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My late grandmother had a pithy turn of phrase when I would act like she "just didn't get it". "Kiddo, every generation thinks they invented sex and fast music."

God damn I miss Naggum. "In many ways, the current American presidency and XML have much in common. Both have clear lineages back to very intelligent people. Both demonstrate what …

Whether or not training one giant LLM with socially enormous stakes on the output of another commercially-controlled LLM is an interesting question. My stronger opinion is that the…

For me at least, existing completely without GMail / Google SSO is unrealistic, and the million email corpus that is attached to it would be painful to part with as well. But I've …

The "Best Google" busts up Microsoft monopolies via going big on open software and open standards. The "Worst Google" copies the business model they just un-fucked. I'd say in 2023…

Any company can take a turn for the worse, and any time you've got SaaS deep in your stack there's risk there. I can only say that I worry about TailScale growing up to be evil the…

> I'm afraid I don't have a lot to add to this conversation but I have to say I just love Tailscale. Strongly seconded. In my last company we used TailScale in some medium-advanced…

There is nothing wrong with being the category-defining early-stage investment company, and doing it as a for-profit business that's optimized for good financial outcomes. I think …

There seems to be a lot of truth in that, but I think it's also maybe a little harsh as well. Google hasn't needed to generate another monster revenue stream outside of ad sales, s…

A very funny phrasing of some legitimately confusing news. I keep thinking that there's no way that Brain/DeepMind are just getting stomped, lapped, generation-gapped by e.g. `Chat…

I'm aware that I'm in the minority here, but I find that investing heavily in being able to type fast and handle the tools well actually changes what code I write and not just how …

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You are correct. Thank you for straightening me out, and for linking to a good resource.

A minor note (many others here know Boyer personally and have more to add): there is a lot more to that CV than Boyer-Moore. Counting, all kinds of stuff. A true legend. May he RIP…

I want to undertake a significant Rust project with a good distribution (NixOS) and a good build system (Bazel). Anyone have a working example of doing that in a modern way? Much O…

I probably have some wiggle room on the details, but the combination of my skills, experience, and the macro economy make me roughly a "knowledge worker". I'm interested as hell in…

I've been diagnosed with ADHD 4 times by 4 separate qualified clinicians and stimulant medication undoubtedly makes me more effective, so asked and answered I guess. But I sort of …

The situation that you describe is regrettable common in my experience, but by no means ubiquitous, and I'm optimistic actually reaching the end of its lifespan. I've been out of b…