cushychicken

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by cushychicken 22d ago
What about the status quo is broken? YC seems to be serving its function perfectly well, if you think of it's function as: "start many venture funded SaaS businesses, with the goal of a small number achieving Unicorn or bigger exi
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by cushychicken 25d ago
Funnily enough I wrote a similar blog about this in the era preceding LLM assistance. I’m with Tom on a lot of what he says. This is a nice reminder to take another shot at this. https://cushychicken.github.io/python-guis-fo
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by cushychicken 29d ago
I love seeing things like this. Is it not kind of a magical thing to see AI make stuff like this reality? This was always possible but not worth a human’s time. Now this guy has a working printer again. That’s pretty doggone neat.
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by cushychicken 1mo ago
The small slice of what I saw was some truly sci fi stuff. People tend to forget that the US government will pay out the wazoo to achieve things that are one-time successes. Consider things like Operation IVY BELLS, or Project Azorian. Now
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by cushychicken 1mo ago
if you had TS/SCI and an interesting SAP you would not be saying this Facts. Source: me - TS/SCI, several interesting SAPs, contractually bound to not say a word about the details til death.
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by cushychicken 1mo ago
It’s hard to say exactly what the folks in the article are grappling with, not working with them personally. I never got to the point where I was anywhere near personal crisis from my classified work. These folks sound like they were associ
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by cushychicken 1mo ago
It was, on a technical level, the most interesting work I’ve ever done. What people say about the US government being ahead of the commercially available technology curve is certainly true. The work I did absolutely had positive impact on t
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by cushychicken 1mo ago
Used to work in this field. You're correct: not being able to talk about it is the worst part. This is equally true of successes as well as challenges. I did some cool, very impactful stuff in that job. I will go to jail for a long, lo
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by cushychicken 1mo ago
I did this in the summer of 2019. My girlfriend and I lived in her Subaru for the summer, and drove across the country visiting a bunch of national parks. Writeup here: https://cushychicken.github.io/leave-of-absence/
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by cushychicken 2mo ago
I wouldn’t describe the people this blog talks about as “normal people”, or “average people”. Most people don’t behave this way or have these kinds of problems. A reminder: tech jobs are their own kind of filter bubble. It’s worth taking a
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by cushychicken 3mo ago
This is a real problem. I suspect that part of it is that people don’t have enough time to mentally incorporate the fix. Is it weird to submit the MR later, after people have had a chance to digest the issues?
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by cushychicken 3mo ago
> Yes, if they are "responsible" for the code delivered, where responsible means they understand the code, the architecture, the decisions made, etc. This is a good principle to maintain, I think. I'm not a professor, but
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by cushychicken 4mo ago
Uber was too expensive once, too, and yet they seem to be currently functioning as a profitable public company. “AI is too expensive right now ” is an accurate title. Plenty of things could change in the future to change that. Off the top
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by cushychicken 4mo ago
Personally I hate how badly internal users are served by the majority of their systems and am willing to take some calculated long-term governance risks This, I think, is the LLM/vibe coded app’s current place to shine. Most internal
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by cushychicken 5mo ago
Zero of these instances were due to shipboard reactor failure.
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by cushychicken 5mo ago
The engineering side of running reactors safely is a solved problem, the US navy has > 7500 reactor-years with a perfect safety record. It’s also worth noting that the US Navy is the only organization with a perfect nuclear safety re
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by cushychicken 5mo ago
I was one of probably eight people who played the Emperor: Battle for Dune RTS game, and I always think of the Fremen character sound bite whenever I see the Old Man of the Desert’s true name invoked: ”…for Shai-Hulud!!!”
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by cushychicken 5mo ago
geohot definitely ticks the box for “so ambitious he occasionally sounds unhinged”.
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by cushychicken 5mo ago
Don't forget Sauron. https://www.sauron.systems/
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
One other commenter asked a decent question - does going lighter (Zig) or harder on memory safety (Rust) confer any meaningful advantages against the phenomenon you describe?
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
Repeatability and/or an actual negative effect. POC generally means “you can demonstrate unintentional behavior”. “Exploit” means you can gain access or do something malicious. It’s a fine line. Author’s point is that the LLM was able
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
Fair critique. Mueller was a pretty upstanding example of how to run the FBI, however.
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
It's equal opportunity corruption. ...and look how nice it sounds it live in Russia.
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
If they can build a peaceful relationship with Taiwan without military involvement where both countries can continue to prosper we really will have a new super power Ah, if only. Those damn intransigent Taiwanese! It’s almost as if they d
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
The last 15 years has significantly changed peoples' opinions on that matter. I’m gonna need to see some immigration statistics on influx of foreigners into the PRC to believe that claim.
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
A few weeks ago my friend Aadil and I were at Whole Foods buying a birthday cake for a friend. We wanted to write something clever on the cake but couldn’t really think of anything. We stood around thinking for a few minutes before Aadil s
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
Not sure what you mean, but I’d never heard of Sarah Paine before that. I thought she gave a very concise yet nuanced view of the modern world order in her lectures for Dwarkesh.
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
Love the interviews Dwarkesh sponsored with Sarah Paine from the Naval War College. Also, somewhat spitefully, find it funny that he has multiple roommates.
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by cushychicken 6mo ago
it's usually coding something more precise in a sort of plausible deniability. Yep. I'm a director now. This is exactly how it is. A big part of being effective in this role is understanding how direct you can be in a given scen
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by cushychicken 8mo ago
Mickens is a rare combination of bright, engaging, and absolutely hysterical. I hope I get to meet him someday.

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