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I really like this. But yes, don't promote using this while driving for anything other than navigation, weather, music, etc.

But, this is one step closer to my dream of being able to do my software engineer job while on walk through a park. Chatting async with an AI coding agent. Sitting on bench to review the changes. Repeat.

Note - fans should be at least two feet away from the window to leverage the Bernoulli effect

This absolutely resonates with me.

I have always felt that my verbal recall skills and the size of my lexicon do not correspond strongly to the quality of my ideas.

Which is unfortunate because I believe most people over-index on these attributes. folks with extremely high wit and low/average critical thinking, I.e Russel Brand types are extremely persuasive due to their ability to be so _accurate_. But accuracy doesn't matter if you're not shooting at the right target. We confuse accuracy with truthfulness. It is some sort of cognitive fallacy our brains short circuit to.

The best folks in our position can do is find work that allows our results to speak for us. And yes, write. Find the time to write. Strategically position yourself such that the battleground is async written text.

Reminder that Trump signed two (of three) Covid stimulus checks

Terse, poorly named variables, and clever code is worse than verbose, well documented, thoroughly named variables with readable dsl.

Debt is proportional to the time it takes to understand, change, and extend the codebase.

Lines of code are an imperfect mapping to tech debt. And if all things truly were equal then this metric has been minimized at the expense of readability - which almost certainty impacts debt worse.

So I think the better argument here is that, "lack of theory is debt" - so ironically, perhaps the better argument is the shorter codebase is debt in the analogy to LLMs. LLM usage minimizes theory building. But this is assuming that AI doesn't continue to progress and its ability to build theory about the project (and communicate it correctly to the engineer) remains constrained.

I have "vibe coded" a few internal tools now that are very low risk in terms of negative business impact but nonetheless valuable for our team's efficiency.

E.g one tool packages a debug build of an iOS simulator app with various metadata and uploads it to a specified location.

Another tool spits out my team's github velocity metrics.

These were relatively small scripting apps, that yes, I code reviewed and checked for security issues.

I don't see why this wouldn't be a valid professional tool? It's working well, saves me time, is fun, and safe (assuming proper code review, and LLM tool usage).

With these little scripts it creates it's actually pretty quick to validate their safety and efficacy. They're like validating NP problems.

Carpenters, landscapers, roofers, plumbers, electricians, elderly care, nurses, cooks, servers, bakers, musicians, actors, artists...

Those jobs are probably still a couple decades plus off from displacement. some possibly never, And we will need them in higher numbers.. and perhaps it's ironic because these are some of the oldest professions.

Everything we do is in service of paying for our housing, transportation, eating food, healthcare and some fun money.

Most goes to housing, healthcare, and transportation.

Healthcare costs may come down some with advancements in AI. R&D will be cheaper. Knowledge will be cheaper and more accessible.

But what people care about, what people have always cared about, remains in professions that are as old as time and, I don't see them fully replaceable by AI just yet - enhanced, yes, but not replaced.

Imagine a world where high quality landscaping exists for the average person. And this is made possible because we'll live in a world where the equivalent of today's uber driver owns a team of gardening androids.

Or perhaps in the future everyone will work in finance. Everyone's a corporation.

Ramble ramble ramble

What are folks uploading an article that's the equivalent of supermarket tabloid junk?

You just like the title?

It's not just about using well placed em dashes — it's about creating a sense of awe and enlightenment.

Magnus Midtbo has Kristian Blummrnfelt on his show, who is the Olympic gold medalist for triathlon.

Kristian essentially eats pasta and Nutella and bread all day.

So technically, yes, you can outrun a bad diet..

Though me thinks this article is aimed at the average person.

Id think yes.

Intelligence is a model of reality and the future. They'll converge into the same system as a reflection of the laws of physics and human psychology.

And then when they are used as weapons they'll perhaps try to diverge and it will become an arms race to create models of the adversaries models.

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Another way to look at it is our own history. Intelligent apes all "converged" into our one homo sapien.

What they linked cited sources well. Quote from the original source study.

"Housework was defined as “core chores,” or routine housework that people generally do not enjoy doing such as washing dishes, laundry, vacuuming floors and dusting … Routine housework, like cooking dinner or making beds, was captured … . Other activities such as home repairs, mowing the lawn, and shoveling snow were not in the study. Items such as gardening are usually viewed as more enjoyable; the focus here is on core housework."

Obviously completely BS biased sexist study. It doesn't get more blatant than that.

