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Software and other stuff "There are two hard problems in CS: naming things, cache expiration, and off by one errors" http://eighty-twenty.net
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"He said if we keep things in a constant turmoil if the case should go against us the man on the street will say for God's sake, Mr. President, do something about it and, he said, if I do everybody in the country will heave a sigh of relief and say thank God..."

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If you haven’t discovered NotebookLM, you should. It’s an amazing tool for summarizing and analyzing large documents. I love the footnote feature that allows you to easily cross check the answers.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Companies use AI to screen resumes that were generated and submitted by candidates using AI. When they get to the interview, the candidate can use an AI assistant to get through the interview process, but the company is planning to replace them with AI anyway. It's a good time to be an electrician.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favorite quotes about programming was from Scott Meyers: "The way most programmers optimize is by guessing". Guilty! 👋

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Good article. The first step in Musk's "Algorithm" is "question every requirement". Step 2 is "Delete any part you can". Musk "is complaining about due process rights as “inefficient”", of course. He's notorious for firing people on a whim, I'm sure he wouldn't blink at not paying a supplier either.

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ThursdAI podcast made the point that the VP has been supportive of open source and the the government has a tendency to regulate new tech in a way that stifles. That is like the early 90s when the VP was a big advocate for the Internet.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

He had 6 companies facing 32 investigations from 11 government agencies. Only a miracle could save his net worth and then…November 5th 2024. Now the rest is history. Or some would say, oligarchy.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

I'm worried that I'm starting to understand jazz

submitted 15 days ago • 142 comments

“Anything less than a general strike or strikes that hit essential services is performative.” Maybe it’s my GenX bias but I don’t believe in the power of protest. The admin sees protests as proof that their policies are working. www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/link...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

New term I heard “meat code” = human generated code

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

"they have mistaken dystopian sf as a suggestion, rather than as a warning." pluralistic.net/2025/02/01/m...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

My daughter told me about 7 years ago “I just always assume I’m being watched” which really stunned me back then. Think about that effect on teens- in the 80s we all thought we were being watched when nobody really was, now you *should* assume you are

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

At the Denver AI tinkerers meetup

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

21st century tech keeps reinventing old ideas: Spotify reinvented the mix tape, Netflix reinvented the video store. With crypto we're going to rediscover why the SEC was formed, but it's going to take a lot of people getting ripped off first. We still haven't learned the lesson of Glass-Steagall.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

It seems like Mexico would be within their rights to rename the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Mexico, and this would be the best possible way to deal with the situation.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Razors are philosophic tools for simplifying decisions. “Claude, come up with some clever razors.” A few are really solid.

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

On one hand, this is some horrifying security practices. On the other hand, now I want to download my car's nav info samcurry.net/hacking-subaru

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I mostly use Claude but it wasn't very helpful with today's topic so I switched to ChatGPT. I love the fact that OpenAI lets you take a screenshot right from the desktop app. They're definitely ahead in usability.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Running on my mac I seem to be able to ingest the Jetstream firehose at about 5000 posts/second. There was an iteration where I was going an order of magnitude faster but I had to restart and rebuild the database, I'm not sure why the difference other than the vagaries of Python.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This year's Winter Tech Forum is shaping up! www.wintertechforum.com

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Just talking to a friend, LinkedIn gets no attention from the anti-monopolists, but what other social media is in that space? A couple years ago I was helping teach a high school AP CS course, I surveyed the class. One used TikTok, a few more had IG, every single kid already had a LinkedIn.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It's only week 1.5 of 2025, and I've already fielded several calls/texts from close friends in Mega Fortune 100 Company, Inc. who are BURNED THE F*CK OUT with their jobs. I’ve never seen it like this.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

AI mistake number 2, using an LLM to solve a solved problem. Cue the Drake meme: "count the r's in strawberry" / "write a program that can count character occurrences"

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