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This is a common narrative that simply isn’t true. American Airlines has the largest loyalty program. In last week’s report to shareholders they project it will grow to $1.5B in pr…

I feel like you’ve held back on an interesting story

The Market Basket used to calculate the BLS CPI changes over time, which can make long range comparisons difficult. I’ve read of political influence on the market basket to lower t…

> Software development is one of the most capital-intensive activities a modern company undertakes The article is definitely written from a "high tech" industry lens. A mid-sized u…

I had a car with an all wheel drive computer in a similar spot in the late 2000s. I had a small crack in the rubber seal around my sunroof from parking outside in the elements. Whe…

There is a book called Art & Fear which explores this in depth. A quick read and worth it for people that don’t consider themselves artists. It has a great story (allegory) about a…

Agree. They seem to have a “price per piece” equation. Perhaps as a result, the 5+ sets are made of hundreds of small pieces. Older sets had larger foundational and platform pieces…

As they say, a relevant XKCD for everything. Thanks for sharing. I hadn’t seen that one before.

> “I’m not going to install yet another chat app” This is legitimate. I have to use: - iMessage & SMS for most US based family, casual friends and co workers. - WhatsApp for Europe…

I will add that FreeCAD has come a long way in constraint based and parametric part design, and I'm able to use it exclusively running an Arch-based distro. Deltahedra has extremel…

That makes sense. His cover letter is dated 1974, and TeX was released 1978.

I can recommend the Acquired (podcast) 3 part series on Berkshire. There was a cool fact in there that he sees every price tag as the opportunity cost with compounding interest.

It was nice seeing my 2025 reading list represented. I started the year reading the first five books of the Foundation Series (book #1 on the list). A must read for anyone who hasn…

The sibling comment has a more structured reply to the whole process, but of note the article specifically mentions the FAA has exempted international flights.

I agree. I started using Foot based on a recommendation from the notcurses library author, who has deep expertise in terminal emulation and collaborates with maintainers. A tip for…

Agreed. I have 4 Omada APs in my house — 3 wired PoE and 1 mesh. I haven’t thought about it since I set it up, three years ago. 100% reliability, seamless handoff between APs.

> I'm a Kagi customer and I definitely don't want anything they do with the news. Can you expand on why?

“A language is a dialect with an army and navy” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with...

Tell that to Tex Johnson: https://youtu.be/Ra_khhzuFlE?si=MxkaSRaIYFvbGqil

I read Isaac Asimov’s foundation series a few years ago (side note for anyone who hasn’t read it: it still holds up incredibly well with a small suspension of disbelief and some gr…

I've just read through the entire documentation end-to-end. It's very clear and well written, thank you for the time and love. One thing that's unclear to me in how I might manage …

It’s available as a VSCode extension and documented here: https://elixir-lsp.github.io/elixir-ls/

Thank you for sharing! After reading the article, I played your game and really enjoyed it. My first text based game in ~30 years. I was inspired and went on to play one of the gam…

Absolutely. And I’m finding the same with “agent” coding tools. With the ever increasing hype around Cursor I tried to give it a go this week. The first 5 minutes were impressive, …

Have you paid for the AI Planner, and if so, can you recommend it?