"When I read the story to a group of about 100 psychiatrists at an American Psychiatric Association convention in New York City and asked them what punishment Billy should receive, the most popular suggestion was that he should be locked in a cage with vicious dogs and torn to pieces."

I come across info bits like this every once in a while and I can't help be think... were they really answering the question truthfully, and just having a little laugh to themselves? Or, are we really this close to reverting to midieval behavior if our modern justice system crumbles

India

My company allows short-term work from anywhere. I have taken advantage of it twice now, and I'm currently packing my bags for a third. Each trip one full month in another country.

As long as my company has this policy I will be at my company. This policy is amazing. Full stop. I thought I needed a sabbatical, I actually just needed this.

I feel just as a productive if not more productive while on these work-cations. I come back energized about life and my job.

I went almost 7 years without having a vacation where I returning thinking "wow, i feel refreshed and I want to go home". These trips actually, finally, solved this. I'm no longer feeling burnt out and that is incredible.

So, if any employers are reading this.. take note.

No, but many of them may have signed agreements that provided tax breaks for their office location.

Local businesses want humans near them.. that was the agreement, and the government wants that generated tax revenue.

Many of this big orgs are not "maintaining their side of the agreement" - hence pressure to return.. lest tax breaks get challenged.

I've spent a lot of money trying to solve this problem.. including buying the $700 litter robot, etc.. (that thing is not worth it at all btw)

The best litter box is the Tidy Cats Breeze (if your cat accepts it)

Bad smells (usually) (mostly) come from urine mixing with feces.. this litter box separates urine from feces, and the pellets and pads are engineered to control odors. Plus, the pellets are easier to cleanup than other boxes..

If you use that litter box, and feed your cat foods that it digests well - which in general usually means feeding your cat healthy food.. then cleanup is going to be very easy and painless.

Some balance to this post.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/female-protective-ef...

This is also reminding me of Feynman's notes on Brazil education.. rote memorization of science without deep understanding

I've been singin' this song for years. We should return to Small Data. Hand picked, locally sourced, data. Data I can buy at a mom and pop shop. Data I can smell, data I can feel, data I can yearn for.

Gone are those days.

I would suspect this is extremely dangerous. The female genome is intricately evolved to handle the hormone war of pregnancy.

Agreed.. I mean if you even support someone choosing a partner because they are sexually attractive is that not a form of eugenics?

Facial symmetry is correlated with genetic health.. and so on..

All parents care about "improving the genetic quality of their children".

What if Bigfoot just happens to walk similarly to how people in gorilla costumes walk?

I mean after all.. Bigfoot is a humanoid..

You appear to be expressing the same pushback and disbelief that this guy says all American companies have.. while this guy is claiming "Chinese companies just do it"

I suspect this guy isn't lying. I suspect China is an order of magnitude ahead of us in these kinds of manufacturing spaces. Hence, these tariffs aren't going to work.

This is going to be a naive and stupid question perhaps... but here it goes.

What optimization are we chasing here that's worth all this effort and brain power that will be so amazing in 10 years?

I've been using real-time collaborative editing tools for the past decade and it's "good enough". We.. collaborate... and then we go about our day.. almost zero friction 99.9% of the time.

This just doesn't really feel like a real problem to me. A theoretically interesting problem, sure..

I asked GPT-4.5 and it searched the web and immediately gave me a "yes" with paragraphs of sources cited.

I think it's actually extremely simple.. because the herd mentality is extremely simple. Intellectuals think it's complex because intellectuals love complexity.. This is what happened..

The right witnessed riots over the past decade. These riots were in response to police brutality and perceived racism. The ideas behind anti-racism spawned a perceived new ideology - "wokism". This frightened the right. Intellectuals on the right mapped the origins of this new ideology to philosophies from elite institutions. Therefore, these institutions must be punished to be kept in check.

It's really that simple..

What I find interesting about this guy is that in a way he actually is "caving" to the demands of the administration. This uni president advocates for more heterodox thinking - which is in alignment with what the Trump admin wants as well... maybe that's why Wesleyan won't be punished..

He states in the interview that Wesleyan has NIH grants. They are preparing to let scientists go if it comes to it.

Christopher Waltz is the perfect example of this.

The world is filled with world class actors. Waltz was a world class actor for most of his adult life.. and then he met Quentin.

As he says himself... it's always been about who you know.

So, agreed, AI will just make that more apparent.

In theory if you solve for body type and looks with AI, then raw acting talent becomes higher in demand. That should been seen as a good thing for most average looking people with high acting talent.