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I suppose if you observed every Facebook product development since those days it would seem like a founding value.

No, he actually became one of the richest ppl in the world by stealing that idea from somebody else.

"Privilege is thinking that something isn't a problem because it doesn't affect you personally." is a sticker I bought once.

On the other hand, basically every beat lines up with our experience, so :man-shrugging:

I asked Claude some ways I could make my teeth whiter, it suggested DuckDB!

I believe that the explosion of software _production_ in the last 6-12 months in all areas of society is beginning to run headlong into a global bottleneck in the capacity to _deliver_ and _distribute_ that much more software.

Unlike previous boom/bust cycles, I do not believe that demand that's driving the capacity bring-up that's underway right now is going to level off in the near future.

I am personally witnessing teams at my employer that were previously unable to produce software - non-Eng teams - that are now empowered to do so, and some of them are building some cool stuff. I think this is happening at every company everywhere, and I think when we and everyone else solve the "how do we deliver and govern this stuff?" problem there's going to be an even bigger unlock.

Wild times.

I have too much actual wood to split but I like where you're head is at.

Yes, but obviously this toy faces a challenge when folks who take this stuff seriously walk by. I immediately want a bungee to put around it so the wood doesn't go everywhere. I also want to split it finer than in quarters. Had to nope out.

The tokens are still being burnt, they're just doing so in a parallel dimension from the users main context window.

Feels like it's geared toward actually enabling the "dark factory", which is pretty difficult with enterprisey, seat based SaaS like GitHub and Jira. Will definitely check this out.

If only there were some interest on the part of Big Telco to solve these types of problems.

Yes. Not to mention, I have several crates of records that I've had since the 90s. Some of those were taken from my dad collection that he bought new back in the 60s. Those albums still play just fine, despite less than archival care taken.

Contrast that with several folders of CDs I still have which have begun to delaminate and are plastic trash now. CDs were largely an invention to allow record companies to resell back catalogs, and it worked.

Vinyl is a terrible technology?? Have you never put on an old record and considered the miracle of it?

70 years ago Miles Davis vibrates some air with his horn, which is translated into electricity by a microphone, which is translated through magnetic tape and eventually back into electricity and then back into vibrations on a disk. 70 years later I can take that disk and turn its vibrations back into electricity that moves the air on my living room. No encoding, no decoding, just air and electricity that my ancestors will be able to replay until the end of time.

That's as close to magic as anything humanity has ever come up with in my opinion.

I don't know what's gonna happen man, but I'm gonna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

- Jim Morrison

I think actual thinking is now more valuable than ever.

Part of the magic of their account rep strategy is how they keep them on your account for so long, you get to develop not just a rapport but a trust that they truly understand your business. It gives me faith that when they advise us on their new AI products, they're going to be a good fit.

Edit: I forgot to mention the curiosity and humility they bring to our calls. If I point out another vendors approach to a problem that we have, they always lean in and want to help improve their offerings from our feedback. They know it's not enough just to "be Google".

Railway has not had the best month in the tech press have they? And in both cases it was an automated process belonging to some other party that put them there, damaging their reputation.

I was going to talk to our google rep about their killing the Gemini cli but this is way more concerning.

"All the new data centers" are being built everywhere.

I wonder what we’d find if we rigorously compared the baseline teacher error rate with the hallucination rate of current LLMs.

The teacher stands in from of the class, but the lesson plan he can't recall.

The students eyes don't perceive the lies mounted on every fucking wall.

His composure is well kept.

I guess he fears playing the fool.

The complacent students sit and listen to that bullshit that he learned in school.

This lyric pops in my head a lot.

I'm sorry, we should shame the people who are following the only tattered script left for trying to make a better life for themselves?

From my source:

Things that are not true: not every Louisiana lawyer is smart. Some of them are very dumb.

You don’t have to speak 2 languages.

Louisiana has a mixed jurisdiction, just like everywhere else in the United States. The difference is that common law relies on stare decisis, and Louisiana relies on the civil code as the basis for law.

It is true that Louisiana originally took different parts of the law from historical bases that are uncommon for America. Our property law comes from the visigoths or something.

However, the Napoleonic code did not actually arrive in Louisiana until two or three years after the civil code of Louisiana was officially adopted, so it is not based on Napoleon code, though that is frequently asserted.

update from my bud:

Almost all of the references to the “law firm hired by trucking companies” refer to my firm.

He's been telling me about this scammy former stunt woman attorney since before covid.

Sorry I'm late but stick with CC. I introduced a coworker to Pi and spent most of the morning feeling like I should apologize for it not doing this or that out of the box.

My best friend is an insurance attorney in New Orleans, and has been telling me this saga for years now. It's wild to see this coming out.

vim versus an IDE is exactly how I describe it to some of my coworkers who are old enough to have used vim.

I switched about a month ago, looked back once for about 10 minutes and decided I'm officially done w CC. I didn't realize what a dull knife CC is until I tried a really sharp one, and that's Pi.

Does your employer use Salesforce? Crappy software is practically the only software that anybody really pays for.

It really is one of the greatest open source gifts of recent years.

I know nothing about hardware, but is there a world where an OpenWRT firmware for smart TVs is possible? Are there that many different chipsets and manufacturers?

The "hide distracting items" option is the best thing Apple has done lately. Unfortunately there's not anything worth your time once you get that nav out of the way.