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Aaron Erickson

@AaronErickson

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Sr. Engineering Manager at @NVIDIA building autonomous observability agents. Views are mine, not of employer. ex-New Relic/Salesforce/ThoughtWorks

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@soren_iverson Stop giving them ideas sir... I think I have already seen this kind of tech in mandatory training videos for onboarding at some companies
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@lydiakauppi People mad at this are the same kind of people who would tell you what outfit you're allowed to wear if they could.
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@vanillaopinions I mean... it's true though.
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@eastdakota @Austen Chris Paul thinking... why are you dragging me into this mess
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@Mlambm @AlanMCole @MattZeitlin Because a.) many states do not allow right on red and b.) the maneuver is literal reckless driving and if you do that you should have your license revoked and thrown into the fires of mount doom.
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@AnimalExtender @redrawnoxen In a car with, I kid you not, *automatic trans-mission"
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Teams under ZIRP: - One eng manager - One prod manager - One agile coach - One scrum master - One program manager - One product marketer - Two UX people - Three engineers Teams now: - One eng manager - One UX - Six engineers Guess who moves faster.
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@prettynoiree Whole Foods in San Francisco:. Even the most expensive one, in the most expensive store, in the most expensive city, hits 3.49, bought one at a time. Buy 3 for 4.49. From Whole Fucking Foods.
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@iamdanielgeske @MaximeBernier TBH, same crowd still mad that we took away drunk driving in the 80s, followed by smoking in bars in the 00s
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@nervtechsupport @StatisticUrban @gayest_tone I live in a place <800 for years. It was fine because I was single and I am not a hoarder.
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@nickgerli1 Housing is now more affordable. This is good. If you want to make money on investments, buy productive assets, not consumer goods like houses.
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@BobHoldenNYC "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
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@NYCSanitation “What are the laws re alimony as it applies to ex-sofas in NY” - James Davenport Vance
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@xxenna66 @TheFigen_ Place looks amazing, would move in if there was one in SF.
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@mosheroperandi Jill Stein's excuse is that she wants to help Russia win the US election
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@BrePWBZ @wbz Which residents are fighting this, and why aren't we outside their houses with some signs telling them to pound sand?
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@matt_vanswol Used it? Hell, I wrote code for parts of it 15 years ago. Guess what, when you search for a flight or hotel, they aren't looking for the best deal for you. They are looking for the best deal for *them*.
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@jstalnaker1 I honestly think it's as simple as WFH eroding the power structure of "big office mean me important, little office mean you not", which goes away once anyone with a spare bedroom and decent taste can have a good WFH setup.
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@matt_vanswol If an AI agent compare flights and pick the best one according to my preferences, not a human travel agent's preferred preferences based on how they get a better commission, and it saves me time, you bet your ass I would use it.
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@kimmeruwp @lydiakauppi Oh noes? Purple? What are we to do. Next they will start dancing and then all goes to hell after tat, amirite?
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@ABC7Chicago There is a very easy way to not get caught with these, it's called obeying the law.
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@SueAnnLevy @KevinABWhite I hate to break it to you, but... the bikes are, in fact, entitled to be in the bike lane without your car in the way. Sometimes things happen, but this is where you apologize and move on.
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@ArmandDoma Holy shit this guy has the sauce.
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@tunguz Not accurate. Door still on the plane.
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@JenLRossman Also, useful for nosebleeds for when you finally punch a bully in the face when they try to give you a swirly and you finally fight back.
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@MIOHSP "and women should avoid showing their ankles therefore tempting the menfolk" ... have you considered telling drivers to... avoid crashing into people?
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@farhip @19thGrade One private car parking for free is privatization for the duration it is parked there. At least in the case of a restaurant, we get pleasant outdoor eating and vibrant streetlife.
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@Carnage4Life Seems like a skill issue on the part of the retailers. The problem isn't the automation, it's that they literally got to v1 and stopped making it better. The self-checkout experience is as bad now as it was 10 years ago (system yelling at you for wrong bag, etc).
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@themaxburns That's not what they did. They were labeling data for reinforcement learning. Which is how many ML apps are built. Be mad if you want that other countries have lower labor rates, but it isn't new or dystopian any more than having a plant to build a car in Mexico is.
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@Noahpinion Kamala should pick this fight in the campaign: a.) everyone hates car dealers b.) it screws all the right people c.) probably helps in MI, since car companies often hate their own dealer networks as much as their customers
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@scottlucas It's Martha Stewarts Vineyard, duh. Where do you think she makes all her wine?
