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Having an initial higher level understanding across the domain is extremely useful to contextualize the deeper stuff. I think boring details is a very leaky characterization, but I…

Bucket Robotics (YC S24) | Senior Fullstack Engineer | San Francisco, CA (On-site) Bucket Robotics turns CAD files into production-ready computer vision models that detect defects …

Bucket Robotics (YC S24) | Senior Fullstack Engineer | San Francisco, CA (On-site) Bucket Robotics turns CAD files into production-ready computer vision models that detect defects …

My understanding is it’s a fallback mechanism

Bucket Robotics (YC S24) | Senior Fullstack Engineer | San Francisco, CA (On-site) Bucket Robotics turns CAD files into production-ready computer vision models that detect defects …

I am at least objective in my criticism. I'm not going to reply to 5 different emotionally charged strawman arguments, especially because I don't care to defend Meta. If you're goi…

All of their open source work, facebook marketplace, messenger connecting people, low cost distribution for small business, crises and humanitarian tooling, abuse/spam/threat detec…

Yes, I think we have the same beliefs largely - my point is that the lens of economies of scale == exploitation is a very silly one that would naturally lead to conclusions such as…

We agree for the first few sentences! I’m a huge proponent for AI displacement taxes because of the rapid pace of acceleration and a lack of confidence that our economies reabsorpt…

Meta’s primary issue is an alignment problem. They’ve built the most valuable human connection network ever and then added a misaligned algorithm on it. You’re conflating Meta’s al…

Economies of scale is how society lowers the cost of meeting the demand for things people want. Uber, Airbnb, and Meta have negative externalities that have gone “unpriced” in the …

The answer to this is competent policy making, and unfortunately we have the extreme opposite of that across the political spectrum.

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I think the best language for LLMs is going to be as close to English as you can get with the compiler guarantees offered by Vera (or something similar). Seemingly opposing forces.…

I felt this way until I bought full coverage bike insurance. For my $250 deductible I basically just get a nice upgrade to the latest version / a brand new ebike for ~$200 / year. …

They removed it. I have screenshots on my blog. bengarcia.dev/archives

One of the images in the blog ( https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/4d5dizAOajLfAXkGZ7... ) is a carbon copy of an image from an article posted Mar 27, 2026 with credits give…

This argument has always been such a weird goalpost shift for me. Even at my full time job I am getting strung together by 3-12 month projects. Everyone works on projects. When thi…

It will raise $8-$18m/yr in property tax revenue for the county (depending on abatements), which will likely increase the local counties revenues by 30-50% and primarily go towards…

> It's hard to see how a photo of his husband will inspire unity with the GOP administration that he relies on for protection. In 2024, 77M Americans voted for a Trump administrati…

FWIW, reading your response makes it absolutely clear that you started with a conclusion (Altman is a sociopath) and worked backwards from there, instead of trying to reason throug…

Of Altman in this blog. Put another way I didn’t read those traits from this post and I’m curious what I’m missing.

Can you explain the petty, self important, trolling manner? Which traits are intrinsically negative? Genuine Q