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Out of curiosity, what are the non-surveillance uses for a license plate tracking service

I would take fast-tracking high speed rail over community consultation.

Think of a HomePod. 99% (and likely much more) of what people are asking is super simple.

Search a terminal with Claude Code for things like, “I got it wrong twice. I should look up the documentation instead of guessing.” Does it about once a day, that I notice.

This is a good point. Opus does some silly shenanigans sometimes but then catches it later. It’s still an order of magnitude faster at getting to a working system than I am, for on…

This farmer needs a tote.

The copyleft licenses are toxic for adoption. Companies default away from them because there are a lot of murky unknowns (e.g. if you run a copyleft service and connect to it via A…

People keep saying this but from what we’ve seen, Anthropic models are marginally profitable and earn back their costs over their lifetime. The company is burning money building th…

Truly some incredible stuff getting cooked up in the Silicon Valley

I think it’s a legitimate question! Some companies operate at such a scale that if you tried to adopt their tools or services, it would be way too complex for the ROI. Think Bazel …

Nikita was always a bad hire. If you look at his history, he’s really good at growth hacking apps to pump-and-dump into acquisitions. He hasn’t proven himself in building lasting p…

> There is a reason why we hear less about this idea of smaller expert models, because large strong models to the tasks just as good. Smaller models are cheaper, sometimes faster. …

It's not 9/11 that will kill it but people not wanting 2 tons of metal flying overhead. The occasional helicopter is one thing. Having hundreds of these flying around, when one can…

I don’t know who needs to hear this but raising a ton of money is not success. Also interesting from their Series C press release from earlier this year: > With this large Series C…

I was interviewing interns before this, starting in 2013 or so. There are plenty of more useful questions you can ask. Tell me about a project you’ve worked on, then many follow up…

A classically terrible interview question. Solving riddles in realtime is almost never a real job skill. _Maybe_ in an incident, but you’d be relying on tooling and experience, not…

What’s the case that they’re secretly, unintentionally evil?

In US politics, the right is far, far better at winning elections than the left. This isn’t about personal preference. It’s objective political science. Look at the most contentiou…

If you think that the American Left is anything like communism, I’m sorry, but, respectfully, I can’t take your comments seriously. The left in the US would be center-right in Euro…

You’re making a weird number of assumptions about people’s voting and extrapolating to assertions about Society. Ads are not really the same. They can’t be as tightly targeted to w…

We will get much better at manipulation and better at people “writing” things to justify their own feelings. What’s new about LLMs is that you can scalably manipulate people indivi…

Depends on the thing. Olive oil, for example, is required to list its country/countries of origin

Python uses comprehensions because whitespace sensitivity was a horrendous language decision, then couldn’t find a way to support multiline lambdas. Comprehensions are not a well-d…

Cursor was lambasted from the start because they wrote blog posts about writing a browner “from scratch in rust” but it was neither without dependencies nor actually worked. It was…

You’re talking about the same fund. They were open about their gains. It was the margin calls and illiquidity that got them, not going negative. Some of their assets, like Anthropi…