Grevian
@josh.hayes-sheen.ca
Dad, Canadian, Staff engineer, Runner, Cyclist
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Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Outside is bad... Inside is bad... We need a Third Side
August 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Outside is bad... Inside is bad... We need a Third Side
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner - I'm astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today's microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow's microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country. Recently I was watching a livestream of a local microwave salesman.
www.colincornaby.me
August 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
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We found the secret to endless productivity and spiritual enlightenment and that's why we're forcing it into every aspect of your life instead of hoarding it for ourselves
August 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We found the secret to endless productivity and spiritual enlightenment and that's why we're forcing it into every aspect of your life instead of hoarding it for ourselves
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until everyone got hooked on chat gpt and the like i don’t think i understood what my teachers meant when they said ‘when you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself’
July 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
until everyone got hooked on chat gpt and the like i don’t think i understood what my teachers meant when they said ‘when you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself’
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If you’re sick of doomscrolling, might I suggest doing something creative in flow state?
Spent the morning with some friends and now I'm optimizing systems in Minecraft, sitting on the couch whispering to myself "I'm a titan of industry"
July 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you’re sick of doomscrolling, might I suggest doing something creative in flow state?
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“Upfront design helps this” doesn’t work if you build a culture where people are disincentivized to build resilience into the system
“Testing and architecture” fails if people are penalized for valuing non coding tasks
Slop happens when velocity and PRs per dev are your biggest devex metrics
“Testing and architecture” fails if people are penalized for valuing non coding tasks
Slop happens when velocity and PRs per dev are your biggest devex metrics
June 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“Upfront design helps this” doesn’t work if you build a culture where people are disincentivized to build resilience into the system
“Testing and architecture” fails if people are penalized for valuing non coding tasks
Slop happens when velocity and PRs per dev are your biggest devex metrics
“Testing and architecture” fails if people are penalized for valuing non coding tasks
Slop happens when velocity and PRs per dev are your biggest devex metrics
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My Unix signals tier list. I will not be taking further questions
June 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My Unix signals tier list. I will not be taking further questions
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Like he only read the chapter headings in a book on Kaizen, and missed the need for employees to be deeply engaged in their work, and willing to stop the factory line when the automations aren’t working.
May 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Like he only read the chapter headings in a book on Kaizen, and missed the need for employees to be deeply engaged in their work, and willing to stop the factory line when the automations aren’t working.
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The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
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I think Hazel nailed it, in terms of the issue with de-skilling. I think that code generation is a pretty good use case in terms of how good the technology is, but I’m concerned that it’s going to make people worse at coding, especially newer engineers.
I realized something recently, which is that we're building AI tools completely backwards.
While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do *better*
hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...
While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do *better*
hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...
Stop Building AI Tools Backwards | Hazel Weakly
I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and...
hazelweakly.me
May 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I think Hazel nailed it, in terms of the issue with de-skilling. I think that code generation is a pretty good use case in terms of how good the technology is, but I’m concerned that it’s going to make people worse at coding, especially newer engineers.
Apparently my ideal form of comedy has become stand-up that makes me feel feelings deeply
This was funny and excellent, the parallels to my experience with ADHD made it feel very personal and relatable. I feel queasy, belly laughs alongside gut punches leaving me fucked up tonight but wanting more
This was funny and excellent, the parallels to my experience with ADHD made it feel very personal and relatable. I feel queasy, belly laughs alongside gut punches leaving me fucked up tonight but wanting more
Watch all of Cameron Esposito: Four Pills on @dropout.tv: www.dropout.tv/videos/came...
Cameron Esposito: Four Pills - Cameron Esposito: Four Pills - Dropout
Cameron Esposito discusses being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the events that led up to it.
Content Warning:
Themes of mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, self-harm - [throughout]
Flashing screen [39:43-39:46, 1:02:00-1:02:03]
www.dropout.tv
May 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Apparently my ideal form of comedy has become stand-up that makes me feel feelings deeply
This was funny and excellent, the parallels to my experience with ADHD made it feel very personal and relatable. I feel queasy, belly laughs alongside gut punches leaving me fucked up tonight but wanting more
This was funny and excellent, the parallels to my experience with ADHD made it feel very personal and relatable. I feel queasy, belly laughs alongside gut punches leaving me fucked up tonight but wanting more
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Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.
April 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.
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Also, it may shock you, but it’s *easier* to test for these things than for most types of “technical aptitude”
As a bonus, in my experience, it’s had a stronger correlation to job performance to boot
As a bonus, in my experience, it’s had a stronger correlation to job performance to boot
The way I solve this now is by making cheating essentially structurally impossible. You can’t cheat at a “test” where the entire point is assessing:
1. Do you have intellectual humility
2. Do you work well with others
3. Do you evaluate info coherently + critically
4. Can you adapt on the fly
1. Do you have intellectual humility
2. Do you work well with others
3. Do you evaluate info coherently + critically
4. Can you adapt on the fly
April 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Also, it may shock you, but it’s *easier* to test for these things than for most types of “technical aptitude”
As a bonus, in my experience, it’s had a stronger correlation to job performance to boot
As a bonus, in my experience, it’s had a stronger correlation to job performance to boot
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It is a deliberate strategy to distract and disorient those of us who are not nihilists.
The joy they take in seeing liberal tears and tizzy fits is disgusting. They don't get mine.
They don't get my tears. They get my stoicism and my rage, and carefully metered doses of my attention.
The joy they take in seeing liberal tears and tizzy fits is disgusting. They don't get mine.
They don't get my tears. They get my stoicism and my rage, and carefully metered doses of my attention.
This is an important point from a great thread of advice. Sometimes people get confused thinking that paying less attention is like downplaying the situation when it can be part of a deliberate strategy to stay in the game long term.
This is a strategy, y'all. I can't find the Bannon quote I'm looking for, but he was like "I throw out three crazy, Overton window-expanding ideas a day, and watch the left chase them all day long".
Who wins when I can't focus? The fascists win. Fuck those guys.
Who wins when I can't focus? The fascists win. Fuck those guys.
April 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It is a deliberate strategy to distract and disorient those of us who are not nihilists.
The joy they take in seeing liberal tears and tizzy fits is disgusting. They don't get mine.
They don't get my tears. They get my stoicism and my rage, and carefully metered doses of my attention.
The joy they take in seeing liberal tears and tizzy fits is disgusting. They don't get mine.
They don't get my tears. They get my stoicism and my rage, and carefully metered doses of my attention.
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can y'all who say it could never happen / will never happen please just *listen* for a second when they tell you what they are going to do?
Trump: "When you take away that artificial line that looks like it was done by a ruler ... you look at that beautiful formation of Canada and the US, there is no place anywhere in the world that looks like that. And then if you add Greenland, that's pretty good."
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
can y'all who say it could never happen / will never happen please just *listen* for a second when they tell you what they are going to do?
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i have something to admit that's been weighing heavy on my heart:
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
February 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i have something to admit that's been weighing heavy on my heart:
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
when i said "no worries" what i actually meant was "i have many worries all the time and this is but a drop in the ocean"
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Any countries building Starlink into their telecom systems should be thinking twice right now.
"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations."
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources
U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Any countries building Starlink into their telecom systems should be thinking twice right now.
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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Imagine if companies spent 1/10 of the money training their employees as they’re spending on training AI
February 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Imagine if companies spent 1/10 of the money training their employees as they’re spending on training AI
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
November 16, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline