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Even if they had died, it would still be relevant. It may point to deeper systemic issues at the company or could lead to identify additional ways to train aircrews to avoid this situation in the future.

It's always relevant but the NTSB's recommendations sometimes fall on deaf ears in a way that endangers future safety.

I've also heard folks suggest that much of these "side effects" may be from eating incomplete diets (i.e. malnutrition) now that their appetites have subsided. The reporting is bad because the science reports on the nuance.

The fascination with "software factories" is strange. We don't have "bridge factories" or "skyscraper factories." We engineer those for the specific requirements from each individual project.

I think it's rooted in the idea that AI is going to "solve" software engineering when it's really only another tool that magnifies leverage. Same thing with traditional engineering and their computer-assisted tools. It doesn't "solve" engineering, but it does automate some of the repetitive things that aren't the biggest value-add.

Software isn't a manufactured product and that's where the disconnect is. You can't build software factories unless you don't care about the quality. For some companies, that might be fine, but I imagine that's a much smaller subset of the market than folks think.

I'm curious for folks who use multiplexers: I've tried tmux and Zellij and if I used a multiplexer, it would be Zellij. However, I can't stand losing terminal real estate, but I don't know why that is. How do you deal with the loss of real estate from a multiplexer?

I use Ghostty, so new tabs and splits don't feel that strange to me. I'm guessing the feature I'm missing out on is session resumption and presets? If I leaned into that more, then a multiplexer would be worth the potential drawbacks?

For at least half that time period between world wars, there was significant economic depression.

It might simply be the economy. The vibes are bad and have been bad since the late 70s because wealth distribution is lopsided and income growth is stagnant.

First job I had was a pair-programming shop that outfitted each station with a 27" iMac and a 27" Cinema display (along with two sets of mice and keyboards).

Second job was remote, so I outfitted my own home office. I upgraded from a 34" 21:9 monitor to a 32:9 monster and enjoyed having the equivalent of 2x27" monitors.

I've since upgraded that setup to add a 28" LG DualUp to the left side of my 32:9 ultrawide. It strikes a nice balance of a productivity display for calendar/email and one for my main workspace that's plenty wide for spreadsheets (because I write less code than spreadsheets for FinOps modeling work).

I'm a huge fan of wider aspect ratios beyond 16:9 or 16:10. The dream is a 32:10 monitor in tandem OLED.

Depending on industry and public versus private here, that $80k+ barrier for non-tech is mostly management positions.

I think they're generalizing beyond software engineers with what they're saying. G&A, Marketing, etc roles pay significantly less than software engineers and that $55-75k figure is realistic in lower cost of living areas. Even in Colorado, which the Denver Metro Area is HCOL, there are companies (smaller, regional, not national/global) still offering that level of salary.

My 1/3 life crisis was buying a Toyota Tacoma Trailhunter long bed last year. It’s been my dream to own a Tacoma for several years, so it was finally time to make it happen.

Eventually, I’d love to modify the exhaust to make it slightly louder. The turbo noise from the raised air intake is awesome enough and I’m curious if other drivers on the road can hear the turbo noise when I drive by them.

Better solution: Adopt summer and winter hours to follow the sun rather than arbitrarily changing the clocks and interrupting sleep schedule and circadian rhythms.

I took a long break from reading for enjoyment after I graduated from college. I got burnt out from reading things I didn't enjoy in high school and undergrad. Now it's what I do to wind down my day before bed. It's a nice relaxing activity that allows my imagination to run a little.

I'd be interested to see more concerted research into contagious/self-replicable vaccines that are self-replicating and spreadable to a wider swath of people. That seems like a step forward in public health prevention for seasonal illnesses that we have well-engineered and safe vaccines for.

I understand the bar for deployment would need to be high to ensure that side effects are even rare compared to typical voluntary vaccinations.

If we're evaluating a person, rote recall is not necessarily cheating. It's expected, but then you'd expect them to apply that rote-memorized information in a novel way later on and prove they understand how they applied their priors to the new situation.

Models don't actually reason in the same sense, so recalling rote from their training data is "cheating" in the sense that the training data cheated, not the model. So many of those benches have snaked their way into training data to make them less useful benchmarks. That, I think, is going to be a long-term difficulty in quantitatively assessing model quality and "intelligence." So it is cheating, in a sense of what we expect from the models and training data, but not in a human sense.

