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jeremyw

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http://jeremywohl.com/

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jeremyw··on AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Direct link: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publication/canaries-in-...
jeremyw··on Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
Yikes. Vastly outweighed by the ruination of journalism by politics.
jeremyw··on Molly guard in reverse
Lest anyone think it's just little kids that are mesmerized by the shiny red button; we were showing a potential graduate student around the compsci labs, and he walks over to an important server and simply turns it off. He could never quite explain his impulse to do so.
jeremyw··on Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
Up in model sophistication. It accurately understands the first segment is metaphorical and not valid in the sense of physical weight. Open the thinking section, if need be.
jeremyw··on Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
And continuing up: o3 was both correct and playful.

> In literal, physical terms, a pound of courage would—by definition—tip the scales at one avoirdupois pound (≈ 454 g). A modern UK £1 coin, on the other hand, weighs only 8.75 g. So if you could bottle bravery, the jar marked “1 lb Courage” would outweigh the coin by a factor of about 52 to 1.

> (Of course, measured in sheer impact, courage can feel far heavier than anything money can buy!)

https://chatgpt.com/share/68057dbc-2ff4-8010-ac30-b404135200...

jeremyw··on My favourite Git commit (2019)
Yes, I misworded. The usefulness of commit messages, Scott's point.
jeremyw··on My favourite Git commit (2019)
I take Scott's point with a difference perspective.

Though commit messages are ephemeral and hard to utilize in the future, they're the stream of consciousness of the project.

They convey very important shifts in direction, discoveries in the making, code smells, limits of current architecture, and markers of tech debt. We don't know what this beast will be. And we figure it out commit by commit. Document it.

jeremyw··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
Hmmm. I've charged publicly ~100 times on the Tesla network (mostly cross-country, but some long city stays) and I've had to wait briefly twice.
jeremyw··on When Google Fiber abandons your city as a failed experiment (2019)
If you run home servers and like having complete control, I recommend staying away from AT&T Fiber. They play lots of network games (port remapping/takeover, routing issues, no limits but limits!).

Google Fiber, on the other hand, has been clean and clear.

jeremyw··on Red Programming Language
Since examples were hard to find:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/red/

https://www.red-by-example.org/

jeremyw··on Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?
Note they misuse the term end-to-end encrypted, and apply it to mirroring "what banks do". I don't know anything else about their product, but this is sloppy and/or dishonest.
jeremyw··on Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better
Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks for the kind reply.
jeremyw··on Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better
Any recommended material to learn about fragility in the Dutch system?

You've made a number of comments in this vein. Do you see it as apart from the cycle of the successful? Wherein we slowly relax the effort is took to make success. And then deny these efforts altogether, and create fantasies of what _really_ brought success.

jeremyw··on We chose NanoIDs for PlanetScale’s API
Yes, you must match your RNG values to an integer multiple of your alphabet size, or there will be bias on modulo. Filter, smear bits, etc.

More explanation here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984974/why-do-people-s...

jeremyw··on Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
Fair enough. I believe I can mitigate enough of these to continue the utility of password-protecting my keys, but I take your point.
jeremyw··on Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
I suppose in a homebrew situation, but not if age is root-installed, correct? It seems like that's a hard boundary.
jeremyw··on Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
Can you clarify re not password-protecting keys?

If I run GUI applications, let's say, as my user -- as is the default in most operating systems -- they have general access to my files, including my keys-as-files, no? (Putting aside some minor restrictions MacOS and others are slowly making.)

jeremyw··on Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co
How so? Frere-Jones comes later, but becomes vital to the new state of the business. 15 years together!

See 37signals for another such example: design studio, but oh, software is where we shine, but I need this tech fellow as full partner.

jeremyw··on Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co
What a sad affair. Interviews and documentaries clearly demonstrating their relationship as partners, without a hierarchy. Then one baldly asserts his ownership rights, and the other realizes the naive trust he'd put in his colleague was vapor.
jeremyw··on Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing
Your security doc says 1-on-1 calls are end-to-end encrypted, and I'm glad for it. Recommend promoting that bit to homepage marketing.

Do you expect to be able to make 3+ multiparty calls end-to-end encrypted, eventually?

jeremyw··on Time to sunburn
Consider removing omega-6 seed oils from your diet. Like many others who have tried it, I now have a normal tan response, where in the past I burned in a heartbeat.

Note: you do need to wait a few months for the fatty acid composition of your skin to turn over.

jeremyw··on Kopia – Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup
Note this compares an older restic version that doesn't include the order of magnitude improvements in cloud communication.
jeremyw··on What Happened In 2020
Echo the (young) kids & productivity penalty. I gave up all long-concentration work for short-cycle wins that fit in-between the kid's nervous energy / social interruptions. I have tremendous sympathy for parents that didn't have that flexibility.
jeremyw··on Lyebird: Clone Your Voice
Thanks for the sample. There's a flatness to the audio in recreation, but the major difference is lack of inflection. I imagine the latter might be tunable in a future incarnation.
jeremyw··on Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be 113.0 KWh
They don't have EPA testing yet. They used a third-party, FEV North America, with EPA-like methods to arrive at 517 miles.
jeremyw··on Show HN: Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases
Good job. Channeling patio11: increase your prices, e.g. $49/$250/CALL US. Your customers are businesses, these numbers will be perfectly reasonable.
jeremyw··on Product Marketing for Engineers
Moderators: please update this post's URL to Lisa Dziuba's copy; most up to date, and of course, proper credit!
jeremyw··on Hydroxychloroquine Covid-19: a multinational registry analysis [pdf]
Zinc is the purported mechanism of action, but cells can't pick up enough on their own, so an ionophore like hydroxychloroquine might help get more into the cell.

One might ask pointed questions why the original formulation (zinc + ionophore) is so consistently absent from these studies. I don't care one way or the other about the drug, but why are studies widely promoted that are irrelevant to the question?

jeremyw··on What Happens Next? Covid-19 Futures, Explained with Playable Simulations
Actually, I think the marketing "I protect you and you protect me" is quite good. It worked where I am ~75% prior to any gov't policy changes.
jeremyw··on What Happens Next? Covid-19 Futures, Explained with Playable Simulations
Mask advocates claim that stopping large droplets from _exiting_ your mask (not incoming) will reduce viral load. And if infected, viral load is inversely proportional to the severity of illness, infectiousness, etc. The marketing campaign to get people to wear masks may say "masks [...] stop you getting sick", but the more nuanced justification is out there.

See more: https://masks4all.co/faqs-for-mask-skeptics/

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