Tom Kleinpeter

@TheStoicEmperor @saranormous this one's for you

The person with conviction is the default leader.

@saranormous A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett. One of the best books I've read in years.

long flight upcoming - recs for books that taught you something?

I knocked out a few perf fixes today and am reminded yet again what an incredible tool @honeycombio is

@stratechery If google wants to flex their AI muscle and avoid all these issues, how about a version of Maps that I can have a conversation with when it's navigating me somewhere? "Be quiet until I get onto I5", "how much slower is the 405 bridge?", etc, all seem doable and issue free.

Gemini and Google's Culture The Google Gemini fiasco shows that the biggest challenge for Google in AI is not business model but rather company culture; change is needed from the top down. stratechery.com/2024/gemini-an…

@viksit I don't know about the details, but I do know that looking at the horizon / out the window seems to help people with it. I've even seen glasses that simulate the horizon, eg amazon.com/Hion-Sickness-…

@tklein this is a great idea! is motion sickness purely from the visual cortex though or from the balance of ear fluids etc?

I wonder if the Vision Pro has low enough latency to show a TV screen with a false horizon behind it that would let kids watch movies on car trips without getting motion sick.

@sujayakar314 @jamesacowling That's why I always blame the compiler.

"never blame the network" - @jamesacowling

@amplemarket how can I get my email out of your database if I'm not a California resident?

Yep.

@Pragmatic_Eng If you're really interested in this sort of thing, @jamwt and I did a podcast where we analyzed a number of outages a few years ago: downtimeproject.com

The monthly free issue of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter is out on interesting learnings from outages. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/real-world-e…

My jokey solution to the Fermi paradox is that really great VR causes civilizations to plateau before they can figure out interstellar travel. But maybe not at $3500/pair.

I think CoPilot is making fun of me. Sparks of AGI?

Can we please make sure that whatever regulatory body we form to police AI and blow up data centers has "Turing" in the name?

@AWSSupport I'm seeing some networking issues in us-west-2. Is that on your radar? Looks like other people are too: downdetector.com/status/aws-ama…

@alex_frantic @dagster You want @convex

Is there a "React for backend"? Something like @dagster but preferably in TypeScript and focused on business logic. Juggling databases, queues, caches, and external APIs feels like directly manipulating DOM before React came out. Surely there's gotta be a better way…

@realSharonZhou I really like Eames, myself. They did a ton more than just the chair: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_a…

I attribute all my success as a software engineer to spending way too much time looking at dashboards.

Twitter seems to be defaulting me to this "For you" page BS when I load the site now. Lame.

@Suhail I use an adblocker to just remove that section of the page.

Is there any way to turn off "You might like" on Twitter?

@frgx beta.openai.com/docs/guides/fi… is probably the easiest.

Idle question given the boom in LLMs: say I have a bank of questions and answers, how do I customize an LLM to also learn these questions and answers and thus answer any similar questions/answers?