dr_analog
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A lot of their competitors are pretty mediocre by comparison
This just doesn't compute for me. Aggregating logs like this is a whole industry?! Every single place I've ever been, once we outgrow 'ssh into each box and grep for whatever we need' starts realtime aggregating logs in a single server and we can grep them all there. And eventually that stops scaling and we stand up indexing and maybe even a dashboard and maybe even some things to fire events based on filters.
It would never occur to us to hire a vendor for such a mundane task and have to deal with some account manager every year and buy "licenses" and all that shit.
This is why my read of the IT industry in general is so bad. I always drastically underestimate what most companies can do in-house.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1hr ago
I never really understand the IT industry because if you put a pitch deck for Splunk in front of me I would say "and? this is a pitch deck to build grep with a billing department?" and 15 years later they get acquired for $28 billion.
Shit's so dumb.
Rust is fine I'm mostly just making a near-term bet that the agents don't benefit that much from the type system's proofs because they increasingly write superhumanly good code.
There are some minor reasons to tell your agents to write C instead of Rust. The agents might box (ha!) themselves in unnecessarily because unsafe and dropping to asm to get around missing features from C (like setjmp/longjmp, or computed gotos) are implicitly proscribed if you're asking for Rust in the first place. Additionally there's some ecosystem risk from yanking in hundreds of crates that you wouldn't hit with C because the package management ecosystem fucking sucks and your agents will just DIY most of what it needs instead.
You can also iterate a little faster compiling C than you would Rust, so long as your agents don't talk you into running fuzzers and tsan/asan
These are not actually earth shattering differences and Rust is fine. So long as you don't mind people thinking you're a homo.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
There's not many good excuses left to stay on the Microsoft ecosystem in 2026.
That said, companies will do anything to avoid a migration out of dread for retraining and fear of unknowns.
My agent wasn't cooperative at first so I switched to an account with cyber permission and told it (honestly) that I own the watch and I wanted to rid it of spyware, so it agreed to figure out how the android app did firmware updates. Then it analyzed a copy of the firmware on the Internet to figure out the hardware. Then we modified the stock firmware so it would dump the full contents of memory to an emmc if I trigger a key combination. With all of that it was able to write a detailed spec. Then I handed that off to my regular account and it happily iterated on building a new firmware from scratch.
Kind of surprised the smartwatch company didn't require signed firmware updates. Guessing that won't last very long. Which is ironic because I would happily keep buying their watches if I could continue flashing my own firmware.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
Yeah, that's what I keep coming back to. Bro got into this to make 3d games go fast. Being one of the most important people in the AI revolution is way out of his depth.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
Grab your balls and write it in C. AI agents write safe code and there's no need to wait for the type checker.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
I had a smartwatch for tracking my running workouts. A.COROS Apex Pro. At some point I got the ick on these things because they ruthlessly mine your personal data. So I vibe coded a fitness app for my phone and just used that with a chest strap.
Most of the time that's fine but for specific workouts it's less than ideal because I'd like to glance at my wrist and see my pace or whatever.
I resolved to get an open source watch so I could upload my own firmware but the options have been... trashy.
Then Opus 5.5 came out and it seems that every watch is open source if you try hard enough. Within a weekend it reverse engineered the COROS smart watch's firmware and now I'm uploading my own very sick program to it for tracking my workouts instead.
I don't really love the idea of every one of these companies finally investing in solid device security to close this off long term, but for now I'm enjoying having freedom.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
The price seems to be having kids with like half a dozen different women? Sounds like hell.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
Nothing. I'm just using the opportunity to say even highly influential billionaire CEOs can't get away with fucking around. Even if they're in SV where everyone is supposed to be sexually enlightened.
Jensen Huang just got busted having an affair with what's probably a Chinese spy.
Jensen is a wifeguy of 41 years. In some sense he probably never stood a chance.
Blow-ups like this reinforce my bias that while poly/open relationships exist, you can't get away with them if you're a high status man. Sure, if you're a billionaire CEO, your wife may say she's okay with a discreet affair but she'll deny it and throw you to the wolves (and take you to the cleaners) if it ends up on the front page of the NYT. Similarly, women having affairs with married billionaire CEOs may be driven crazy by being #2 bitch in a way that they wouldn't really mind if the man had normal status. And if they are okay with it, it's probably because they're spies.
Now Jensen's wife hasn't said anything about divorcing him, but he's publicly apologizing to her and his family for this, so I presume they at least need to keep up the appearance that they're not poly. Since poly is low status.
Am I wrong?
"as the CISO I have determined the outsourced SIEMs are inadequate and we manage the risk ourselves" and then I would spend an hour every couple of afternoons writing regexes to alert on
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