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seattle_spring · a month ago
So you disagree with the concept of "the paradox of tolerance"?
mattmcknight · a month ago
One person wants a list of their political enemies banned from software conferences, one of them doesn't want them banned. Which one is tolerant? The only intolerance and exclusion I see is from those requesting that specific people with whom they have political disagreement be banned.
mattmcknight commented on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams   sherwood.news/tech/meta-p... · Posted by u/donohoe
mattmcknight · a month ago
Can we fix the title to be "scams and banned items"?

It seems like the banned items bit is misleadingly left out, and this title falsely implies it is 10% from scams alone.

mattmcknight commented on Addiction Markets   thebignewsletter.com/p/ad... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
mattmcknight · 2 months ago
I am really tired of the lazy argument style of using "corporate" as a synonym for "bad". I too think it's bad to encourage addictive gamblers. I don't care if it is corporate, individual, or state run.
mattmcknight commented on The Rubygems.org takeover   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/chmaynard
mattmcknight · 2 months ago
It seems like things have ended up in a better place than they started.
mattmcknight commented on A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity   dayvster.com/blog/dev-cul... · Posted by u/ibobev
mattmcknight · 3 months ago
For me, the push to single page applications and the unnecessary complexity that brought with it made me just sick of fooling around with web things- we had solved the problem and they invented nonsense that made it harder. There has been so much to explore over the past 7 years in machine learning though- it just requires a lot more compute than most people have available on their desktop.
mattmcknight commented on Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ   math.columbia.edu/~woit/w... · Posted by u/r721
seydor · 3 months ago
In the past it was the postmodernists attacking physics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

It's funny how this new generation of professional antiestablishers are using the same tactics (even though they would vehemently attach postmodernism)

It's all a power play really, when politics is involved. That's not science

mattmcknight · 3 months ago
"the postmodernists attacking physics"

The Sokal affair was a physicist attacking the postmodernists for attacking physics (and scientific realism) by showing the postmodernists would publish complete nonsense.

The current attack is saying the physics establishment is backing a theory that doesn't adequately make predictions (not adequately supporting scientific realism).

It can be viewed outside the realm of power, that's a very postmodern view.

mattmcknight commented on Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation    · Posted by u/rakshithbellare
mattmcknight · 4 months ago
I think it depends a little on what your intended head is? Headless CMS is just CRUD UI for a database that has an API.
mattmcknight commented on Do the simplest thing that could possibly work   seangoedecke.com/the-simp... · Posted by u/dondraper36
codingwagie · 4 months ago
I think this works in simple domains. After working in big tech for a while, I am still shocked by the required complexity. Even the simplest business problem may take a year to solve, and constantly break due to the astounding number of edge cases and scale.

Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale. Even rewrites that have a decade old code base to be inspired from, often fail due to the sheer amount of things to consider.

A classic, Chesterton's Fence:

"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”"

mattmcknight · 4 months ago
This is where John Gall's Systemantics comes into play, “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."

Obviously a bit hyperbolic, but matches my experience.

mattmcknight commented on Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/clcaev
cube00 · 4 months ago
Data retention is legal's bread and butter. There's no chance such a decision is accidently made by reusing code.

Anytime data is recorded legal is immediately asking about retention so they don't end up empty handed in front of a judge.

Every byte that car records and how it is managed will be documented in excruciating detail by legal.

mattmcknight · 4 months ago
> Anytime data is recorded legal is immediately asking about retention so they don't end up empty handed in front of a judge.

In my experience, they are setting automated 90 deletion policies on email so they don't end up with surprises in discovery.

mattmcknight commented on Kiwi.com flight search MCP server   mcp-install-instructions.... · Posted by u/Eldodi
frederic2507 · 4 months ago
waiting for somebody posting the first I have 10 years of experience with MCP...
mattmcknight · 4 months ago
I have 10 Claude agents running so I am able to develop years of experience in parallel.

u/mattmcknight

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