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I spend my weekends enjoying life and my family but I guess that’s just part of my objectively idiotic take on life.

Obsessive hacker tools like Emacs are not a productivity enhancer. But If you find them fun go for it. You are allowed to have fun. You are allowed to enjoy your environment. If ti…

Data centers could pay locals a sufficient amount that it overcomes the NIMBY opposition. If you can’t pay locals enough while still generating value for external beneficiaries the…

I usually throw my 5g scoop on my morning coffee where I don’t notice it exists. Any reason not to take it with coffee or am I doing it right?

Data as an obstacle to legal AI is a human rights violation. As citizens we are subject to federal, state, and local law. This consists of statutes, regulations, and common law. It…

One of my favorite books but it wasn't until I came back to read it 15-20 years later that I realized the whole thing is a tragedy. As a younger man I was high on the futurism. As …

Got Zed for the first time last week. Turned it on and said “the visuals are so perfect I have nothing to change.” The defaults are amazing.

Shaking down schools with kids' data. Losers.

This is why I beg people to send me their raw prompts rather than the output of running that prompt through a generic LLM. Same semantic content in a half page prompt as the 10 pag…

Maybe ask your LLM to explain it?

I beg people to send me their prompts rather than the stochastic text expanded drivel they send me as memos/plans/etc... Massive waste of my time responding to ghosts - actually ta…

The inevitable outcome here is that designed materials become so generic and infinitely produceable that they become worthless background noise. We are well on the way to that path…

Can we add to the software failure list that Finder is an underpowered mess? Like the author said, fixing Finder won't have a correspondingly visible ROI. But haven't any of the Ap…

Cook was an able steward of Apple. Under his leadership the hardware side continued to iteratively improve nicely. Apple Silicon is good stuff. I am firmly embedded in the entire A…

If you enjoyed coding for the sake of coding it hasn't gone anywhere. People still knit for themselves when they can go buy clothes off the rack. People still enjoy chess and Go ev…

A problem with mythologizing past defeat is it can lead to sacrificing the present and future. Some people have the need to live in a grand mythic narrative. Others just want decen…

Lotus 1-2-3 on PC Jr cartridge in the era before widespread availability of hard drives was the only good thing about that awful platform

Apple hasn't been able to ship software in decades. They got bored of computing. Writing was on the wall when they started producing movies because Hollywood people are cooler than…

Since I sadly must return to the real world (but thank you everyone for the well spirited debate) -- string theory is funny to me because its a bit of a Rorschach test as such a ti…

How many primary school students can't add fractions because string theory may be a less promising approach to a ToE versus loop quantum gravity or geometric unity? I know nothing …

Again, I'll accept your premise for the sake of debate (which I welcome, and sincerely thank you for doing so respectfully). Let me try to rephrase where I am coming from. I'm goin…

Theoretical physics is subsidizing a handful of people sitting at white boards. Even accepting the premise that string theory is wrong I can list hundreds of ways the US budget spe…

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Would be interested to see real numbers around societal value from marginal added liquidity versus aggregate spend into the zero sum arms race. I have also seen enough to be quite …

This is interesting but also just hilarious at a meta level. I was a “low frequency” ie manual fundamental based hedge fund investor for many years. In general I think hft is a net…