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Big fan of Snow Crash. For background I liked Cryptonomicon a lot but also found Seveneves to be a bit of a slog. I would check out The Diamond Age as well if you’re generally taki…

Beautiful piece. I sometimes feel like technologists actually desire to remove the humanity from the world because it's messy and they don't understand it and therefore they fear i…

Mixed bag. Some engineers are excited about the company giving them a blank check to explore a new tool. Some engineers are upset because they feel their skills are being devalued …

Executive leadership talking to the managers in their orgs. I wish I was kidding, but they really are pushing increased token usage. Like I said, we push back. When we push back th…

Fellow FAANG. We have weekly manager meetings where leadership encourages us to increase token usage. We do push back, and leadership acknowledges that token spend is not a great m…

What crime was he convicted of? Surely that has some bearing?

This is real. I’ve seen some baffling bugs in prompt based stop hook behavior. When I investigated I found the docs and implementation are completely out of sync, but the implement…

Unfortunately I think we actually agree on this and did come away with the same conclusions.

I would highly recommend the book Amusing Ourselves to Death if you are looking to understand how the populace got to the point where truth is irrelevant and nothing really matters…

It was never principled opposition to anything, just a power fantasy that the current admin lets them live even more viscerally.

The “don’t tread on me” folks converted to “comply or die” shockingly quickly.

I think you’re fundamentally right. Trump is obviously the worst we’ve seen yet, but power has been accumulating unchecked in the executive branch’s hands for decades now. Trump is…

His full Lord of the Rings audiobook is likewise incredible.

How dare you quote me!

Eh not sure why OP chose Boulder, it is a great EV town. I commute into Boulder in an EV every day I need to be in the office. I almost exclusively charge my EV in Boulder at the o…

Read the first two this year. Absolutely incredible and now some of my all time favorite sci-fi.

It does now with M series chips. iirc Apple made a point of demoing the quick wake in the announcement too.

We have extremely old words for this kind of behavior: greed, avarice. Traditionally they have not been considered good things.

Companies are not helpless dames in a fascist takeover. History has proven that the people on top of the capitalist hierarchy generally actively welcome fascist elements in governm…

> to have a worse time I have a much better time in my EV than my ICE car but to each their own.

> We will stop increasing our energy use one way or another once we hit this wall. > If we want to continue using more energy we'll need a whole second Earth to do it on Or we make…

For the curious: Cadillac Desert is a great history of American dam building and the Bureau of Reclamation

My understanding is context size. Companies like Cursor are trying to minimize the amount of context sent to the models to keep their own costs down. Claude Code seems to send a lo…

Additional reading about how Swift Structured Concurrency (Task API) utilizes and propagates QoS is in the proposal doc. https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/blob/main/prop…

> go again the same day. That seems like a stretch. What is the actual turnaround time for Starship? fwiw the Shuttle had a lot of lofty promises of reusability that were technical…