From what I gather from the Perplexity CEO, he is just that type of Musk-tier cringelord, so yes, probably

Aha! Sounds like a combination of a cliff (but not quite if the grant is just not given until 1 year) and continuous refreshers.

If I understand correctly, that’s what’s called a cliff - during the first period of your grant, you have no ongoing vesting, until a set date in the future where all of that period vests at once.

For example, first 12 months: 0%, then 12/48 at once, and finally 1/48 every month for the remainder of the grant.

Correct me if I misunderstood.

Evenly weighted vesting schedule: Your grant vests the same amount every month for every year of the duration of the grant. For example, 1/48th of the grant vests over 4 years.

Back-weighted grant: Your grant vests less or not at all for the early period of the grant, and then a majority in the later part of the grant. For example: Year 1 10%, Year 2 20%, Year 3 30%, Year 4 40%.

Why it’s fucked up: The company is incentivized to abuse your labour early in your employment and then push you out before the majority of your compensation package kicks in.

Equity is already enough of a pair of golden handcuffs as it is, there’s no need to make them worse from this perspective.

My god, could he have chosen a name more cringe than this? Fuck.

Obfuscation only makes the effort of decompilation take a bit longer - fundamentally, they are going to be executing the bytecode on your device, and that cannot be hidden from you.

I’m speaking from experience here - I’ve decompiled multiple APKs before, all containing bytecode that has been obfuscated by ProGuard. It’s a bit harder than reading source code, but with some practice it’s always possible to figure out what’s going on in the end.

Back-weighted vesting schedule is some truly fucked up shit. Reddest of red flags

Yeah, you even get to live tax free using that strategy.

With a pannier rack and baskets to hang on the rack, I can carry all the groceries we need for 1-2 weeks if I so wish on my bike, no problems whatsoever.

Honestly, just never use link shorteners. QR codes have basically completely killed their use-case, and various sharing tools take care of what little QR codes do not.

How to do it yourself at home:

…periodic eggs were placed alternatively in boiling water (Th = 100 °C) for th = 2 min and water at Tc = 30 °C for tc = 2 min, for a total cooking time of 32 minutes, which corresponds to the repetition of the hot and cold cycles for a total of N = 8 times. In the case of periodic eggs, a bowl filled with water kept at 30 °C was used for the cold cooking cycle.

I don’t think I’m going to spend 32 minutes to get an improvement in boiled egg quality, so this is not for me. Cool idea, though!

If you’re just rubber-stamping in code reviews, why even have them in the first place in that case? They aren’t exactly providing you with any mileage at that point.

Feel free to decompile them - it’s all there in the APK, you don’t have to live in doubt.

Elon starting to comment on technical matters was the moment I learned he was actually completely beyond incompetent, since I have some actual expertise on the subject. Right around the time he bought Twitter and commented publicly on its architecture.

This is further evidence to that point

The correct response to any PR that is too large to digest is to reject it and ask the author to split it up.

Voice message transcription could probably be a pretty good accessibility-feature for chat apps, I think.

Llama has several restrictions making it quite a bit less open than Grok or DeepSeek.

To be clear, that one is not as insightful as one may initially think. See https://singlelunch.com/2023/09/13/the-bad-economics-of-wtfhappenedin1971/

Spain keeps on being relatively based

I mean, this is the only rational response.

No country would be collectively dumb enough to not do this, right?