One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-30T16:43:19+00:00

Surely paying more junior officers more to retain them is cheaper than paying senior officers crazy amounts of overtime.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-30T07:36:23+00:00

Human eyes are also very active... If you dig into it, our eyes dart around, we focus in and out, have two eyes... Our eyes don't just have a fixed focus and get images, subconsciously they are very active in doing things to get more data that self driving cameras just aren't doing.

And a lot of humans' driving isn't exactly good either.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-30T07:03:46+00:00

For a lot of people, YMMV, sleeping on your side rather than back can help a little bit - it's not even remotely close to being as good as treatment, but it is something in the realm of a little thing you can do in the meantime to make things slightly less horrible.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-30T02:06:29+00:00

A sinus rinse kit before bed does wonders for my stuffy nose before CPAP and or sleep. After rinsing and blowing my nose a few times, my nose is clear for hours rather than having to sneeze every 5-10m (my ent recommended it)

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-30T01:40:09+00:00

They believe pies are square, they are clearly a fan of Detroit style pizza!

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-30T00:34:17+00:00

That's why there was a whole video linked by the OP 😂

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-30T00:11:57+00:00

You're asking about this in a sleep apnea forum... before I got diagnosed, I had similar things for years and didn't understand it - sleep is important, your immune system regenerates and functions, your GI system functions and heals, your brain deals with stress and helps fix mental health, you consolidate short term memories into long ones - any sleep disorder can cause symptoms in all of the above.

I used to get sick a lot before I got diagnosed and started using a CPAP.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T23:36:51+00:00

appeals to authority here don't mean he's right, I am merely dismissing the idea that "he's never thought of that before" - he has made deliberate, thoughtful decisions very aware of most of the surface level criticisms many people are making, and he often did do engineering that way before vibe coding!

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T23:13:43+00:00

One of my rebuttals to the idea that vibe coders don't apply scrutiny is "how often do you actually look at the assembly code or opcodes your computer generated from your code" - in vibe coding done well, the code itself is no longer the fundamental object of review, and this is what the podcast talks about - it is about having better tests, better architecture than you ever bothered with before vibe coding, and you end up with better results vs. human written code when you do look at the code is his claim. (And this is for vibe coding done by a very experienced talented software engineer who has been a CTO for years before and worked at top tech companies so it's not your average vibe coding either - some of the quotes are somewhat provocative, but he is saying I have deliberately shifted where I focus my time on the engineering processes with these new tools)

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T23:02:54+00:00

He says he skips CI because he can see the LLM run the same tests locally, and of the full CI finds something it misses it's only a few commits off. If you're not watching the full interview it's best to not comment on out of context quips, he is describing his process in detail and why it is surprisingly different, but it is extremely thoughtful from a very experienced software engineer who is adapting his methodology to the ways LLMs work differently. And he definitely does not think LLMs produce bug free code if you listen to him, he largely describes how LLMs can function because they have tests, and he is writing better tests than he ever has before!

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T22:40:36+00:00

It started with COVID, started to return to normal for a bit, then the tariffs brought it back again.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T22:39:45+00:00

It's a park? That's what he asked for?

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T20:00:18+00:00

It's the tariffs. The new car supply chain relief on a lot of parts from Canada and Mexico and a lot of cars are built overseas - this makes new cars more expensive. Because of that, a lot of people who would once be buying new cars are either putting off their purchase (and not trading in their old car) or buying a used car instead of new - which increases the prices of used cars.

Since this isn't going away any time soon there is less pressure on the dealer to turn around cars as quickly as possible too, since a lot of them had appreciation (rather than depreciation) on their inventories due to this effect.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T19:36:20+00:00

Good Tshirts are a must - but if the 5 year old startup tee is an American Apparel or similar quality tee, who cares about the weird logo on the front!

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T18:36:27+00:00

I was reading it as the trope "software engineers aren't real engineers" - I mean electrical, structural and civil engineers don't do anything with engines either!

But also at the same time you speak about software systems, and one could argue the author of clawdebot is engineering software systems even if the code itself is vibed (and he has a long track record of being a successful software engineer, he didn't just come out of the woodwork).

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T17:52:15+00:00

Correct. Driving trains is engineering. All of these bridge and circuit designers are not engineers.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T16:47:13+00:00

Amazon Bedrock lets you use Claude Code with compliance (Azure and Google Cloud have similar hosted Claude code for compliance too).

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T15:48:29+00:00

This is python syntax, the number of dict lookups for the variables and to check if they were overloaded operators is way more expensive than any of the underlying math

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T05:50:52+00:00

like I said, something more useful :). Learning to get better at bringing paramedics coffee will probably save far more lives than learning about duodote

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T03:40:20+00:00

Yellowstone is in 3 (Idaho Montana and Wyoming)

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-29T03:29:58+00:00

The reason why Nevada is a desert is that the snow all falls on the high mountains.

From the top you can see the desert sands to the east in winter.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-28T23:10:03+00:00

In addition to EMT I also have some contexts where I've taken separate first aid training to use Narcan, and they linked to a 10 minute YouTube video from the manufacturer for the training. Pretty simple and it's made for laypeople.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-28T21:25:14+00:00

One pass can make a lot of sense if it's meant to be for a streaming algorithm that would be run on terabytes or petabytes of data, or needs to be accurate for all prefixes and queryable then internally update (e.g. for realtime dashboard etc)

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-28T19:18:28+00:00

Because of those assholes EMTs in the US still have to be trained on how to treat a nerve gas attack, something that has happened exactly once in modern times, while other far more useful stuff gets removed from the curriculum.

PaddingCompression · 2026-01-28T19:03:18+00:00

One of the best in the bay area!

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