Scott Burton

Evan Dando has an autobiography.

Love this record so much

I listen to this at least once a month. "Sly" & "Vein Melter" are choice deep cuts.

There's a hillarious Rest Is History episode about this that goes on about the role that vacations, regattas, yacht holidays etc. play in exacerbating the crisis

It's weird, I've heard the inverse of that opinion as well. Some say Tuchman was too eager to lay all the blame on Germany and others say Clark lets them off too easily.

I don't have a strongly held view personally. They're both great books.

"The Sleepwalkers" by Christopher Clark

I think you guys missed something important. If you have time to use the office ping-pong table, you have a bullshit job.

I was on the WELL, back when you had to pay long-distance for dialup, finally getting telnet was like emerging from a cocoon.

Nuked from orbit

Casablanca, Citizen Kane and Chinatown deserve their reputations

The I Know Better Than Professional Devs Who Ship crowd is really out in force today

Do you know for a fact that LLM code is low quality? First hand? From recent professional experience?

Los Angeles is awesome except when there is one drop of rain or a subtle gust of wind, whereupon the entire civic infrastructure collapses.

Non-sarcastic answer: I think they're so eyeballs-deep in twitter that they think Nazism is legitimately on the rise in America and you'd be a fool if you don't try to ride the tiger

Genuinely curious, after you put on your clown makeup and your clown nose and your clown nose and your clown shoes, did you check the mirror before posting this

Probably no great loss? I suppose we'll see.

In fact I'd go so far as to say the practical dividing line is "I have too much to do, LLMs help" vs "I need to preserve the illusion that I'm busy".

I've seen this in play across industries.

A bit of grace we can extend is to recognize this site over-indexes writers and creatives with, let's say, light professional obligations. They're understandably feeling threatened.

If you're not shipping code every day, maintaining codebases, fixing defects, QAing, writing release notes, monitoring production environments, responding to user requests, why did you feel motivated to post this?

Did you consider that maybe his post isn't for you?

Almost Famous?

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

I keep a list of every Republican who voted against certification in 2021

isn't it kinda the job of the Secretary of State to convince allies not to drag you into a war?

He looks way different from his role as Paul Atreides

Iraq war was started on a presidential lie but it feel like somehow the Iran war was started on something worse: a total presidential failure to comprehend even the most basic facts of the situation

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

To be fair they're 2/3rds tail

I had a junior team member give a preso on Vibecoding around two weeks after I gave a talk with a "Vibecoding Failed" slide, in which he more or less admitted to context-poisoning, getting random undesirable outputs and that my way is actually suited to the kind of work we do.

Plan mode is fine for some things but Claude will absolutely use it to implement the dumbest schemes. Hard files or GTFO.

Someone told me when you see "You're absolutely right", clear your context window immediately and go edit your checkpoints. That's good advice.