> managing an on-prem instance is (literally) a full time job.

Hosting a Docker container is a full-time job? I have worked at several employers self-hosting their own instances without issues or a lot of effort. Many FOSS projects do, that definitely do not have a full-time guy for that. What are you talking about?

Hundreds or 10k+ users?

I imagine requirements and integrations may differ a lot. I have seen many incidents with a large instance.

But how much of that do people actually need? Most users don’t use most features. The core MVP is not that big.

The old saying goes: Everyone only uses 10% of what MS Excel can do. But everyone uses a different 10%.

The same goes for Github to a degree. Yes, there are hot paths that "everyone" uses, but also areas where most people never wander and other use daily.

Google Docs doesn't do even 20% of what Office does, but it's a serious competitor anyway. That's because it implements a 5% feature that 80% of its customers use: instant internet sync.

They can clone the repo, make changes, and then push. On the server, you can have a hook that checks if the commit only contains appropriate issue changes, and apply just those.

Sure, a little more complicated than “Create Issue”, but not that much for devs. We could even simplify the workflow with e.g. git-issue or something like that, similar to e.g. git-send-email.

    git issue init “There is a problem”
    git issue push
    git issue get 6 # short for issue@{6}

Regardless of your opinion on gender and identity politics, surely people can agree that only biological women have periods.

Aren't those 100% predictable since they are caused by external application of said hormones?

There are multiple factors like dosage and specific hormone regimen (some do monotherapy while others do estrogen and a anti-androgen), but generally yes

Of course, but treating transgender men like you would a cisgender woman with all the same gendered expectations is both incredibly disrespectful if done on purpose and humiliating for someone who very much does not want to be treated as a woman despite having a period that most likely already makes them very uncomfortable and dysphoric

> only biological women have periods

generally, yes, but there are so many edge cases there with intersex people that it is far easier and more inclusive to just say roughly 50 percent of the human population has periods and avoid having to deal with the million asterisks that come with that statement

50% of the human population will at some point in their life have periods, perhaps; but presumably (due to childhood and menopause) less than 50% of the human population has recently experienced a period.

Language is consumed by people, not machines.

You don't have to speak like a lawyer.

There is no intersex person waiting to jump out and yell accusatory things at you because you didn't include sufficient asterisks or you said statements that are 99.9999% true.

> There is no intersex person waiting to jump out and yell accusatory things at you because you didn't include sufficient asterisks or you said statements that are 99.9999% true.

I would assume that the app isn’t pink because the devs aren’t worried about getting yelled at. The number of intersex people is minuscule compared to the amount of folks that have Opinions about them online.

As you said yourself: Quantitative easing did not solve anything. We keep kicking the can down the road, and the problems grow exponentially every time. This approach won’t work forever. In fact, we may be past the tipping point already.

Well, it is currently cheaper because it is massively subsidized. That will change when subsidies stop. I don’t think it is a good argument.

The claim was "It is cheaper", not "It will be cheaper". Until it actually _is_ cheaper, it doesn't make much sense to purchase $10k+ in hardware to run local models that are still worse than the frontier offerings.

> Until it actually _is_ cheaper, it doesn't make much sense to purchase

Once it is cheaper, there will be more demand so it will no longer be cheaper. Buying now gets current prices (though demand is still fairly high).

No it's not. AI products are quite often subsidized. AI inference very certainly is not.

There are more and more independent AI inference providers without VC backing that serve open weight models on a ~cost-plus basis that show that subsidies are not significant for AI inference.

As a manager, I would hate that. Have small groups of 5-8 do standups. There's no reason to waste ten thousand dollars a day on that many people waiting for each other's status updates.

> A short weekly standing meeting […] is actually a powerful tool.

The problem is they never stay short, they never stay on topic, they always expand beyond one a week.

Then managers want everybody to say something, so they feel in the know and in control, even when most of the time they are not. So it devolves into everybody just saying something useless to make the manager happy, and nobody listening anymore, because they know that 90% of what is said is just noise.

> Stacking more and more complexity into sanitization is clearly a doomed approach. We are more than 5 major revisions deep and yet there are still known holes. People are actively sharing projects on the Scratch website bypassing SVG sanitization. And the moment browsers decide to implement the latest CSS specs, even more holes will open up.

This kind of stuff will get way worse with LLMs. They like just stacking more and more code on top of workarounds.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. git-annex is not strictly better, LFS just chose different tradeoffs.