iambateman

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by iambateman 7d ago
From a policy standpoint…I wonder about creating a rule that anyone who got a DUI could get an amended license where they could legally operate only autonomous vehicles. First DUI is a permanent AV-only license. Since 7 million people have
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by iambateman 10d ago
I think there is a difference between a right to safe drinking water and a right to provided water which is safe. The government cannot have a responsibility to provide every person with water, since some people will choose to live in place
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by iambateman 25d ago
Very cool. Does it work to connect my phone and laptop to the same firehose? I often find myself irritated because I read an article on my phone 6 months ago and the history is gone.
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by iambateman 1mo ago
When I was a kid, my parents would say “with that attitude, you’re right.” We can and should expect a lot out of the people around us and especially the ones who choose civil service. Our grandparents ended slavery, got votes for women, est
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by iambateman 1mo ago
If you've never seen the Smarter Every Day series on nuclear reactors[0], it's must-watch. It completely reshaped how I think about reactors. Tremendous respect for the people who work on those plants. [0] https://www.y
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by iambateman 1mo ago
We all are, at some level.
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by iambateman 1mo ago
I would say this is true, but should be understood in the context of sharecropping, Jim crow, and slavery as a long and continuous outworking of poorly-checked capitalism. I’m not saying that you meant to say that it’s our first round with
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by iambateman 1mo ago
I'm sure there's some of that. There was a moment where I made genuine friends through Twitter...people I worked with, knew their families, and really got to know over time. Now, X is a mess and HN is intellectually stimulating bu
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by iambateman 1mo ago
There are some of us who are old enough to remember Twitter’s true time of “unprecedented growth.” I miss old Twitter.
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by iambateman 1mo ago
You and I both know it's not always that simple.
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by iambateman 2mo ago
What do you call a building that can only be seen once in a hundred years? 99% Invisible.
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by iambateman 2mo ago
Ask your doctor if Opus 5 is right for you. Side effects include occasional hallucination, security breaches and unwanted React apps. Some developers have reported receiving entire apps from untrained executives who may or may not know what
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by iambateman 2mo ago
Parent had a good question and this is restating what’s already been said. _how_ do you advocate? If I could avoid delegating to experts, I wouldn’t be in the situation in the first place.
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by iambateman 2mo ago
This is cool! Thanks for sharing. What understanding about hardware did you start with, and what tools did you use to learn what you didn’t already know?
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by iambateman 2mo ago
Do I want to own one of these? No. I want my mechanic to be bored when I show up and need service…I guess that makes me a market laggard. But I do love the pressure this (and Slate) puts on Toyota to restore some sanity to truck prices. The
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by iambateman 2mo ago
I really liked this article. FWIW, I didn’t know he is the CTO of Facebook until just now. But I can relate to the challenge of making decisions with a lot of competing interests, especially in comparison to the clarity that comes from feel
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by iambateman 3mo ago
Yes but every good police officer had watched Arrested Development and so knows that there’s always money in the banana stand.
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by iambateman 3mo ago
I asked a question for my son about how mosquitos carry malaria and Fable was like “ok now hold it right there”
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by iambateman 4mo ago
I would never have had SpeedTest on my board of unicorns…that’s an unbelievable sale price. To all the agents who negotiated that deal, my hat is off to you.
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by iambateman 4mo ago
If you’re going to go through the effort to write 5,000 words—-spend a bit more thought on what to do. I am aware that the sky is falling and I am aware that there are foxes who would gladly replace 10%+ of global knowledge work in the next
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by iambateman 4mo ago
Maybe we should update our lexicon to "NFT mania" –– far more people lost money in that phenomenon.
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by iambateman 4mo ago
Ha! You can check my comment history, my Costco T-shirt love is genuine. :) The second time, I was in the store and could tell these were legitimately great.
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by iambateman 4mo ago
About a year ago, I researched the most comfortable T-shirt. There were quite a few people who mentioned this specific brand I’d never heard of so I bought about 10 shirts and was sorely disappointed—-I got had by a smart marketer I think.
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by iambateman 4mo ago
If you’ll allow yourself to go one step further in the pedantry, there is no such thing as genuine money either.
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by iambateman 4mo ago
The department needs to stay focused on the actually-important work they have to do.
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by iambateman 5mo ago
Do you have something to say about it?
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by iambateman 5mo ago
I work with these tools every day, and I’d say my productivity increase is on the order of astronomical. This isn’t true of everyone, but depending on pre-existing skill sets and context, there’s a group of people who are actually multiples
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by iambateman 5mo ago
Two different friends… First spent most of 2025 looking. Second started last week
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by iambateman 5mo ago
I had a friend with plenty of experience in HR get laid off. He looked for a job for 13 months. One of the top 3 smartest people I’ve ever known looked for seven months and had to take a big step back in his career, despite having Amazon an
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by iambateman 5mo ago
Giving an LLM write access is insane but I gave LLM’s read-only access to our database and it’s been a huge productivity win. Executives who wouldn’t take the time to build a report are happy to ask an AI agent to do so.

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