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dbt00··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
They might not need them as often but if they produce them even less than it's still an issue. Insurance costs on Teslas is high and the rental company Tesla apocalypse happened because of the difficulties maintaining fleet repairs.
dbt00··on Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught
You clipped a lot of incredibly relevant context to make his point sound far more inflammatory than it is.

> Some view the future of mathematics as a dystopian arcade of button-pressing, staring at a screen waiting for AI to do the thinking for us, with the main human involvement limited to asking the initial question and offering sporadic words of encouragement. Each new proof is then thrown into a repository, to only ever be read by other AIs, and the human presses the next button.

Is that your view of all AI native mathematicians? It's not mine, but it seems apparent to me that many people think that this is our future, or even should be our future. Same with building software (which is my field, unlike math).

I would find that personally, to use his word, grim.

dbt00··on The JavaScript Midlife Crisis
learning more languages is good actually. I still mostly write imperative code but having spent some time learning functional languages was very good for my brain.
dbt00··on George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts
These are two crappy choices, and it's not a coincidence that a resource strapped filmmaker having to engage with many skilled artisans to sharpen their "singular vision" resulted in much better films (the original trilogy) than either of those two.
dbt00··on LLM Ass Bench
Agree 2x.
dbt00··on New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over"
Jon Stewart to his credit has done a tremendous amount of work on this.
dbt00··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
"Unsupervised" is a joke, they literally have chase cars in case of an incident.
dbt00··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
the 737-max was grounded for almost two years, Boeing paid a $2bn+ fine and the CEO was fired.

To be fair, actual self-driving car business units have suffered similar fates. Uber's autonomy team was shut down after they killed Elaine Herzberg, and GM's Cruise was functionally destroyed after they contributed to a major bodily injury crash and tried to cover up their errors.

It's the level 2 consumer car companies that have mostly skated under a liability shield. Tesla FSD has been shit for a long time and paid very little price for it.

dbt00··on Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses
No, it's an impractical idea that nobody wanted.
dbt00··on Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)
Racing the Beam is another one, about the design of the frame buffer-less Atari 2600.
dbt00··on .name Termination
That is definitely not true. There are literally thousands if not tens of thousands of well known domains that do this. .co.uk is a very common example.
dbt00··on AI Policy
For someone who doesn't like doing cryptocurrency, advertising, gig economy bullshit or a host of other things, this is not a new problem. But yeah, it sucks.
dbt00··on I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user
[slop] tag when?
dbt00··on PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's
Same. It's really hard to fight the tic now where I just automatically close the tab when I get to the second or third thing, and it's only the first paragraph.

Please, write your own prose.

dbt00··on Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
It's a problem because of Goodhart's law.

If you train towards the test, you aren't necessarily improving overall fitness, but you are destroying the value of that test over time because you're decreasing its correlation with overall fitness.

dbt00··on What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)
No.

They used the phonetic alphabet to categorize a number of different specialties on the BD team, including alpha bravo delta and echo. I never heard the phrase "Delta Force" used in 8 years there 2008-2016.

dbt00··on GPT-5.6
Goodhart's law.
dbt00··on CarPlay Is Additive
> You get any music/podcast/any-other-audio continuity with just Bluetooth.

Tesla bluetooth UI is pretty ass, actually.

dbt00··on Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release
they are getting better in 2.1. They get bigger and faster with quality, but the biggest win is the ability to direct unload from the landing pad to bigger trains via the new landing pad unloading bay, within a reasonable range of the landing pad.
dbt00··on Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
I use a new VCS already (jj, highly recommended) and Claude forgets to use it all the time despite many obvious instructions in many places.
dbt00··on Jobs and Software Is Fucked
Chris also goes back, Charlene saves him.
dbt00··on From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone
Should at least throw a reference to OpenBSD publishing the entire Blowfish crypto algorithm on a t-shirt and selling it -- so successful the blowfish became the project mascot.
dbt00··on "Maybe later" was a feature
This seems like you're arguing against something this post does not say.
dbt00··on Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
I mean, what if he's not?
dbt00··on Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
I cannot stress enough how historically ignorant of a perspective this is. I don't know how you meant this, but Hormuz has been one of the most critical geopolitical choke points since 1979, and Iran has spent 45 years preparing to use it for leverage in exactly this situation. None of these facts should be a surprise to leaders of nations.
dbt00··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
I've had some experience with situations like what you experienced in my family, and I just want to say how glad I am to hear that you had people in your corner to help you out when you needed it the most.
dbt00··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
wrong thread
dbt00··on All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
Tomatoes are high in glutamate, which accentuates beef flavor.
dbt00··on We let AIs run radio stations
Most radio stations are already boring soulless algorithmic slop. They could make it better by curating musical taste.
dbt00··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
If it was wrong in 2019, why did he wait 7 years to do something about it?

The passage of time makes it harder to have a fair trial, as shown by the number of times Elon said I don't know or I don't recall about conversations that would have been recent in 2019 but are now long (or strategically) forgotten.

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