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by tangotaylor 6mo ago
Finally the media is catching on. Lee Vinsel's criti-hype article nailed this 5 years ago, before we even had the chatbot economy we do now: https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-cr...
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by tangotaylor 6mo ago
I think part of it is because many affluent parents have children with major mental health issues: anxiety, depression, bipolar, thoughts of self-harm, etc. and many of these parents blame social media. The affluent have way more sway over
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My letter to my reps regarding California's age verification law(chrisfun.xyz)
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by tangotaylor 7mo ago
I'm going to fight pessimism with cynicism here: the Department of Defense is not going to let everything move to the cloud because they need compute at the edge for AI-enabled weapons and R&D. For example, Anduril's products,
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by tangotaylor 7mo ago
Their real goals are even worse than that. Some of these groups have admitted they're also about suppressing LGBT+ content. As the Heritage Foundation admitted: > Keeping trans content away from children is protecting kids. No child
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by tangotaylor 7mo ago
Upvoted because I like the effort and I want more visibility on this subject. But I also don’t want to step on the EFF’s toes. They’ve been doing good work on this area for decades and I’d prefer we work with them on policy details. Here’s
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by tangotaylor 7mo ago
This is actually really nice. Web page feels pretty snappy, way more so than congress.gov. I've learned some interesting things just scrolling for a few minutes, like the "Energy Freedom Act" cutting appliance rebates or the
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by tangotaylor 7mo ago
I like this. My strategy to stay sane in US politics is to follow what the government is actually doing and avoid distractions from ragebait influencers or unhinged statements from politicians.
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by tangotaylor 8mo ago
Insanely stupid and petty decision. I just left voicemails for all my members of Congress urging them to fight back. I hope the DoW loses this one.
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by tangotaylor 8mo ago
> is there a correlation between academic performance and classroom laptops? Yes, here is Dr. Horvath's (the neuroscientist mentioned in the article) written testimony which cites some studies. The table in Section 3 is particularly
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by tangotaylor 8mo ago
The sentiment analysis is very interesting. I'm super curious what that looks like historically, going back to 2007.
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by tangotaylor 8mo ago
> Your manager sees you shipping faster, so the expectations adjust. You see yourself shipping faster, so your own expectations adjust. The baseline moves. This problem has been going on a long time, Helen Keller wrote about this almost
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by tangotaylor 8mo ago
I feel like most of the anxiety around LLMs is because (in the USA at least) our social safety net sucks. I'd probably have way more fun debating LLMs if it wasn't tied to my ability to pay rent, have healthcare, or feel like a va
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by tangotaylor 9mo ago
I have one of these for Boston. It's awesome. I want to find more art like this that updates in real-time, then I feel like I actually appreciate it in the long term. With regular static pictures on the wall I tune them out after they&
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by tangotaylor 9mo ago
> it’s just really nice to be able to tell an AI agent to go write some code without worrying about its motivation or interests, since it has none. I am glad I don't work for this person.
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by tangotaylor 9mo ago
“What” comments can be quite nice to quickly parse through code. But I don’t think they’re worth it. My issue with “what” comments is they’re brittle and can easily go out of sync with the code they’re describing. There’s no automation like
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by tangotaylor 10mo ago
> Engineers need to really lean in to the change in my opinion. I tried leaning in. I really tried. I'm not a web developer or game developer (more robotics, embedded systems). I tried vibe coding web apps and games. They were prett
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
No secrets like auth credentials or tokens but: - Deleted files and development artifacts that were never meant to go public. - My name and email address. - Cringy commit messages. I assumed these commits and their metadata would be private
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
Beware of using this to publish static sites: you can accidentally expose your .git directory to the public internet. I got pwned this way before (by a pentester fortunately). I had to configure Apache to block the .git directory.
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
Having TUIs available for remote administration is an excellent point. I frequently spin up nmtui on machines with NetworkManager because I’m used to Ubuntu’s network settings GUI and I haven’t bothered to learn enough nmcli. (“real” deploy
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I completely agree and I don’t like when non-medical professionals take these terms too seriously. Psychiatrists are way better equipped to diagnose these things not because they can read diagnostic manuals (anyone can) but because their tr
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
Hard to say, we keep them on the chargers most of the time. I haven’t measured it. No one’s complained yet, for what it’s worth.
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
We’ve been using X Elite Snapdragon laptops (Thinkpad T14s and Yoga Slim running Ubuntu’s concept images) to build large amounts of ARM software without the need for cross-compiling. The hardware peripheral support isn’t 100% yet (good enou
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I’m still amazed that Kagi search results are basically on par with Google’s (and without the ads) in all my comparison tests that I’ve done. And Google has orders of magnitude more resources. What has Google been doing all this time?
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
Wow, that's hilarious. So essentially hiring could be identical across all age groups, but due to a glitch in the analysis (young people don't stay young, who knew?), it appears that younger people are losing jobs more than the re
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I'd be interested to see more discussion on Section 174, how engineer salaries suddenly triggered a higher tax bill in 2022. https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-micro... Did Section 174 changes acce
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I think it will be effective. This stuff is hard. There used to be many competitors capable of the best process technology: TI, GlobalFoundries, Intel, IBM, Samsung, TSMC. Canon, Nikon, ASML all used to have competitive lithography machines
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I don't think humans are good at assessing the accuracy of their own opinions either and I'm not sure how AI is going to do it. Usually what corrects us is failure: some external stimulus that is indifferent or hostile to us. As M
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
See other comment on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697990#44698111 I’d prefer to invest in languages that are actually useful to my team. I want to eat my team’s dogfood so I can help them with issues.
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I could but no one else on my team (which is used to Linux) would touch my scripts. It’s just too foreign for Linux devs whereas it ships with Windows.

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