travisgriggs

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by travisgriggs 3d ago
Even kind of fits the model. All of the creativity man has raised is herded to the slaughterhouse and ground up so we end up with a big homogenized mash of ground up creativity, devoid of the life that gave it, rotten if not eaten soon enou
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by travisgriggs 3d ago
We also associate laboratories with evil scientists and Frankenstein and the like. I can just hear Boris Karloff (er Bobby Picket) uttering “I was working in the lab late one night. When my eyes beheld an eerie sight… … … …the monster mash”
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by travisgriggs 9d ago
I am an American. Born here 56 years ago. I think we are alarmingly "far gone".
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by travisgriggs 16d ago
Everyone gets to name their projects for their own reasons. If the pitch is basically an “alternate apple” macOS, I would have chosen one of the other other (alternate) apple varieties as the root of my OS. Missed opportunity I guess.
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by travisgriggs 1mo ago
Or Jose Valim
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by travisgriggs 1mo ago
No Alan Kay or Dan Ingalls. Surprised
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by travisgriggs 1mo ago
As long as message broadcasting remains cheap (in any form; phone, email, text, etc) it will go on. All modern media has evolved technically (and financially) to benefit the producer (the talker). All at the expense of the consumer (listene
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by travisgriggs 1mo ago
I would love to see what this looks like in practice. Especially in generated code. I assume this is more than insertion of non visible special unicode whitespace characters, but more in the pattern of the text content itself?
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by travisgriggs 1mo ago
I wonder what the web would be like if we priced bandwidth at the requester point and as you go.
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by travisgriggs 1mo ago
Honest ask because I’ve not generally paid attention… Is it the case that the numbers always appear more optimistic, and then are revised to be more pessimistic values? Or is it just that the original numbers are off and are revised? Does t
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by travisgriggs 1mo ago
I totally see this. I just did 3 hours of bot sitting to put together some thrash loops that thrash our provisioning working flow for a BLE gadget we make. It was pretty straightforward and productive. But then, I have a lot of experience w
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by travisgriggs 2mo ago
Why is it “just a matter of time”? Why do we assume and say this? The amount of times humanity has said this and time itself was not enough of an ingredient to achieve some anticipated outcome are legion. But we filter those out and go back
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by travisgriggs 2mo ago
To me, what makes this so obvious with the web platform is the bureacratic nature of developing for it. To do anything meaningful, you have to bring three departments together (html, css, and javascript). Each is a very different language d
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by travisgriggs 2mo ago
I’m selling Enshitification Popcorn. It comes with extra strong spices so that you can watch and eat your popcorn without the odors getting to you. Please support my efforts through my Patreon account! /s
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by travisgriggs 2mo ago
I’m overwhelmed by LLM/Agent signal on HN lately. I actually liked this question. It’s trite and whimsical, but frankly nice break.
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by travisgriggs 2mo ago
Can you elaborate why adding guards makes things faster?
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by travisgriggs 2mo ago
Tax social media and other forms of attention products. Time users spend on these products is time taken away from earning revenue that can be taxed. Balance must be restored. If viewers’ available time/ability is harvested so that the
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by travisgriggs 3mo ago
In family and friend relationships, this all resonates completely. Where I struggle and find my ego self defensively screaming “But…!” is in work relationships. Product managers, where their wrongness makes my downstream life more miserable
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by travisgriggs 3mo ago
Q: what kind of collection is this real world example illustrating? A: Copying Garbage Collector (semi space). Chapter 4! Great book. I was always fascinated by bakers treadmill. Always wanted a real world case where I could implement one w
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by travisgriggs 3mo ago
SpaGrox
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by travisgriggs 3mo ago
> Paying $60B for this is idiotic. Isn't that kind of Elon's thing?
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
It’s ok. In the future, no one will do math. Mathematicians will be directors, with a team of math bots that they administer and direct. Instead of being managed, they will become the managers of mathematic autonomons. Universities need to
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
This is awesome. Bag “vibe coding”. Today I will start coding in what I’m going to call “Roy Kent mode”.
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
I find that junior engineers like to use it “up the authority” of their arguments when my experience clashes with their desires. OTOH, I am humbly aware that sometimes my experience is wrong and a curse to me. I DO need to be careful to not
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
Reading the BBC article about poisoning the real time AI well of info yesterday, I was super struck by this point > "We're moving towards this 'one true answer' world. Before, Google would give you 10 blue links and y
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
What is unclear to me is how less skilled people gain useful experience, when using these amplifying tools. I’ve been at this for 35 years; I like to think that sometimes i get some pretty amazing results. I work with two pretty green devel
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
People are never going to quit doing this. I'm surprised we still get "incensed" by being "watched without consent". There is No. Way. It's. Going. To. Ever. Get. Stopped. The only way to level the effects are
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
> quality code Probably where the mismatch is in this discussion. The measure of what is quality code is all over the place. For some, some form of "good enough" is quality. And for others, metrics like terseness, readability,
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
Anyone have any stats on just what the headcount is at Anthropic and OpenAI these days?
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by travisgriggs 4mo ago
Been using Kagi search for more than a year. Been happy. I use GPT/et al for the little things (e.g. unit conversions, rather than search for and then try to use an enshittified web page from 10 years ago). But for actual real tech lea

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