Gleam is nothing like Erlang or Elixir (its copying of Rust is so slavish it even has a toml file driven build system) and Erlang and Elixir are not split (the only place where they even sorta are is rebar vs. mix).

I don't particularly want to gatekeep "Rust fans who just want to write lots of Rust" off OTP. Let them have Gleam. Maybe they'll figure out how to lifetime-annotate binaries?

Gleam and Rust are really not alike at all aside from the most superficial ways. A couple bits of syntax, and the use of toml are about all I can come up with.

> Maybe they'll figure out how to lifetime-annotate binaries?

What do you mean by this, I know how lifetimes work in rust, but how would you do it on the binary level ?

Binary is Erlangese for Vec<u8>, hope that helps

There are no lifetimes in gleam though right ? or did i miss the memo.

No lifetimes, absolutely no plans to add anything similar. We’re nothing like rust!

maybe they can add them to guard against copying large binaries too much

Well, Bitwarden is actually completely open source. So I can use the server code. It's pretty great!

I avoided glasses for years because no matter what, wearing them would give me horrible headaches. Then one day I went to a higher end optician, spent $1000, and have been comfortably using glasses since.

So maybe more selling, less research?

Sounds like you've solved it, but I'd love to learn from your experience. 20 min chat? Can you shoot me a quick email at jbornhorst [at] gmail [dot] com so we can coordinate?

What is a higher end optician and how do you find one?

Can't speak for GP, but in my case it was an academic optometry center. Life changing. See my longer toplevel reply.

My guess is an ophthalmologist as opposed to an optician.

If you're going to include images, try not to let the hyperlink rot away if you can manage it. Commit messages live forever!

I wish the Stanley Cup would return to challenge matches!

That's LaTeX syntax for opening and closing quotes. Though their rendered paper doesn't render them that way for some reason!

Canadians are allowed to use British spellings.

Can confirm, even though our neighbours don't respect the honour of this behaviour ;)

I like a good ejabberd fork!

edit: oh, this isn't an ejabberd fork. Why didn't they just fork ejabberd like normal people? Seriously, _rust_?

Sad and pathetic if true. How unsustainable is their capital structure, exactly? Worse than I naively suspected, I suppose?

OpenAI is a financial black hole, burning cash faster than it can raise it, with a business model built on hype and a product (ChatGPT) that's easily commoditized. Their revenue projections are delusional, and the core API business is surprisingly weak, suggesting the entire generative AI market might be overblown.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

I don't care too much about revenues and expenses exactly, but about the sustainability of their capital structure. "Big tranches of convertible debt within a couple years of converting" does sound like a bad sign.

It seems that way but I think it's quite possible in tech for things to rapidly change. E.g. if OpenAI starts quantising all their models, which can maybe reduce their compute costs by 80%, it would be profitable, but make some number of customers leave. Certain other headwinds like decreasing cost of cost per teraflop helps them.

Like Uber I suspect their business model is simply to capex until all their enemies are dead, then jack up prices.

We're in the early days, like back when Uber offered $2.50 rides anywhere in San Francisco. They burned through tons of cash for years but had $9.8bn net income last year.

At least I trust Uber enough that I use it anywhere I don't get to drive my own car. And I have never been in an accident so far.

I don't trust ChatGPT enough to copy its output and be done with my work. Sometimes I spend more time prompting + revising the response than writing it myself from scratch. It's like Uber is so bad that it is faster to walk than getting matched to a driver who very slowly drives to the destination. And yet you get into a car crash during your trip. I doubt Uber would still be in business today.

Uber and Lyft are literally the textbook examples of (local) network effects.

OpenAI is not.

Would uber then drop you off in a random address sometimes?

Or, maybe worse, would someone be able to make your uber drop you off at their place by sending the driver an sms before you even started the ride?

I kind of have a mental block around Tailscale even though it would be useful in some cases for me, because the name "Tailscale" instantly trips all my snake oil trauma responses. Can't they call it "Weyergourd" or something?