Assorted thoughts from a dinosaur in outer space.
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I was on my way to a friend’s house recently. Rounding a slow, blind corner at approximately the speed limit on a summer’s afternoon, a grocery store parking lot to my left. Up ahead were two vehicles waiting to exit their respective parking lots, both of
Sony's trio of announcements this past week are a death knell to the old world order that's governed media consumption for the past century. No more physical discs , shutting down digital storefronts for old game consoles , and the summary removal of purchased content from user libraries
NVIDIA announced it won't break out gaming revenue as its own line item on the balance sheet anymore , instead lumping it into the Edge Compute category alongside robotics, game consoles, PCs, workstations, AI-RAN base stations, and automotive. To be fair, this makes sense: they own 73% of
This one is more emotional than most of my writings. More of a "pressure relief" valve of a post than anything. You can skip it. I'll never know. Hi [Green], Thank you so much for your interest in Anthropic and for the time and effort you
You think you know me based on text on a screen. Within the context of a few blog posts, you believe to know my life history, my presumed entitlement, my naivety, my background, and my sum total of wisdom. You do not know me, but I know of you. I
My fourth month of unemployment. I'm fresh off an interview with a senior technical role advertised with a decent compensation range whose upper end would let me make median rent, and whose lower range would not. At the end of an excellent interview, I am informed that said
My job hunt is entering its fourth month this week. No offers, several final rounds, lots of ghosting. It's bleak out there. A queer friend of mine is interviewing with a "low to mid-tier Evil" company. Several other friends on the rainbow have had similar
My home infrastructure, while functional, is a bit of a hot mess. For years I've been focused on precision of outcome rather than flexibility of implementation, to the point side projects sat on my backburner until I finished completely arbitrary milestones or learning programs. I ended up with
I've been sitting on my homelab for over a year, constantly adding to it and expanding its scope. What started as a simple Raspberry Pi cluster for learning purposes during COVID expanded into a mix of x86 NUCs and RPi 4s with 8GB of RAM. The NAS morphed
The internet has been my primary method of social interaction since grade school. This was back in the late 90s, in an era of AOL keywords and YIM chatrooms; an era before profile pictures were the norm, when language skills were of lesser import than technical skills. The reason for
Author's Note: This is a work of fiction, and comes with the caveats of such works. You'd never seen this place before, despite it being on your usual route home. A small, squalid little place called "The Bus Bar", old neon signage courting passerby
Most Americans are drowning. We're some of the most productive humans on the planet, yet we cannot afford housing . Productivity remains at all-time highs while wages remain stagnant . 63% of Americans cannot afford a $500 emergency expense . Our birth rate has plummeted towards the floor as raising
This is the second post in a series of ongoing experiments with paid AI models, specifically Claude Opus 4.6. The same warning from the last experiment applies: This blog post is going to be more fluid than most. Rather than revise my thoughts over and over again, pruning and
I've said my peace on AI in prior posts. I intensely detest its predication on widespread theft to be created in the first place . I dislike the notion of placing sovereignty in the hands of AI companies, be it personal, corporate, or national in nature . Its use in