No, the public at large are the stakeholders. The enterprise is the subject of the regulation.

How is the subject of potential regulation considered a stakeholder?

I find that OpenAI's agentic tools and models are better for building human-maintainable software. Meanwhile, Anthropic seems to be cosplaying Apple while missing out on all the exceptional engineering required to create something that polished. Their admission of predominately using Claude with little human oversight and their stealth mode is an indictment of a poor engineering culture, from what I can surmise.

I think the ideal, but politically infeasible outcome would be passing regulation to prevent hyperscalars from hosting their own models (or requiring wholesale leasing of infra), akin to other country’s telecom line-sharing regulations. Essentially convert machine intelligence to a regulated-utility industry rather than a competitive enterprise.

Consolidation is inevitable, so let’s lean in and ensure society, not shareholders, reap those benefits.

I don't fully agree. If the only way information and cross-pollination is through in-office water-cooler conversation, that's an organizational smell.

If you have most of the work and conversation is done in public, you're not hiring very curious people.

Most variants of GPT-5.5 are less chatty and token-intensive than Opus 4.8/4.7, so despite the output token price being higher, it generates fewer tokens, so the net cost is lower.

Per-token pricing is totally sensible from the provider-perspective on mapping COGS to revenue, but for a consumer, different models will produce more or less tokens, meaning the cost calculation is multi-dimensional.

Yeah, it's certainly a departure from the Prius-style hybrid powertrain. I'll watch that video as I haven't come across it yet!

Also, I love how my 4th gen Tacoma drives! So glad I got a long-bed Trailhunter last year.

If they cleaved off xAI and let it die, they'd be in much better shape!

I now have a hybrid Toyota truck (Tacoma i-Force MAX), so it's not like the classical EV/BEV powertrain, from my understanding. Instead, the motor is between the engine and the transmission, so it gives an initial kick of torque before the engine starts or provides sufficient power.

It's interesting that Toyota has two hybrid models: one for efficiency and one for low-end torque performance.

I had my breakup with them when I realized that I always install vim keybindings for every editor I use and that Neovim plus plugins gives me the typical workflow I use. It became a no-brainer to lean into the LSP ecosystem (and DAP for debugging) and have the native version of the way I like to edit files.

It also helped that Neovim tends to consume minuscule amounts of resources compared to IntelliJ. I like the product Jetbrains developed, but I don't like how resource hungry it is—running JVM software is something I try to avoid, if possible.

> except that no one has been able to articulate what "new work" might emerge

I think it's worse than that. The frontier labs are purporting that there won't be any "new work" required in the future—starting with knowledge workers and then eventually snaking down into more manual labor jobs via robotics.

The irony is that these same labs are still hiring engineers to build the machinery they're so convinced will make engineers obsolete. It's so paradoxical it's not true.

The only true things are that AI is a bubble, the current technology is unsustainable given the amount of compute required, and LLMs are overhyped in what they can do well versus what they need to be closely supervised with.

Wouldn't it be incredible if they remove the sequel trilogy from canon and rebrand "Legends" as the actual post-Galactic Civil War timeline? I'd certainly like that.

At some point, because these models are trained on existing data, you cease significant technological advancement--at least in tech (as it relates to programming languages, paradigms, etc). You also deskill an entire group of people to the extent that when an LLM fails to accomplish a task, it becomes nearly impossible to actually accomplish it manually.

It's learned-helplessness on a large scale.

Yeah, I agree with this. I think age-related content moderation is a losing fight and one that will create more contempt for laws, more surveillance, and much more PII surface area that will be exploited.

There are really two "core" issues at play:

1. The prudish nature of US society

2. The fact that we don't have data privacy laws and restrictions on digital surveillance by private companies

App Tracking Transparency. I first through "AT&T" and then actually realized the acronym.

And even if you could be made whole via insurance, the TSA agent not facing repercussions and the system not having a feedback loop to improve is the actual problem.

I think this, or calmer heads prevailing and Powell retaining soft power/influence are the most likely outcomes. Without being able to dismiss board members at will, Trump won't have the influence he wants over the Fed.