aomix
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- aomixI keep believing there’s a web of trust type future for social media but I can’t articulate it.
- "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." is my favorite quote for that
- I want Netflix to lose. After living with their binge release schedule for however long now I think we're all worse off for it. So I want less of the industry to use it.
- I never watched the widescreen version of The Wire they put out years ago but now I'm curious again. That show was a bone deep 4:3 product and the show plays with it constantly. Here is an interesting breakdown that made me really appreciate how clever they got while trying to be pretty subdued with the cinematography on The Wire https://vimeo.com/39768998
- I was coming in with the Walmart example too. The onboarding meeting told us he overheard it at a Korean manufacturer and liked it.
- I’m afraid to upgrade from my ~6 year old LG OLED with a damaged corner because I pair it with an Apple TV and only see Apple ads occasionally on the Home Screen. I don’t know if a newer tv would give me the same experience.
- While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking. I bought a gallon.
- I’ve been agonizing over getting the Framework Desktop for weeks as a dev machine/local LLM box/home server. It checks a lot of boxes but the only reason to look at the Framework Desktop over something like a Minisforum MS-A2 is for the LLM and that seems super janky right now. So I guess I’ll wait a beat and see where we are later in the year.
- I wonder if you plotted layoffs cycles you’d see a big gaps for tech companies for the last couple years since RTO orders will have the same effect.
Reading about the different RTO rebellions is interesting. I know multiple people who have ended up in a half day schedule that they really like. All meetings scheduled before noon-ish, then head home to focus on work. These are all kind of against company policy but there’s a shield of willingly ignorant managers between the executives and workers. As long as the managers can say “as far as any metrics I have access to tell me my people are in the office the required days per week” they’re ok with it.
- I saw someone describe python as “stressful” for this reason and I couldn’t agree more. It’s difficult to have confidence in any change I make or review. I need to sit down and manually exercise codepaths because I don’t get the guarantees I crave from the language or tooling. While with the small amount of Rust code I’ve written lately I could yolo changes into production with no stress.
- We had serious reliability issues with USB versions that were only solved by switching to the D457 model with GSML connectors. Those needed other hardware vendors to build in support for it to work but once that was all done we never had an issue again. Happy times going from alerts daily of the camera dropping out to alerts never.
- I was working in a college job for a pharmaceutical distributor when the New England Compounding Center outbreak happened. I think that dropped a nuke on the whole industry. We stopped dealing with compounding pharmacies after that because that whole thing was more like a matter of when not if.
- I didn’t appreciate this until covid and wfh. I’m an introvert and am in my happy place sitting in front of a computer or with a book. But I was losing my mind and had to be actively social for the first time in my life. I can see a decade of living like it’s Covid turning my relatively healthy, relatively young brain into soup.
Leaning into stereotypes, the older women in my family did just fine in retirement because they just started doing social activities full time. If anything they retired and got busier. The older men sometimes did ok but usually did worse.
- Falling off the cognitive cliff after retirement is something I think a lot of people are familiar with in their own lives.
- Everything I've read about pledge and unveil really admire the approach and the results but it didn't seem to have a big impact outside of OpenBSD. It took ~20 years for OpenBSD's CSPRNG to be re-implemented everywhere else maybe we're operating on a similar timeline here.
- I’m more bearish about LLMs but even in the extreme optimist case this is why I’m not that concerned. Every project I’m on is triaged as the one that needs the most help right now. A world when dozen projects don’t need to be left on the cutting room floor so one can live is a very exciting place.
- They use other models to judge correct-ness and when possible just ask the model output something that can be directly verified. Like math equations that can be checked 1:1 against the correct answer.
- Olympians being "people with really intense hobbies" is still weird to me. I haven't reconciled in my mind that the life of AA baseball players getting paid a little more than minimum wage plus a meal stipend is a dream for 90% of Olympians who, if they win, become national symbols of excellence for a week every 4 years.
- Even the post is in terms if "Dear god why? But if you must..."
- No comment on the article it's just always interesting to get hit with intense jargon from a field I know very little about.
I understood the statements of all five questions. I could do the third one relatively quickly (I had seen the trick before that the function mapping a natural n to alpha^n was p-adically continuous in n iff the p-adic valuation of alpha-1 was positive)