ronbenton

The people I met at USDS took that kind of pay cut for the mission, which I was in awe of. Senior, Staff, Principal engineers from big tech who likely had been making twice as much as top government s…

I talked to some people at USDS during my time in govt. They took a 50% pay cut to serve their country. Wish more people understood a lot of civil servants often do it for the mission.

I wanted to join them some day. Hopefully they will be back.

I saw an important app that still used it in a partner organization back when I worked in the federal government. I doubt I can talk to much about the app itself but was actually impressed at how well…

I hadn't thought about it that way. I suppose if I am concerned with whether people think my writing is AI-generated, then I am "performing" in a sense.

>If you want to humanize your text, sprinkle in some artificial spacing errors. Group the em dash with the preceding character sometimes. Occasionally switch between the british and american versio…

That is a great demo video on your landing page. Makes it look very easy to integrate. Would also like to see what setting up a trigger looks like.

I keep hearing this about em dashes. Why do people think only AI bots write with em dashes? I use them. In fact, a lot of people do. That's probably _why_ the AI bots use them. Because the traini…

Finally, people will have to pay to see my terrible opinions on things

Remember: official emails will only come from .gov domains. Oh, and also now @doge.lol.

These don't just include new hires but also people who switched to their job recently. It is not uncommon in the government to switch jobs.

Yes, it is discomforting, I agree. Just want to make sure folks know who was fired.

I will caveat that these are not air traffic controllers, but rather the technicians that maintain air traffic and airport equipment. Still, that's not much consolation to me. The system is stret…

@doge.lol

>Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address Yes, that is indeed totally strange

For context, this is the union for Air Traffic Safety Specialists for the FAA. It appears several hundred of them were let go late last week. Update: Airway Transportation Systems Specialists, got the…

We’re really in trouble if the fraudsters can call your elderly parents or grandparents with your voice.

I think it’s a crowded space and you’ll have a lot of competition from the “get rich quick” grifters, if your aim is to help people achieve financial success. But is it possible? Sure.

I'm always interested in hearing people out, but these legacy COBOL codebases are massive, complex behemoths. Certainly eyebrow-raising to hear someone say they are not complex.

>How many years do I need to wait for Twitter to collapse any moment now, because Musk fired all the "irreplaceable" people? To be fair, usage has likely dropped commensurate with staffin…

The problem isn't that they don't know COBOL. The problem is they're not asking questions about things they don't understand. That's very dangerous in legacy code environments…

What's going to be even more insidious are the less obvious ramifications of indiscriminate terminations. Yes, this one is bas but was very obvious quickly. How about the ones that we won't …

By weakening its ties with Europe and other allies, the US is undoubtedly taking actions that benefit both Russia and China. That's not to say the president or his team are in cahoots with one or…

Indeed, it reads like a play-by-play of current events. What a coincidence.