Psyonic | 4 months ago | on: LLMs can get "brain rot"
well played
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Psyonic | 1 year ago | on: Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt
While most cars are not LFP, your claim that you won't find LFP batteries in cars is incorrect:
Rivian switched to LFP: https://insideevs.com/news/720396/2025-rivian-r1s-r1t-lfp-ba...
Some Teslas use LFP: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2464/tesla-lfp-batteries-c...
Psyonic | 1 year ago | on: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
That’s interesting. I’ve gone to chipotle around once or twice a month for two decades now, and with the exception of their lemonades I’ve only had something unavailable maybe 3-4 times. Regional variation I guess.
Psyonic | 2 years ago | on: Beeper Mini is back
Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram
maybe Discord, FB Messenger
Psyonic | 2 years ago | on: Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
Using Python with Bazel is fairly common at big SV companies -- they use rules_python with it (https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python). It does rely on pip for grabbing dependencies but handles building modules and can integrates well with rules_docker/rules_oci for building container images from your code.
Psyonic | 2 years ago | on: The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
This is a bit racist. So they cite a source with a Japanese name that sounds a bit like Satoshi Nakamoto, so he must be the same guy?
Psyonic | 2 years ago | on: Ripple notches win in SEC case over XRP cryptocurrency
Didn't EOS sell $4B worth? https://decrypt.co/80144/4-4-billion-eos-token-raise-fueled-...
Psyonic | 2 years ago | on: Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave
I'm probably just feeding a troll but why would she need to look presentable if she's living isolated in a cave?
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: ESPP Calculator
Not all ESPP's can be sold instantly. At Asana we have to hold ours for a year before selling, so it's not risk free money.
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: Coinbase’s chief product officer will leave with a $105M payday
yes, but "android founder." What great product innovation did this guy pioneer at CB? Any justification at all for a $100M payday?
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office
I think it's both -- I do think he's against remote work (remember his remarks at Tesla "pretend to work somewhere else": https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2022/06/01/musk-says...) but also it's a great way to cheaply get rid of a lot of employees who were told they could WFH forever.
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: Code Design Decision – Always throw custom exceptions
I don't see how an exception type defined at the throw site would be significantly different than using the text of the exception to convey the type. Callers wouldn't know to expect it either way, so how would they be able to handle it effectively?
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: Why is every layoff 10-15%?
yeah I think Twitter isn't useful here. Having a dramatic change of management + a layoff + serious product upheaval is definitely different than just a layoff.
Now Elon is ending a policy literally called "Work From Home Forever" and with no flexibility -- back to the office 5 days a week.
Why would an employee feel safe when literally everything about Twitter changed overnight?
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: Theory of what’s going to happen next at Twitter
You really think Tesla and SpaceX have accomplished as much as they have with no one good at the company? Why is Twitter different?
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: Against Effective Altruism
So Thanos was an effective altruist?
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: I love my GPD Micro PC
lol, fair enough.
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: I love my GPD Micro PC
"Better not hop on a city bike with it in my backpack, ’cause what if I fall?"
How often do people fall on bikes? I biked for years in SF with my work laptop and never had an issue.
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: BART’s excursion fare: Agency earns millions from passengers not riding trains
"Though I guess people would just tap in, tap out immediately but don't exit the turnstiles, then just get on a train and exit through the emergency exit at whatever station you want for free."
Sure, or just jump the turnstiles and exist through the emergency exit on the other end, which I already see people do frequently.
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: BART’s excursion fare: Agency earns millions from passengers not riding trains
Assuming anyone is there, sure. I've changed my mind about BART late at night (next train was delay 30m, going to take an Uber instead) and had no one there to talk to.
Psyonic | 3 years ago | on: We Halved Go Monorepo CI Build Time
that’s not actually what happens at Uber. They use bazel for the go monorepo which can accurately determine what modules are affected by a given change and only runs those tests.
They also use mostly homegrown CI tools alongside phabricator for code review, or at least they did while I was there.
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