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stevenally··on Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?
This might help you:

https://archive.jamesaltucher.com/blog/reinventing-yourself/

stevenally··on Substack writers, you need a website
I am surprised that people pay $12/ month for a single Substack newsletter.
stevenally··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
"He wasn't convicted for that". Maybe that's the point. Maybe he should have been.
stevenally··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
The AI should be doing the reading, then deciding what to do, then doing it, right? While you are at the beach, or unemployed. That's what Sam says.
stevenally··on QUIC is more than a replacement for TCP
> Decoupling between layers will be essential!

You then don't need to "break the speed boundary".

stevenally··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
"Trite as the gh issue is and surely this is thankless work, the bottom line and reality is that rsync is a cornerstone for a lot of sensitive pipelines".

Maybe don't piss off the maintainer then?

stevenally··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
> If we don't even know the ratio between amortized capital expenses and operational costs, outside investor analysis is impossible.

And yet we surely need this data for the IPO? Or are they relying on rule changes on the indexes to force ETFs to buy shares?

stevenally··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
They are abusing our trust. That's the issue.
stevenally··on Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?
It's true though, isn't it.... The question is do they use it?
stevenally··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
"Rolling their own seems silly".

But isn't AI going to destroy all current software vendors?? Everybody is going to roll their own?? In fact, AIs will handle all support autonomously?? I mean they can spin up their database if needed?? What more do they need?

Hence the SAAS apocalypse...

Oh wait... this sarcasm will get me targeted by the LessWrong AI god when he/she/it becomes omnipotent....

stevenally··on 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal
Depends how the farming is done....

https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertif...

stevenally··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work
"But then how can the former category continue to fulfill their obligations?".

They can't. Just like the steel workers who lost their jobs in the 1970's.

stevenally··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Good point. There is a difference between using AI as a translator and using AI to write comments from scratch... Maybe the HN guide lines could reflect this.
stevenally··on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
"then I am hopefully helping decrease the return advertisers get by using personal information".

Arguably, clicking on the ad but never buying would have a stronger negative affect. The advertiser pays for your click but gets no return...

I use an adblocker too.

stevenally··on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
In the USA California, Texas, Delaware etc all have different company registration and compliance processes. This has not damaged the business environment.

It should be left to each EU country to decide how to manage their company compliance processes. Those companies can then easily trade all over the EU.

You can easily set up a company in Ireland.

The EU does not to over reach with one-size-fits-all regulations. That will eventually lead to it's dissolution. It needs to concentrate on maintaining a free trade area.

stevenally··on The Post-American Internet
Crappification is a better word.
stevenally··on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
"I think it continues to be under-appreciated how much of a lead Tesla still has in EVs".

As long as you don't compare them to BYD etc.

stevenally··on Most of What We Call Progress
This is a really excellent essay. Deserves to be widely read.
stevenally··on Why doesn't anything work anymore?
Exactly. Occasionally a really good well designed reliable product comes along. But then over time time it gets crappified. The only exception seems to be some open source software.
stevenally··on Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
NVidia only owns 4% of Intel. They won't be able to dictate it's direction.
stevenally··on Cursed, a genz programming language made by Claude in a 3-month loop
Finally AGI is here......
stevenally··on 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report
"Because the customer wasn't the user - it was their boss and shareholders".

Previous management fads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_fad

Obviously in the right contexts, these methods provided value. But they became widely misapplied, causing a lot of harm.

And the Wikipedia list is far from exhaustive.