cfrln.bsky.social
Startup veteran, 4 IPOs, artist once upon a time, collector, anti-statist that leans left (but not in the communist planned economy and coercive way) to my core. Love my husband and my dog. Enneagram 8w7 like Patton. I don’t back down from a fight.
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How many times do I have to remind people that ‘Christian nationalism’ is an oxymoron? Galatians 3:28:“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”
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“There’s power in a union…”
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We have to keep giving kids out of college in all fields internships and first jobs where they will fail and be underproductive and mistaken, encourage them to use AI first — but be skeptical of it, and help them become mid career. Eng, PM, finance, sales, science … or the anthropocene era will end.
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that makes sense
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the level of supervision and the expertise to do that is what is being overlooked in the popular narrative. Again, not a coder, but close enough watching commits rn to see the truth.
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my indirect one degree removed experience is they don’t make substantive comments when they decide ripping out a few thousand lines with necessary variables now hanging is a good idea.
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You are exactly right and never before thought of that metaphor. Now it is stuck in my head.
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I call that bad vibes coding
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I wish they would comment their commits. Also we need CI to look for any wholesale code removal.
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not just once and not just me but paul and other team members who are real engineers unlike me
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yes but for a new startup where practices like that are just forming it can cost a precious few days.
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And it does not account for what I have observed lately which is how easily cursor et al will ad hoc refactor existing code when only asked to make a minor change then requiring hours of debugging or careful rollback. And I am speaking as a ‘vibe coder’ who hasn’t done any real coding for years.
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They are certainly not Christian. Galatians 3:28 everyone!
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Also need to say - I am so sorry this happened to you, Mr. Takei, and so impressed and inspired by who you became.
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It’s happened many times in many forms in the US that we choose to forget. Mexicans and other Central Americans today as regionally native mixed descent are being treated like Franco Americans were a generation or two ago. By more recent NA immigrants! This ‘country’ is based on a lot of ‘othering.’
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agreed, new friend.
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If you knew me at all, we could go all day discussing what happens when people outsource their basic morality and instinct for goodness to ‘law.’ Thanks for engaging and answering a few questions, good night.
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authorized use, ‘legal’ use ok. I question the the word ‘legitimate.’
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You might be right re this assailant. Or he might have a cousin who underwrites loans or whatever. But the dark web resale is only possible because these data aggregators exist.
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Single records are very flawed and affordable to both a dumb underwriter and a go for broke assailant.
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Graham Leach Bliley aka GLBA I think you mean. Anyway my point here is so called reputable cos that sell data to businesses have wildly bad algos or don’t care. To have my mother’s home and that of a randomly same name person and their addresses and debt status disclosed to us is unconscionable.
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helpful thank you. It does seem the companies in my question buy data and aggregate it into data products they sell. I also happen to have been around the data industry more as a data platform vendor and consultant for decades. Always trying to align shifting concepts.
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Provide your definition of data broker vs other kinds of data services and place the services I named in your taxonomy please.
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I know.
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Help me w LexisNexis, ID Analytics, SageStream et al.
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I’ve had 103 robocalls in the last two weeks after a refi app. Underwriters using one of the data cos flagged my estranged mother’s house bought when I was 17 and living on my own 34 yrs ago as a potential debt plus the mortgage of an LA sound engineer whom we knew of bc he shares my husband’s name.
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I’d so much prefer my mansplaining to be grammatical @askbillmitchell.bsky.social
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The UFW is the only cold fundraising call I always take with pleasure. And gratitude for our delicious local food and the hard work that goes into it. Let’s not bite the hands that literally feed us.
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#noflags is the logical conclusion of #nokings. Let us all truly be free and associate individually as we wish.
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Admittedly I was in downtown Seattle that day for business. But as an anarchist, when I realized what was happening I ditched my heels and joined the crowd. It, like DC in 2017, required witness.
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You hit on some self reflection of my own after 3ish years of consulting.
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Were you at the 99 WTO protests? I was. If it tops those today that is something.
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indentured servitude
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I am learning firsthand rn the degree to which generic LLMs are trained to ‘think’ in generic ways, and the degree to which they must be prompted otherwise for anything domain specific.
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I forgot that one
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indeed. And his anthropology helped us understand that much contemporary representative ‘democracy’ was just simple avoidance.
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yes. I am beginning however to think that ‘democracy’ may now be even more distorted as a word than ‘anarchism.’
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I understand that POV. But the extension of consensus for what must be shared to the perceived right to dictate in all aspects of life by majority rule backed by force alarms me. My nail salon plays Fox. They had a segment ‘what should be illegal?’ That’s the idea of ‘democracy’ that is popular now.
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I fail to understand why tyranny of the majority is thought just or free by anyone.
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read Caste. Nazis and Afrikaners considered the Jim Crow US south to be inspirational and aspirational before wwII. And the Deutsche Bund had loyalty from much of SoCal. This is the history we avoid teaching.
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was just in another window having this convo w an engineer you know who was with me in early SIEM circa 2003. Why are we writing these regexes? Really, why?
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I think it was Computer Ambush in 1984 on a Commodore 64. First and last.