Brandon DuRette

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Brandon DuRette

@bdurette

Builder of software, software engineers, and software teams. Opinions are my own and are subject to change.

Austin, TX Katılım Ekim 2008

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·25 Nis

There are so many levels to this, it's fascinating. I just wish the buttons weren't red and blue, because that immediately puts this in a political frame in the U.S.

Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

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Jessica Kerr@jessitron·23 Nis

Software has _always_ been written by unreliable agents. “We care more about measuring correctness now because agents write unreliable code” is a story that doesn’t hold up. We care because testing used to be 50% of the work and now it’s 99%. - Will Wilson @AntithesisHQ #bugbash

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·23 Nis

@rubragroup @jackunheard Rule 5.09(a)(1): "A catch is the act of a fielder in getting secure possession in his hand or glove of a ball in flight and firmly holding it; providing he does not use his cap, protector, pocket or any other part of his uniform in getting possession."

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Rubra Group@rubragroup·23 Nis

@jackunheard Why would the hitter not be called out? The ball never hit the ground and was captured by the pitcher.

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Jack@jackunheard·23 Nis

NEW: Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert just pulled off one of the strangest plays in MLB history… A 107.8 mph line drive slammed straight into his jersey and got completely lodged there. It took him a few seconds to figure out where the ball even went. The play was ruled a single because the ball was considered dead once it stuck in his uniform. First time that’s ever happened in the majors. Wild.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·23 Nis

@charles_colucci @jackunheard Rule 5.09(a)(1): "A catch is the act of a fielder in getting secure possession in his hand or glove of a ball in flight and firmly holding it; providing he does not use his cap, protector, pocket or any other part of his uniform in getting possession."

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Charles Colucci@charles_colucci·23 Nis

@jackunheard Why is that not an out? It didn't hit the ground! Where does it say you have to catch it in your hands? A bare handed catch or sliding attempt that hits a body part but doesn't hit the ground is an out? I don't get this call!

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·22 Nis

@zeeg And don't get me started on OneDrive -- which is really two drives, the local one and the cloud one.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·22 Nis

@zeeg I had to reboot my Windows laptop twice today just so I could keep working. The first time it couldn't find my external monitors. The second time the Start menu (or whatever is called these days) wouldn't open. Enshittification is everywhere.

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David Cramer@zeeg·21 Nis

holy fuck Apple- new Macbook and I'm seeing the latest implementation of Finder and its absolutely unusable at this point this is a **workstation** stop fucking trying to turn it into a shitty iOS clone anyone who legitimately thinks macos is better than windows in 2026 (or 2025, 2024, 2023..) is hallucinating

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·20 Nis

@aurooba It's comically hard for someone non-technical to get a domain up and running. I was helping a non-techie family member get set up recently and wow. The website was pretty easy. The end boss was SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. That took a call to "tech support" (me).

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Aurooba Ahmed@aurooba·19 Nis

I don't think most of us usually realize what a tech bubble we live in. I was thinking about how for most of us these days, a website is tablestakes. It's easy to spin up. You can prompt your way into a simple brochure website or blog in a couple hours. And then I realized I was thinking this while sitting in a room full of people who have never had a website and never will. And I almost laughed out loud.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·31 Mar

@SawyerMerritt IIRC, Starlink requires airlines to offer WiFi to all passengers free of charge. That may be a term Delta could not swallow. The trend in air travel is the unbundling of services (WiFi, food, baggage, etc.). Unbundling keeps base fares low.

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Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·31 Mar

Amazon must have offered a low price for this deal, because Delta is signing on for a service that they don't yet know for sure that Amazon will be able to provide. Starlink is already a proven in-flight high-speed Wi-Fi provider and could outfit Delta's fleet by end of 2027. Almost all of Delta's competitors have signed on with Starlink.

Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt

NEWS: Delta Airlines has announced they are partnering with Amazon's LEO to bring high-speed Wi-Fi to its airplanes. "Delta will introduce Amazon Leo on hundreds of Delta aircraft, starting with an initial installation on 500 aircraft beginning 2028, and work with Amazon to expand its popular Delta Sync Wi-Fi and seatback experiences."

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·10 Mar

@JOBhakdi The power move would be 100 cybercabs rolling out during SXSW. Make it happen @elonmusk.

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Jo Bhakdi@JOBhakdi·10 Mar

It feels to me that everyone is discounting the April launch of Cybercab. The general consensus seems to be that 8 (or just 1) unsupervised Robotaxi in austin means Tesla isn’t ready and won’t be for many months. I wouldn’t be so sure. - Cybercab production is CLEARLY on track for hundreds in April - there is no indication of Tesla slowing down production - hiring for all kinds of positions that only make sense when scaling is taking place - no comment from any executive about delays …. It’s going to be interesting.

Rebellionaire@Rebellionaire

You don’t have to buy the timeline to recognize the signal.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·19 Şub

@SantoroSystems Level 4+ includes an insurance component, which has to be priced to cover the risk (miles driven are a factor). Some of that can be bundled into the purchase price, but not all. Subscription + network-usage offsets is most likely.

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Matthew Santoro 🇨🇦@SantoroSystems·19 Şub

Are there genuinely people who believe you are going to be able to buy a cybercab for $30,000 that will include FSD for free..... As in I can go on the Tesla website, spend $30,000 and have an unlimited mileage level 4 autonomous vehicle? Please tell me there's no one who actually believes that will be the case

Jared Vegas@jaredvegas29

@SantoroSystems FSD is included.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·4 Şub

As the (apocryphal?) story goes, when Jordan was told LeBron had won more NBA Championship Game 7s than anyone else, his response was, "Good for him. What's Game 7 like?" What metrics are you trying to improve that you should be systematically eliminating the need for?

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·16 Oca

@asmartbear What happened to the $1 billion you offered yesterday?!

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Jason Cohen@asmartbear·16 Oca

If you're raising money without your core team assembled, investors know that $200k won't fix that. But if you have the team working spare time, that's a good reason to raise. Fuel things that are already working. longform.asmartbear.com/startup-money/…

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·15 Oca

@asmartbear Ok. Hear me out. We'll use the billion to build rockets... and then we'll get a bunch of launch contracts... and we'll use the proceeds to build telecom satellites that we can launch to space. Wait, that's already been done? Twice? Dammit.

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Jason Cohen@asmartbear·15 Oca

Why don’t you start a telecom company! Because it takes too much money to build infrastructure. OK, here’s $1 billion for you to buy whatever you need. But it’s a large but shrinking market and the big segments are all taken. And people don’t switch often. There you go.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·7 Oca

@yarddawg @rtomashoff34 Scout Team

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TheYardDawg, Lifelong Quack Hater@yarddawg·7 Oca

@rtomashoff34 So let’s say we win and the contract is enforced, what then?

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Roman Tomashoff@rtomashoff34·7 Oca

Yeah this isn’t shocking at all…

Pete Thamel@PeteThamel

Washington sources say they are prepared to pursue all legal avenues to enforce Demond Williams’ signed contract.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·19 Ara

@coker_UDub Insurance against Sark to Alabama or Michigan?

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CokeGreaterThanPepsi@coker_UDub·18 Ara

WUT

Matt Fortuna@Matt_Fortuna

NEWS: Texas has hired Will Muschamp as DC and fired Pete Kwiatkowski. The Longhorns have fired defensive pass game coordinator Duane Akina as well.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·10 Ara

@pbeisel I hope so! The most noticeable shortcoming of 14.2 is conditional speed limit signs common in school zones (e.g. 20 MPH from 700 to 800 and 300 and 400). It slows down regardless of the time. I assume it will do the same when school is out (summer/winter break).

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phil beisel@pbeisel·10 Ara

As Musk put it, “autonomy is pretty much solved at this point.” Tesla expects to remove the safety observer in Austin in roughly three weeks, pending final validation. It’s a data-driven decision, but it’s close. FSD should accelerate quickly after that. Within a month or two, a model roughly 10× larger is expected to ship— still running on AI4. Afterward “chain of reasoning” enters the picture (see article below). The groundwork is already underway and will deepen over time.

phil beisel@pbeisel

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·4 Ara

@farzyness Assuming the regulations change, how will my Tesla signal to cops that it's in FSD so they don't have to pull me over to confirm? Getting pulled over sucks whether or not you get a ticket.

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Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness·4 Ara

You can now 'text and drive' using Tesla FSD. However, THIS IS NOT APPROVED BY REGULATORS. This is simply Tesla being so confident in their FSD suite that they think the car is safer than the human in certain situations. THIS STILL MEANS THAT IF A COP SEES YOU ON YOUR PHONE, YOU'RE GETTING YOUR ASS PULLED OVER. The signal here is that Tesla's self-driving tech will continue to vastly outpace regulation unless something changes, which will continue to make it VERY difficult for the masses to really grasp WTF is happening with transportation. Plan accordingly $TSLA

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·12 Kas

@patio11 I hate this gambit on moral grounds, unless clearly disclosed. For example, "We're an open source company and preferentially (or only) hire OSS contributors to our codebase." That said, establishing legal clarity on PRs to repos absent a CLA would be valuable in many contexts.

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Brandon DuRette@bdurette·12 Kas

@patio11 Does this change if submissions were requested as a PR to a company-owned GitHub repository with a suitable (to company) open source license applied? Absent a specific CLA, the GitHub ToS seems to imply this would grant license to company. Would love to see this get tested.

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