jakeydus

But so do the builders of the shuttle loom and the controllers of capital...

Well, you're right that it informs me whether I want to attend or not...

Why can’t people even write their own product descriptions without AI anymore???

Hyperbolic as those descriptions are, it’s not like they’re not sourced from reality. Sam Altman’s reputation in SV is well-established; Musk promised the roadster what, a decade ago? These guys preach a promised land of milk and honey and so many hear lap it up like dogs.

Let them generate studio ghibli profile pictures of themselves

Unfortunately I don't particularly care for SV. I left my heart in San Francisco. I love the fog, the density, the hills, the food, the diversity, the transit, and the ocean. Silicon Valley has some of that, and it's in close enough proximity to be able to work in SF or visit regularly, but my dream is to live in Sunset or Haight-Ashbury in an ancient house and ride my bike around town with my girls. Maybe someday.

Oh, I've never thought that Florida was uninteresting. Florida is nothing but ~interesting~.

SF is my favorite city in the world, but as a tech worker in a flyover state I've given up on it being anything but a nice place to visit. I couldn't afford it alone, let alone with my family.

Do you find jobs that allow you to take sabbatical? Or do you leave jobs and find new ones for each expedition you do?

I think you care way too much about this topic.

It's almost like having a quasi-public utility instead of just, I don't know, a public utility? is a bad idea!

"I don't fear surveillance because I don't break the law!" is the rallying cry of the current privileged class. Laws change.

This was such a weak interview, I recognize this is a car podcast and Joel's not an investigative journalist but the lack of pushback was so disappointing.

USDA says that 13.7% of US households experienced food insecurity in 2024 [0]. Extrapolate that against population and you get 47 million people.

[0]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

EDIT since I can't reply to irish-coffee for some reason: nobody said literally starving, OP said experiencing hunger or deprivation.

2-player games, 60 card decks, all sets are legal, no more than four of any card in each deck.

Yeah, well said. Journalism and news is tough because at its core it's a public good, but all of the usual levers we have in modern society for funding and supporting public goods introduce all sorts of other problems. If it's only a voluntary paid service, you limit the reach of the information. If you make it free to access by taking money from advertisers, you introduce conflicts of interest with corporations that journalists might otherwise report on. If you make it state-sponsored, you introduce conflicts of interest with governments that journalists might otherwise report on. Journalists working for free is not right, either.

Obviously journalistic integrity is a real thing and I choose to believe that the vast majority of journalists are out there to report the stories as they are and make information available that otherwise would not be. I do not have the same confidence in the business leaders, like you said. Look no further than Jeff Bezos's WaPo.

I'm not sure what the solutions could be.

What’s your point? There’s a lot of people who can’t or won’t do a lot of things.

Another day, another Claude outage.

It's also because television producers found alternative revenue streams that allow them to sell the TVs for less while still making more. If you look for a TV without all of the adware/bloatware/spyware you can see the true cost of a TV in 2026.

Or next to the TV in the living room and not look conspicuous.

What’s the production mvp app that ai made in 30 minutes then? That was the original question no?

The original comment asked for someone to name one and you didn’t, though.

The popups are absolutely massive, too. It’s infuriating.

I've always said that being an engineer is a classic choose two out of three options situation. You can:

- be well compensated - work on something interesting - work on something ethical

Obviously there's the rare unicorn out there where you get all three, but those are the exception, not the rule.

My first real interaction with a computer in any technical way was trying to get Age of Mythology to work after I lost my activation key. I won't say that I miss those experiences, but they were foundational as h*ck for me.

Yeah the movie’s got warts but if you allow for some plot holes and accept that young Flynn is completely 2D (maybe a meta joke for Tron? Nah just poor writing) the movie rips.

I think OpenType allows for this! Most font designers don’t take advantage though, since even two variants per glyph means 2x the design work and 2x the file size. It would be cool to see it done more though.

Yeah you've just described private health insurance in a nutshell.

Not just that, universities (especially smaller research universities) love having grad students whose research is paid for. China, Saudi Arabia, Brazil (less so now than in the past), Qatar, and others have all had programs for years where they paid the tuition and research costs of students at universities. Why would the university not pick that over a local kid who the university has to pay for out of their own coffers?

I was a big fan of two fonts (Draft Paper and Parts List) by Beth Matthews [0] that call back to this era, you might enjoy them as well.

[0]: https://www.bethmathews.com/shop/partslistdraftpaperfontbund...

If you enjoyed this I'd highly recommend checking out A Semiology of Graphics[0]. I was a little surprised to not see it mentioned in the article, but I recognize the article was less about types of data visualization than it was about how we create data vis.

[0]: https://books.google.com/books/about/Semiology_of_Graphics.h...