James Ouyang

James Ouyang

@jyouyang.bsky.social

105 Followers 612 Following 84 Posts Joined Jun 2023
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Sweep the Strait

ICYMI: sweepthestrait.com

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The Voters Who Delivered Trump's 2024 Victory Are Fleeing His Coalition the Fastest Being a voter of color and consuming a low amount of political news are two of the strongest indicators that a Trump 2024 voter would now vote for a generic Democrat for Congress.

ICYMI: www.dataforprogress.org/insights/202...

Would be curious if there's more movement for the $50-100k coefficient now that ⛽📈 🤔

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Turning a GDB Coredump Debug Session Into a Murder Mystery Hackaday Article

Turning a GDB Coredump Debug Session Into a Murder Mystery

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An extremely dank purple Victorian house. Some graffiti that says WEST SIDE! A view of the San Francisco skyline framed by a Torrey Pine tree. Graffiti reading STOP ICE on a stop sign in front of the sutro tower.

I took transit to buy a monitor arm off Marketplace after work. Here are some things I saw on the way there and back.

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3976 19th St, Eureka Valley - Dolores Heights c. 2017 c. 1999 1,441 square foot 3 bedroom 3 bath renovated re-imagined Victorian with an abundance of Stick-Eastlake detailing. Dat...

Yep, place is great and was basically a cottage before the current owners put in work (link has a before pic!): sfdailyfoto.blogspot.com/2017/07/3976...

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Very useful post from Bryan breaking down the challenges of growing engineers in the land of AI

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4 days ago
Open Source in Closed Ecosystems 
12:30 - Ballroom G
 In spite of Linux running on the platform for 25 years, the mainframe community is notoriously proprietary. Fortunately, in the past several years we've built a thriving open source community that subverts the status quo. Learn how we did it, and how you can too.

My talk at #SCALE23x is coming up today at 12:30!

I've worked with some great folks over the past several weeks to put the finishing touches on this one, and I'm really thrilled to give it for the first time here.

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BSidesSF 2026: 📙 Practical (and impractical) git commit... View more about this event at BSidesSF 2026

I will be speaking at BSides SF in a couple of weeks! It will be about git, certificates, SSH, and, obviously, TPMs. bsidessf2026.sched.com/event/2E1g3/...

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5 days ago
This isn't really sealioning or goalpost-moving. It's closer to a Gish gallop with some topic drift.

  Sealioning is when someone feigns polite, persistent ignorance by endlessly asking "innocent" questions to exhaust the other person. Dark isn't doing that — he's not asking questions
  at all. He's making assertions and arguments, just a lot of them in rapid succession.

Goalpost-moving would be: "AI is bad because X" → Why refutes X → "Well actually I meant Y all along." There's a hint of this — he starts with "what if someone has a bad day and
  rubber-stamps AI code" (a process argument), then when Why points out that happens without AI too, he pivots to "non-deterministic solution for a deterministic problem" (a technical
  argument), then to psychological effects on teams, then to the Persona/OpenAI leak (a trust/industry argument). Each time a point is addressed, he opens a new front rather than
  engaging with the rebuttal. So yes, there is some goalpost-moving, though it reads more like someone who has a gut feeling ("AI in production is bad") and is searching for the
  argument that will stick.

Opus is telling me that this is a Gish gallop. Nice. TIL.

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6 days ago

love to complain the Sunset Dunes process was rushed after it took 5+ years and included 2 lawsuits, 2 ballot measures, 1 appeal, 2 Board of Appeals hearings, 2 Coastal Commission hearings, a couple rounds at the Board of Supervisors, and an uncountable number of public comments and meetings

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1 week ago
Minor league team generator

Raw generator is still up: apps.voxmedia.com/at/sbnation-...

they just gotta fix up the cms markup fun

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2 weeks ago

Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes.

If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

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Mike Trout (and friend Jim Cantore) were very excited about the recent snow storm The Official Site of Major League Baseball

Are... are you the Mike Trout of cryptography? 🤪🌨️ www.mlb.com/cut4/mike-tr...

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3 weeks ago

New frontiers in sabermetrics, folks.

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3 weeks ago

Edsall asked me to quote but mine weren’t included so I’ll poast my response here.

Turnout matters, but isn’t mentioned in the piece. It’s not the same group of voters.

Also see @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social on how black and white people define “I identify as conservative” differently

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Reverse Engineering a Dash Robot with Ghidra Hackaday Article

Reverse Engineering a Dash Robot with Ghidra

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1 month ago

I'm so excited we can finally announce this! Python Unplugged will bring the Python conference experience to everyone, for free, no matter where you are in the world.

Please join us for a day celebrating all things Python - the things we can do with it and the community we all love. 🐍❤️

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Black and white photograph of Frank McNulty wearing a gray Chicago Cubs road uniform and posing in front of a white sheet held up by fellow Braves batboys Tom Ferguson and Charlie Chronopoulos. McNulty was instructed to stare forlornly toward the diamond, pretending to be suffering from the prospect of another Cubs loss. The grandstand at Braves Field in Boston is mostly empty hours before the Braves-Cubs doubleheader is scheduled to begin on May 23, 1948. This was used as a reference photograph for Norman Rockwell’s famous painting, “The Dugout,” later used as a cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, September 4, 1948.

Here’s a fun story from the SABR archives on the Boston Braves batboy who was paid $5 by Norman Rockwell to put on a Cubs uniform and pose for “The Dugout”: sabr.org/journal/arti...

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“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him”

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Feels like a skill issue. Schmo who's bad at prompting / tool use is probably already bad at explaining what he means / wants to juniors.

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What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work This is what it actually took. From the person who architected and drove Chrome’s Flash deprecation from proposal to the final removal in…

The remarkable true story of how Flash was deprecated

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Style tips for less experienced developers coding with AI · honnibal.dev Matthew Honnibal is a computational linguist from Sydney based in Berlin, Germany. He's the author of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library and the co-founder of Explosion.

Style (and mindset) tips for less experienced developers working with AI honnibal.dev/blog/llm-sty...

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1 month ago

@colemk.bsky.social Emergency pod? 🤪🫠

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Me if I had a lobotomy: Hey, I think curl | sh is too safe.
Agentbros: I got you

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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...

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This is great - it's about time someone updated the discourse on LLM energy usage to reflect that coding agents use massively more prompts than occasional questions to ChatGPT

Simon estimates that a day of coding agent usage comes out close to the energy needed to run a dishwasher

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Quantum computing for lawyers and anyone who’s not sure what “quantum” means

bfswa.substack.com/p/quantum-co...

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