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For at least half that time period between world wars, there was significant economic depression. It might simply be the economy. The vibes are bad and have been bad since the late…

First job I had was a pair-programming shop that outfitted each station with a 27" iMac and a 27" Cinema display (along with two sets of mice and keyboards). Second job was remote,…

Depending on industry and public versus private here, that $80k+ barrier for non-tech is mostly management positions.

I think they're generalizing beyond software engineers with what they're saying. G&A, Marketing, etc roles pay significantly less than software engineers and that $55-75k figure is…

My 1/3 life crisis was buying a Toyota Tacoma Trailhunter long bed last year. It’s been my dream to own a Tacoma for several years, so it was finally time to make it happen. Eventu…

Better solution: Adopt summer and winter hours to follow the sun rather than arbitrarily changing the clocks and interrupting sleep schedule and circadian rhythms.

I took a long break from reading for enjoyment after I graduated from college. I got burnt out from reading things I didn't enjoy in high school and undergrad. Now it's what I do t…

I'd be interested to see more concerted research into contagious/self-replicable vaccines that are self-replicating and spreadable to a wider swath of people. That seems like a ste…

If we're evaluating a person, rote recall is not necessarily cheating. It's expected, but then you'd expect them to apply that rote-memorized information in a novel way later on an…

No, the public at large are the stakeholders. The enterprise is the subject of the regulation.

How is the subject of potential regulation considered a stakeholder?

I find that OpenAI's agentic tools and models are better for building human-maintainable software. Meanwhile, Anthropic seems to be cosplaying Apple while missing out on all the ex…

I think the ideal, but politically infeasible outcome would be passing regulation to prevent hyperscalars from hosting their own models (or requiring wholesale leasing of infra), a…

I don't fully agree. If the only way information and cross-pollination is through in-office water-cooler conversation, that's an organizational smell. If you have most of the work …

Most variants of GPT-5.5 are less chatty and token-intensive than Opus 4.8/4.7, so despite the output token price being higher, it generates fewer tokens, so the net cost is lower.…

Yeah, it's certainly a departure from the Prius-style hybrid powertrain. I'll watch that video as I haven't come across it yet! Also, I love how my 4th gen Tacoma drives! So glad I…

If they cleaved off xAI and let it die, they'd be in much better shape!

I now have a hybrid Toyota truck (Tacoma i-Force MAX), so it's not like the classical EV/BEV powertrain, from my understanding. Instead, the motor is between the engine and the tra…

I had my breakup with them when I realized that I always install vim keybindings for every editor I use and that Neovim plus plugins gives me the typical workflow I use. It became …

> except that no one has been able to articulate what "new work" might emerge I think it's worse than that. The frontier labs are purporting that there won't be any "new work" requ…

Wouldn't it be incredible if they remove the sequel trilogy from canon and rebrand "Legends" as the actual post-Galactic Civil War timeline? I'd certainly like that.

At some point, because these models are trained on existing data, you cease significant technological advancement--at least in tech (as it relates to programming languages, paradig…

Yeah, I agree with this. I think age-related content moderation is a losing fight and one that will create more contempt for laws, more surveillance, and much more PII surface area…

App Tracking Transparency. I first through "AT&T" and then actually realized the acronym.

And even if you could be made whole via insurance, the TSA agent not facing repercussions and the system not having a feedback loop to improve is the actual problem.