- 1 is demonstrably not true now - B is still only likely as an extension of A - A is less about AI itself and more about how it’s being used in some cases - 2 is still plausible, but I think relies on progress stalling out now or in the very near future …so I guess A3/C3

no pain, mild pain, moderate pain, severe pain, worst pain, dead

i’d go further and also say companies with too imbalanced voting structures shouldn’t be included in major indexes

oh hey i heard it’s wagon wednesday

Everything MPU posts about data centers is complete garbage. They have zero respect for their audience. Literally no one here is losing power. This post is a complete lie. 🧵

was just in a team meeting (all engineers) that was 5 women and 4 men...not a first but still refreshing

next up: A Momentary Lapse of Reason. I don't actually remember much about this album besides maybe a couple lines

i think the interesting discussion re: "vibecession" is: - measurements that previously tracked with consumer sentiment have stopped doing that - we should try to figure out why! any amount of "but i spend x% of my income on housing/healthcare/food/transportation/etc" was also mostly true in 2019

Blue York

mid- to long- term, i think ai will result in an increase in tech employment (assuming our education and immigration systems can keep up)

i think i want to build a blog engine that stores posts as text files and "compiles" to static html with an LLM prompt ...my first question is whether to let the "compiler"/"renderer" save state between runs

like, how do they think we're gonna get fully automated luxury gay space communism?

i feel like i've always been at arms length to the rest of the trans community (as much as "trans community" is a single thing that can be talked about) since it's so often based around shared experiences of struggles - and my own transition has been not just net positive but exclusively positive

i dislike marca as much as the next person, but while too verbose this is not terrible? >...world class expert llms might not actually know their own capabilities well, so it can make sense to push it to do more then the rest is a few too many words to work around the built-in sycophancy

i rewatched The Devil Wears Prada last night and tbh a relationship falling apart because one or both partners work too hard is a skill issue

ft @arealsnail.bsky.social

it is good that JS is becoming more like Python (batteries included) and Python is becoming more like JS (JIT compiler)

itt: terminal car brain and lack of imagination

every objection i’ve seen to this is either terminally car-brained or lacks imagination about what’s reasonably possible with modern technology

still

another datapoint in favor of “my own life is far from normal/average and i need to be careful about drawing conclusions from my own experiences”: almost all my friends in serious long-term relationships met through friends

>Forty-six percent of respondents said that there are large numbers of fraudulent ballots cast by non-citizens in U.S. elections I often really struggle to see how we can have a functioning society when so many people believe things that are factually untrue

anything more than one 9 is just bourgeois decadence anyways

i’d be interested to compare the badness of current events to the toxicity of unrelated discourse over time

i used to be able to use a number of superficial heuristics to judge the time+effort put into a script or codebase, but now LLMs do those things by default even for projects with no real human effort

my hot take is i actually really like being trans. my only regret is not having the knowledge+support to transition in like high school

she may look trapped but she’s purring so loud right now

i’ve been reconnecting with some of my high school interests (almost half my life ago????) part of that is relistening to Pink Floyd’s discography and i gotta admit, this still rules

new goal: start using technologies obscure enough that coding agents aren't very good at one-shotting fixes

a lot of people seem to conflate “using ai” with “vibe coding”

“Gaze not into the abyss, lest you become recognized as an abyss domain expert, and they expect you keep gazing into the damn thing.”

birthright citizenship doesn’t go far enough - automatically grant citizenship to anyone who has lived in the US for 7 years within a 10 year period, regardless of immigration status

also been trying out nushell - it's kinda nice?

spent my free time the last couple days installing nixos - it's a bit confusing, but i'm a fan so far

datadog is nice and polished and works well out of the box …but i really miss promql

it turns out aws database savings plans do in fact apply to Aurora Limitless (aiui, since Limitless is just Serverless v2 under the hood)

reopen the Gay of Hormuz

including myself i think 4 (out of about 80) in the eng org, plus one more joining soon

i really can’t watch Napoleon Dynamite. i think i’ve seen it all in various chunks, but i’ve never been able to sit all the way through

over the past year or so i've come to realize how critical writing is to my problem solving process - writing things down, with a focus on communicating my thoughts with the reader, makes me specify (and defend) important details and clarify relationships between different parts

doing some bit-fiddling, I can fit ~1900 words+counts (at least 4 and up to 11 chars, or fewer words up to 19 chars), with counts up to 511, in 16KB of memory/eeprom ...kinda curious if I'll hit the word limit or count limit on any word first (currently 401 words, 294 have count 1, high count 12)

kinda cool that this keyboard is also two computers that are more powerful than many computers from the 90s

between escalating violence abroad and redirection of domestic investigatory law enforcement towards escalating violence against immigrants at home, it seems likely we'll have another major terrorist attack in the next ~4 years ...although TBD if it's more like 9/11 or Oklahoma City

new keyboard :) (ft old keyboard)

I think I need more tattoos

cat as penance for doing a discourse

if you're spending time/energy now - two years before primary elections - arguing for how important it is to vote for newsom in the general election, instead of directly advocating for who you want to win the primary, my only conclusion is you want newsom to win the primary

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

huh, somehow I've ended up on both an AI boosters blocklist (that seems to be deleted now?) and an AI pessimists blocklist over the past few weeks

one of my more radical political opinions is the only qualifications to vote should be age and permanent residency, and about the only reasons that right can be limited are voter fraud and treason