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Software @ Palantir. Who Dares Wins.

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Kevin Mark
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Last week during AIPCon I had the pleasure of sitting down with @amitisinvesting to talk about the thing we both can't shut up about: Palantir.
$PLTR WE GOT THE KEVIN INTERVIEW FOLKS. Kevin Mark is one of the coolest people on the planet and he just so happens to work at Palantir. He sat down with me at Palantir's latest AIPCon to discuss the culture of Palantir, why he can't imagine working anywhere else, and how he
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Those looking to escape the woke mind virus are welcome to find purpose at Palantir.
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End Wokeness
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White and Asian men are not able to apply for Apple's new "Entrepreneur Camp"
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@danluu This can be seen even by their iOS apps receiving improvements before their Android counterparts.
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Typical desk at Palantir during hack week.
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iVerify and Palantir recently discovered a system-level app installed on millions of Pixel phones that, if enabled, can be trivially exploited to take full control of your device. Google and Verizon are removing the dangerous app in response to our work.
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Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth discussing how the @NGA_GEOINT employs Maven Smart System to keep America safe. 🇺🇸
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Kevin Mark
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Shyam announced our Code Breakers internship just the other day. You should look into it.
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Shyam Sankar
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For college coders interested in Defense Tech, I’m launching the Code Breakers internship program this fall. Start your clearance process as soon as you accept your offer. You'll see your code used highside in real world operations.
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You love to see it.
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Behold, the Silicon Valley God Complex that Dr. Karp has been outspoken against for the better half of a decade.
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This is actually mind blowing. Google maps doesn’t have a scenic route option because of DEI. And people wonder why Google is getting crushed and all their products are garbage
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The best is yet to come.
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And finally, we are raising our FY 2024 revenue guidance to $2,742 - $2,750m, a $63m increase compared to our prior guidance and $45m above the midpoint of analyst estimates of $2,699 - $2,703m.
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For some time, our kids have been thoroughly brainwashed into believing that unnecessary schooling, going tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt, and worst of all, becoming a “well rounded person” is some kind of Western rite-of-passage. A type of socially
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Kevin Mark
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Palantir’s Frontend Infrastructure team is hiring! If you’re a force multiplier to the devs around you and serious about saving our Western way of life, this engineering role is for you. DM me if you’re interested. More info here:
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It's game time. We're taking the culture back. For far too long we've let the inmates run the asylum because good men sat idly by and did nothing. That pathetic exercise ends this decade.
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Let's goooooo #SCSPAIExpo2024
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Dr. Karp earlier today: “I think the central risk to Palantir, America, and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan
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@Austen @h_sligting Was watching this video the other night and if you skip to 17:28 he quite literally makes the argument that rural Americans are too stupid to pick what’s actually in their best interests and so they must be governed by their betters. Gross stuff.
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The magic of the Palantir internship is that we present our interns with a radically more compelling vision for their futures. The experience is so visceral that it rewires the reward centers of their brains. The “five year plan” (to become an automaton) that felt satisfying in
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Just finished up Freedom’s Forge. Feeling robbed I didn’t read this in high school. Can’t recommend it enough to the $PLTR community. Let me know what you think.
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“Let us end the famine of the last supper with a first breakfast.” @ssankar at #SCSPAIExpo2024
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Finally found a few moments to update with Dr. Karp's public appearances over the last two months. Feel free to send things my way if it's missing something.
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Sad to see. Switzerland has gifted System Integrators a monopoly on government software procurement. Unintended consequences abound. They must’ve missed this First Breakfast article from @ssankar , @Madeline_Zimm , and Greg Little:
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Kenneth Reitz
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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
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Chart actually reflects current steak dinner offerings and steak dinner strategy.
@FanaHOVA
Alessio Fanelli
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It has to be illegal to say that IBM has a better foundation model offering than OpenAI right? @FTC hello?
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Had the opportunity to sit in on an internal demo of our latest branching infrastructure. It's crazy.. The team is taking the "cheap branching" approach that git pioneered, and applying it to data types and state machines that everyone else thought fundamentally unbranchable.
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Chad Wahlquist
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Customer: "How do you move so fast?" $PLTR: "Many small changes, it's the safest way as well" Did you know branching isn't just for your code, in @PalantirTech 's tooling you can branch data, pipelines, applications, Ontology and even your business. 🤯
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After Santa builds out his route in AIP, global mission execution is powered by Palantir Gotham’s real time geoanalysis suite. Each Christmas Eve I have the privilege of hosting Palantir Tracks Santa: our internal Santa-tracking service layered on top of the Gotham platform.
