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by mkw5053 8mo ago
While I agree that believing the US is "uniquely great, superior to other nations, destined for a special role in the world" is silly, this article feels just as cherry-picked, on the other extreme. The US is an outlier in plenty
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by mkw5053 8mo ago
Musk is moving value out of public hands and into his own. He overpaid $44B for Twitter, then rebranded it as an AI asset by folding X into xAI. He pushed Tesla to invest $2B of shareholder money into xAI despite shareholders voting no. Fiv
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by mkw5053 8mo ago
Vidably | Founding Engineers and Designer | San Francisco (SF) | Full-time | Onsite (I only have one JD posted publicly, but I'm hiring broadly for eng + design): https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4330646312
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by mkw5053 8mo ago
I'd be happy with short phrases and for the text to change as I continue to speak.
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
The $28M to Melania personally is the tell. Amazon could've made this documentary for $5M and marketed it for $10M and still gotten whatever political cover they wanted. Instead they structured a deal where most of the money flows dire
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
The Uber comparison feels weak because their lock-in came from regulatory capture and network effects, neither of which LLMs have once weights are commoditized (are we already there?).
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Seems like a great resource. I used to run a for-fun math club. This really makes me miss that and want to pick Algebra (especially Galois theory) and Category Theory back up.
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
I feel like there's got to be better ways than having to repeatedly send "DO NOT FIX THE CODE YET". I don't know what they are. But, I feel like some combination of what you're already doing with hooks (maybe a skil
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
I'm interested! My main gripe with Wispr Flow is that it's slow and does the entire transcription in one pass after you finish speaking. Does this stream and transcribe as you talk? I really want to see the transcription in progre
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Interesting that they're still providing 1-5 MW during the multi-year shutdown. The LHC won't even be running but the cooling infrastructure keeps going. Makes me wonder what the steady-state thermal output is across all of CERN.
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Just an actual human trying to be helpful.
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
I'm currently hiring engineering roles in SF for my startup. I am in the middle of closing my $1.5M pre-seed this week so I don't have job descriptions posted yet. But, here's a short pitch: AI agents are about to orchestrate
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Agreed. (someone else mentioned sorting by upvotes, which I like too) Also a thumbnail (or gif), just a way to convey more information about the game more quickly.
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Very cool. One bug I noticed though is if you continue to zoom out you lose some and then all lights. Or it's almost like it only shows the first X lighthouses?
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
I'm confused. Is there a place for us to input text?
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Yeah, since they introduced (possibly async) subagents, I've had my main claude instance act as a manager overseeing implementation agents, keeping it's context clean, and ensuring everything goes to plan in the highest quality wa
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
My father found out about his AFib through his Apple Watch. I recently had some heart diagnostics done and had to wear a chest monitor for a month, even though I've worn an Apple Watch since day one. (I honestly don't remember whe
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
I was excited to hear about how in the world he got through the app store submission process in 6 hours, but it seems the 6 hours was active work time spread over days.
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
I guess nothing super surprising or new but still valuable read. I wish it was easier/native to reflect on the loop and/or histories while using agentic coding CLIs. I've found some success with an MCP that let's me quer
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Thanks for the link. I used to listen to every podcast from Sean Carroll but have fallen off recently, I'm excited to jump back in with this one.
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but after looking at the (incredible) photos, I couldn't help but think - how the heck did they go to the bathroom? Guessing it was a strictly number 1 24h. Even still...
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
This got me thinking about the Unix philosophy of composing small, specialized tools that each do one thing well. While at first glance a "single powerful tool" approach might seem aligned with that ethos, I think it actually runs
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
If I were using something like Claude Code to build a COBOL project, I'd structure the scaffolding to break problems into two phases: first, reason through the design from a purely theoretical perspective, weighing implementation trade
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Watergate, Iran-Contra, Vietnam, and the Pentagon Papers were all exposed through mass media, and they triggered resignations, prosecutions, and electoral consequences. Nixon resigned for conduct far narrower than many of Trump’s actions. R
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
This isn’t an aberration, it’s a continuation. Trump has repeatedly done things that would have been disqualifying for any normal president: threatening allies, undermining institutions, abusing power, normalizing coercion. The reason this
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
It feels like Woit is just being a hater at this point. In a meritocracy, talent and funding gravitate toward the most promising options. If string theory took up a large proportion of people and resources, it’s because it solved technical
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
You definitely don’t take long distance Amtrak today for cost or convenience. You go for the experience and views. I had a blast sharing a room with a friend on the Seattle to Emeryville route. I’m looking at Chicago to Emeryville next (or
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by mkw5053 9mo ago
Kiss of death? I'm seeing "404 Not Found nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)"
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by mkw5053 10mo ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I definitely don't walk away from any of Brian Greene's content thinking that String Theory is anything close to a confirmed fact at all. It's been some times since I read his earlier books, p
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by mkw5053 10mo ago
I thought Brian Greene did a great job interviewing Edward Witten (Fields Medal winner) on the World Science Festival Youtube channel [1]. I also just really enjoy Brian Greene, his books, and the World Science Festival Youtube channel. [1]

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