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Mpdaves
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Play music and work in software.

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I’m sure someone has talked about these things before but it feel more pervasive recently. Tech can be cool but the biggest media boosted tech is mostly just isolating. I’d be curious of your thoughts.
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Previously though Uber replaced asking people for rides, food delivery apps replaced asking a neighbor for a cup of sugar, rover replaced asking neighbors to check on your dog. The goal feels like it’s isolation even socially media is more of an isolation machine than a connection machine now.
September 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I had Covid again 2 months ago. It still fucking sucked. Also sucked that my new borne got it. He’s okay but that also sucked. Even before RFK he was too young to have had a vaccine for it. Be safe people.
September 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There are coops in NYC and they seem to work pretty well. I have family in one and it seems great. The building is from the 50s though when trying new housing ideas actually happened and housing was affordable.
August 31, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Last time I saw their documentation months ago they had added a bunch of support for letting LLMs do queries for you. Maybe that’s it maybe they added more. They don’t seem like much of an AI database or even a vector database
July 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Neo4J is not really and AI company their main product is a graph database so they probably don’t belong on your list of AI companies at all. So number are even a little worse.
July 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If there was a line charging to 100% would annoy people by taking up a lot of extra time but also it’s probably more time efficient to be moving for 20minutes and charge a little sooner than to wait for 100% unless you need 100% to make it to the next charger. Good luck on your road trip! Good stuff
July 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Generally unless you really need 100% charge you should just charge to ~80% and then keep going as you saw it was 20minutes to get from 46% to 80% and then another 21minutes to get to 100%. It charges a lot faster up to 80%
July 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It’s for sure worth the read. It’s not very big either and easy to understand which I guess is the point.
July 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“How to Lie with Statistics” should be required to be taught in school. An adjunct professor I knew used it to teach the statistics for non STEM majors course at my college. I always thought that was the most useful way to treat that course.
July 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It’s crazy when you talk with people who breath LLM even in software engineering. Like I’ve used it and it’s helpful for some things. It’s not magic the way people treat it. I haven’t come across an AGI brained person though. Bubble popping will be interesting.
July 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM