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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
If you don't like the party.. just leave. You're not being detained.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Every one of your examples are things that I find really enjoyable. As someone who is a terribly scatter brained procrastinator, the 6AM deadline is clarifying. Realizing at 11:30pm that I haven't started the essay is (or was, long ago
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
work of art
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I felt compelled to write this email to 1password today: Dear 1password, Please stop trying to "innovate". I really like your password manager. That's all I want. I don't want "automatic watchtower AI phishing preve
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I like it. It's like wandering into someone else's house. Their stereo is playing, they're telling you some interesting story. It's their party, I'm just a guest. It reminds me of how the web used to feel.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Not a crime, necessarily, just a hefty debit against your social credit score.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Very well said.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
There are other businesses models than pump-and-dump, they could try it!
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The one thing you can trust is this: If a tech company says something to you, and they don't give you the means to verify it on your own, they are lying to you . Do not trust anything they say, ever.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
CSAM Altman, Whiskey Pete, and MechaHitler. Seems like a culture fit.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The Microsoft antitrust case, DMCA, and other conversations in government and the media at the time (in particular the notion that video game violence was somehow poisoning the minds of the youths) made a strong impression on me as an 11-13
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
These execs are the people who previously cared about literally nothing except not looking bad to their bosses. Now they're getting all fired up about something and taking a stand and... it's this? Lol. Lmao. Etc.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The market is losing its shit over this because people are operating on the thesis that "AI will be able to ..." rather than "AI can demonstrably do ...". At some point they're all gonna get margin called on their f
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Agreed, and with open, auditable design it's far more trustworthy. So you can satisfy both the paranoid tech nerds (guilty as charged) and the folks who just want to get it running with the least amount of effort are safer--whether the
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
> A small microcontroller with a relay tends to be more reliable. Until some bug surfaces that requires a reboot to -fix- work around, but since the device is powered by a battery (EDIT: still puzzling through what might happen when this
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
> The cloud systems are insecure and invasive, but it's really hard to get Normal People to understand why it's a problem. In the case of HVAC systems the danger is a collective one not individual. Sure if someone really wanted
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
This is an awesome writeup, thanks for sharing. And good on Mysa for responding so favorably to your research.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Quote from a VP at a big tech megacorp a few months back: > "If we don't start using this technology every day in every aspect of our jobs we will be left behind and never catch up." I'm gonna get that one embroidered
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
I love this Jobs quote for two reasons: (1) It captures the ideal so well (2) The bitter irony of how thoroughly pre-OS X Macintosh computers failed to live up to it I feel like there's a similar dichotomy in LLM tools now
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Fair point.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
In a cabover truck you're the crumple zone >_<
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
The Honeywell thing I bought on amazon turned out to not be analog after all. It's got an Atmel Atmega something or other in it. It obviously can't connect to the internet through its 24VAC 3 wire interface but it's running s
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
This is a failure of regulation, not personal responsibility. Consumers should not have to threat-model their vacuum cleaner. That should be on the manufacturer, and when they fail like this they should be punished severely.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
They also attract grifters, frauds, conmen, snake oil peddlers, and every stripe of bullshit artist. I'm someone you probably would view as a hater, but I truly don't hate LLMs. I hate the lies. Projects like this are interesting,
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
There are no crumple zones in a truck really.. You have straight frame rails. I guess the cast iron engine block gets a little crumply if you hit it hard enough..
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Another development in trucking efficiency that seems really interesting is the Achates opposed piston two stroke. If their materials are accurate, through fluid modeling they've achieved a massive efficiency boost and emissions exceed
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
In that case you would just simply not buy their box and hook up the device to yours. That's the beauty of open interfaces.
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
This kind of reputational damage is just adding fuel to the fire. If my business depended in any way on google--GCP, GSuite, whatever--it would right now be a very urgent task to fire them and find replacements. They've been pretty ske
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but I'll respond as if it isn't. Having worked my entire career to date in the SaaS business, it is well known in some verticals that a large portion of revenue comes from companies that literally do
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by jcgrillo 8mo ago
We will all owe the EU a massive debt of gratitude. Hopefully USB C was just the tip of the iceberg.

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