georgeburdell

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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
IBM debuts a PDK and some test structures, as they have no production fabs
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
Due to the high trust they get from the public, I have run into many MDs who are used to making unfounded assertions with little pushback.
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
Exactly. This sort of retrospective is a soft pulling up of the ladder, a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-did mea culpa where the conscience is assuaged but the spoils remain where they always were. We should accept that there is a season to burn th
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
I wouldn’t call it stupid, but it is a policy choice. On the other side, why should Grandma pay 5% of the property taxes as the new couple next door while receiving the same access to public services, while also pushing another family to l
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
That costs money
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
An excellent example of Poe’s law. I can’t imagine what kind of Western person would hold such a cognitively dissonant view of globalism, for example.
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
An agreeable platitude, but such a people are not born, they’re made as their neighborhoods close off, their favorite restaurants and stores disappear, their children are excluded from playdates with school friends, and they’re rejected fro
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
It’s disingenuous to imply “industrialists” are the only ones unhappy. Anyone who doesn’t want to die a stranger in their own land is also concerned.
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
Not that my feelings or opinion matter, but I'm going to be devastated if this xAI grift takes down SpaceX. I am reminded that the 90s Boy Band groups Backstreet Boys and N*SYNC were the side projects of a Ponzi Scheme.
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
Not a lawyer but my understanding is that a valid contract must involve an exchange of value from both parties
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
Does not explain India where there is high genetic diversity and generally the South is more educated and wealthy
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
Agentic for most people should mean an easy way to fix what were previously missing UI features. Hopefully companies are (with permission) paying attention to user prompts in aggregate to guide UX work
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
The first time it happened it was physics. The next several billion years it was the purpose.
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
Maybe you should be asking that question on 1.3 acres and not here
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
Exactly. People make this technology with impunity. If they felt repercussions for working with the “bad guys”, it would give them pause before accepting a job with Flock, Andruil, Anthropic, etc.
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
I ended up dropping my drawing class because I kept getting docked points for my handwriting no matter how much I practiced. I think I was on track for a B or C.
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
Profit is not a concern for the Chinese
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
It was also hilarious
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
Agreed. I’ve switched to local models for many of my simpler workloads because they’re good enough. Coding is still through a frontier model though
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
The median of its employees’ geographies is China. That’s how it got worse than your average maturing Bay Area company
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
I don’t know why you think Meta accumulated most of its Chinese engineers through H1B. It’s top tier pay so most people move up to them from elsewhere.
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
The 5 Americans left at Meta have had enough
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
I use Markdown + plugins and one of the Git providers to maintain software contracts with other teams that I can’t trust to do the right thing. It has the benefits of having readable diffs and being maintainable by a human, if needed. HTM
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
That's my personal experience growing up in a suburban area in the South (edit: in the 90s)
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by georgeburdell 5mo ago
Middle America peaks in High School. Local games are televised and commentated even during the regular season. The TV series Friday Night Lights is a reasonable reference as an outsider
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by georgeburdell 6mo ago
I embrace it at this point. It ends all the shilling of vibe coded tools at work that I have endured over the past year. Everyone can now make their own tools with zero obligation to coordinate beyond shared hardware resources
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by georgeburdell 6mo ago
No employer is telling their employees to use tokens thoughtfully. They might even have token usage leaderboards. One of my team’s agents runs on Opus 4.6 for a fairly narrowly defined scope of a few MCPs and skills. But everyone’s getti
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by georgeburdell 6mo ago
Rideshare drivers can speed
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by georgeburdell 6mo ago
4 out of the 5 FAANGs hire RF engineers so… now?
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by georgeburdell 6mo ago
The missing ending to this article is when companies whine for more immigration because they didn’t invest in the future to make sure a talent pipeline still existed locally.

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