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Palantir
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At #Palantir , we're always thinking about how our software can solve operational challenges. This holiday season, we considered the colossal task facing one person: Santa. We thought he might want to try AIP. See our demo for the team up north:
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Deeply appreciative of @amitisinvesting and the entire Palantir retail investor community for helping us get our message out there through opportunities like this and so many others.
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In case it wasn't clear, this is what Dr. Karp is talking about.
BREAKING: The George Washington University Encampment projects flames onto the American flag with text that reads... "Gaza lights the spark that will set the empire ablaze"
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An industry in its death throes. Articles like these are a type of group therapy for those in legacy media, where they get to play dress-up as cultural authorities.
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A couple of *actually* influential people in AI are missing here… They must really love those steak dinners!
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The Return of the King 👑
@PalantirTech
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Let's make it a trilogy. AIPCon returns tomorrow, March 7. After nearly 850 Bootcamps, our customers are ready to show what they've built with AIP, including 20+ new clients and partners: @Lennar , @GeneralMills , @Lowes , @OpenAI , @ConeHealth and more. Learn more:
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Imagine what our adversaries think as we print the blueprints for our own destruction. Degrowth must be ridiculed and ostracized at every opportunity. Give no quarter to evil.
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@amitisinvesting If you haven't already, be sure to check out @amitisinvesting 's interview with my fellow hobbit Sasha. It takes a (small, relentlessly executing) village to host events like these for our customers. But it takes Sasha's vision to make it AIPCon.
SASHA!!!! Sasha is the reason why AIPCon is as amazing as it is. Here's a deeper look into why the people who work at Palantir continue to work at Palantir. 00:00 - What does Sasha do at Palantir 02:25 - Journey of getting customers to tell their story 04:57 - Leveling up the
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@lauriewired Worth reading this thread with commentary on bionic from the creator of the competing musl libc.
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But shortly thereafter their ears are filled with (usually) well-intentioned advice from people who simply do not, and perhaps cannot, understand what’s at stake. “Hedge your bets. Keep your options open. What you experienced wasn’t real. It’s just a job. Focus on graduating
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You’d think the “AI Safety” people would be all over this and wouldn’t take a knowledge cutoff as an acceptable excuse.
@BillboardChris
Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Meta AI says the Trump assassination attempt is a fictional event.
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@GarciaCap Accurate depiction of Palantirians after an internal Shyam rallying cry
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@amitisinvesting This is legit bad UX though. Should be some type of warning before you reach the limit. Answering machines did this 30 some years ago.
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Save the Shire.
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I love Celsius, but there’s something about that first sip of Red Bull after a long drought.
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🚨🚨🚨
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Chad Wahlquist
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@wintrgrnbuffalo @WholeMarsBlog It’s new, I was going to do an official launch of it next week but why not right here right now: * We have removed the 500 USD credit and 30 day trial period. Now it is just free in perpetuity. We want folks to be able to enjoy the full power of Foundry and AIP, without
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This is unironically worth every ounce of carbon it took to create. Most things are, actually.
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Damon Beres
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People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo
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This will line the pockets of those System Integrators, collecting billable hours for custom (read: proprietary) code to duct tape FOSS products together. They're not about to share that cash with your friendly neighborhood open source developer.
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Big degrowth energy from Slack, let me build
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Another L for “experts.”
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Sebastiaan de With
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Incredible stuff from The Washington Post here.
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Press F class shares to pay respects
@mindthelongterm
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I hate to say this but this looks to be a solid W for the @PalantirTech approach to AI.
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"Environmental impact studies" strike again.
@SawyerMerritt
Sawyer Merritt
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NEWS: Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has filed a comment to the FAA saying they should cap SpaceX's Starship launches from Cape Canaveral due to "impact on local environment". Blue Origin, founded in 2000 (~2 years before SpaceX), has not reached orbit yet.
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@Either_Square An industry in its death throes. Articles like these are a type of group therapy for those in legacy media, where they get to play dress-up as cultural authorities.
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America takes home another W. We are truly a blessed land.
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M. Nolan Gray
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A global map of soil quality. What stands out?
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I love how Apple tries to shame you into keeping this anti-human “feature” on with a popup when you turn it off. Our betters in The Valley truly know what’s best for us.
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When you see an ad from your power company telling you to use less power, you know something is deeply wrong.
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They're not sending their best
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@Elianoayounes Price controls now!!
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@from_juba The difficult thing here is that this impacts "bare metal" systems in such that they fail to boot. If they can't boot, they can't self-apply a fix. Containers and VMs have a hypervisor that can apply patches offline.
