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It's a combination of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the emergence of WokeWare over the past decade. For too many, building and celebrating things just because they are co…

For companies that supposedly are worth trillions, Anthropic and their competitors sure have awfully weak moats.

> The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. In some organizations, maintainability may be the biggest risk being mitigated in a code revie…

Genesis 2:7 (NIV) Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

The more machines there are to replace men, the more men there will be in society who are nothing but machines. - Louis de Bonald

> Now back in the 80s? Back in the 80s, despite being aligned with the West, they were perceived a lot like China is today. Everyone was scared that they were going to start eating…

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That's not been my experience at all. I only view the "Follow" list because I don't care about the "algorithm". I keep my follow list pretty tight and am pretty aggressive about re…

Another example of "everything before the word but is horse ****".

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I've also played both roles myself at times. I've been the wise consultant. And I've been the Cassandra that nobody would listen to. My wisdom was never as good as presumed when I …

“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown." - Luke 4:24 It's why people often trust consultants over the people inside the organization. It's why pe…

I've become quite comfortable with being boring. Fact is, it's a great life. When I see "interesting" people doing "interesting" things they look fake, exhausting, or both.

The speed of the chatbot's response is startling when you're used to the simulated fast typing of ChatGPT and others. But the Llama 3.1 8B model Taalas uses predictably results in …

Most execs I've worked with couldn't tell their engineering team what they wanted with any specificity. That won't magically get any better when they talk to an LLM. If you can't w…

Midwits love this kind of stuff. Movie critics heap praise on forgettable movies to get their names and quotes on the movie poster. Robert Scoble made an entire career in tech blov…

It's the guy in the tank that breaks it. Pretty sure it's just a dummy.

That's true on there being lots of terrible practical effects out there. The parent lauded Raiders of the Lost Ark for its practical effects. In contrast, Last Crusade was a great …

Yep that's Explorers! I was a bit too young for Stand By Me. The subject matter was just too serious for me at that age. But I also grew up in a small town in the country where exp…

The animation is cool, but I just wanted to note for Hackers fans and movie nerds that the scenes inside the "Gibson" that this animates were actually done via practical effects.

It's my favorite movie of all time, even though it's one of those movies that I don't expect anyone else to like. It's just a shot of joyful nostalgia right into my veins every tim…

> What was this person thinking? He was thinking he wasn't going to get caught.

Reduce the power of government if you want to reduce the power certain individuals have over society. Because government is such a single, extremely powerful lever it becomes a sin…

Thanks for this. It is timely.

"permitted" What exactly do you think their response to attempted forcible disarmament would be?