the planet".

I know not every mains st. business is selling pizza, and lots of B2B companies, VC backed or not, would not excite me.

You're right, helping investors make money isn't very compelling, and I think B2B, has that kind of focus, but many ventures aren't B2B SaaS.

There is lots going on in health, energy, space, etc. right now. I do expect many of these bubbles will pop, but is there something there that interests you?

I didn't see a contact in your profile, but I'm the founder off https://affectablesleep.com, we're not hiring a GTM person, but I'm currently reaching out to a few people for advice. Drop me a line if you're interested in chatting, and maybe I can help you find your next thing too.

The Goldilocks zone doesn't enter the Drake equation at all.

As a reminder, this is the equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#Equation

It makes very few assumptions.

It takes more than just misaligned incentives to get a banking crisis -- you have to have structural corruption preventing the transfer of the loss gradient back to the "misaligned" decision makers. It's somewhat disingenuous (or overly innocent) to reimagine the pathways which power structural corruption as "innocent ignorance in the face of bad incentives".

The real world has "actually bad" actors -- not just misaligned incentives.

> If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, then the era of viable local LLM inferencing is upon us.

I don't think local LLMs will ever be a thing except for very specific use cases.

Servers will always have way more compute power than edge nodes. As server power increases, people will expect more and more of the LLMs and edge node compute will stay irrelevant since their relative power will stay the same.

Ultimate control over devices you own should be a basic right. Apple's wanton abuse of users and developers via the control they have over their platform, and Google's nipping at their heels, should be evidence enough of that.

Fundamentally, it is a trust issue. Why should I be forced to trust Google or Apple has my best interests in mind (they don't)? That is not ensuring 'device integrity', it's ensuring that I am at the whims of a corporation which doesn't care about me and will leverage what it can to extract as much blood as it can from me. You can ensure 'device integrity' without putting any permanent trust in Google or Apple.