james_marks

Amplifier of human intent. Do you want to work hard and cure cancer? Great! AI can help. Do you want to phone it in and do the bare minimum? AI can help you do that, too.

I wonder how much of that orchestration is necessary for a narrow use-case with low numbers of users. So many of our patterns are for a scale a small internal tool will never see.

I love indie labels, btw. But the judgment and indictment of someone that chooses a different path is unnecessary.

Your mind seems made up, but it’s hard to imagine we’d even be having this conversation if, say, Zack had stayed on Victory putting out hardcore records.

He just wouldn’t be a part of the zeitgeist in the same way. There’s an argument that a lot of what we’re experiencing now is a backlash against how well it worked. “the machine” is defending itself.

Can you imagine the president of the US using the term “Woke”, without RATM, and RATM without Sony behind them? They didn’t coin it obviously, but certainly gave it a huge boost.

It’s like a startup, the same product with a better distribution mechanic often wins.

Don't forget 18 months trailing Soc II, Type 2. And that the time to execute on this idea was 15 years ago, back when this was relatively difficult to build.

Pando looks nice, thanks for sharing. Is this an overlay on e.g, AWS, or is the idea that this spins up a single container and creates partitions for each of the user apps its hosting?

Exactly this. My joke tagline for BI is "Lie to your colleagues with confidence and ease".

It doesn't have to be intentional, it just needs to be a sufficiently complex, messy real-world data.

Listening to someone practice music is unpleasant to many people, regardless of ability.

I wouldn’t take their request to “go somewhere else” as an indictment.

You're glossing over the part where this approach brought their message into mainstream culture. If they took the money and dropped the message, sure. The history doesn't really support the narrative, though.

"Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy" -Zakk DeLaRoche

"Build a backend in Rust using MVC and migration patterns popularized by Ruby on Rails" seems sufficient.

You're asking the family member to make their life worse in the immediate term.

If you want people to adopt your thing, it's got to make their life easier, right now, full stop.

I understand this in principle, but I've been wondering: what guarantee do you have that the sources that are claimed to be the training are the resulting model weights, without interference?

Maybe you trust the creator more, when they release the training materials as open source, but I don't see how you'd get a guarantee.

Feels like NYT, CNN, etc may have been feeling the pinch and pedal fear now, as well.

Isn't there a time of day variable as well? That would further drive down the average for e.g, Industrial sites that run continuously.

I have feeling that how safe you feel is correlates strongly to your media diet, and weakly to your surroundings. I'd be curious to see what studies have been done.

The mosquitoes don't exist in isolation though. Isn't this exactly how food chains / ecosystems work? You can't remove a tier without consequences.

Last night I found a post-it note in my copy of _The Organized Mind_ by Daniel J. Levitin.

It says "Connect with Others. Learn. Be Active".

Strikes me as good advice 10 years ago when I wrote it, and just as good now.

We don’t get news articles about the people who do it that way, though.

re: PPS: Employees are an attack vector. Making their identities harder to discover is a protection.

Gives me a vaguely creepy feeling, but it's reasonable.

My appliances will never be networked, for this very reason. Risk to reward is just not there.

Same, although I use "TDD red phase"

A hint at why GitHub actions have been unreliable. How many teams are running factories like this on GH infra now?

I remember before the expose a friend that did blood draws for a living was just like, “huh? It’s impossible to do the tests without a larger sample, it’s just not how it works”.

I call this Foamy Expansion.

Isn’t that at least in part because the intention here was to demo the functionality?

Put in the hands of the educator, they will be able to add those illustrations, design for the light bulb moment, etc, and the tools at their disposal just got much better.

Build up karma to expand the reach of future promotional posts.

I was ready to hate this. But I thought the photos were well done, and most surprisingly, celebrated the diversity of cultures and classes in the US.

I prefer a Rails backend, especially in the agentic world.

With an agent on a greenfield is when I’m most reliant on a framework for good standards and a clear architecture.

This is one of the things Rails does really well.

First iPhone I've actually wanted in a long time.