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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, etc free tier *is* universal basic compute

Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'll accept that transit in the Bay is a lot better than most of the rest of the country but only a certain subset of trips are not painful - Peninsula -> SF and SF -> Oakland are each good but Peninsula -> Oakland is terrible It's like Debord's map of Paris

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I don't think Bender is completely wrong here; you *can* criticize AI without using it. But the equivalent of “I'd never use heroin - it supports drug cartels, has horrific health effects, and all it does is make you a little sleepy anyway” is not a strong or useful critique.

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Imagine if someone made an EV like this

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know they say the Fed funds rate acts with “long and variable lags” but I wonder if this could be at least part of the story?

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The fact that the trend started the same month ChatGPT was first released makes me think it was happening too early to be caused by AI

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

”new cars are too expensive!” “don't you dare do anything to make them cheaper!”

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

idk whose car this is but I'm always curious (parks at the same house as a Tesla with the plate “MOAR GPU”)

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

IDK, is this cognitive surrender? Anyway wild that I can pull this shit and it just works in 30 seconds (Opus 5.5 high)

Claude Code screenshot:

> for the PCIe firmware version check - is there anything we can deduce from the history of recipes-bsp/pcie-phy-fw/ meta-mammoth that would let us see where to check the version? A very dumb grep didn't find anything matching 012419 (the putative version) but maybe we could be a little smarter?

<Ran 5 shell commands>

• Found it-the PCIe firmware stores the version as one byte per component, which is why grep missed it. Now checking whether the BSP image packs the two blobs top-first or lane-first.

<Ran 5 shell commands>

• Yes, the recipe history pins it down. Its files include two firmware releases, 1.24.18.0 and 1.24.19.1. Diffing .chex files shows only 2 changed words in the top image and 3 in the lane image, and all of them are the version build date.

Encoding: one byte per version component, which is why grepping for 012419 missed it. Ox01181301 is 1.24.19.1 24, Ox13 = 19). The next word is a BCD build date, Ox20240923.

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good advice for senior developers too ... nearly everyone really

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Huh ok then! blog.google/innovation-a...

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder how much of this is remote/hybrid work? For me personally I'm probably down 180 minutes / day at the office vs 2019 on average, so I'm probably at home significantly more even if I'm also quite a bit more like this too?

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah I think about how nuts the “August 28” date is in what OpenAI posted on September 21 (!!) openai.com/index/adviso...

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is just absolutely, completely wrong - Jensen is not turning away from the hyperscalers where nearly all Nvidia's current business and projected growth is coming from. All the R&D going into Groq, NVHBM, 800GE, high-radix NVLink switches is clearly not a bet on consumer/edge being the future.

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If the rumors are true and we get both Hodge and Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer soon, people will still be posting about how the lying plagiarism machines just make you dumber, right?

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's a very weird feeling to realize that hard takeoff comes with slop videos and a soundtrack 🎶 too late now, we lit the fuse / ortho-go-nality thesis blues 🎶

Screenshot of NYT story: “As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers”

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

POV you're still adding value

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In contrast, Anthropic co-founder: xcancel.com/NotTomBrown/...

“Cursor has been a trusted partner of Anthropic since Sonnet 3.5. We’ll continue to increase compute to support Claude models in Cursor and are excited for what comes next with them at SpaceX.”

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I just have a few words to say here: “MagNeatOhz Large Devil Horns for Helmet | Made in USA | Magnetic & Interchangeable Horns for Motorcycle, Bike & Ski Helmets - Pair”

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Welp blocked but I do think “reverse Gell-mann amnesia” about AI among programmers is interesting to consider. We probably over-generalize AI capabilities from seeing it e.g. synthesize sparse ambiguous information to find subtle bugs - but a lot of non-programming tasks do seem similar!

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Had the privilege of attending the ribbon cutting for a new segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail this morning - very cool to see the Bay from a new angle www.sfpuc.gov/learning/com...

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Proper biking infrastructure:

Insane black diamond North Shore wood MTB feature

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you don't need a helmet you're missing half the fun

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It really downplays how much weird shit is going on behind the assistant persona

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So does this mean SpaceX's AI business is valued at $600B?

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Visited my 21st Midpen preserve of the year yesterday, Ravenswood. A lot flatter than what I usually ride! www.openspace.org/preserves/ra...

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Rode by the Tesla office on Hillview in Palo Alto and it is *wild* how many Cybercab prototypes they have just sitting around. No wonder employees are taking them down the street to get Chipotle!

About 10 cybercabs parked in a row outside an office building

Another 20 Tesla Cybercabs sitting in a parking lot

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Traders can definitely make really bad bets and get blown up by a chart like this, but it's important to keep any stories about a “sell-off” or “pullback” in perspective

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Total bullshit, they corruptly changed the index rules to make this $1.5T company be 0.1% of everyone's retirement account, and now it's up 20% over the last week

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Roland Dreier @rbd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

*So many* of them around the Tesla office in Palo Alto, I think they're just having employees drive them around for errands. Looked in one parked at Chipotle, kinda funny how they hacked in the steering wheel.