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New comment by georgeburdell in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

georgeburdell — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:10:19 +0000

Exactly. People make this technology with impunity. If they felt repercussions for working with the “bad guys”, it would give them pause before accepting a job with Flock, Andruil, Anthropic, etc.

New comment by georgeburdell in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

georgeburdell — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:17:02 +0000

I ended up dropping my drawing class because I kept getting docked points for my handwriting no matter how much I practiced. I think I was on track for a B or C.

New comment by georgeburdell in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

georgeburdell — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:34:57 +0000

Profit is not a concern for the Chinese

New comment by georgeburdell in "We let AIs run radio stations"

georgeburdell — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:22:35 +0000

It was also hilarious

New comment by georgeburdell in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

georgeburdell — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:20:04 +0000

Agreed. I’ve switched to local models for many of my simpler workloads because they’re good enough. Coding is still through a frontier model though

New comment by georgeburdell in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

georgeburdell — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:57:21 +0000

The median of its employees’ geographies is China. That’s how it got worse than your average maturing Bay Area company

New comment by georgeburdell in "Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices"

georgeburdell — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:38:52 +0000

I don’t know why you think Meta accumulated most of its Chinese engineers through H1B. It’s top tier pay so most people move up to them from elsewhere.

New comment by georgeburdell in "Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices"

georgeburdell — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:54:19 +0000

The 5 Americans left at Meta have had enough

New comment by georgeburdell in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

georgeburdell — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:28:45 +0000

I use Markdown + plugins and one of the Git providers to maintain software contracts with other teams that I can’t trust to do the right thing. It has the benefits of having readable diffs and being maintainable by a human, if needed. HTML as the author acknowledges does not make readable diffs.

Markdown remains great because the other side is just going to use Claude to do their work anyway, and I can use Claude to verify their work meets my specifications.

New comment by georgeburdell in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

georgeburdell — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:32:36 +0000

That's my personal experience growing up in a suburban area in the South (edit: in the 90s)

New comment by georgeburdell in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

georgeburdell — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:05:31 +0000

Middle America peaks in High School. Local games are televised and commentated even during the regular season. The TV series Friday Night Lights is a reasonable reference as an outsider

New comment by georgeburdell in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

georgeburdell — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:05:29 +0000

I embrace it at this point. It ends all the shilling of vibe coded tools at work that I have endured over the past year. Everyone can now make their own tools with zero obligation to coordinate beyond shared hardware resources

New comment by georgeburdell in "AI's economics don't make sense"

georgeburdell — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:29:45 +0000

No employer is telling their employees to use tokens thoughtfully. They might even have token usage leaderboards. One of my team’s agents runs on Opus 4.6 for a fairly narrowly defined scope of a few MCPs and skills. But everyone’s getting their promos and bonuses based on this alone. Next year we’ll get another bonus when we save $1000/day by switching it to Qwen 32B on a Mac Studio

New comment by georgeburdell in "Waymo in Portland"

georgeburdell — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:52:24 +0000

Rideshare drivers can speed

New comment by georgeburdell in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

georgeburdell — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:06:04 +0000

4 out of the 5 FAANGs hire RF engineers so… now?

New comment by georgeburdell in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"

georgeburdell — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:17:51 +0000

The missing ending to this article is when companies whine for more immigration because they didn’t invest in the future to make sure a talent pipeline still existed locally.

New comment by georgeburdell in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

georgeburdell — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:53:15 +0000

I really hope this project continues to gain momentum. Apple Hardware + Linux is the least fscked OS running on the best hardware. MacOS continues to be a tire fire with endless bugs and churn between versions.

New comment by georgeburdell in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

georgeburdell — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:35:20 +0000

I went from introvert only-child to married with kids. As they hit daycare, I was perpetually riddled with disease for about 15 months. I still had to take care of the kids though, so I was liberally taking Ibuprofen. At some point, I started to get horrible heartburn. I tried all kinds of dietary restrictions until I realized it was probably the Ibuprofen. Now, if I take even one pill, the heartburn comes back. I switched to Acetaminophen and found it was much more effective at reducing fever with no apparent side effects.

New comment by georgeburdell in "Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]"

georgeburdell — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:11:47 +0000

And yet you are also likely to argue “weather is not climate”. Differences in population characteristics of all kinds have massive societal implications and we should lean into addressing them.

New comment by georgeburdell in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

georgeburdell — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:12:23 +0000

Just annotating this as the Iranian regime’s talking point