John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 7hYou don't have to. At least not here. That's more of a LinkedIn kind of thing. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 14hKind of reminds me of this woman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMFg...youtube.comMars Attacks - Lady Walk InYouTube video by Top Clips 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 17hDon't get me wrong, I'm not going to cry for places like door dash: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comAI could upend food deliveryA startup offered delivery for dine-in prices plus a $1 fee. DoorDash noticed. 020
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 17hTo some degree this will work. One-off or two-off experiences. But if we want something thorough, systematic, nuanced, etc. We have to find a way to pay for that. It's not just reviews though. Any kind of content that is currently ad supported will have to be paid for in some way. 200
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 18hAn example that comes to mind are people who actually review products. Like consumer-reports style. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 18hIt's not just news orgs but random websites that generate actual content. This has been soap box that @reckless.bsky.social has been standing on for a while. The concept is that google zero will completely remove any financial incentives folks have to do things like actual product reviews. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 08/10/2026It may just be vibes but I get the sense that AOC is good at constituent services. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 07/10/2026This is a good thread with more details about this. I'm working this into a homework for my Disease Detectives, Science Olympiad students. bsky.app/profile/drda... 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 07/10/2026specifically is a longterm threat to Adobe (for the reasons Ed mentions), it does speak to how LLMs can be used to create competitive products. There are now so many avenues for competition against these companies trying to extract every dollar from their customers with subscriptions. 100
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 07/10/2026I'll say that one of my issues with adobe (probably not as important to most folks) is I hate their UI. I looked at the printcraft screenshot and it looks just like acrobat. Acrobat is horrible to use. While I don't think this project is... 100
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 07/10/2026This is kind of why I like to run. It’s alone time in my own head. 000
Reposted by John HarroldTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/10/2026Language barriers and national cultures are important, but they look tiny next to the deep cultural divide that separates LaTeX users from normal humans. 1415817
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 05/10/2026I must confess that when I'm walking down the sidewalk where I live I often encounter people speeding down the sidewalk on ebikes and electric scooters. I have yet to encounter someone on and ATV. I think we lack social norms about where and how these bike and scooters should be used. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 04/10/2026In general everything is a struggle. And if we give up on our side then the other side will make progress. Or more progress. Just because you have lost something doesn't mean you should concede defeat. You have to keep up the struggle. And you must do so assuming the other side will as well. 030
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 03/10/2026At that point you have effectively the same result that you would have achieved if you just changed the clocks by one hour. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 03/10/2026This may sound good theoretically. But if my kids school wants to start at 9 instead of 8 then the employers of the parents for every kid who goes to that school also must change when their employees have to come to work. Then the people who deal with those companies also have to shift. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 03/10/2026This isn't an exaggeration. I filled my tank up today and it was 99.67. Gas was 6.50 a gallon where I live in California. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 03/10/2026Everyone hates on ska but as a scene it's kind of the anthesis of Palmer Lucky. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 02/10/2026I think you could have used this graphic somewhere in that piece. bsky.app/profile/bran... 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 01/10/2026I think AI is useful and if in 2-3 years we can run something like opus on a small box at our house I think we can say it was more like a railroad bubble. 120
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 01/10/2026A general guideline for life that works Online: If it gives you immediate gratification then it's probably not something you should do often. Screaming at or trolling folks on line is the discourse equivalent of buying a large pizza and eating it all at once. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 01/10/2026Another reason publishers may want your email is AI scraping. From listening to the @404media.co podcast. They ask folks to get email links for their free reporting because it was the only way to stop the AI companies from scraping their content because these companies do understand consent. 001
Reposted by John HarroldGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense 331421258
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 30/09/2026I like watching live concerts. I created a service with AI to allow me to search for them, preview them, and save them locally. It's searching and previewing them from youtube but it doesn't show any ads. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 30/09/2026I always assumed there was a tax on using your turn signal. 100
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 30/09/2026Yes. I found scans of all the old manuals on libgen a while back. 0121
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 29/09/2026I'm on your side here. Both my wife and I work full time and we only have one kid, but I look forward to that time after work, when everyone is fed, the dishes are in the washer, homework is done, and I can just relax a bit before bed. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 28/09/2026I agree you don't need great hardware. I'm thinking about a not so distant future where people with limited technical skill can do this at home. I can see someone selling a box that connects to someones wifi network and "just works". 101
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 28/09/2026But they are pretty damn good. Hardware is expensive now, but in a couple years when you can run basically Opus or Sol in your house, it will be difficult for Anthropic or Open AI to compete with that. It's like the frontier labs didn't plan for or even consider commodification of their products. 221
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 28/09/2026Local inference (running LLMs on your local machine) is getting pretty cheap and it works really well. We will eventually be able to run open weights models (models that have been trained on the frontier models and have comparable abilities) in our house. They may not be the best.. 142
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 28/09/2026It's a compromise I'm willing to make a few times a week so I can work from home. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 28/09/2026I feel like this describes all the folks in the IDW and associated secular gurus. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 27/09/2026"The purpose of SlutCon is to help men who are scared of women to start liking women, by putting them in proximity of women who likemen and aren't scared of men." Isn't the bullshit of this statement kind of betrayed by calling it SlutCon? 150
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 27/09/2026My father was not well towards the end of his life and had to live with us. Bless his heart, he spent most of his days just watching Fox News. We (my wife and I) certainly didn't so it for the inheritance. 030
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 27/09/2026Being from Arkansas all I can say is: Bless Lauras heart. 040
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 27/09/2026I don't fault folks for having animosity towards a team. I don't understand it but I don't fault folks. But I think everyone can appreciate a good marching band and all the spectacle that goes along with it. 120
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 26/09/2026I think this is true of index funds and things like that. I think that when your average person day trades in individual stocks it can be like gambling. 000
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 26/09/2026I should say I think they are good, capable and likely to get an offer. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 26/09/2026I'll take the other end of this. Whenever I interview someone who is young I encourage them to ask for more money if they are given an offer. I tell them that if they get an offer and ask for more money the worst real outcome is that HR says no. I've had a couple tell me they were successful. 140
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 25/09/2026So things that enable adoption are more welcomed because they facilitate that end goal: expanding access to enabling analyses. 010
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 25/09/2026I think it's because fundamentally people who use R tend to be more outcome based. Like we enjoy programming but we really enjoy the outputs of programming. Similarly we don't see programming ability as a thing that makes us special. So we're also are more welcoming of new people. 110
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 25/09/2026I think there are a lot of programmers who are just into programming. And I have to confess that I do like sitting there and solving problems with R. But I've noticed that a lot of R programmers seem more open to using LLMs for coding. 120
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 25/09/2026I don't know if you're familiar with Ruby on Rails, but this video from DHH (the guy who invented it) telling folks at the keynote for the main Rails conference that they should stop writing code was kind of demoralizing for folks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW...youtube.comRails World 2026 Opening Keynote - DHHYouTube video by Ruby on Rails 200
John Harrold @abumirchi.com · 24/09/2026There may be some truth to this but I can make a hundred cookies in about an hour in a half. The whole only eat what you can cook from scratch diet would never work for me unless I had to mill the flour by hand. 040
