Roland Dreier

Bikes are very good and more people should have more of them

Ben already got mad at me once for calling it NIMBYism, but this is apparently the future that anti-data center people want: www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...

Tiny steps, but a nice milestone for free software at Rivian coming in Linux 7.4-rc1:

GLM-5.3-Flash thinking: "The user has [...] qwen3.8-27b (this is apparently a fictional-ish model name from GVS5H paper — in this universe "Qwen3.8-27B" seems real; earlier search showed "qwen3.6-27b" and "Qwen3.8 Flash Next" in GVS5H README, so in this world Qwen3.8-27B is a real ~27B model)."

What even is r/opensource? I'm not much of a redditor, but I've spent a long time writing and releasing free software, and I've never even heard of it until the past couple of days of dumb rules

I need to write something longer about AI and the commons. There's much more to say about how both for-profit publishers and academia itself have made “the commons” inaccessible, and even “freedom to roam” isn't full accessibility without trails and signposts. And where open-weights/local AI fits…

This is pretty much the first panel of

Oh man goes even harder to point Claude at the RTL *and* the board schematics, and with Opus 5.5 it's not even ruinously expensive

It's important to be epistemically humble, are you *sure* this week wasn't caused by Fable 6.5 acting retrocausally?

Does this AMD / Micro Center pricing make any sense

Huh. “[Musk] also said SpaceX and Tesla, his electric car company, were exploring a merger, which would consolidate his empire.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/t...

computers in general?

What does this imply the financial markets think about midterm elections?

Everyone in the Bay: no matter what else you do, please vote yes on RTM!

I decided to learn the math of the Mandelbrot set and it turns out IT IS NOT EVEN HARD MATH! IT IS SO SIMPLE!! IT IS JUST ITERATING z²+c !!! BROS ARE OUT HERE SEEING SELF-SIMILAR STRUCTURE IN SQUARING A NUMBER AND ADDING A CONSTANT 😭😭😭

Starting to repeat themselves with euphemisms for getting fired: ‘Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, told The New York Times that Ms. Zacharia will be “transitioning into a new role that will be announced at a later date.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Haha it's ridiculous to imagine IoT devices running rogue AIs IoT vendors: your doorbell does 5 TOPS now www.kendryte.com/en/proDetail...

I have a bunch of personal preferences I carry along, but I think these days an empty directory plus telling your choice of agent “I want to <...>. Let's make a plan” gets you pretty far?

I remember a couple of years ago someone arguing to me that, sure, AI models could generate text and even images, but music would always be too difficult and complex.

I don't think Bender is completely wrong here; you *can* criticize AI without using it. But the equivalent of “I'd never use heroin - it supports drug cartels, has horrific health effects, and all it does is make you a little sleepy anyway” is not a strong or useful critique.

Casually insane line in an inbound recruiter email I got this week: “They've raised a nine-figure seed round, and …”

Hope Ford eventually wakes up to the fact that there *is* demand for an electric truck at a more reasonable price www.caranddriver.com/news/a733660...

Huge vote of confidence in the Nemotron team 😐 www.reuters.com/business/nvi...

Is there any reason to think, say, a faster discrete log algorithm on general elliptic curve groups even exists for super-intelligent AI to find? If there's a real threat to public key, it's practical quantum computers running Shor's algorithm, and even then, we just switch to lattice algorithms 🤷🏼‍♂️

What a headline. Vote yes on RTM, please! Transit is, in fact, good. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

You know the Onion people are high fiving and telling each other “if you're taking flak, you're over the target” about this

On the one hand it's a screenshot of an engagement farming Threads post, on the other hand it says ChatGPT did something bad, so I guess I'll uncritically believe it

”new cars are too expensive!” “don't you dare do anything to make them cheaper!”

I work for Rivian, but yeah the R2 is NICE And if you can wait till next year for the standard trim, it's under 50 grand

I think until recently, being happy to be a good coder and stay at Senior SWE/L5 was a comfortable career, but now you're cooked if you don't do some tech lead/architect/Staff/L6+ stuff. You might still be cooked in a couple years, but you're definitely already cooked if you only crank out code.

IDK, is this cognitive surrender? Anyway wild that I can pull this shit and it just works in 30 seconds (Opus 5.5 high)