Nate Sullivan

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I am a great person, an average basketball player, and a terrible musician.
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Lakers honored a legendary coach by scoring in the 80's

The whole tech world needs more projects that aren't trying to become billion- (let alone trillion-) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas (or less!).

https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/repebble

Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back

The whole tech world needs more projects that aren’t trying to become billion- (let alone trillion-) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas (or less!).

Daring Fireball

Oh no the Chinese are doing the useless thing that gives wrong answers cheaper

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/tech/deepseek-stocks-ai-china/index.html

A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging

US stocks dropped sharply Monday — and chipmaker Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in market value — after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry.

CNN
2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware
I love how in all professional sports commentary, no player is “slow”. Instead, “he doesn’t run very well.”

The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn't descriptive enough.

I don't know how to explain why a camera app needs camera permissions.

they don’t want to make it
we don’t want to buy it
let’s call the whole thing off https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/113102198215909473

Paul Graham is the Malcom Gladwell of tech. He starts with an idea that people mostly agree with ("Middle managers are bad"), offers insights so vague as to be useless ("but sometimes you need managers"), all in service of a story he wants to tell.

Gladwell is mostly guilty of embellishing details to tell a good story, but Graham is always pushing an agenda. Sometimes it's about money. Sometimes it's about his ego.

His agenda constrains his essays to "airport book" level writing.

Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text

#pollution

@caseynewton I think the people behind the letter unequivocally subscribe to the idea that the current LLM technology is a path to AGI. It's important to question that assumption. That's the biggest disconnect for me when reading it. Such an assumption directly serves the interests of OpenAI and other LLM companies.