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Data nerd who like to build cool s...tuff!

San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2007
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My AI renders are slightly behind others I see on X… (supposed to be a man on a scull).
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I’m so freakin’ excited!
Grok Bot is now available for iPad
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Honestly, if you work 2 hours 3 times a day managing your agents 5-7 days a week, you could easily outperform a normie working 9-5 by an order of magnitude.
Major trend I'm seeing in hiring: people are asking to be part-time, come in three days a week, and have a 4-day weekend to work on their personal projects. Let that sink in: people are asking for 60% of the salary of a full-time job! Positive that people are upfront that they're not interested in doing a 40- or 50-hour workweek I could see the United States moving to a standard 4-day workweek in the age of AI, with people getting fewer named vacation, sick, personal and holidays, etc. Abstract the work agreement to 4 days a week × 50 weeks a year = 200 days of work for X salary But you have to Come to an office and actually work there's going to be a grand negotiation that occurs over the next decade or two
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Ed Mengel retweeted
Apple Glasses could be coming 👀
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Not sure when DoorDash or UberEats will figure out when I complain about missing food, I don’t want my money back. I want the food I ordered expedited to my house. 🤷‍♂️
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You had me at “No Face ID, only Touch ID”!
According to Gurman, here’s what the iPhone Ultra testers have to say about the upcoming Apple foldable: > No Face ID, only Touch ID > No telephoto camera > Can double as a large camera viewfinder > Expected to cost over $2,000 > Advanced hinge mechanism > Fits easily in a pocket despite the foldable design > iPad-like app layouts on the larger internal display
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This is a super cool website. You can scroll around and look at any country's population pyramid, fertility rate, and mortality rate by year. Check this out:
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What a great idea for an old MBP that won’t run the latest XCode anyway!
Going to double down on the MacBook mission with Omarchy. We almost have perfect coverage for the vintage Intel era going from 2009-2020. There's a straight shot to get the M1 and M2 machines going too, even if it's a lot more work. But we'll do the work. We'll fix everything.
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Horrible thing happened today. Mac Mini 256GB HD filled up. Usually I ask Claude to clean up. Claude stopped working. Codex wouldn’t load. Even Claude terminal wouldn’t start. I had to manually delete files like it was 2024 just to get Claude to restart!
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It’s painfully obvious which popular apps aren’t paying for a $20 AI subscription to continually improve their product.
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Is it me, or is Grok @bot super flaky these past few days? Morning brief failed, responses just stop mid work, give it something to do, and it never comes back. Follow up and it says “Oh yeah, [something] crashed, I’ll try again…” and it never replies after that.
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Time to retry Cursor…
Cursor is now on iPad. All the power of Cursor on iPhone, with more room to work with agents.
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So can we all agree that the movie 50 First Dates was actually a prescient how to on setting up agent with models that are a blank slate every session?
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I hate Windows so much… Yes, I tried to reject every offer when installing Window, but this:
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NEW: BPI research reveals that a Marxist-Leninist group with documented ties to China has been a critical mobilizer in efforts that have blocked or delayed $23.6 billion in AI investment in the US. Its scalps include 10 data center moratoria, 1 permanent data center ban, and 4 rejected or scrapped AI projects. In Part II of our foreign influence investigation, BPI exposes the Party for Socialism and Liberation (or PSL) as the political arm of Shanghai-based Neville Singham, and lays bare a national campaign launched by the party to stop America’s data center buildout. Singham is the subject of multiple federal investigations into his reported ties to the CCP. Our research uncovers the anti-data-center organizing of his activist vehicle, the PSL, across 21 campaigns in 14 states, in roles ranging from lead organizer to one member of a broader coalition. This report adds to the mounting evidence that China and its surrogates are committed to stopping America’s data center buildout so that Beijing can gain the advantage in the AI race.
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I love it as bad as inflation has been. It still seems to have not been able to affect the kids menu at any restaurant.
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The irony is this doesn’t even show what we actually do, front to back, which performs worse than any of the options.
Turns out there's a faster way to board an aircraft! Someone should tag literally every airline and show them this. 📹: bad_science_jokes
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Killer iPhone feature: tap to pay & allow vendor to transmit a receipt so you don’t have to share your email.
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY 💲💲💲💲💲
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Just like Highways had to double as airstrips in case of an emergency. Data centers could double as strongholds for a Zombiepocalypse!
Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of local tax revenue. I suspect it's partly because they're ugly! My proposal:
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