Swizec

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by Swizec 4mo ago
> Now, a comparable energy budget we used to use "deciding what to build" (because labour was scarce) is now energy we can divert toward "unbuilding stuff that was a mistake" The hard part is that you very quickly bec
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> Ever considered fan noise while shopping for laptops? If so, then you don't want to live within a mile of a datacenter. Or we could regulate that data centers be sound proof. These are things we can solve. They just cost a little
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by Swizec 4mo ago
I was doing this in 2003 and my computer was also the internet/network router for our house. When that thing was down, you had no access to external information that you didn’t pre-save somewhere. One time I forgot to install network d
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> The other 99% who were into yoyo-ing back then are now into TikTok, that's all. Hey dude, some of us were yo-yoing while waiting for Gentoo to build from stage 0. Compiling an OS on a single-core Athlon takes time. For the 3 days
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> Do you still have problems with doomscrolling addiction? The new twitter algorithm fixed that for me. They made the feed so fundamentally uninteresting and full of slop* that the issue resolved itself. I now doomscroll slack and discor
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> You can use it to make the entire phone greyscale, which entirely defeats a huge range of techniques that apps and feeds use to draw your attention As a counter-anecdata: I've had my phone in greyscale for a few years now. At firs
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> Until AI is basically in a stable, predictable, state of improvement or stagnation, these takes will continue to be pointless and most likely completely wrong. Little thing to keep in mind about AI: a technology is only called AI while
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> 'build a lot of homes at once'. That creates the suburbs which What a silly American way of thinking. Build a lot of homes at once creates high rise neighborhoods. We've had these in Europe since the 60's, they are
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by Swizec 4mo ago
Oh I’m on essentially permanent 2nd tier oncall and occasionally 1st tier. Pagerduty has an exception configured. If you message me on slack it shows up on my home screen and I will probably notice in the next 15 minutes or so. I find polli
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by Swizec 4mo ago
> The point of notifications is the convenience of not having to constantly check your phone for every single app you have (amazon delivery? just eats delivery? uber booking? claude finished its task?). My phone has been on DoNoDisturb s
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> An actually smart entity would not do that if not acting maliciously. We pay per token and every entity falls to the level of its incentives.
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by Swizec 5mo ago
I’m eastern-ish european, is it even racist to say that tech talent in the region is through the roof but for various accidents of history, the best opportunities available to talented people are in cybercrime (both sides)? Not everyone has
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by Swizec 5mo ago
It’s really hard to get people excited about not having jobs when you design a whole society around the idea of having a job and make life exceedingly miserable for anyone who doesn’t You can’t push both “If you dont work, you dont eat” and
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> So long as the code works and meets all stated requirements and is secure and performant and uses good abstractions and is not full of hacks, then it's ok to let go That is the problem. The code often is full of hacks and bad ab
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> How are we really supposed to grasp their actual capabilities when no one will actually cite specifically what mistakes they are making. The mistakes they make are pretty subtle. Coding with LLMs can be like that scene in Whiplash – &
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> Huh... I'd always heard that a golf ball's dimples help reduce drag? Yep also vortex generators in cars have become common. So common that they've filtered down to after market parts you can put on a honda civic Vortexes
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by Swizec 5mo ago
You can marry in the US and have kids and still move somewhere else 20 years later. Don’t Americans move to Florida or whatever to retire? If you’re moving that far you can just as well leave the country lol
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> 300k in SF or NYC is FAR from early retirement unless you live 'frugally' - Manhattan average rents are 5K for 1 bed You don’t have to retire in the US. As others have pointed out, nobody comes here for the lifestyle. Immigra
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> 401(k) and IRA’s were not a gift No not a gift but they sure do align incentives
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> will at some point in their life belong to that group which owns 90% of the means of production Would love to but I'm afraid you grossly misunderstand how the power law distribution works. Unfortunately the billionaires are runnin
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> Meanwhile tech workers in the US spend all day online defending billionaires Tech pulled a great trick here: equity. America as a whole pulled a similar trick: 401k It’s hard to fight the billionaires when all your money depends on not
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> That implies Karpathy is either dumb or desperate and he is neither of those by a long shot. No it implies that he is more valuable for being famous than the hands-on work he can produce. This is the IC endgame
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> And to me, AI should best be used to add rocket fuel to existing practices The more your codebase follows best practices and consistent patterns, the better AI will do and the faster you can move. Same as humans really, just even faste
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by Swizec 5mo ago
I love my Ryobi drill. Bought a set ~10 years ago and it’s still going strong. I charge the battery once every 3 to 4 years. Used it to assemble a bunch of furniture just this weekend. Some of the screw heads are getting a little worn from
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by Swizec 5mo ago
Services in kind is a pretty common business practice. You see this a lot at the SMB level especially outside of the US. Small businesses are cash strapped. So you find someone who needs your services and you need their services. Instead of
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by Swizec 5mo ago
You rarely need 150wpm when typing. If you try dictation, you’ll notice that half those words are error correction and checksum bits and just turn taking filler. I usually convey the same meaning with 80wpm typing. Makes it faster to read t
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> It seems that if we ultimately want to "move at the speed of thought," it will require speech. Except for the large majority of people who read, type, and click way faster than they can talk. Especially for visual things it’s
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by Swizec 5mo ago
Productivity is easy to define and measure when you have a an outcome you want to achieve. A goal if you will. Productivity is impossible to define when you don’t know where you’re going. A lot of companies and teams are finding out real fa
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by Swizec 5mo ago
> Like May 1st which is snubbed in favor of (non-organized?) Labor Day Oh don’t even get me started! Labor Day was specifically set for a different day than May 1st to discourage solidarity with international labor movements. Wouldn’t
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by Swizec 5mo ago
March 8 is international women’s day. The most ignored of all holidays by US culture. To an almost hilarious degree. My partner frequently brags that she’s the only of her friends and coworkers, in 10+ years, who has ever gotten flowers for

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