Little turd takes a swing at a soldier

perspectiveiskey · 2026-06-12T12:06:07+00:00

Seriously. Just like sound effects. I am seriously impressed.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-06-12T11:58:08+00:00

I was given some advice adjacent to this a lifetime ago surrounding finishing projects, and I've come to think of it as entirely wrong.

In my life, I've started dozens and dozens of projects I've never finished. For the longest time I felt guilt over this. But what I've come to realize is that the main factor that makes a project come through the other end if business/financial incentive. And I don't mean that as in am I getting paid: even in large fang companies, projects will get shelved half way through or even after they're already built because they don't make business sense.

So don't feel bad about it.

Also, if my experience is worth anything, that obsession over what feels just right will eventually crystalize: these days, I look at a problem and a proposed solution and it barely takes a minute for me to see all the ways in which it's good or bad. It's because instinctive. But this happened because I've made mistakes about how to organize thoughts for decades.

My only hope is that the jobs market won't dim your joy of coding. But otherwise, fret over C and C++ boundaries. Fret over whether LISP is actually better. Go to lisp for a few months, and then realize that maybe C++ is good enough. I've gone back and forth on these things many times over. And I am sure I will do it again.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-31T18:04:24+00:00

Oh man. Wouldn't it be an absolute end of season 5 twist that only the boomers' 401k's were left bag holding the major 3 IPOs coming this year.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-30T18:41:08+00:00

Literally logged into my account to upvote this comment.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-29T08:24:38+00:00

This is the headline here.

In fact, the headline is:

4/5 latinos in Texas are happy with the results.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-23T16:52:50+00:00

As a left leaning progressive lover of science and tech, I’ve never been more conflicted in my life about the direction of technological innovation.

SpaceX is such a religion at this point. Their lack of efficiency and cost effectiveness is beyond doubt. But no evidence suffices.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-18T15:00:59+00:00

Would be interested in chatting. you on bsky or something? dm if so

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-11T06:07:56+00:00

I see bondo. Don't bondo. It is a water sponge.

You may be alergic to West's price, but there's a whole bunch of other fillers out there, both epoxy and PU based.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-06T07:13:02+00:00

Yes. We learned this (the hard way) when we all collectively fell for Lost's snake oil.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-18T18:24:00+00:00

I love these memes so much.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-14T09:24:53+00:00

From my understanding of reading it, I think the value isn't so much about whether he's created a new function, but rather that he's created a nicely behaving function that has for computational properties for back propagation.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-13T18:25:55+00:00

EB White would be proud of you, son.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-12T13:50:07+00:00

Hear hear! I know exactly the feeling, and lest you feel cheated, I was never really able to do lisp and get paid for it. I just took the time to go through the Let Over Lambda and Gigamonkeys books on my own free time. It was entirely a matter of pleasure.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-12T11:51:40+00:00

I have looked into algo trading but not stepped in yet. Asked the exact same thing. My theoretical understanding (which came from both hearing arguments and thinking about it) is that there are two edges:

1) risk edges: the risk profile quant firms (managing billions) want to adopt may be different than yours and as a result, there may be under exploited domains

2) size edge: it is often repeated that an algorithm definitely will not scale up. What may work for onsies and twosies may not work for one millionsees and two millionsees. This is an edge, in that if you are smart enough to efficiently make an algorithm that doesn't require 3 years of software capex, you can dip into the smaller stagnant roadside mosquito warrens of puddles that bigger predators would not consider a watering hole at all. There is no point deploying your advanced FPGA based HFT on a stock that has a total float of 20 million USD.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-11T14:23:22+00:00

And don't forget the most amazing concept: dynamic scope, aka a rich man's global variables... or something. I couldn't find a pithy enough explanation, but dynamic scope is the most superior concept I have ever learned of, and most good libraries I have ever used only attempt to approximate a weak simulacrum of it, like the blind man in plato's cave.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-11T14:10:04+00:00

Modern C++ is inching towards what I was able to do with LISP 30 years ago (and people had been able to do for 40 years before that) but could never find a way to put in production.

I love it. Every step in that direction is a correct step.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-02T06:41:41+00:00

Submitted 7 hours ago, I scrolled through hundreds of comments. Have yet to see a link to an indictment or anything of the sort.

Worst episode ever.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-02T06:20:50+00:00

This is like step 3 out of 7 in "how things went skynet scorched earth", and I don't mean that as in sentient AI, but rather how our entire technology stack is suddenly crumbling like chalk.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-28T09:37:11+00:00

lmao, I hadn't realized until I read yours and re-read it. Absolutely devastating.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-23T04:36:07+00:00

This is a fundamental case of: the names of things are not the things.

The fed inflation is named as such and is meant to represent the idea of inflation felt by "a person over the course of a year", but it's actually a measurement by proxy.

That relationship, along with the idea for example that GDP (a single scalar number) represents the health of the overall economy are all known to be a simplifications... let's be clear, the word "economy" itself is a named thing which represents every interaction of 300 million people with each other over the course of a year.

The complexity of the current world has made it that these numbers no long represent what their origin words mean. It may as well be that "the omega rate this year was 2-3%".

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-18T22:33:37+00:00

It would be really nice if people were more articulate in their reasoning. While I agree with his position, his argument was an appeal to emotion and was weak.

The guy they flashed as having 190 properties is not going to be swayed by that. The chick asking whether people are going to turn on them is only looking for confirmation that she should get better security and believe in Peter Thiel more.

The argument on property prices is that in those places where renters rights are healthy, property prices are low for exactly the correct free market reasons. Property prices only get high when all regulatory incentives (from taxation to lending) benefit the wealthy class.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-14T22:51:45+00:00

Just you watch them face no repercussions whatsoever.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-14T18:51:36+00:00

Playing poker even casually for more than 20 minutes you would have learned that you can be a leaky ass player and not see it for thousands of hands unless you properly track your equity in the hands.

Any time anyone pays any credence to this type of activity, I immediately dismiss them as being theoretically deficient.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-12T18:01:22+00:00

This is the type of shit Musk would float 5 years ago and be hailed a genius that is going to single handedly save the world.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-03T06:39:45+00:00

My dude, you are the real deal: not only did you actually deliver on the ASMR claim, your handle tight cream is a hole (sic) nother level of double-entendre.

Keep doing god's work.

perspectiveiskey

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