digital_sawzall

'growing evidence that blockchain will soon..." is basically the line we've heard for the last 15 years.

I'm more open than most to crypto, I worked at Coinbase during IPO and Avalanche for a short contract after that. But yes, I alternate between it's a total scam and it's a technology waiting for a use case.

1968 was about 10 years after my grandparents migrated from Mexico to work at textile factories in the USA. They managed to buy a new house in a master planned community that was filled by other factory workers like themselves. He could never be mistaken for a white male, still he took english classes at night and started a side business as an umpire for baseball games and my grandmother started selling gold to the other factory workers during lunch time. They raised 3 kids, upgraded their house, bought a triplex, and a couple acre investment property.

Could any factory worker do that today?

Yeah that's the type of estimate people give so they can keep the paychecks coming in for as long as possible.

I started doing pushups between claude code responses. I started with 10 but now I rip ~50 like nothing. I'm getting a pull up bar and trying to do the same. Pull ups until it completes then prompt and again, squats, pushups, ect. I'm getting stronger and better at code.

Most people I know have apple watches so researching mechanic movements and models is enough for hobby status to me. Like any other 'collecting' hobby.

But yes I've taken a few apart to try to fix and service them, even if it's only with my $20 amazon repair tool set.

Kamala raised $1.65 billion compared to Trump's $1.1 billion [0]. Not like it was a massive difference. Especially because that does not take into account super pacs, like Musks $200million in Pennsylvania.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-15/trump-har...

AIPAC is the most powerful lobby in Washington. And money get's you anything in politics.

There is no train on the westside? Also the airport to downtown shuttle runs 7 days a week?

But yeah maybe it's because I'm a native Texan but I have never considered taking public transport anywhere. Though that's really the norm outside of a handful of US cities.

So like every Bay area tech worker jumping on a bus at 8:00am until leaving the office after 6pm. And those few of us who don't want that are pressured by managers happy unleash a PIP.

Why is your business worth $5million?

A 'social casino'. I know it's competitive but I think there is a room to make games targeted toward gen-z.

How much are you paying per month?

> don’t even get me started with how much heavy machine operators make!

$40 an hour in Austin Tx, a city with construction going on in every corner.

Attention is easy. Tikok is able to get mass attention in any niche.

China creates the most high end drones and 3d printers, and my Hisense TV is better and cheaper any of my Samsung's. This is from personal experience of things I have purchased.

I am from El Paso on the border. There was a small existing border, mainly a chainlink fence style, my entire life. In 2016-2020 a massive metal structure 20ft tall was built throughout the city. It eventually leads into private ranch lands so I can't really see how far it extends, but yes there was an actual giant border wall built during term one.

I am a big proponent of fasts so I'm biased, but how is a weekly injection better than a free fast that you do once a year?

I hate to say but that's a 'boomer take' but you sound like a parody of a tiktok skit.

> past two years has been eye watering to say the least

Are we seeing the same progress? GPT-4 was released in March 2023, that's almost two years. Tools are much better but where is the vast improvement?

Yes that is completely normal and the my younger relatives would not even think twice.

In the TikTok and Instagram community people are spending billions not only on random domains (like tiedyeshirts.xyz) but often to venmo or zelle listed on profiles. My sister and thousands like her send money to faceless profiles to buy mystery boxes.

This is surprising to me as I have the exact opposite experience. I work in offensive security and chatgpt will add a paragraph on considering the ethical and legal aspects on every reply. Just a today I was researching attacks on key systems and ChatGPT refused to answer while Claude gave me a high level overview of how the attack works with code.

I have a 2015 Macbook pro and an iphone 11 that works great save for that they don't hold a charge.

I would happily spend a several hundreds dollars to save these and continue to use them, or give one to my parents or kid, but I can't find someone who will do a battery replacement. I live in Austin TX and have called 3-5 different apple repair shops. If I can't find someone to do it in a city with the second largest Apple office in the world, I don't think anyone else will be able to.

I have seen your security engineer job ad consistently up since I was looking for my last job in 2021. Loking through my linkedin 'top job picks for you' I see this job role first come up June 15th, 2020.

How can you not have found a someone since then, or does everyone quit? I had seen this ad so often I was starting to suspect it was part of a information gathering scheme for information security professionals.

This is interesting, but from my experience ChatGPT is terrible at security focused code review.

How does this work? Are you sending each request or webpage to the LLM and asking to find security issues?

Fuzzing is a massive field now. I don't know what you are doing specifically but this is a collection of good related papers: https://github.com/wcventure/FuzzingPaper.

I would find what is most like your problem domain and dig in :).

Yet places like Arizona are famous for their lush green lawns and golf courses.

That is false. As a life long texan the grid gets dicey with rolling blackouts every summer and the occasional shutdown every winter.

In fact hundreds of thousands of Houstonians lost power for extended periods just last month.

Oracle, like many others, moved in name only. In fact Oracle just changed the headquarters to Nashville.

Before becoming a techie I did construction work and nearly every person drank beer after (and often during) work. It was a way to alleviate the pain from hard manual labor.

The 'TikTok servers' are actually Oracle servers hosted in the USA.