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@fokawolf Well that's one way to get your iphone recharged
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@jasonjosephlee You are a real estate agent. So of course you have an economic interest in not understanding that real estate has massive downsides: - concentration risk - leverage risk - tenant risk - only asset that is wealth taxed - maintenance expense No leverage, no principal paydown
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@ohKAYx33 It spent so much time kissing host ass for inventory, allowing stupid high cleaning fees, that it forgot who it's customers actually are.
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@davidjacoby @SFMTA_Muni Not your sidewalk. Park on your own property please.
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@jordanbpeterson @AP Free street parking is socialism for cars. I thought you hated socialism!
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@buccocapital Still thinking about from back in the day
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@GergelyOrosz As someone who has experienced this kind of thing after speaking truth to ego, you will be angry for like 3 days, then you will realize the canning is the best thing that ever happened.
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@ettingermentum "Love Trumps Hate" - I think some ppl took that too literally
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@lxeagle17 r/raisedbynarcissicsts
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@randomrecruiter LinkedIn needs a community notes feature
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@scaredmonad Not powerful enough until we get to use css to run the server: <button className="linux:reboot:server" />
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@sadarlo1 Well, there goes my next startup idea, "Jira for Swingers". Guess I'll have to keep my day job.
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@RepMikeCollins Remind me how many of the most successful companies right now in the US are led by people born here. I'll wait...
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@BernieSanders Why are you endorsing anti-housing candidates that block affordable housing in order to keep their views.
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@Noahpinion To be fair, he has no fucking idea what he is talking about. NVIDIA is a strong WFH culture, and we're doing just fine.
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@stclairashley @mcuban @Tim_Walz lol, look at you demonstrating @mcuban 's point about extremism and hyperbole. I am pretty sure getting free lunch for schoolkids isn't communism.
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@F4STFATI @morganisawizard Even if you had a billion dollars, which you don't, she is so far out of your league you'd need the Hubble Telescope to measure the distance.
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@JoeMaristela @NBCNews @EWErickson They are still free to speak whatever nonsense they want. Nobody has a right to work in big law.
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@vanillaopinions "Hey intern, I said cocaine, not ketamine. jesus take the wheel"
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@Carnage4Life I know plenty of people with high 7, low 8 figure net worth who still work. But they do work they care about, and aren't going to be ordered around for funsies.
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@ArmandDoma This was detailed in the NYT. TL/DR they literally operate out of China these days, deny the Uyghur genocide, and otherwise fund chaos. Really breathtaking how far people I used to admire have fallen.
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@ValentinaForSOS My book from 2008 indoctrinates you into doing agile software development. My ask is that you please buy as many copies as you possibly can so you can burn them. Because I totally ::cough:: can't get my publisher to print more!
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@sfchronicle "convulsive physical change" really captures the reaction of old boomers when someone under 40 parks on their block and they barf in their own mouth
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@Carnage4Life CEO: "we need to cut another 25%" Finance: "maybe cut the PM spending more time promoting their tiktok building their customer base, versus the customer base of our actual product?"
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Calling YIMBYs developer shills is like calling weed activists “dorito shills”. Yes, Frito Lay might make more money, but that is certainly not what motivates the movement.
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By not passing #sb50 today, CA has guaranteed the only people who will be buying homes near jobs are highly paid techies, executives, and people with existing wealth. Judge politicians by the outcomes of their votes on bills, not their speeches, and not who they pander to.
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@matt_vanswol An agent properly written will do what the human does. Look at the options from many places and choose the one that meets your criteria, regardless of what partnership deals any specific supplier of hotel or air inventory has in place. Of course, if you use an agent you don't
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@ArmandDoma Well, that does explain the thread length
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@ALPAPilots No. Body. Believes. You. Even your pilots say this is about wage protection.
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@AndrewG29922648 @lydiakauppi I dunno, maybe they just really liked Prince's music
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@lindayaX What's next, suing users who don't want to buy the bluecheck or who also use threads?
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@ArmandDoma "Affordable housing, except for mine, which needs to sell for at least 4.5 million US dollars" - @DeanPreston
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@amil I demand payment for the emotional labor expended reading that tweet and it's replies.
