davidw

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by davidw 5d ago
I think there are a lot of bad actors at the top in tech, in general.
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by davidw 6d ago
Yeah, people trying to get rich quick are maybe not great, but that's a side of humanity that has always been with us and always will be and you can kind of discount it. I'm talking about the people who run things lurching towards
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by davidw 6d ago
I feel like tech has lost its way recently. It's a huge, huge field, so there have always been people working on 'bad' things, but IDK, I just don't have the same feeling of optimism about things that I used to and I wis
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by davidw 7d ago
That, plus it looks like Forth code grid dup 1.0 scale wind-x drop cols-4
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by davidw 9d ago
> worked really well, especially for folks without much money That's probably part of the reason they got rid of them. You still see that argument used against transit: "it will bring _____ to our part of town".
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by davidw 14d ago
Yeah I had one of those as a kid and spent many happy hours learning about it and of course playing games.
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by davidw 15d ago
This makes sense, but boy would it be easy to mix up something like this with some fancy graphics and sell some snake oil. Stuff that sounds like "What is therefore required is not merely a more capable agent, but a closed-loop capabil
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by davidw 21d ago
They are willing to bear some pain in order to hit back at the US administration. And they're pretty united - Doug Ford for instance is not on the same team as Mark Carney - but has been very vocal about striking back. It's really
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by davidw 21d ago
Not in the tech industry, apparently. As a 50 year old, it's really shocking to see what I thought were just solid, solid underpinnings of a modern liberal society like "white nationalists are bad and should be ostracized" er
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by davidw 22d ago
This article has a good explanation of why "you, yes you" should leave: https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit...
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by davidw 22d ago
Probably pretty ... banal, like Hannah Arendt pointed out.
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by davidw 27d ago
As a huge fan of Fishbone, who did not make it big, despite being oh so close in the early 90ies... it'd be nice if there were a better balance. They've seemingly struggled over the years and kept going, but you get the sense th
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by davidw 29d ago
Good writing and a fun trip to some really remote places. Hit me up if you're ever in Bend, happy to get a beer and chat about some of those places. Did you see the pictographs at Hart Mountain? That's actually one bit of Oregon t
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by davidw 29d ago
This is what's called the "broken window fallacy"
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by davidw 29d ago
> People who "almost got hit by a bicycle" are extremely numerous while people who actually got hit by cars remain unavailable for comment. https://bsky.app/profile/jwbee.bsky.social/post/3mtc2rx7
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by davidw 29d ago
My eBike comes with a big basket and a bag that slots into it that can carry a ton of stuff. I do most of our family's grocery shopping with it. A huge upgrade from a backpack.
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by davidw 29d ago
High quality eBikes are pretty amazing: I have nearly 4000 miles on one of ours, and nearly all of those are replacing car trips around town, including most of our grocery shopping. While not revolutionary - they're kind of an incremen
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by davidw 1mo ago
Yesterday I was reading about this place in Oregon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Shirk_Ranch Today, with a modern vehicle, it is 1.5 hours from the nearest 'town' and 2 from the county seat, which ha
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by davidw 1mo ago
That whole area makes for a fascinating trip. It is really, really empty and remote. Paisley is home to one of the largest ranches in the US: https://crookcountyhistorycenter.org/2022/10/one-of-largest-... And nea
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by davidw 1mo ago
I think the number of people who want to use something like this when it's icy out is pretty small. You'd want studded tires, for instance... and it's generally those who are really committed who ride in those conditions. Thi
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by davidw 1mo ago
Hopefully part of the long term effect is people accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels altogether.
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by davidw 1mo ago
I don't know much about the production of these models. How hard would it be to 'fork' something like this and have it not be full of CCP indoctrination?
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by davidw 1mo ago
I mean that could also be true, but it is not - IMO - the cause of the fairly sudden weak market for software engineers.
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by davidw 1mo ago
Are you saying that precise thing changed 10 years ago and hasn't always kind of been with us? I am talking about the weak market for software engineers right now and what caused it.
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by davidw 1mo ago
What is the total monthly spend, approximately, on all this; if you don't mind saying, of course?
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by davidw 1mo ago
> outsourcing, an over-reliance on degrees, LLMs, a lack of "apprenticeship" mentoring, Which of those things changed (along with higher interest rates) in the past few years though? All the other variables did not change. They
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by davidw 1mo ago
It also ignores the effects of having a critical tool in the software pipeline controlled by a large corporation. That is an absolute sea change from the years when you could (and some of us did) run most of our software development on open
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by davidw 1mo ago
That's not actually true; people have been complaining about this for decades, and it's never been the zero-sum game that they claim it is. I mean, I wrote this 12 years ago in response to similar discussions on this same site, an
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by davidw 1mo ago
People have been fretting about 'foreigners' taking their jobs for decades and it never really happened. This is all about LLM's. I mean, think about it; just a few short years ago there was a very strong market for software
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by davidw 1mo ago
Blue Sky has 'enough' for me. I don't care if it's the biggest platform. It's got local elected officials, it's got bike racing content and people, it's got software people, and by using it I'm not su

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