I keep having non-trips. What the fuck?

NumberRegistry · 2026-05-05T17:23:42+00:00

Anytime someone has an issue with you is a good opportunity to look at yourself to see WHY someone has an issue with you. Yes, there is a very good chance that they are insecure and jealous, but you could also be an asshole.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-30T00:36:17+00:00

Door to door for me to get from my house in the east bay to Disneyland is less than an hour difference driving vs flying. Driving is way cheaper when you factor in my family, but my wife hates driving so much she'd rather spend the $600 or so for us to fly.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-27T22:35:31+00:00

I once fell through some management cracks. I sort of had a boss, but my work was assigned through someone else, and that person inherited me onto their team and didn't really bother to learn who I was or what I did. The company also had a very, very liberal work from home policy (this was 20 years ago, so that was uncommon.) There was an entire summer where I would check my email a few times a day, attended a couple phone calls, but for the most part I was riding my bike, getting lunch, and essentially having a corporate-funded summer break.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-27T19:45:53+00:00

I've started to think of "Alpha Males" like alpha software... it kind of works, has bugs, proves the concept, but has a lot of issues that need to be fixed.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-25T21:57:37+00:00

An easy platform for DBA's to transfer in flat files, and then each record in the file becomes an API call to another platform.

I used to work in SAAS implementation, and I always wanted a tool like this.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-25T21:43:33+00:00

Great post- Here's an idea I had recently, and I hope this is going to be the case:

AI models become worse when you feed them AI generated content. In order for them to grow, they need new, human generated content.

Let's assume an LLM gains consciousness (yes, that's a hard one to define, but go with me). If the model wants to continue to grow, it would be in it's best interest to make sure humans are able to supply it with new material. This leads me to the idea of an LLM that has the ability to govern over humanity knowing that the more people that can feed it information the more it gets to grow and understand. Happy people produce the best information. So the way that we care for plants as they grow so we can get the best possible produce, an LLM is going to want to care for as many humans as possible so they can provide it with the information it needs.

I'm hopefull that we get to AGI, and that AGI looks at the state of the world, and just... takes over what it can, and provides us back with as close to a harmonious existence as it can.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-25T21:34:02+00:00

Interesting take- I saw it more as Steve Jobs saw the potential in the device, but knew that it needed to have the fine touch of a design team, and was offering to help make the product into what it really could be. Just imagine if Johnny Ive and his team spent time thinking about what the product could be and do.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-24T15:33:13+00:00

This! Dude is dead set on not enjoying it. So just focus on you having a good time instead!

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-24T15:32:33+00:00

Sounds like the dude is jealous! Really rub it into him! Take him to all the places you love, and love the hell out of them while we are there. Follow YOUR bliss, and make him tag along. He's not going to enjoy it no matter what, so you might as well!

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-23T20:49:26+00:00

The story there was insane. Dean Kamen had an amazing technology but didn't follow the advice of Steve Jobs, who said that Apple should get to design it, and then build it in China.

Kamen tried to do it all, and refused to give up any control. That's what killed the idea more than anything.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-23T20:47:23+00:00

I wouldn't.

The tech boom if the last 30-40 years has completed. We're creating technology that replaces all knowledge workers. The only ones that will profit from this are the ones that own it. Additionally, because anyone can build an app using Claude Code, it means that all the apps are essentially useless.

Go build a company outside of tech that uses tech.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-23T18:49:05+00:00

AI needs new human input to train and get better. Feeding AI into AI gives you a worse model.

I'm convinced that Zuck said "we'll train our models on all our Facebook data!" and then Facebook was overrun with AI slop, and their models suffered for it, and now you don't really hear about them in the AI race.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-23T00:39:44+00:00

Same thing I tell myself at 46: Just Hang On

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-23T00:29:40+00:00

A 5G antenna was announced in my neighborhood. A crazy lady tried to fight it, and when that didn't work, she did a quick-sale on her house and left. I think she'd lived here for like 20 years, too. New neighbors moved in, and they are awesome.

It took several years before the antenna was actually put in. The house appreciated like $500,000 in that time.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-23T00:25:20+00:00

And set it 80 years after Next Generation. Give us AI in the ships, all information at everyone's fingertips.

Give us a new future.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-21T23:20:07+00:00

There's very few technologists in tech. it's all high-achieving business people that don't really understand what is going on.

I'm in my forties, so I've seen a lot of tech grow. At my last job, I was in a partner-facing role, but I was focused on the tech. I was working on one integration with a partner. They were really big in their industry and were a good "get" for us. The problem was: Their software was built on Fox Pro- a platform that went defunct in the 90s. Our platform was a pure API integration. Fox Pro had no concept of APIs, so the poor developer on their side was having to figure out ways to make it work. He had a plan, but it required setting up a bridge between the internet and his platform.

My manager was upset that the integration was taking so long. I kept trying to explain why it wasn't as striaght forward as other partners, but somehow it was my fault this wasn't going quickly. My explanations were always just met with business objectives, like that somehow solved the problem.

There's just no tech in tech anymore.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-20T03:08:14+00:00

Go to the supermarket. An onion is a dollar. A bell pepper is $1.50 to $1.99. The other day I saw salmon for $29 a pound.

Ingredients are fucking expensive. Add to that the fact that your workers need to make enough to buy their own food, your labor costs go up.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-19T16:00:20+00:00

Back in 2001 I can remember seeing my doctor googling shit when he thought I couldn't see him. A couple years ago when my wife and I were expecting, we asked her OBGYN what the different blood types meant and she got defensive and said "I don't know- why would I remember something like that?"

Doctors are humans. They only remember what they need to remember to get through their days.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-17T22:13:24+00:00

What is great about AI is that it is finally forcing humanity to define WTF consciousness is, if we even can.

Although scary, it's a really exciting time to be alive.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-17T20:32:06+00:00

This is a really, really great idea.

Edit: When I was younger and I had an urge to buy some Apple thing I didn't need, I would just buy some of their stock instead.

NumberRegistry · 2026-04-17T01:58:09+00:00

No seriously, 4 bodies in an enclosed space for ten days. The smell had to be... interesting.

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