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itsnowandnever commented on Oxide raises $200M Series C   oxide.computer/blog/our-2... · Posted by u/igrunert
abrookewood · a day ago
Of topic, but where the hell did Nutanix come from? I've never heard of them until recently and all of a sudden, they are being marketed as a serious competitor to VMware etc.
itsnowandnever · 16 hours ago
theyve been marketed as a serious competitor to vmware for 15 years. their sales reps mightve just not found you until recently. but we did a poc with them 10 years ago and i dont believe much has changed since
itsnowandnever commented on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/reaperducer
ak_111 · 3 months ago
You can do a lot of money in swindles and bubbles if you time your exit well. There is a fair bit of opportunistic investors who did well in the NFT craze, who speculated knowing fully well that NFT is a craze that will go to zero.
itsnowandnever · 3 months ago
everything will eventually go to zero. we look at some of these things and laugh because we're pretty sure they're going to go to zero within weeks or months vs years. but by the end of all of our lifetimes, most the companies on the stock market will be replaced. the few that won't are probably investment banks like goldman sachs
itsnowandnever commented on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/reaperducer
righthand · 3 months ago
I honestly don’t get it. People love being swindled? Or people have enough cash to throw into the swindling machine even for no gain? Must be nice.
itsnowandnever · 3 months ago
these deals are made as part of a market so it's more like musical chairs where every time you change a chair you get a ton of money but you don't want to be the one that's stuck without a chair at the end
itsnowandnever commented on This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]   usenix.org/system/files/1... · Posted by u/xeonmc
broodbucket · 4 months ago
Remember, you don't have to be unhackable, just sufficiently unimportant to not be worth burning any novel capability on
itsnowandnever · 4 months ago
I think people don't understand what this means either. the nation-state "agencies" that can and will get into your network/devices can do so because they would employ tactics like kidnapping and blackmailing a local telco field technician. or if it's your own government, they can show up with some police and tell them to do whatever and most will comply without even receiving a proper court order.

so unless you're worth all that trouble, you're really just trying to avoid being "low hanging fruit" compromised by some batch script probing known (and usually very old) vulnerabilities

itsnowandnever commented on Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army   washingtonpost.com/scienc... · Posted by u/reaperducer
codedokode · 4 months ago
As I remember, after French revolution, there were coalitions of foreign monarchies with the goal of punishing France [1].

Also what surprises me, after years of several revolutions and chaos in France, how could Napoleon gather such a large army.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition

itsnowandnever · 4 months ago
he essentially invented the modern concept of conscription. there were press gangs and conscription-like things all through history but for the most part soldiers were professionals
itsnowandnever commented on Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”   josepheverettwil.substack... · Posted by u/adityaathalye
jay_kyburz · 4 months ago
No expert, and fully expect to be flamed, but we are now living in a society that has discouraged "sucking it up" or "burying your emotions" for 30 years. It not really possible to study, at macro level, the impact of that thinking.

A lot of people just want to be a victim. They want to be special. They want sympathy.

itsnowandnever · 4 months ago
who has discouraged "sucking it up"? what systemic policies have changed to accommodate this? as far as I can tell, someone can explain how they're the victim to anyone and everyone they come across and no one will care. I can't see how anyone emotionally or materially benefits from saying they're a victim. they may want sympathy but they will not get it.

that said, I don't live in a coastal city where there might be more accommodations for such things. where I live, people are generally on their own to find the means to survive. but, in line with the theme of the post, I'm fairly certain people here have a lower life expectancy and generally lower health than people in places where there is a more robust support network. in which case, the body must, in fact, keep the score.

itsnowandnever commented on Chess engines didn't replace Magnus Carlsen, and AI won't replace you   coding-with-ai.dev/posts/... · Posted by u/codeclimber
JoeAltmaier · 4 months ago
We're not all Magnus Carlsen. Some of us are hacks or very ordinary 'players', and can be replace without a ripple on the pond.
itsnowandnever · 4 months ago
everyone is the Magnus Carlsen of their own life, though. and humans are irreplaceable. sure, budget decisions are made that cause people to have to go find another employer. but there is no civilization without people in it.
itsnowandnever commented on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission   cnn.com/2025/10/20/scienc... · Posted by u/voxleone
Waterluvian · 4 months ago
Re: 1. I think the America of Theseus mindset is a bit troubling. A lot of people like to identify with achievements that they played no role in. Based on zero expertise whatsoever, I have a sense that this is a bit self defeating. To be born a winner, to be taught you’re a winner… how can that be healthy?

Today’s America scores zero points for its accomplishments of the past. But I think one way it can be a good thing is the, “we’ve done it before, we can do it again” attitude. Which is somewhat opposite to “we already won!”

itsnowandnever · 4 months ago
100% - given the resources we have, America is far underperforming at the moment
itsnowandnever commented on LLMs can get "brain rot"   llm-brain-rot.github.io/... · Posted by u/tamnd
standardly · 4 months ago
That is indeed an LLM-written sentence — not only does it employ an em dash, but also lists objects in a series — twice within the same sentence — typical LLM behavior that renders its output conspicuous, obvious, and readily apparent to HN readers.
itsnowandnever · 4 months ago
why do they always say "not only" or "it isn't just x but also y and z"? I hated that disingenuous verbosity BEFORE these LLMs out and now it'll all over the place. I saw a post on linked in that was literally just like 10+ statements of "X isn't just Y, it's etc..." and thought I was having a stroke
itsnowandnever commented on Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage    · Posted by u/kinj28
itsnowandnever · 4 months ago
i cant imagine it's related. if it is related, hello Bloomberg News or whoever will be reading this thread because that would be a catastrophic breach of customer trust that would likely never fully return

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