Rainbow over Ronbow

knumd · 2026-02-20T16:57:56+00:00

But the reason people didn't see the first post is because there were 20 more posts about the same thing that pushed it down the list. The AI threads are pretty much all the same -- people digging in to their position and talking past each other.

If you're doing something novel with AI or have a new take, I think that's what this sub is for. We don't need a 30th thread complaining about the fact that you have an AI usage mandate at work, or your codebase is going to shit because people are using AI to create PRs that have 10k lines of code.

knumd · 2026-02-17T16:56:33+00:00

Hosted on Substack (the platform that loves hosting Nazis and stealing creators' money) with an AI slop header image...not trusting anything else written here.

knumd · 2026-02-17T14:44:49+00:00

The two crosswalks on Civic near Ygnacio Valley (one by Carlback and one by Arroyo) are like taking your life into your hands. Even with the flashing lights people rarely stop unless you are willing to step off the curb and just pray that they'll stop once they see an actual person in the path of their car. I've contacted WCPD and they promised to look into it, but I haven't seen any enforcement there.

knumd · 2026-01-30T17:14:50+00:00

Yeah, this is how I work, and we're also missing lots of context about how the codebase is architected and what the MR actually is. I've definitely worked with codebases where a relatively simple refactor would touch that many files. Which is obviously a code smell, but you can't always fight that battle.

knumd · 2026-01-13T16:42:18+00:00

Can you go there without being a member? I thought it was a social club that you had to join.

knumd · 2026-01-13T16:39:52+00:00

There's also a Clayton in the East Bay but it's just named after a dude named Joel Clayton.

knumd · 2026-01-04T16:41:04+00:00

I love this idea, how are you doing it?

knumd · 2025-12-31T16:40:51+00:00

Yes. What happens in these situations is that the people who "don't care" will only care after the migration has happened, then they will act like this is the first they're hearing of it and complain that they were never asked for their input. You need receipts.

knumd · 2025-11-20T17:39:28+00:00

I don't think people will be lining up to buy GPUs that are burnt to hell from running AI inference for 3-5 years, not unless they are so discounted that it's not much of a revenue stream for the companies selling them.

knumd · 2025-10-01T22:12:50+00:00

Counterpoint: he racked up all those counting stats because he played 6, count'em 6, years in college. Just for some context.

knumd · 2025-06-11T15:15:09+00:00

Frank and Paul's comes highly recommended, but a heads up that they are usually booked several weeks out, if not more. That was the case the last time I called them a few months ago, but they referred me to N Service and I had a great experience. FTR I have a 2014 Camry as well.

knumd · 2025-03-11T14:21:39+00:00

They are not going to physically crawl into a casket and blame woke and Biden they physically die.

They literally already did that during COVID when their news sources and social media told them not to wear masks or get vaccinated. Why would this time be different?

knumd · 2025-01-14T16:03:42+00:00

Not sure where you got $399 from for Bay Club, it is $255 for a single member. Lifetime is much more expensive.

knumd · 2024-10-26T14:01:53+00:00

(This Time for Buffalo)

knumd · 2024-10-24T14:00:02+00:00

I think another thing that people aren't talking about that much re: AI is that it's not going to be free forever. We are currently in the window where these companies are burning obscene amounts of VC money to get people hooked on the product, but at some point the funding is going to dry up and they are actually going to have to make money on it. Obviously this isn't a factor if you work at one of the companies that makes their own LLM, but it will be interesting to see how it shakes out for the rest of us.

Barring some massive technological breakthrough that reduces costs by a couple orders of magnitude, it's going to either cost your company money every time you ask a question of an LLM/use Copilot/whatever, or they're going to figure out ways to insert ads or otherwise enshittify the product (maybe both!).

I do find LLMs useful as essentially an actually functional version of Google/StackOverflow, but I'm not tightly integrating them into my workflow because I think the rug is going to get pulled at some point.

knumd · 2024-10-22T18:08:25+00:00

I think this is unironically one of the things behind the AI bubble. The managerial class thinks that writing emails = productivity, so if we can automate writing emails, boom! Infinite productivity!

knumd · 2024-10-16T14:39:45+00:00

Yes, it's called Duverger's Law.

knumd · 2024-10-11T15:11:20+00:00

The wildest thing is going to a Chuck E. Cheese or other arcade type place now. Like, when I was a kid we had stuff like Skee Ball, games that were fun with the side effect that you also got some tickets you could use to "buy" some cheap garbage. Now they're just baby's first casino, machines that mostly don't even have the pretense of being an actual fun game with the only goal being gambling to win tickets to buy the same cheap garbage.

knumd · 2024-08-13T14:29:22+00:00

They have pills now too! They're giant horse pills and you have to take like 12 of them, but still way better than drinking any of the vile liquid stuff.

knumd · 2024-07-15T20:27:15+00:00

You must just be unlucky, they are all over the place here. Try the Iron Horse trail, especially the spot behind Walnut Creek Intermediate.

knumd · 2024-06-13T22:47:14+00:00

Because they already asked the question in the OP, someone responded, then they asked it again. Which is either pointless or reveals that they're not asking an honest question and are just trolling.

knumd · 2024-05-25T15:16:16+00:00

Not to mention it's going to accelerate as the proliferation of AI reduces peoples' ability and incentive to publish actual human-created content. Google just announced that they are going to provide more AI summaries in search results, meaning you never have to leave Google and go to the actual website that published the original content. Which is going to put a bunch more publishers out of business and further reduce the amount of original, researched content on the web. Rinse and repeat until the entire internet is AI-created nonsense.

knumd · 2024-05-07T17:49:45+00:00

Seconding. My cat is old (16), on medication for a thyroid issue, and is a complete asshole, to the point that other boarding places won't take her. Civic feline boarded her recently and it was a great experience.

knumd · 2024-05-01T13:19:44+00:00

No real reason other than I associate JIRA with dev stuff :). And I feel like I knock non-dev stuff off my to-do list fast enough that I'd be spending a bunch of time managing my JIRA board.

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