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bradleyjg··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
MongoDB is webscale.
bradleyjg··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Perhaps. But does anyone at all outside the c suite fail up in the same way? Fail spectacularly and get a comparable or better opportunity?

Even if it’s only 30% of CEOs and 15% of other CxOs there’s still an anomaly there to be explained.

bradleyjg··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
I think noisy resignation is the rational move for various reasons.

But I don’t think it’s required. The director under Delaware law is not conceptualized as a proxy for the whims of a majority of the voting rights.

bradleyjg··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
> what is even the purpose of a board in a

Delaware law requires a board.

Whether limited liability should actually be allowed at all in such a situation is a better question.

bradleyjg··on White House Says Access Is a 'Privilege' in Court Filing Defending Media Ban
> because accepting this framing doesn't really seem to leave a whole lot of legal wiggle room.

No, it’s not a problem. The government can’t grant or withdraw a privilege for impermissible reasons.

bradleyjg··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
You’re comparing the current system not to the status quo ante but to a utopian fantasy that only ever existed in your imagination.

That’s a weird goalpost.

bradleyjg··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Do you have three examples from 20 years in Afghanistan of analysts being held judicially accountable for target selection errors?
bradleyjg··on If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
An aside, but tests should be that difficult. Otherwise you aren’t getting any signal at the high end. Even in the face of grade inflation that signal can be translated into grad school recommendations (in the uk case, getting all 10 might even garner a “really not bad.”)
bradleyjg··on America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
Perhaps you’re right but how about starting with anything at all meaningful against the company itself?

They end up pay some class action lawyers $8 million dollars and we get a letter offering FREE CREDIT MONITORING!!1!

bradleyjg··on A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on
> there’s a second possibility worth putting on the table, and we’ll be clear that it’s a theory

100% Claude

bradleyjg··on Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers
That’s 6k-10k acre-feet. Which is 1500-2500 acres of rice.

California alone has about half a million acres of rice cultivation.

But big scary numbers are big and scary.

bradleyjg··on Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers
When in comes to water everything besides agriculture is a rounding error.

The only thing an article like this tells you is that the author has an ax to grind.

bradleyjg··on Being ambitious and being a dad
One thing I hate about SV culture is the bullshit. Are we talking about making lots and lots of money? If so, please for the love of god just say so.

Fame? Status?

bradleyjg··on Claude Opus 5
I’m waiting for like GEICO’s app to significantly improve.

I’m not expecting Chrome to because it already had virtually unlimited resources devoted to it. On the other side I’m not expecting my local water district’s to any time soon because the people in charge don’t care even if it was significantly cheaper to improve.

But in the middle is something like GEICO and that’s where I expect improvements if this thing is real.

bradleyjg··on Claude Opus 5
Let’s say somehow the politics lined up and you were given huge hiring budget for your team. You went out and recruited what seemed like great talent. Weekly standups make it seem like everyone is ramped up and firing on all cylinders.

It’s great, right? But you look at what your team has actually delivered since—-and it’s just not that much more than last year.

I think that’s where a lot of us are at the micro and macro level. It seems really great from the inside and outside but we are still waiting to see the dramatic change in actual concrete software output.

bradleyjg··on Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
That exact dynamic—-sharply appreciating house price, falling interest rates, no prepayment penalty—-allowed them to use the homes as an infinite piggy bank. Very convenient.
bradleyjg··on Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-Shiller_index#/media/File...

If you bought at exactly the right second of the crash, houses were where they were at the peak of the late 80s bubble.

bradleyjg··on Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
Yes, the finger pointing can and does go in many directions. Meanwhile the observed pattern is the boomers (actual boomers) get the golden path and every other generation doesn’t. Maybe they were uniquely virtuous and wise.

Strongly doubt the xennials will be as rich in twenty five years as 70 year olds are now.

bradleyjg··on Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
> Someone in their 60s is supposed to be doing better than someone in their 20s.

That’s an incredibly new, and probably temporary, phenomenon.

Across the vast majority of space-time the non-working elderly are poorer than their still working children and rely on them.

As late as the Greatest Generation senior discounts weren’t a sick joke.

bradleyjg··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
You can just not plant anything. It’s not required that every inch of desert is used for irrigated cultivation.

Alfalfa is the cleanest case of a crop that would not be planted nearly as much if western water law (prior appropriation) wasn’t so colossally stupid.

bradleyjg··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
Alfalfa isn’t food.
bradleyjg··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
Radical Luddite posting on the internet is … something.
bradleyjg··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
I don’t really know how to rephrase it. It’s a distraction.

This article could have been about shipping alfalfa to the Middle East and Asia, but instead it was about this.

bradleyjg··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
My point was that google generates hundreds of billions of dollars from the same water that $34 million in alfalfa. It’s absurd to complain about their usage.

Water use policy is about agriculture, agriculture, and also agricultural. Everything else is a distraction.

bradleyjg··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
Google’s just-released 2025 sustainability report is an instructive example. The company said it consumed 10.9 billion gallons of water—a 34% increase from 2024—almost all for data-center cooling.

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Google consumes around three times as much water indirectly as directly, according to a paper published earlier this year by Alex de Vries-Gao, a researcher at the Netherlands-based university VU Amsterdam.

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My take: they should report this in acre-feet instead of gallons, and then compare it to a crop, alfalfa for example.

My back of the envelope says even at the larger number Google is using the enough water to grow about 23,000 acres of alfalfa. That would produce about 138,000 tons which would sell for about $34 million.

bradleyjg··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Yes, that’s where we are today. Colleges definitely can’t avoid fundamentals right now. But at the same time, they should be skating ahead of the puck. Once the calculator has been invented—-even when it’s rare and awkward—-they begin easing off the slide rule reps.
bradleyjg··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
In 2024, we had some coding exams, and AI was explicitly NOT forbidden, which lead to them making the exam more difficult (because with AI, you can solve it so much more quickly, so gotta make it harder), which was really annoying, because it made it practically impossible to solve it yourself because of the time crunch. I hope they realized how wrong that was.

There should be at least one class, probably more, that work exactly like that.

That’s where the industry is moving. Yes, get the fundamentals too, but don’t omit teaching what graduates will actually be doing out of some misplaced sense of purity.

bradleyjg··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
> Imo, the fix should be to work on culture.

We can’t even agree on what’s wrong with it. We aren’t going to be able to fix it.

bradleyjg··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
I definitely see people asking for features from c++. In part because virtually every feature is in c++.
bradleyjg··on The AirPods Effect
I’d say it’s the opposite. We get non enforcement and anti enforcement because lots of people aren’t directly affected.

Different neighborhoods, work from home, private transportation to work, or—admittedly to a lesser degree—AirPod insulation.

If we were really all this together quality of life in our cities would be taken far more seriously.

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