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New comment by mzg in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

mzg — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:39:53 +0000

As well as Billy Strings, Goose, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Sturgill Simpson, John Mayer…big scene these days

New comment by mzg in "Levels of Agentic Engineering"

mzg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:38:57 +0000

As a lowly level 2 who remains skeptical of these software “dark factories” described at the top of this ladder, what I don’t understand is this:

If software engineering is enough of a solved problem that you can delegate it entirely to LLM agents, what part of it remains context-specific enough that it can’t be better solved by a general-purpose software factory product? In other words, if you’re a company that is using LLMs to develop non-AI software, and you’ve built a sufficient factory to generate that software, why don’t you start selling the factory instead of whatever you were selling before? It has a much higher TAM (all of software)

New comment by mzg in "Brian Wilson has died"

mzg — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:52:57 +0000

In a lot of ways, Frank Ocean feels like the millennial Brian Wilson. Not sure if any zoomer musicians have had enough time in the spotlight to develop that sort of persona.

New comment by mzg in "Amazon acquires Fig"

mzg — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:42:12 +0000

No, presumably these employees will be based on dry land

New comment by mzg in "FedNow Is Live"

mzg — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:55:42 +0000

The government already has the power to do this — just ask any trans person in the South

New comment by mzg in "NYC Slice"

mzg — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:24:51 +0000

Honestly, a solid take! It’s more of an optimization problem — find the best balance of quality, proximity, and price, and you’ve got your favorite slice shop. If you’re at a friend’s or a loved one’s, that solution changes, and you begin to associate the flavor of that slice with them and their home. Sometimes it’s worth it to make a trip out to one of the pizza Meccas—Lucali, Joe’s on Carmine, L&B Spumoni Gardens, etc.—but more often than not, you’re set with your local slice.

Unless you live in Downtown Brooklyn, where there is no good pizza. Then you’re just fucked.

New comment by mzg in "PC wakes from sleep when changing clothes"

mzg — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:49:22 +0000

When I was a teen I had a guitar amp that would, if plugged into an effects pedal with certain settings, pick up a Spanish-language radio station. No clue how!

New comment by mzg in "The internet changed my life"

mzg — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:53:02 +0000

> It wasn't until the '80s that we got a fairly solid (and popular) understanding of the mechanisms of broadcasting

Curious what you mean by "the mechanisms of broadcasting" here--what discovery/formalization/legislation/else do you mean?

New comment by mzg in "Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills"

mzg — Tue, 25 May 2021 01:12:14 +0000

AWS Professional Services here -- we all study for our cert exams using the site acloud.guru. They're not always perfect, but generally pretty good and handy for spot study. May be a good choice if you want to go deeper than these flashcards. AWS also offers in-person training sessions that are quality, but I'm not sure what the status of those are given the ongoing pandemic.

New comment by mzg in "Minecraft vs. Roblox (2020)"

mzg — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:31:59 +0000

I taught a semester of this company's Minecraft course in college. My students all had a pre-existing interest in the game and seemed interested in learning how to code their own experiences into it, for what it's worth.

New comment by mzg in "NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images"

mzg — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 04:06:27 +0000

Not sure about you, but I was promised fusion-powered DeLoreans by now.

New comment by mzg in "Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer"

mzg — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:39:01 +0000

Yeah, that would be an amazing thing to release under a permissive license (with attribution!) for other devs to work with!

New comment by mzg in "How hard should I push myself?"

mzg — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:18:20 +0000

A low-stakes job at a startup where the bulk of your compensation is equity maybe? Though that situation probably wouldn't stay low-stress for long, as you'll want to do everything you can to make those stocks valuable...

New comment by mzg in "Facebook News"

mzg — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:04:17 +0000

probably a result of Firefox's Facebook sandboxing

New comment by mzg in "Casino-like apps have drained people of millions"

mzg — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:33:52 +0000

I've heard you can have sex without having children these days.

New comment by mzg in "U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession"

mzg — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:29:15 +0000

Meaning that the "center" of Scandinavian politics is to the left of liberalism. Left != liberal.

New comment by mzg in "The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing"

mzg — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:58:40 +0000

Except that there's a direct line from Cow Clicker to Cookie Clicker and the entire idle games genre. Sure, this wasn't Bogost's intention, but it's hard to deny his influence here.

New comment by mzg in "If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right"

mzg — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:53:48 +0000

I've been having this issue with my work MBP, same model you describe. I don't think we have any easy solutions. Maybe a laptop stand can help?

New comment by mzg in "Trends in the San Francisco (mostly dog?) poop crisis"

mzg — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:04:42 +0000

Well, now it's the Zhou effect. Congrats!

New comment by mzg in "Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident"

mzg — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:57:43 +0000

CCP == Chinese Communist Party in this context.