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TikTok? A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.


I'll just put Microsoft... with the rest of the fire (Canonical|Ubuntu|SystemD). https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ?t=75


I have a triple boot setup. Every OS sucks so why not?

It doesn't hurt to have intact alternate OS's ready to go.

I might only use one Linux regularly but there's a devuan and a vanilla windows (+patches from ~1 year/6mo. ago) - it's really no big deal leaving them be. It's just disk space.

windows will probably get nuked soon cause it's on a gen4 NVME - not using that is a waste.


Meteorites crash & burn, honestly, what is a "meteoritic rise"?


Not understanding an idiom is something you should just discuss with ChatGPT, it'll set you straight, show you the ropes, right your ship, and whatnot.


I very much doubt that. This as a phase doesn't even seem to exist online till today, even much less as an idiom, telling me the equivalent of "just google" for someone specific's thinking is entirely unhelpful.

I wasn't interested in what ChatGPT can hallucinate or even output. I was after Voloskaya's context, Voloskaya would be the one to provide this insight, which is who I chose to ask for that.


The actual spelling is "meteoric rise", so that might be why.


It is indeed. Thank you.



> I very much doubt that.

Might want to update your priors, I put your exact comment into ChatGPT and it handled it flawlessly.


I have seen “meteoritic rise” many times.


Well, no, not exactly :)


Genuinely asking here; have you really never heard the phrase "meteoric rise" before?


It's easy to miss the difference between "meteoric rise" and the OP's typo, "meteoritic rise".


Also easy to recognize that it was a typo and interpret it as intended.


Indeed even gpt-3.5-turbo recognizes the typo and gives a proper explanation. Can't wait until everyone has an LLM baked into their device that makes submitting stupid content a two step verification.


Yes, all the time. It is a common idiom, especially in history books.


Fast enough to cash out at highly favorable and ambitious valuations while the ARR trajectory supports it. You’re selling potential, you don’t have to deliver; that’s the next team’s problem.


Wiz: Got to 350m ARR

Hacker news: "you don't have to deliver. That's the next team's problem".

Apparently 350m isn't enough to prove potential.


It's certainly not enough to justify a $23B valuation target, or even $12B assuming reasonable multiples in the space (average is ~15x in cyber tools and controls). Lacework went from an $8B valuation to $200M–$230M (first with Wiz attempting to acquire, and now Fortinet at the valuation I mentioned, roughly ~2x revenue, ~3x if we want to be generous). A case can be made that Wiz is a more mature platform and Lacework is a fire sale (which it is, but also not a great sign for the rest of the space), but I'll argue a lot of Wiz's revenue is likely premium pricing with current customers that can cram them down on at their next renewal cycle, and the TAM is simply only so big (with competitors being as, if not more, resourced to compete and stay ahead).

You can't grow into something there isn't room to grow into.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/wiz-is-in-talks-to-buy-lac...

https://www.forrester.com/blogs/fortinet-acquires-lacework/


To be fair, the difference between meteorites and meteors is that meteors burn and die BEFORE they crash, according to NASA. So not much better. The idiom is still a thing though.

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/


It's a rise about as far as a quantum leap


They meant to say "meteoric rise".

It is a common phrase.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meteoric


meteorites shine briefly, swiftly, and suddenly

so i guess as an adverb it relates to how quickly the rise is happening and how hot/bright it burns


Not even knowing about Wix until today, I had no idea what to make of it, I wasn't trying to be snarky with that comment.

I was actually interested to know what they meant because it sounds like saying: "let's take a walk down to the top of the highest mountain".


Wix, on the other hand, is a website builder, not a cyber security firm.


I did mean Wiz. I guess my brain just substituted that. I guess I'm at least familiar with the Wix name in that I saw ads all over the net ~a decade ago?


Is this your first day or are you looking to be snarky?


> Using proper quotation marks and apostrophes today is easier than you’d think.

Proceeds to demonstrate, no, it really isn't - it's exactly how we thought.

Reality is: it truly and utterly does not matter. It's significantly slower to type and so will naturally lose every time. We're talking milli or micro oseconds vs maybe a minute or more to dig out the codepages, copy, paste or get the glyph, check the utf code, insert it by key combination. For every word with a quote or punctuation.

Yeah. Right. I'm not doing that.

Get over it.


I use my Samsung SyncMaster 245B as my daily driver - it's almost old enough to drive!


No. Because I don't want to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHYAG01aaY



It was the only way to be certain.


No. Terrible people won because terrible people were in positions of power, as is the case often.

Good jobs, great jobs even, can and do turn to shit overnight. It's often the management itself.

People don't leave bad jobs they leave bad people.

The job is something in their life workers, in a non-slave market, can take control of.

There's no good reason for a person to stay working for nutters.

There's no good|sane reason to reward bad behavior.

They have ZERO obligation to fix a toxic workplace and culture.

That is management's failing entirely.

>your next company isn't getting a good employee.

Your next employee|team member isn't getting a good boss|colleague.


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