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(do people still at dang? don't read here often anymore)

@dang something about this website triggering content blocking filters. hate to say that i don't have time to investigate but it seems worth mentioning

Predictably, if you say anything sane on the internet, you get a longwinded rude nonsense reply for your effort.

The consistent message from social media in the last 10 years is: don't try to talk sense. That will be punished.

propaganda. "the economy isn't actually good!"

they won't even show a chart in the article. 493 is up ... look at a 2025 5y chart. not that "basically flat" (actually 2023) chart google tries to feed you as a top result.

“Needless bullshit” is a bad take.

What if I have a mission and I like it and it’s totally authentic? My customers like it too. Are you calling me full of it for achieving that difficult goal?

I think you’re right about a lot of inauthentic mission statements, but I think crass swearing is the real “needless bullshit”.

Cool idea and I like the format. Transformer circuits and attention would be a cool thing too.

Yeah I should have left the Rumsfeld part out because the conversation naturally got distracted. It isn’t accurate to attribute it to him. His was perhaps the most prominent recent version , but he was definitely paraphrasing an existing adage.

Yes I like the zero joins on hot paths approach. It can be hard to sell people on it. It’s a great decision for scaling though.

I’m reminded of one of my favorite sayings:

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

You may want to ignore that this this comes from Donald Rumsfeld (he has some great ones though: “unknown unknowns …”, etc.)

I think about this a lot when working on teams. Everyone is not perfectly agreeable or has the same understanding or collective goals. Some may be suboptimal or prone to doing things you don’t prefer. But having a team is better than no team, so find the best way to accomplish goals with the one you have.

It applies to systems well too.

What was the workflow to create the icon? It looks great.

I have always agreed with Vinod Khosla about doctors. Much of what they do today should be replaced by AI.

My own opinion: their arrogance is the most offensive part of the situation. There are plenty of great doctors and surgeons out there, don’t get me wrong. But the majority seem to think they are a superior species.

It really depends. If the chat is high quality and actually doing something helpful, then I want to talk to it. The adoption rate and usage stats of ChatGPT disagree with the tile.

Yeah