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New comment by datadrivenangel in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

datadrivenangel — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:17:59 +0000

Also the rise of stressed delivery drivers leaving their cars running, and the kiaboys social media meme / subculture contributed.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles"

datadrivenangel — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:15:36 +0000

Isn't Teflon (PTFE) inert biologically?

(the precursor PFOAS are nasty forever chemicals that people should go to jail over dumping them in water, but once they're inert they're inert)

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?"

datadrivenangel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:54:09 +0000

Through words and patterns you can change the operation of the machine, and thus alter the physical world. Your programs are wizardry! The part that sucks is trying to make magic happen within an organization run by boring accounting people. The only room for magic is begrudging.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

datadrivenangel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:41:52 +0000

Rich Hickey gave a great talk on Hammock Driven Development

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

datadrivenangel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:32:44 +0000

So this is basically overfitting to the benchmaxxed open models. Or more positively, quality routing based on skills. makes sense if it works!

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

datadrivenangel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:25:51 +0000

There's a lot of nice to have time and responsibility that an extra 20% of people get you.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Nothing works and everyone is euphoric"

datadrivenangel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:36:07 +0000

and now without prime, amazon packages take two weeks to arrive! Total garbage

New comment by datadrivenangel in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

datadrivenangel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:18:03 +0000

/s?

New comment by datadrivenangel in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"

datadrivenangel — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:14:10 +0000

If the AI companies destroy the open web, eventually they'll need to start curating knowledge sources just like netflix makes movies and amazon has physical stores...

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

datadrivenangel — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:23:16 +0000

GIT IS DECENTRALIZED

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

datadrivenangel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:45:07 +0000

Usually the home service is 200+ amps these days which is 24 KW total across all circuits, though you're right that most individual circuits are only 10-15 amp.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

datadrivenangel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:43:20 +0000

Except sometimes cheap places are great because the food is good and they don't spend money on ambience and other pretentious expenditures.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

datadrivenangel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:55:33 +0000

the more Tokens/CPU use the better your project. /s

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

datadrivenangel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:42:10 +0000

Shared information like code and files are increasingly important for keeping people and agents aligned, and "AI Native" businesses will become even more code heavy, so that makes sense.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

datadrivenangel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:20:07 +0000

so your agents can't access any private information in public channels?

Not very useful.

Still probably better than Claude's new bot which requires a service account per channel!

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

datadrivenangel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:10:24 +0000

And if someone gets access to a channel that they shouldn't?

The best norms around slack channels is to have most channels be public, but have norms where not everyone is in every channel.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "The Psychology of Software Teams"

datadrivenangel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:09:51 +0000

One of the best pieces of work in this genre is Gerald Weinberg's the psychology of computer programming.

https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Programming_Psychology.html

New comment by datadrivenangel in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

datadrivenangel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:58:41 +0000

What brand of robot is this and how how reliable is it?

New comment by datadrivenangel in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

datadrivenangel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:09:13 +0000

But if that person has rare skills where at least 25% of their output makes another team of 5 100% more effective (200%), than than loss of 50% output is actually a 33% gain in output!

Say you have a team of 6 (5+1 DevOps Wizard), and a team of 5. so Call it 5x200 +5 x100% output, 1500 output total. Split our wizard in half and you get 5x200 + 5x200 = 2000 output total!

At a certain minimum level the effectiveness inverts because people are waiting on wizard magic and everyone is less effective, but there is benefit to having specialists be split.

New comment by datadrivenangel in "We want Texans to know their rights"

datadrivenangel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:35:27 +0000

this case was a self administrated abortion?