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@berman66 I have 8 interns. Tools like this, paired with guidance, makes them code at senior level far faster, allowing us to focus on developing the soft skills to make them act senior. That, and they don't have preconceived notions that "AI shouldn't do that", and don't spend hours
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@nytimes Please fire your headline writer. They lost because we're tired of the BOE being used as a political stepping stone versus being there to serve actual students. Specifically focusing on renaming schools over working out how to reopen them.
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@Olivia_Beavers What if Johnson pulls out .... ... I'll see myself out.
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@eatersf "If we can't lie about prices, how do we survive" is a helluva take.
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@Pilgrimnow @pattonoswalt 13 years ago. I doubt she knew it was him, probably 1 of thousands of such checks. But go off.
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@Zagonel85 Back in the 90s, if I paid a private driver to go to a restaurant and personally deliver a meal to my house, it would have been 50 bucks minimum, just for the car!
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@paulg @JonErlichman When your legal department becomes a profit center, you've lost the plot!
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@nbouscal It's like if you hooked an AI up to a twitter poster and gave it infinite patience and troll teflon
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@ChaseMit The doubling down on “no, I’m really ok” is actually doing more damage imo. Like, hey, I saw what I saw, stop trying to gaslight the country into accepting this weekend at Bernie’s scenario
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@mpopv A generation of kids see their parents get wrekd by divorce, emotionally and financially, then decide when they grow up to be more judicious with whom they marry. So marriages happen later, ironically when the people involved are more mature and settled.
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@___frye Still remember this sign at a friends house when I was a kid and laughing my ass off
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@cd1losangeles You could fund an entire startup with that. But, sure, I will take 2.5M to look around and see... yes, it is feasible, barricades go here, done.
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@hentosz @johnmoe My high school smoking area always had at least one person sneaking in a joint which gave it a more… organic scent
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@kiangoh Yes, we struggled for years, politically, to get housing there. And now it is finally happening!
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@ZumbiTheGreat @jkfecke We also remember how Nader basically set off a domino chain that gave us GwB and Trump. Imagine how different the world would have been with the winner of the popular vote getting the Presidency in 2000.
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@mateosfo We can disagree til the sun comes home on AVs, but my god, this is a good thread with the nuance I needed today. Thank you.
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@CMAriKagan47 What about being a business owner makes you more likely to disobey parking laws. Maybe stop pandering to small businesses who choose to disobey the law repeatedly?
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@AdamSinger lol, 100% true. Refreshing to work somewhere that treats people like adults rather than feral children.
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@YsabelJuradoLA Sorry Karen, you and the anti-fun police aren't going to win this one either.
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@DmitryOpines Same divorced men that were telling their newly freed wives "you will never meet someone like me again", to which they respond "god I hope you're right!"
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@shanselman I mean, totally fair game if I can send my own AI rep to the interview, no?
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@JoriEpstein Well, having prior had no dog in this fight, I know who to root for now, and it aint Philly
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@ArmandDoma 90% of this are kids mad that their parents cut them off at 36.
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@int_index You can still delete this.
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@plaverde64 @IDoTheThinking @CalMatters @BuffyWicks @mzinshteyn @FromBenC So, you are part of the "Students are Pollution" DSA Caucus? Is that the official DSA position now?
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@ArmandDoma ... before he throws out the "you look like obama" line, barely hiding his dog whistle
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The reason we can't do housing is because... people you don't know might walk on your sidewalk. NIMBY is symptom of a malignant narcissism that makes you assume you get to control not just your backyard, but whom is allowed to traverse the public right of way anywhere near you.
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“Ellen Paul, 59, said in-law suites were bad enough: “It’s changing suburbia to allow two homes on each lot. You’ll have strangers walking by your house all the time now.””
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@ESYudkowsky How many months of subpar performance are required before the partner gets put on a PIP? Do they get a coaching memo first?
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@Steve8708 Yes. It is what you do MIT license for. Why is this even a question?
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@RottenInDenmark SF (me and wife) Rent: 5K Everything else: 7K (all goes on a credit card to get miles), but that covers a ton of nights out, entertainment, and not really looking at anything. 144K, zero budgeting, barely even think about it. I think most of these don't actually budget.
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@barrettjoneill @CruellaDKill @JerimiahLee lol, when I was a kid in the 80s, we turned our coldesac into a baseball diamond every weekend, rode bikes on the street everywhere, played hockey on the street. Why so soft now, needing a giant cage to protect you?
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@activeasian This has nothing to do with anti asian violence. Daylighting intersections saves lives.
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@DBGyt_ Did he get his hands cut off in a freak accident?
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