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I get so irritated every time Claude says "honest". Anthropic talks about how they specifically engineer for it to be "honest". I'm convinced they're just measuring how many times …

I suspect we'll eventually hit a point where possession or usage of powerful open models will be criminalized.

What are the alternatives to Graphite these days? Github's stacked PR support is still immature, AFAIK. I would love to see Linear move into this space and start offering both git …

The right wing takeover of media continues unchecked.

I cannot wait for a cultural shift away from respecting "authenticity" and "tradition" in food. It's fine to remember and recognize how things were often done. But the ridiculousne…

I'm assuming by tikka chicken you mean "chicken tikka masala"? Because chicken tikka is something my family made all the time growing up. I still make it at home often. That's most…

This completely ignores the shareholder value to the military industrial complex and the truth machine value of prediction markets from the not-insider traders.

The problem is that it is a good idea at the individual level. Poor management reads it as a signal of productivity.

Building a startup on GCP (or even Google Workspace) is an existential risk.

I'm saying be skeptical of who you give your trust to. You're the one seemingly pushing to trust actors who have a proven track record of not being worthy of that trust.

What? This is something that's incredibly well documented at this point. Many VPN companies operate as arms of data broker and media companies or they resell data to them. Some of …

Using a VPN shifts your risk. Your local ISP can't see as much of your activity, but another company that probably has a business model of reselling your data to governments, intel…

Unfortunately, the largest and most well-marketed VPNs are, in fact, less trustworthy than your average ISP.

The Gemini features would be so cool if they ran locally, but as-is, this reads like a laptop running spyware to me. The Android app casting does sound amazing though and that alon…

When trying to upgrade from the Business Standard to Business Plus plan, Google will reduce your workspace storage from 2TB/user to 0 bytes for up to 24 hours while it upgrades you…

Let me more clearly instead say that many successful startups knowingly and intentionally broke the law. But I agree that Delve is a special case and should naturally be held to a …

While I do think Delve and the leadership there should be held responsible, it's a bit weird to see YC and others take shots at them for breaking the law when so many of their priz…

I use a wallpaper with a horizontal black bar at the top to make the notch invisible, so this catches me off guard pretty often.

Look into git reflog. If the changes were committed, it was almost certainly possible to still restore them, even if the commit is no longer in your branch.

This has its own risk factors. If your domain renewal lapses due to credit card expiry or something and you fail to notice, it's catastrophic. This is just not realistic advice for…

XCode and Pages are a delight in comparison to VSCode and Notion is certainly one of the takes of all time. XCode is usually the first example that comes to mind of a terrible nati…

These were absolutely incredible when they first opened up right on until covid. The blue-apron style meal kits they had were actually really tasty and the gimmicky integration wit…

This question is surprising to me, because I consider AI code review the single most valuable aspect of AI-assisted software development today. It's ahead of line/next-edit tab com…