Ed Burns
edburns.bsky.social
Ed Burns
@edburns.bsky.social
Beneficiary of white privilege, Ed Burns is a software stylist, speaker, and author, currently working in the server side Java space. (he/him)

http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/
Not at all. In fact, too late.
August 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
And check this out. My son is planning to live in San Bruno during his summer internship at Roblox in San Mateo. He will know no other Caltrain than electric. How cool is that!
May 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Reposted by Ed Burns
Yeah brother @caltrain.com switched to overhead power last September! Coolest thing in the Bay Area since Pong!
May 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wait. So the eletrification finally happened?
May 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"We measured the agent boss mindset across seven indicators" This also tracks with my research in ridingthecrest.com (2008). kohsuke.org was an agent boss before agents existed, for example.
Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers by Ed Burns
ridingthecrest.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
> The conclusion is the existence of tasks in which labor retains the comparative advantage does not imply that there will necessarily be sufficient demand for those residual tasks to keep everyone in well-paid employment. There is no economic law that says this outcome must be so.

Whee.
April 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
> The general observation is that we might have reasons to value the [outcome] that a great mind makes, but we might also attach value to [process] it was a human being who made them.

There is no place for such a value system in capitalism. The outcome is the only thing that matters.
April 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
But the affordable AI-enabled system will end up being enshittified, and eventually worse than having a human doing the work. Because capitalism.
April 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
> an AI-enabled medical diagnostic system, for instance, that provides more affordable access to the sort of medical expertise that, in the past, might have been available only to a privileged and lucky few.

Elysium (2013) "Elevation in heart rate detected. Would you like a pill?"
April 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It's nice to see a Seinfeld obvious level observation I had years ago confirmed in a academic-ish paper.
April 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM