softwaredoug

The fact we have a system that produced a Trump-like figure, and once in power, haven’t checked him internationally, shows the US will continue to be an unreliable partner. We have kinds of political …

It’s not just that This is a gradual decline. From 70% in the 90s to 60% today. Today there are more options like the Euro that didn’t exist in the 90s. People can argue over EU economic stability, b…

It may also point not just to decline in US stability but other areas of the world with stable monetary policy compared to the 90s

While maybe true, the history of direct democratic control of monetary policy is not a pretty one.

When I actually look at the data, a lot of US deficit growth came from several specific shocks, with inconsistent years of recovery. - 9/11 - Iraq War - Covid The US did recover a bit deficit-wis…

One challenge is the executive can move fast while legislative/courts go slow by design. But the executive needs other slow branches for lasting change. Remember we were freaking out about a ye…

Gaming and social media are the symptom, not the cause. The real issue is real life is NOT friendly to teenagers. Theres few activities they can just go off and do on their own. A lot of places ban an…

I think one flaw with agentic coding: agents want to please the coder. They don’t push back on our opinions. Hearing we’re geniuses all the time can create slop loops. If we fail to be circumspect abo…

Thoughtful writing matters so much in an AI world. The writing and editing is thinking. Trying to figure out whether we communicate our ideas well matters. Giving that over to the AI means giving up o…

The moat for small company is the lower coordination overhead than bigger companies, not about the effort of writing code. Big companies try to balance a lot of stakeholders, the collection of all th…

It's particularly sad, we've known about the greenhouse effect caused by CO2 since 19th century, and now its branded as radical pseudoscience

I was walking around Utrecht this week constantly asking ChatGPT about things I saw and images I took. So I could imagine some sort of fun AI augmented reality products However I do not think I want t…

I built a Pandas extension SearchArray, I just use that (plus in memory embeddings) for any toy thing https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray …

Some added context for this raid. It allegedly is about a govt contractor > The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified govern…

When coupled with “posts it on local subreddit”. Yes.

I know plenty of Patreon or Substack supported individual journalists that sit in council meetings and report what’s going on. Honestly with much better signal to noise that the local paper.

Thank you - I have coded since 4th grade, and your post made me less depressed about my career. Maybe even a tad hopeful.

Even in optimistic scenarios we won’t see this actual global temperature decrease again in our lifetimes. We can only hope to minimize the impact so that the curve softens and maybe in a century start…

If you’re getting started, in say Claude, some pointers that helped me Stay in plan mode most of the time. It will produce a step by step set of instructions - more context - for the LLM to execute th…

Of course, for Noem / DHS, its about buying time., she bets by the time anyone goes to the court and gets a temporary restraining order, that they'll rob Omar etc of the optics of visiting. …

The US, in 2024, installed ~0.13 GW of solar per day. https://seia.org/research-resources/solar-market-insight-rep... 6 GW Nuclear is either a tech company getting ahead of bad P…

One thing that happened was the providers got better at hosting smaller and cheaper models. So you could self host or just get your work done with GPT 5 nano.

One clue is in mythology. Across many cultures, dogs exist in a transitory space between life and death (ie Cerebus). Hinting at dogs being "transitory" from here (camp) and out there (the w…

I can’t create a Sora video that depicts Elon Musk. But X can’t figure out how to auto-filter CSAM?

I don’t think Democrats are virulently anti Nuclear the way Trump hates wind farms. Unlike Trump, I don’t think they’ll just stop a popular project meant to provide power for a region. And in any case…