lambdasquirrel (u/lambdasquirrel)

lambdasquirrel commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec

nickfromseattle · 8 days ago

This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'.

> Nothing you post there is going to change your career.

I can attribute millions of dollars in revenue to LinkedIn, as can a lot of my 'LinkedIn friends'

> Doing work that matters might.

This is a pre-requisite for winning on LinkedIn. The kind of content that performs best are strong opinions informed by actual expertise.

> Go for depth over frequency.

Unfortunately that's not the way marketing works. 95% of your audience is not 'in-market' and ready to buy when they see your content. Sometime over the next 3-5 years they may move into a buying lifecycle, and they are much more likely to trust you, and therefore buy from you, if they've seen your content 1,000x vs a couple of long reads.

> If writing online matters to you, you’re probably better off starting a blog and building things there.

Your long form, in-depth content lives on your blog, and your LinkedIn profile should act as a funnel, moving people from newsfeed --> your profile --> the most important piece of content you want them to read. From there, you can capture their email to touch them on another channel (inbox), push them to your YouTube / Twitter / community, etc.

With that said, while LinkedIn is responsible for a significant % of my total revenue, it's also responsible for a significant % of my anxiety. Building in public invites folks to publicly blast you if they don't agree with your ideas. 'Getting ratio'd' happens. LinkedIn eventually becomes a mentally exhausting slog. But as a career driven individual the upside has been very high and I think the trade off was worth it. I would do it again knowing everything I know now.

lambdasquirrel · 8 days ago

> This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'.

At first, I didn’t know what to say about the article other than to agree to something about it that I couldn’t put a finger on. But now it makes sense.

Developers really can’t be faulted to hate LinkedIn specifically because it’s marketing. It’s just pure noise to signal. It’s pure promotion.

lambdasquirrel commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

kube-system · a month ago

The distortion of faces near the edges of iPhone photos is, in my opinion, the biggest issue with iPhone photos. So much so that I avoid being at the edges of group photos specifically for this reason. And it gets worse as you approach the edge of the frame. If you are barely in-frame, you will look like you've gained 30lbs and you've just had a stroke.

lambdasquirrel · a month ago

Yeah, and it’s an interesting problem because for a lot of casual photos, most people won’t care. But once you do care, there’s suddenly no recourse.

Folks will say it’s just the focal length. But can you crop when your sensor is already that small?

lambdasquirrel commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

SchemaLoad · a month ago

They were popular. Are they still? Just observationally there are two groups left, phone users, and people with very expensive complex setups. Everyone who would have bought those simple cameras moved on to using phones.

lambdasquirrel · a month ago

By the numbers, the casual cameras are having a quiet turnaround.

Fuji and Ricoh can hardly keep their X100 and GR cameras stocked. Fuji added extra production capacity in China because it exceeded their expectations. I brought them up specifically because the serious camera people rag on them for being hype cameras, but I see plenty of everyday people with them. Go to places like the High Line in NY and there’s folks with A6700s and various X-mount cameras in addition to the serious full-frame mounts. Leica is doing financially well because of their Q series.

I think five years ago you could say it was just two groups, but by the numbers and by what I see in the streets, the point and shoots have been prematurely declared dead. Fuji and Sony are meanwhile figuring out how to sell APS-C to a more casual crowd, after the other old players effectively left that market.

lambdasquirrel commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

dagmx · a month ago

The points really boil down to:

1. Difference in focal length/ position.

2. Difference in color processing

But…the article is fairly weak on both points?

1. It’s unclear why the author is comparing different focal lengths without clarifying what they used. If I use the 24mm equivalent on either my full frame or my iPhone, the perspective will be largely the same modulo some lens correction. Same if I use the 70mm or whatever the focal length is.

2. Color processing is both highly subjective but also completely something you can disable on the phone and the other camera. It’s again, no different between the two.

It’s a poor article because it doesn’t focus on the actual material differences.

The phone will have a smaller sensor. It will have more noise and need to do more to combat it. It won’t have as shallow a depth of field.

The phone will also of course have different ergonomics.

But the things the post focuses on are kind of poor understandings of the differences in what they’re shooting and how their cameras work.

lambdasquirrel · a month ago

This does not address the detrimental parts of computational photography.

lambdasquirrel commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

FredPret · a month ago

My entry-level mirrorless camera with its kit lens can take photos that blow my recent-model iPhone out of the water.

Add a nice lens and there's no comparison.

