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femiagbabiaka··on Transit rewards
The Bay Area has reliable, clean, consistent public transit right now, it's just not evenly distributed
femiagbabiaka··on Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]
To sensible people? None. But the amount of criticism of his work that boils down to "he uses AI" is undeniable.
femiagbabiaka··on Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]
It was expected that people without established credibility would be looked down on for using AI, but it's been weird to see people with all the credibility in the world lose it for embracing AI.
femiagbabiaka··on Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
In Emacs 31 none of what you’re saying is true. Grammars auto install and setting them up is easy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1utghab/treesitter_s...

femiagbabiaka··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
It doesn’t work, it performs horribly and is full of bugs. Serious people use open harnesses.
femiagbabiaka··on We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
Objectively speaking, Russia is one of the most creative and innovative societies of all time. Literature, science, music, sporting, mathematics, computing, you name it, a Russian has innovated in it.
femiagbabiaka··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
The cloud provider isn't the harness, Terraform/OpenTofu/Pelumi and the abstractions you build using them are. The cloud provider is the LLM. It's not as fungible as the LLM and there's no direct comparison to egress costs of course, but that's moreso a problem with the metaphor.
femiagbabiaka··on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
All of the people who I agree with are ensouled, all of them I disagree with are not.
femiagbabiaka··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
Perhaps it's time to switch to paradigms that allow faster patch generation, application, and rollout... like Nix.
femiagbabiaka··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
Yes, and, for non-personal machines or anything connected to the internet: now is a great time to get good at rolling out patches and new releases quickly.
femiagbabiaka··on FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
Old but still good: https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/fear-of-musli...
femiagbabiaka··on FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
It makes sense given a few things, although it's not as bad as you're saying: 1. The median American lives in a city and has exposure to Muslims and is most likely not Islamophobic. 2. Due to the voting structure of the U.S., people who don't live in cities and don't get exposure to Muslims get outsized voting rights. 3. Most American electeds are much more well travelled than Americans who don't live in cities.

So basically, elites have to necessarily balance (and exploit) the biases of over-represented minorities with their own largely metropolitan beliefs.

All of this is made more ironic in that the moral structures of the Abrahamic religions, including Islam, are all influences on and in line with, traditional American values, which American elites don't follow (see Epstein) but Americans who don't live in cities largely do.

femiagbabiaka··on FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
At least in part, they legitimately see Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, and now Syria, as part of the American empire. I would argue this is a bipartisan elite belief as well, you see Dem current and former elected's lobbying and giving talks where policy is dictated in those countries all the time, investing and being invested in by those countries all the time.
femiagbabiaka··on Incident with multple GitHub services
The number of nines assigned to a suite of services is not indicative of the quality of SRE at any given company, but rather a reflection of the tradeoffs a business has decided to make. Guaranteed there's a dashboard somewhere at Github looking at platform stickiness vs. reliability and deciding how hard to let teams push on various initiatives.
femiagbabiaka··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Why?
femiagbabiaka··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
That's because Israel killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon today.
femiagbabiaka··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
Oman and Iran are splitting the fees RE: the statements by Iran.
femiagbabiaka··on Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates
The experience one has with this stuff is heavily influenced by overall load and uptime of Anthopic's inference infra itself. The publicly reported availability of the service is one 9, that says nothing of QoS SLO numbers, which I would guess are lower. It is impossible to have a consistent CX under these conditions.
femiagbabiaka··on Apple Just Lost Me
I like it as well, although it was and is very buggy in certain instances.
femiagbabiaka··on Missile defense is NP-complete
could use some investigation of the ukranians techniques -- the number of interceptors the U.S. used within the first four days of the war eclipsed the total amount Ukranians have had for the war
femiagbabiaka··on Migrating to the EU
If we stay on the current path, in a few months tech will start to feel the pain of Trump's rampage. The only redeemable thing about that is that maybe tech workers and Americans generally will finally stop feeling like they're above it all.
femiagbabiaka··on AirPods Max 2
They don't, because almost entirely is not the same as entirely.
femiagbabiaka··on AirPods Max 2
It's still extremely odd that they don't just... turn off.. ever? Even the case marketing copy notes this:

> When stored in the soft, slim Smart Case, AirPods Max enter an ultra‑low‑power state.

femiagbabiaka··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Support small theatres, you won’t get charged like this.
femiagbabiaka··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
> Israeli VCs tend to be uninterested in IPOs in general - too much of an operational headache and it's difficult to exit a position quickly.

Interesting, why is this more true of Israeli VC's as opposed to VC's in other markets?

femiagbabiaka··on Roblox is minting teen millionaires
Seems possible that MMO's will have a resurgence once the Roblox generation comes of age.
femiagbabiaka··on Meta acquires Moltbook
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femiagbabiaka··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
the outcome of the review isn't just that the code gets shipped, it's knowledge transfer from the senior engineer to the junior engineers that then creates more senior engineers
femiagbabiaka··on Glaze by Raycast
the first scenario that came to mind is that they built it for themselves and then open sourced it
femiagbabiaka··on When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
None of those work when dealing with external services, I wouldn’t even trust them as a solution for dealing with access to a database. It seems like the pushback against MCPs is based on their application to problems like filesystem access, but I’d say there are plenty of cases in which they are useful or can be a tool used to solve a problem.
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