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New comment by tilne in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

tilne — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:53:23 +0000

Now stay out of Malibu

New comment by tilne in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

tilne — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:25:27 +0000

Leaving the “g” of the f word at the end made me re-read this in Fat Tony’s voice. It was an awesome touch.

New comment by tilne in "The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson Dies at 82"

tilne — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:02:58 +0000

Matt Jardine sang his parts I believe when I saw his band play a few years back.

New comment by tilne in "Demystifying Debuggers"

tilne — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:09:13 +0000

Good point. The amount of bad software I’m forced to interact with regularly has gone up, mostly because there’s so many systems cobbled together in workflows now.

New comment by tilne in "Demystifying Debuggers"

tilne — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:06:20 +0000

Yeah vs code was one of the first examples I thought of as well. It has its own set of issues for sure, but even as a former vim fanatic it’s amazing from both a default experience perspective and that of a power user.

New comment by tilne in "Demystifying Debuggers"

tilne — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:24:45 +0000

> But perhaps most importantly, debuggers are an intricate piece of the puzzle of the design of a development platform—a future I become more interested in every day, given the undeniable decay infecting modern computing devices and their software ecosystems.

I agree with this sentiment, yet still I’m wondering if it’s fully justified. There has never been more bad software than right now, but there has never been more good software either, no?

It’s not super relevant to the main contents of the article. Just a bit that caught my attention with regards to how it made me think.

New comment by tilne in "Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?"

tilne — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:50:16 +0000

Regarding 3: Shouldn’t the medical system be optimizing for patient outcomes rather than the business their in?

Regarding the first two: I think the anecdote being from 1995 suggests there would have been time to put together said mountain of research.

I’m not agreeing that this is shameful for the original doctor, but I do think it’s shameful if avenues for potential research are not taken because it’s inconvenient for the hospitals.

New comment by tilne in "Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts"

tilne — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:34:00 +0000

How does it connect back to the Nietzschan philosophy you mentioned?

New comment by tilne in "Joining Apple Computer (2018)"

tilne — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:26:19 +0000

Is it even up for debate that that’s definitely not what their primary mission is? Their market cap sits at 3.5 trillion, ranking them third behind Microsoft and nvidia. Unlike those other two, Apple makes most of that on selling iPhones and the like to consumers.

New comment by tilne in "Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts"

tilne — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:48:04 +0000

Like of the Nietzschan philosophy? So in the case of trump the idea is that his voters like him because he’s different from the “evil” aristocratic class that trump claimed to oppose (eg “drain the swamp”)?

New comment by tilne in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java"

tilne — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:35:04 +0000

For others that hadn’t head of CADT either: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

I confess to having been part of the cascade at various parts of my career.

New comment by tilne in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

tilne — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:49:03 +0000

They fill a need, but I wouldn’t say they e been “replace people’s jobs” successful, as this context hints at.

New comment by tilne in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

tilne — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:48:07 +0000

I think the more optimistic interpretation would be that companies eliminating bullshit jobs would provide signal on which jobs aren’t bullshit, and then individuals and the job prep/education systems could align to this.

That’s very optimistic! I don’t fully agree with it, but I certainly know some very intelligent people that I wish were contributing more to the world than they do as a pawn in a game of corporate chess.

New comment by tilne in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

tilne — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:37:34 +0000

Agreed. You could make the case that employment in general is playing with someone’s life.

New comment by tilne in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

tilne — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:23:46 +0000

They keep throwing the tea in the harbah

New comment by tilne in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

tilne — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:10:49 +0000

Money is absolutely the heart of the matter for employees and employers. I think it’s ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

New comment by tilne in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

tilne — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:20:57 +0000

You’re saying that the internet, web, and mobile haven’t improved productivity?

New comment by tilne in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

tilne — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:11:40 +0000

If your point is that AI/LLMs aren’t as transformative as broadband internet, I don’t think anyone here is seriously making that claim, right?

New comment by tilne in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

tilne — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:08:02 +0000

Isn’t a lot of stuff in the backlog because it’s not important enough to the bottom line to prioritize?

New comment by tilne in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

tilne — Fri, 30 May 2025 10:38:30 +0000

This is the humor I’m looking for in a men’s club!