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New comment by game_the0ry in "B-trees and database indexes (2024)"

game_the0ry — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:36:20 +0000

This has been post before, but planetscale also has a great sql for developers course:

https://planetscale.com/learn/courses/mysql-for-developers

New comment by game_the0ry in "Your File System Is Already A Graph Database"

game_the0ry — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:20:47 +0000

There for sure a "second brain" product hiding in plain site for one of the frontier AI companies. Google/Gemini should be all over this right now.

New comment by game_the0ry in "F-35 Got Hit"

game_the0ry — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:43:00 +0000

For fun I ran this query in AI:

> How many impovershised american children could you feed for the cost of one f35 fighter jet?

Here is the answer:

> Using a rough estimate of $110.3 million for one F-35A and about $3,500 per child per year to cover food assistance, that would feed roughly 31,500 children for one year

MPACGA -- Make Poor American Children Great Again.

New comment by game_the0ry in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

game_the0ry — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:18:45 +0000

There is some unintentional good marketing here -- the model is so good its dangerous.

Reminds me of the book 48 Laws of Power -- so good its banned from prisons.

New comment by game_the0ry in "You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)"

game_the0ry — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:08:47 +0000

I mean, I'm not a designer but it was interesting enough to call out.

New comment by game_the0ry in "You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)"

game_the0ry — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:21:18 +0000

Off topic, but that site has really nice design

New comment by game_the0ry in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

game_the0ry — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:09:05 +0000

> I doubt most sociopaths, when they’re honest, would agree they feel much guilt or remorse at all.

Yes that is the core trait I highlighted in the 1st bullet.

New comment by game_the0ry in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

game_the0ry — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:08:24 +0000

> I suspect there's some other category, which isn't really a sociopath and isn't really a not-sociopath, which we don't have a good definition for.

There is -- I call it "corpo sociopath." The corpo sociopath really comes out in the workplace, less so in personal life.

New comment by game_the0ry in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

game_the0ry — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:08:42 +0000

For those curious about how sama got to where he got and stayed on top for so long, I recommend you read the book: The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.

I am fairly confident when I say this -- sama is a sociopath. I don't know how anyone with solid intuition could even come to any other conclusion than the guy is deeply weird and off-putting.

Some concepts from the book:

> Core trait: The defining characteristic is the absence of conscience, meaning they feel no guilt, shame, or remorse.

> Identification: Sociopaths can be charming and appear normal, but they often lie, cheat, and manipulate to get what they want.

> The Rule of Threes: One lie is a mistake, two is a concern, but three lies or broken promises is a pattern of a liar.

> Trust your instincts over a person's social role (e.g., doctor, leader, parent)

Check and check.

OpenAI is too important to trust sama with. He needs to go. In fact, AI should be considered a public good, not a commodity pay-as-you-go intelligence service.

New comment by game_the0ry in "Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic"

game_the0ry — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:31:38 +0000

I just realized how little I know about how async event loops.

New comment by game_the0ry in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

game_the0ry — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:02:26 +0000

You are assuming most readers are dumb. I do not have that assumption.

New comment by game_the0ry in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

game_the0ry — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:40:12 +0000

I have lost faith in sama and openai management.

New comment by game_the0ry in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

game_the0ry — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:37:07 +0000

Is it a problem? Bc I know there is survivorship bias and also still want to hear about the successes, so what is the problem then?

New comment by game_the0ry in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

game_the0ry — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:37:34 +0000

Technically, all journalism pieces on successful businesses are survivorship bias. No one writes and reads about the business that failed to find PMF.

New comment by game_the0ry in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

game_the0ry — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:39:11 +0000

I may be paranoid but only run my ai cli tools in a vps only. I have them installed locally but never use them. In a vps I go full yolo mode bc I do not care about it. It is a slightly more cumbersome workload, bit if you have a dev + staging envs, then you never have to develop and run stuff locally, which brings the local hardware requirements and costs down too (bc you can develop with a base macbook neo).

New comment by game_the0ry in "The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2020)"

game_the0ry — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:12:30 +0000

Say more.

New comment by game_the0ry in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

game_the0ry — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:50:35 +0000

I don't know about you guys, but RTTO was the biggest signal to me that corp america is lost and beyond recovery.

The benefits are so obvious, yet here we are.

New comment by game_the0ry in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

game_the0ry — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:59:40 +0000

His “brand” is “torching investor money.”

Still don’t get it.

New comment by game_the0ry in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

game_the0ry — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:57:51 +0000

This is too cynical for even a turbo cynic like me.

Basically, you’re saying he mislead investors and got a bunch of money, so those investors see themselves being ripped off as a valuable skill, so they invest in him again. Wut?

I say again — why would investors trust him if his only track record is losing investor money?

New comment by game_the0ry in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

game_the0ry — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:13:02 +0000

I guess I would make a terrible VC, bc my money and reputation would matter to me.