james_marks

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by james_marks 7d ago
First iPhone I've actually wanted in a long time.
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by james_marks 2mo ago
Interesting, but hard to tell how accurate it is. Converting to midi and having a playback from the transcription would help you tell how close it was.
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by james_marks 2mo ago
Love this, and immediately wanted a couple of copies for friends + office. Tried ordering from the US and could not increase the shopping cart quantity from 0 in Chrome or Safari.
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by james_marks 2mo ago
1000%. I'm experimenting with running my agent (Claude Code) inside a docker container, so I can have a control plane and then YOLO within that limited access. The agent could still mangle my local dev setup, but I consider that an acc
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by james_marks 2mo ago
Solved problems are invisible.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
Packaging a capability into a consumable form will still be business. It's like web hosting; all the open source tools are there and free, and yet website tools, hosts, etc flourish.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
"When you a realize a guitar cannot, in fact, be perfectly tuned, you are beginning to get somewhere with the guitar". Paraphrasing and I don't remember the author, unfortunately.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
The final rebuttal to “the data doesn’t lie”: pull the sensors.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
> If you think you could step into those shoes, you're either built different or delusional. Being a bit delusional is a critical quality of some CEOs, so the distinction hardly matters.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
Thanks for the tip! Ironically it’s the opposite in this case; where we’re willing to exceed the upper bound for the right person. Your point about the good people self-selecting out makes sense.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rivora/c146a25b-dddb-4ac0-a8c1-c8b3...
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by james_marks 3mo ago
In the news I hear about tech layoffs, but I am having a difficult time trying to hire high quality senior SWE's. Perhaps it's not the senior's that were hit by the layoffs, or I'm just looking in the wrong places. The b
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by james_marks 3mo ago
In the US there is a widening income equality gap[0], of which outsourcing is one plausible component in a large, complex system. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
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by james_marks 3mo ago
Exactly this. When I reject a refactor PR (or ideally, _before_ there's a PR), it's not because it's a bad idea, per se. But there's risk associated with every change, and it takes time to review, QA, monitor the rollout
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by james_marks 3mo ago
Adding a can of coconut milk for your liquids works really well, too. We skip the egg replacement altogether, and it just works.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
We called drinking the raw batter a “cake shake”.
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by james_marks 3mo ago
Love this idea, can’t wait to try it. Thank you for sharing!
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by james_marks 4mo ago
> this fetish for controlling people through coercion that seems so prevalent in certain new modern business contexts, like amazon warehouse workers and delivery employees. The only thing it creates is resentment. Is that how you want to
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by james_marks 4mo ago
Jevon’s paradox. We’ve been constrained by how much software could be produced for decades. Making it easier/faster doesn’t increase leisure, it increases the demand for (cheaper) software.
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by james_marks 4mo ago
When the parent buys the store, they are also buying their contracts and obligations. Unless the contract was written so poorly this didn’t happen?
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by james_marks 4mo ago
> One of the most prominent improvements in Opus 4.8 is its honesty. We train all our models to be honest—for instance, to avoid making claims that they can’t support. But a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to c
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by james_marks 4mo ago
17 months of runway for the something with the scale and ambition of Wikipedia is living hand-to-mouth.
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by james_marks 4mo ago
As an adult, I now write clean error handling first thing. The person it benefits the most is the author, when they are building it and the errors-per-use are as high as they’ll (hopefully) ever be.
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by james_marks 4mo ago
By “American People” you mean native Americans? Because Literally everyone else in the US is an immigrant. Or are you referring to the Spanish that settled the west? The French in the far south? The Italians and Jews that populated New York
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by james_marks 4mo ago
It’s funny to me that this is increasingly how packages are delivered in the US, too. Asking someone who’s going that way already to drop it on their way is inherently efficient in some circumstances. Once there’s remuneration, it’s not a b
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by james_marks 4mo ago
The "pull the slot-machine handle again" is the dangerous thing here. I can feel it sometimes, as my brain shuts down and I gamble instead of thinking. It's a reversion to what I call "monkey mind" where you just ke
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by james_marks 4mo ago
Douglas Adams coined this effect as SEP: Someone Else’s Problem
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by james_marks 4mo ago
It’s a funny idea. Then you can read the prompt and decide if you want to materialize it with your own LLM/tokens. Spoiler: probably not.
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by james_marks 5mo ago
Hot take: TUI’s default to providing utility, GUI’s are prone to extra style/bloat. Obviously both are capable of the other. The vanilla HTML styles look bare, so you have do _something_. TUI’s look sort of cool in their simplest form.
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by james_marks 5mo ago
In your defense, the Jeeves character became part of the zeitgeist on its own, as the generic perfect butler. I knew “Jeeves” decades before I knew (and came to love) Wodehouse.

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