However:

- The iPhone is always in my pocket (until I crack and buy a flip-phone)

- The iPhone picture always turns out, but the Canon takes a modicum of skill, which my wife is not interested in, and I'll never be able to teach passers-by when they take a group picture for us

- The iPhone picture quality, though worse, is still fine

Looking back at travel and family pictures, it has been very much worth it for me to have a dedicated camera.

lambdasquirrel · a month ago

> but the Canon takes a modicum of skill, which my wife is not interested in

And so, the reasons why Fuji and point-and-shoots are popular. Lots of “serious” photography enthusiasts don’t really get this and call Fujis “hype” cameras but it’s like bashing Wordpress because most people don’t want to learn AWS to post cat pics.

> The iPhone is always in my pocket

Rationale for both point-and-shoots as well as Leica (also hated by lots of serious camera people ;)).

lambdasquirrel commented on Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-07-... · Posted by u/duxup

zxcvbn4038 · a month ago

I recently bought a SIG P320, and a week later, I started reading articles about it self discharging. =P It’s not like it happens all the time, but it seems that if the safety lever spring’s thickness is off by a thousandth of an inch, and the height of the post it fits on is also off by a thousandth of an inch, and you drop the pistol at just the right angle with enough force, the FBI reportedly got it to discharge once during testing—though officially, the results are inconclusive. Now, some law enforcement agencies are quietly replacing the P320 with the Glock 19. Personally, I’m keeping mine because it’s a great gun, and I love that 21-round magazine. However, I sent in my warranty card in case there’s a recall or something similar.

lambdasquirrel · a month ago

A thousandth of an inch would do it? They couldn't give more margin-of-safety to a critical part like that?

A thousand of an inch isn't such a theoretical number. It's about 25 microns, and I've shimmed one of my back-focusing photography lenses for less than that much (about 10 microns, to be specific). This is something that they ought to be able to machine for, but depending on the context, it might not leave much room for error.

lambdasquirrel commented on East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming nature.com/articles/s4324... · Posted by u/defrost

somat · a month ago

It reminds me of the sulfur dioxide situation.

I was trying to figure out why volcanoes sometimes have a global cooling effect, I mean the things are pumping out obscene amounts of carbon dioxide right, so whats with the cooling. Well it turns out sulfur dioxide has a negative greenhouse coefficient(it will pass infrared light better than visible light). And if the volcano dumps tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, you get the cooling effect.

At which point I got too clever for my own good and went "Hey wait a minute, we(as a species) worked very hard to get the sulfur compounds out of our fuels, what it that was a mistake" conveniently ignoring why you don't want sulfur in your fuels. "Acid rain was not that bad, right?"

But sometimes it is fun do a little mustache twirl and in my best supervillain voice, proclaim "You know what would reduce global warming, we need to add a bunch of sulfur to jet fuel, to increase the amount of sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere"

lambdasquirrel · a month ago

Do we know what reducing solar irradiation will do for plant growth though? We might actually make the root cause worse if it decreases carbon fixation.

lambdasquirrel commented on Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own dilemmaworks.substack.com... · Posted by u/dworks

didibus · 2 months ago

Ya, the models have stolen everyone's copyrighted intellectual property already. Not sure I have a lot of sympathy, in fact, the more the merrier, if we're going to brush off that they're all trained on copyrighted material, might as well make sure they end up a really cheap, competitive, low margin, accessible commodity.

lambdasquirrel · 2 months ago

Eh... you should read the article. It sounds like a pretty big deal.

lambdasquirrel commented on Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

lambdasquirrel · 2 months ago

Reminds me of a line that Philip Glass co-opted for his 5th Symphony:

“Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.”

lambdasquirrel commented on Kubernetes is a symptom, not a solution andreafortuna.org/2025/06... · Posted by u/gsky

jauntywundrkind · 2 months ago

The article feels so intolerant to complexity, desparages again and again the complexity and accumulation of concerns.

But amid that there is this wild sublime hopeful optimism. This is maybe the only even slightly pro-CORBA piece any person machine has written in probably 20 years now. It/they try to pitch WASI WebAssembly as the next coming, as some magical relief that may somehow perhaps (entirely unspecifiedly) cure the complexity issues of today up.

And WASI is cross language! You can make wasm modules in whatever language, throw them into your wit world, hit go, and get a runtime that's running all your languages.

> The problem with this thesis is that there’s no other easy way to make microservices composed of different language stacks work well together

This is actually far easier. Because who cares if you are running micro-services? Every microservice exposes some http services. With some schema (json schema, openapi, type spec, GraphQL, whatever). One of the real true gains of micro-services is that language is (mostly) irrelevant.

lambdasquirrel · 2 months ago

I don’t think WASI is going to make k8s (and its ecosystem) go away. All the other problems tackled by docker and k8s were not solved by things like GraphQL and protobuf.