But isn’t “passively buying the index” still exposed to this, at least if you’re not buying “equal weight” version? Dividend stocks sounds even more appealing to me, I read that as “companies that are generating stable profits now”.

Being great writer and capable of self-hosting your blog is a pretty unusual combination once you venture outside of the realm of tech.

It wasn't 20 years ago, and it shouldn't be today, but somehow we've made it harder. I suppose some think AI will "fix" it but I tend to think it'll just make it worse.

But how will the current crop of “elite engineers” be replaced, when they inevitably age out?

There will always be some nerds left with brains so big they only scratch their itch if they are advancing performance critical v8 code in pure assembler. But the bar will rise for that to be something you get money for…

i wonder if you’ll still feel the same way in two years. knowledge decays slowly and the suddenly, at least for me.

“As the digital scan forms of many of those works enter the repositories of AI, the works, ideas and facts become plagiarized and misrepresented. As AI-generated plagiarized text and images expand across the internet’s digital world, the actual voice of human-generated content diminishes.”

Why so complicated? I thought the idea was to rent intelligence from OpenAI.

I’m curious: are you spending on beefy developer machines, or some kind of shared local inference server? Would be interested to know more if it’s the latter.

I am aware of at least a handful of companies doing the latter. I don’t work for them and cannot speak to their setup.

Notably, Starlette powers FastAPI, an extremely popular Python framework for building HTTP services.

Is this still true?

You may be thinking of Litestar (previously named Starlite) that was based on Starlette akin to FastAPI but then went their own direction implementing a framework rather than relying on an upstream for their core product.

..And?

FastAPI depends on "starlette>=0.46.0"

And? It's a non-sequitur to my comment.

Yes, it's literally the first bullet point on the project's website.

Even though I agree with other commenters that calling out websites as AI slop based on the copywriting and "generic LLM-generated look" is getting tiring, I can't deny that this was my immediate reaction to it as well.

On the other hand, you being on this comment thread and answering questions competently is a huge boost to the project's credibility in my eyes! But once the link disappears from the front page, only one of these things will remain. :-)

My domain registrar also hosts DNS, and supports dynamic DNS entries. Ticking a box gives me an update URL and a username, which I can then enter into my UniFi router. How is this different?

It is not, the functionality is the same. I am trying to expand on the functionality to not only support a single setup. we support multiple update paths, validation, DNSSEC, Letsencrypt, byod domain etc. fleet management. It could be a battery powered esp node that you send to another country. there are multiple ways of doing the same thing and what I hope I am doing is making it accessible, easy and good looking.

Fortinet for example have a similar thing, you can within their web interface register a something.fortiddns.com or float-zone.com or others. but if you upgrade the fortigate with a newer model you need to get in touch with their support because the domain is locked to the old hardware.

syncology has their own, I mean there has never been more options, what I am doing is trying to bundle, connect and provide a platform for your own domains, that can support letsencrypt out of the box, that you can use multiple update paths with ipv6 if needed.

long reply, I am genuinely happy for the "why" questions as it allows me to speak about the platform :)

Thanks!

What's the name of that registrar?