@TheStalwart I think this has to win troll post of the year
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Jonathan Meier
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Jonathan Meier
@jonathanwmeier
Writing about best practices for python and software engineering with a side of current events. he/him
NYC Beigetreten Ağustos 2015
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The question of whether weapons should be making kill decisions autonomously without human oversight is only going to grow. Who do you trust more to decide on lethal strikes
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@SouthwestAir forcing people to check their carry on bags because it's a "full flight".
The full flight:
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@mikesimonsen Partly anecdotal, I would tweak slightly and say once you are over that income threshold people start having 2+ kids. Few working professionals earning less than those numbers are having 3 kids but of those having kids many are having 2.
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Looks like in NYC people feel comfortable having 2 kids once they’re above $2mil in annual income.
Ben Smith@semaforben
Fascinating chart on who can afford big families in New York open.substack.com/pub/biggerappl…
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@johnarnold not my industry but would be surprised if they're able to downsize that aggressively yet. eventually probably but not yet.
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So interested to see how the inv banks and consulting firms size their analyst classes next year. Don't they have to be down 50%?
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@moldycrown @Suffixaufnahme @lachancenaomi27 Yeah it's really not hard to keep up with a school curriculum. Tons of wasted time.
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@Suffixaufnahme @lachancenaomi27 Every homeschooled kid I knew was very bright and did well for themselves. Seems fine.
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@thebeltwayagent @conorsen Agree. I do wonder if some of the improvements might be in high quality software becoming cheap/free for less tech-oriented industries like construction. IIRC Lennar called our their SKU management system as a driver of cost savings. Maybe those become cheaper to build.
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One question I have, even if ai is a good as promised, when you look at where there are bottlenecks in our economy, it’s not clear having everyone be a master coder would necessarily increase gdp or productivity, if A.I. Robots can build houses or do surgery different story, but that seems somewhat far away.
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@conorsen Are you still bearish on the whole thing? Personally, in the last 2 months it feels like the technology has gone from "this is over-hyped" to "this will radically change all knowledge work".
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In the wake of all the AI Super Bowl ads last night, just thinking about how as IPO pressures ramp up these companies are going to empty the tank to make user/topline revenue growth look as good as possible heading into the S-1's.
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
CHATGPT EXCEEDING 10% MONTHLY GROWTH: CNBC OPENAI PREPARING TO LAUNCH UPDATED CHAT MODEL THIS WEEK: CNBC
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@GovWhitmer This is bad policy. It's a bandaid on the underlying problem that housing is too expensive and operating costs have skyrocketed.
Instead of stealing from people raising families to support seniors consuming much more housing than they need we should reform zoning & build more.
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I’m proposing property tax relief for 355,000 seniors, saving households an average of $345 a year by refunding approximately 10% of their property taxes. That's money back in their pockets to pay bills and put food on the table.
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With property taxes going up year after year, Michigan seniors deserve stability. They’ve worked hard and earned the right to relief in their golden years. freep.com/story/news/pol…
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@DKThomp You can build greenfield software "for free" relative to 5yrs ago. In 6-18 months I think you will be able to operate software at drastically lower costs than today. It truly is wild.
I don't understand the selloff. I think these companies should be going to the moon.
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I’m still thinking about how to explain my inkling at greater length but this is a good start
Sar Haribhakti@sarthakgh
“4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of 2026.” “The cost of Claude Pro or ChatGPT is $20 dollars a month, while a Max subscription is $200 dollars respectively. The median US knowledge worker costs ~350-500 dollars a day fully loaded. An agent that handles even a fraction of their workflow a day at ~6-7 dollars is a 10-30x ROI not including improvement in intelligence.” “In our view, anything that has a human click buttons, gather information, reformat it into another medium (email, chart, excel, presentation) is a huge risk. LLMs thrive at this kind of data interchange exclusively, effortlessly changing text into audio, English into Chinese, and words into images.”
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for me the odds that AI is a bubble declined significantly in the last 3 weeks and the odds that we’re actually quite under-built for the necessary levels of inference/usage went significantly up in that period
basically I think AI is going to become the home screen of a ludicrously high percentage of white collar workers in the next two years and parallel agents will be deployed in the battlefield of knowledge work at downright Soviet levels
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Returned a rental car with a corporate discount applied a day early and now @Avis mexico is trying to charge standard rates and steal $800. This company is so fucked up.
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@Jesse_Livermore It's also kind of hard to plan for the future. Hoping to start a family soon and would love to buy an apt, but I'm not really sure if/how I will make money 5yrs from now.
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The downside to AI. And it's not a small downside.
Madison Kanna@Madisonkanna
as a software engineer, i feel a real loss of identity right now. for a long time i defined myself in part by the act of writing code. the pride in a hard-earned solution was part of who i was. now i watch AI accomplish in seconds what took me hours. i find myself caught between relief and mourning, awe and anxiety. the craft that shaped me is suddenly eclipsed by a machine. who am i now?
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@MTA why does the Q have 20 minute headways during rush hour? Wtf?
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@conorsen Huge with high school track/cross country everywhere
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kinda wanna get a hobby in 2026. what is a good hobby for dads with no spare money and who only have free time in blocks that are 40 minutes or shorter and happen at completely unpredictable dates and times? it can’t be smoking cigarettes, thats way too expensive in CA these days
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@quantian1 Just need to find the right buildings. Plenty of places on UES/UWS have $2.5k/mo 1100sqft 2bed/2bath.
Manhattan carrying costs are brutal though. Go to queens and they're like $500.
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I toured a seven figure condo last week—which was marginally nicer than my current apartment—and the carrying costs of association fees and taxes was more than my current rent even if I paid all in cash up front. Holy shit young people are unbelievably fucked in this country.
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With DC housing inventory set to be (well?) above 2019 levels next year, curious to see how it impacts the way @mattyglesias and @DKThomp talk about housing market conditions:
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@sam_d_1995 @stefanoschen How the hell do these things get through NYS legislature? None of them willing to stand up to MTA unions and want gov to be the bad guy?
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🚨BREAKING🚨: looks like Hochul will veto a bill banning one-person train operation, according to NYT reporter @stefanoschen
this bill was misguided and out of line with international best practices. grateful to have a governor who is laser-focused on improving MTA service
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After look at very many creepy Epstein photos I've opened up Zillow to do a mind flush.
Should I post?
Y/N?
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@mjnblack Upper manhattan is by far the most underrated area in the city. Glad you've found and enjoy it!
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Reader, I moved there (after literally learning that Hudson Heights existed 1 year ago from this tweet)
If you live in upper Manhattan (or want me to sell you on why it’s the last place in nyc where you can build an affordable, high-quality life) dm me!!
(summer pics for reference)
fully fund transit@crosstown_line
once again asking why Bushwick? why not upper Manhattan?
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