Twilight Dragon Services How web bloat impacts users with slow devices In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections . Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds , making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that ... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation If I ask myself a question like "I'd like to buy an SD card; who do I trust to sell me a real SD card and not some fake, Amazon or my local Best Buy?", of course the answer is that I trust my local Be... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this i... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident This is a set of notes on the Quinn Emanuel report on Cruise's handling of the 2023-10-02 accident where a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) hit a pedestrian, stopped, and then started moving again with ... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]? There's a class of comment you often see when someone makes a popular thread on Mastodon/Twitter/Threads/etc., that you also see on videos that's basically "Why make a Twitter thread? This would be be... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT In The birth & death of search engine optimization , Xe suggests Here's a fun experiment to try. Take an open source project such as yt-dlp and try to find it from a very generic term like "youtube do... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle This is a transcription of videos Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise. As with the Exhibi... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. I did ... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Futurist prediction methods and accuracy I've been reading a lot of predictions from people who are looking to understand what problems humanity will face 10-50 years out (and sometimes longer) in order to work in areas that will be instrume... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services In defense of simple architectures Wave is a $1.7B company with 70 engineers 1 whose product is a CRUD app that adds and subtracts numbers. In keeping with this, our architecture is a standard CRUD app architecture, a Python monolith o... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? There's a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that's basically, "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficien... 2 jan 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Misidentifying talent [Click to collapse / expand section on sports] Here are some notes from talent scouts: Recruit A: ... will be a real specimen with chance to have a Dave Parker body. Facially looks like Leon Wagner. G... 2 jan 2025