largbae.bsky.social

largbae.bsky.social

@largbae.bsky.social

11 followers7 following29 posts

largbae.bsky.social reposted

apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

The reverse Pascal’s wager: if they build a machine god, it doesn’t matter what you do anyway. So act like they won’t build a machine god.

largbae.bsky.social
@largbae.bsky.social

Can you spot the effects of agentic coding on software engineering jobs? This is the comment volume on the monthly Who's Hiring vs Who Wants to be Hired threads on Hacker News

largbae.bsky.social reposted

apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

There’s been an alien invasion and all people ever want to talk about is the aliens’ culture and abilities. Tedious

largbae.bsky.social reposted

apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

Nobody will ever beat Linus at this game. In 2005 he created git so that none of the haters would have any remaining excuse for not forking the kernel

Phillip Carter@phillipcarter.dev

It's alway so fun to double-dog dare someone to fork and take the project seriously. Had too much fun doing that to drive-by losers in OSS projects who objected to codes of conduct

largbae.bsky.social reposted

apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

Good stuff in here

Alex Komoroske@komorama.bsky.social

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Steelmanning mirrors. Agents eating friction. Hobby software. Load-bearing friction. Mechanistic distillation. Diligence vs conscientiousness. The vampire sneeze. Magic containment. Scotch Tape Sandwich. The Dishonest Era.

docs.google.comkomoroske.com/bits-and-bobsAuthor: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

largbae.bsky.social reposted

apenwarr
@apenwarr.ca

How ironic, to be unable to conceive of something more evil than your own creation

largbae.bsky.social reposted

Joseph D. Ortiz
@earthsciinfo.bsky.social

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Joseph D. Ortiz@earthsciinfo.bsky.social

For anyone wondering, global sales of internal combustion vehicles peaked in 2018. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

ourworldindata.orgGlobal sales of combustion engine cars have peakedTo decarbonize road transport, the world must move away from petrol and diesel cars and towards electric vehicles and other forms of low-carbon transport.

largbae.bsky.social reposted

one dozen bats at a keyboard
@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

You are up to date.