RoddaWallPro (u/RoddaWallPro)

RoddaWallPro commented on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk wsj.com/politics/national... · Posted by u/klausa

basket_horse · 7 days ago

And that’s what’s happening here. The government is telling Anthropic to fuck off and they are finding someone else

RoddaWallPro · 7 days ago

Actually, that is not what is happening here. What is happening here is that the govt is saying "Okay, we will not buy your widgets. Also, anyone who _does_ buy your widgets, regardless of what they are doing with them, we the government will not do any business with them." Which is waayyyy beyond just not buying widgets. That is outright retaliation and using your power to attempt to destroy a company.

RoddaWallPro commented on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves blog.adafruit.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/fortran77

tracker1 · 21 days ago

Would you be okay with a 30 day waiting period for posing a news article, that included strict penalties for misinformation/disinformation? Since you have to wait to publish, you have less reason to get things wrong.

RoddaWallPro · 21 days ago

A 30 day waiting period on news articles doesn't meaningfully reduce actual suicides. One on guns _does_, without a corresponding harm to the buyer.

RoddaWallPro commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77

ChuckMcM · a month ago

Yup, I've been here before. Back in 1995 we called it "The Internet." :-) Not to be snarky here, as we know the Internet has, in fact, revolutionized a lot of things and generated a lot of wealth. But in 1995, it was "a trillion dollar market" where none of the underlying infrastructure could really take advantage of it. AI is like that today, a pretty amazing technology that at some point will probably revolutionize a lot of things we do, but the hype level is as far over its utility as the Internet hype was in 1995. My advice to anyone going through this for the first time is to diversify now if you can. I didn't in 1995 and that did not work out well for me.

RoddaWallPro · a month ago

What do you mean exactly by "diversify"? Money/investment-wise?

RoddaWallPro commented on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) jeffhuang.com/productivit... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

RoddaWallPro · 3 months ago

I do something similar - I create a "2025December.md" file each month (with proper year/month obviously) and have a bullet list of everything I'm working on/trying to keep track of. I also use it as a scratchpad for whatever, and writing down notes for projects. Each day I insert a "#### 11 Dec 2025" heading at the bottom of the file, then just copy over everything relevant from the previous entry.

It's stored in my Dropbox so it is always backed up, though it is not VCS'd. It's worked for me for years, far better than any app. Too, I have full control over it, and years of the data, free for processing by any tools/LLMs that I might want (I haven't wanted such a thing so far, but maybe I will).

RoddaWallPro commented on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI stratechery.com/2025/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

an0malous · 3 months ago

If you liked that, you'll enjoy his take on how, actually, bubbles are good: https://stratechery.com/2025/the-benefits-of-bubbles/

RoddaWallPro · 3 months ago

I _kind of_ understand this one. You can think of a bubble as a market exploring a bunch of different possibilities, a lot of which may not work out. But the ones that do work out, they may go on to be foundational. Sort of like startups: you bet that most of them will fail, but that's okay, you're making bets!

The difference of course is that when a startup goes out of business, it's fine (from my perspective) because it was probably all VC money anyway and so it doesn't cause much damage, whereas the entire economy bubble popping causes a lot of damage.

I don't know that he's arguing that they are good, but rather that _some_ kinds of bubbles can have a lot of positive effects.

Maybe he's doing the same thing here, I don't know. I see the words "advertising would make X Product better" and I stop reading. Perhaps I am blindly following my own ideology here :shrug:.

RoddaWallPro commented on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI stratechery.com/2025/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

biophysboy · 3 months ago

I like and read Ben's stuff regularly; he often frames "better" from the business side. He will use terms like "revealed preference" to claim users actually prefer bad product designs (e.g. most users use free ad-based platforms), but a lot of human behavior is impulsive, habitual, constrained, and irrational.

RoddaWallPro · 3 months ago

I agree that is what he is doing, but I can also justify adding fentanyl to every drug sold in the world as "making it better" from a business perspective, because it is addictive. Anyone who ignores the moral or ethical angle on decisions, I cannot take seriously. It's like saying that Maximizing Shareholder Value is always the right thing to do. No, it isn't. So don't say stupid shit like that, be a human being and use your brain and capacity to look at things and analyze "is this good for human society?".

RoddaWallPro commented on Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI stratechery.com/2025/goog... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

RoddaWallPro · 3 months ago

"advertising would make ChatGPT a better product."

And with that, I will never read anything this guy writes again :)

RoddaWallPro commented on Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging twitter.com/spacex/status... · Posted by u/nynx

ianburrell · a year ago

The bandwidth will be small. I saw 2-5 Mbps for the whole cell covering a city. Devices will be limited to messages, small amounts of data, and voice.

RoddaWallPro · a year ago

But just to clarify, because I'm also having a hard time imagining this, an LTE antenna in a cell phone can beam data to a satellite and have it picked up? Even at whatever low kbps? That is insane to me!

RoddaWallPro commented on Governor Newsom signs bill to protect kids from social media addiction gov.ca.gov/2024/09/20/gov... · Posted by u/Cyclone_

jedberg · a year ago

Saying this is similar to saying "I won't fly 500 miles, flying is dangerous, I'd rather drive!"

The truth of the matter is that school shootings are still much rarer than the daily use of phones in school. Talk to a current middle/high school teacher. They will tell you that in most classes there are at least some kids on their phone the entire time, and there is nothing they can do about it. And those kids distract the ones around them.

Kids get "emergency" texts from home midday, and it turns out to be stuff like "I put your socks away for you".

They can't take the phone away anymore because if they do, a parent comes in making the same argument you did, or they accuse the school of theft.

A statewide ban of phones during class time would at least give the local administration and district some air cover in these cases to confiscate phones that are being used during class.

RoddaWallPro · a year ago

With (I assume) cell phone use prevalent in every single classroom in the nation that hasn't banned them, and school shootings a minuscule probability, "much rarer" is doing a lot of work here hah.

RoddaWallPro commented on The Monospace Web owickstrom.github.io/the-... · Posted by u/mrunseen

danbruc · 2 years ago

Here is another ooh, this is the thread to ask my question in.

For years I wanted to make a Visual Studio [Code] extension that justifies comments as you type including hyphenation but accepting additional spaces as necessary. I never dared to really start beyond some research into relevant algorithms and libraries because it seems pretty complex. I tried to use things like fmt and par but mostly accepted that I can not have nicely formatted comments unless I do it manually, which I do sometimes but in general just costs to much time, especially as any small change often forces redoing several lines.

You have to deal with long identifiers that you preferably do not want to break across lines, [nested] lists, tables, code blocks, or ASCII art contained in comments, distinguish between hyphens as part of words and hyphens inserted by hyphenation, there might be structured comments like XML doc and Javadoc tags, ... When I saw Tom7's Badness 0, I considered throwing a LLM at the problem, but I think that this is not [yet] practical if you want it in real-time and without hallucinated comments.

Does something like this already exist or something to build on top that would make writing an extension not a year-long effort?

RoddaWallPro · 2 years ago

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stkb.rew...

I use this extension extensively. It's not auto-wrapping, but you can bind it to an easy shortcut and wrap when you need to. I find it almost indispensable. I wrote a vscode extension to do the same thing, then discovered this one which does it far better.