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Kevin Mark
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Fossil Future from @AlexEpstein has become my go-to resource for debunking antihuman energy degrowth activism. Fossil fuels aren't evil. They are the single greatest earthly gift to human civilization. Kudos to @BaronVonSchnuck for the recommendation.
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Legacy Media still doesn't get it.
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@Elianoayounes Telling on yourself with this one, we need to get you out of the city
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@amitisinvesting @cmwahlqu @Elianoayounes If I get to pick the flavor it’s gotta be Celsius. Red Bull has that builder antiquity though.
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I thank God for the gift of living at this exact moment, among these free people, in the United States of America. We are the most blessed country on this Earth. Happy Independence Day.
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Cue the credit card commercial where I’m excited to spend more money because I’ll get more rewards points
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When bribery is more expensive than your bounty in Skyrim.
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@Elianoayounes The word is yapping
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As LLMs mature, I'm expecting ASICs to take over from GPUs just as they did for crypto. Will be interesting to see how NVIDIA responds to that.
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@BrettKrieger12 Fact check: ✅ True
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@MabreyTed @amitisinvesting Mayo is a disgusting slop. A culinary Elmer's glue to bind bits of real food together.
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“I would be very cautious against anything that is anti-meritocratic, and anything that results in the suppression of free speech. Those are two aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous.”
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Elon Musk
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@GamingDao @em013L @arny_trezzi @cmwahlqu @Elianoayounes Would love to see what you come up with (notional data ofc)
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Degrowth is vile. One of our most disgraced institutions wants you to believe that the revitalization of American industry is a bad thing. Their message is clear: Be fearful of the future. Don’t have kids. Do not build. Decelerate.
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The juxtaposition in leadership between these two interviews. $PLTR: C3 “AI”:
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Tom Nash
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A must see interview of Alex Karp. This man makes most other CEOs look bad by just staying true to himself and not selling out. $PLTR
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@pmarca They deserve each other
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Tapping the sign:
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Eliano A. Younes
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@GarciaCap @chadwahl Look, Palantir has over 3800 employees, all with their own unique views and opinions of the world, the company, software, etc. Nobody is ever forced to think a certain way. But I’ll just say this: the non believers don’t last long. If you don’t believe in the mission and idea
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Banning TikTok is a tacit admission of our inability or unwillingness to present a more compelling narrative to the next generation of Americans.
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I sleep like a baby
@amitisinvesting
amit
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$PLTR Palantir does not seem so crazy now with those F class shares.
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The Disney-Channelification of American youth. If kids are going to be raised by mass media, bring back Modern Marvels, How It’s Made, Dogfights, MythBusters, etc.
@PalmerLuckey
Palmer Luckey
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You can't tell kids to follow their dreams when their dreams suck.
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This is the American Dream.
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Chad Wahlquist
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@Elianoayounes Nah man, had a nice pepperoni pizza, watched the sunset with my wife….just chilling after a day of grinding.
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@jawwwn_ @reidhoffman This is what character looks like.
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The enemy is real.
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
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What the fuck
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The irony, given the publication.
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@from_juba Can confirm that the white hat goes hardest at the beach
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@Elianoayounes @cmwahlqu @petewilz Certainly worse but shopping cart theory gives a better window into the soul.
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@Elianoayounes Definitely depends on the texture of the fabric
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@amitisinvesting We're very blessed to live in a time and place where division of labor is real and have the luxury to pursue our calling. You've clearly found yours. It's been a privilege to see you lock in and execute when the lights come on.
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Agree with the sentiment that NVIDIA's valuation is highly dependent on the bet that GPUs will continue to be the best place for AI workloads, and if it's not they'll be well positioned enough to see it coming.
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@EndicottInvests @jorgenthoughts My bad! But more seriously, we've been heavily investing in more frequent public docs on the changes we're regularly making to the platform.
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Missionaries vs. Mercenaries
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Ashwinn
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the last of their kind
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@creatine_cycle Just another way Anduril is helping America's young men dodge bullets.
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@petewilz I lack intellect
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@from_juba Yes, in order to fix an issue like this automatically you'll usually need some type of system that sits outside the impacted system (out of band management). For containers and VMs, that's the hypervisor or host system. For bare metal that could be iDRAC, vPro, etc, if it's
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@petewilz Was having this conversation with another Palantirian the other day. My favorite theory is that this weird bifurcation is a visible artifact of some arcane infrastructure limitation.
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WWDC was a boomer-tier cringefest. If you told me that was produced and delivered by aliens in skin suits I'd believe you.
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It's a bad day to be a beer.
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@Elianoayounes Lol wrong link bruv
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@CodeStrap411 More of a comment on software procurement than the software industry.
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