Is is essentially a SaaS version of what businesses like OSH Cut and SendCutSend have built? And are you doing just the quoting, or full shop management?
That's exactly what it is. But instead of keeping it as some proprietary tool for one shop, our goal is to make that same tech accessible and affordable for all shops. Not every fab shop is tech-first, and that's totally fine. We're building something that helps them compete without needing a full-time developer or a six-figure software budget.
As for your last question, we're not trying to replace any existing ERP or CRM systems. We're focused on delivering instant, accurate quotations through our own turnkey pricing model that helps job shops stay competitive day-to-day, manage payments seamlessly, and give customers real-time shipping options or an easy Will Call pickup if they're local.
He was at Microsoft for a few months, and Google for 16 years before that.
I worked pretty closely with him and his team for a bit at Google, and he seemed like a great human being, in addition to being a great engineer. I wouldn't read too much into a few-month stint at Microsoft.
I run a "Bank of Dad", tracked in a spreadsheet for my kids. They can choose to "invest" their money with me or not. To make investing meaningful for them, I pay 10% interest per month, up to a $50 balance.
To avoid bankrupting myself—and to encourage them to get a real investment account when the time comes—the rate drops as the balance increases, similar to progressive tax brackets. By the time they get to $1000 balance, the annualized rate works out to ~6%, and after that it drops fast enough that it's essentially free for me to operate.
Overall, it's been quite successful. Now whenever the kids get money, they invest it immediately. And they often delay or forego spending so that they can get more interest the next month. They haven't turned into complete misers, but it has encourage a mentality of thinking about saving, and I think the concept of interest has landed quite well. I think things really started to click for them around age 8 or 9.
These kids are going to be so mad at how low interest rates are at actual banks that I wonder if this is ultimately going to teach them to borrow rather than save. I guess it’s the same thing, really: they’re learning the time value of money either way.
"What I want to do is build software that vertically integrates with our open source tools, and sell that software to companies that are already using Ruff, uv, etc. Alternatives to things that companies already pay for today. An example of what this might look like [...] would be something like an enterprise-focused private package registry."
A gentle note to anyone reading, fiberglass insulation requires wearing air filters, for the same reasons noted else in this thread. Wear them expecially to cut it, but also just putting it up or working in a crawlspace with it.
That’s not what the manufacturers of modern glass fiber insulation would have you believe. Plenty of people cutting and handling it with no PPE at all in their promotional literature.
Fiberglass is at least pretty easy one to figure out. Don't have to get that stuff in your skin more than once to realize it's probably really, really bad to breathe.
My understanding is that fiberglass and mineral wool [1] are classified as skin (yes, it itches), eye, and lung irritants (coughing), but they're not carcinogenic. Considering how extremely widely they have been used for a long time, if they were we'd most likely have seen it by now.
Sure it's not good for you, so using PPE is certainly warranted, but it's on a whole different level of badness compared to asbestos.
[1] Per wikipedia, there are some varieties of mineral wool used for high temperatures (think insulating industrial furnaces and such) which are carcinogens.
> Adding a new browser will just increase the attack vector.
More potential ways to attack? Sure. More actual attacks in practice? Not necessarily.
Let's imagine we have a hypothetical 100% secure browser, and we can get people to use it 50% of the time on on iOS. Then 50% of potential attacks become impossible. It doesn't matter that vulnerable Safari is hanging out in another part of the OS if attackers can't actually get their code to run in that context.
Except you ignored my second point which is the browser is in use throughout the system anyway. Yes it would be less likely to attack but still possible. Also a 100% safe browser does not and will never happen.
I didn't ignore it, but perhaps I wasn't clear. My point is that if Safari is in use throughout the system, but used, say, 50% less often (vs. a hypothetical 100% secure browser), then 50% of the time attacks that were previously feasible become infeasible. Frequency / probability of usage matters, not just whether something is installed.
And yes, a 100% safe browser is a fiction (thus "imagine" and "hypothetical"). But I think it's possible that another browser could be vulnerable to fewer attacks than Safari.
I think we're in agreement: adding a new browser increases the number of vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited (assuming the new browser isn't 100% secure, which will always be the case in practice). And at the same time, moving some usage to a more secure browser makes attacks less likely in practice. I think the latter is more important than the former.
I've always wondered how people manage this in practice. Is seems great if you never sign up for anything new, but I end up creating one account per week or something. How do you keep the key in your safe deposit box current?
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