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"Cold calls annoy me" is one angle, and from that perspective, sure. But "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is another angle. Because giant corporations may not need to …

This was inspiring to watch. Thank you for your work.

"Knowledge work is mostly pointless" is the author's view, so his article (the fruit of knowledge work) should be measured by it. Amd that sentiment is hardly surprising, coming as…

One caveat worth flagging: Your AI slop garbage radar won't work on food (no em-dashes, no "it's not X, it's Y" framing, just quiche). That's a real limitation, so calling it out m…

No more anonymous driving, thanks to Flock. Soon, no more anonymous calls, thanks to the FCC. Your bank already knows everything about you; why not your operating system, too? Soon…

Wonderful! There's a lot of advice online about how essentially evil it is to talk to strangers: They're busy, they have headphones in, they might think you're hitting on them (God…

Not paying per token? Not sending my code to someone else's servers for inference? That's the stuff of sweet dreams for a stingy, paranoid solopreneur like me. If I could run a loc…

> People living in areas with longevity (blue zones), didn't really excercise (as in sports) Not exercising as in sports and not exercising, period, are very different. If you look…

The Swiss Gear backpack I used daily in college in 2008 is sitting beside me right now. I've put it through its paces over the past 18 years. I jogged here in the rain this morning…

Longtime happy Copilot user here. It's true. The pricing is so good that it's the only way I do agentic coding now. I've never spent more than $40 in a month on Opus, and I give it…

The forced age verification shocks me. It shouldn't, given how much it's been in the news, but my poor naive Millennial sensibilities still feel it's part of some dystopian nightma…

There's no need to be rude with comments like "cool story." I'm sharing my experience with you. I'm not an AI-hype influencer. I'm a SWE who runs a small SaaS business. Where it so…

That hasn't been my experience, as a "ship or die" solopreneur. It takes work to set up these new processes and procedures, but it's like building a factory; you're able to produce…

> sounds like alot of work and expense for something that is meant to make programming easier and cheaper. It's not more work; it's a convergence of roles. BA/PO/QA/SWE are merging…

Sonnet is right. Your cold-outreach emails will be flagged as spam by some people, even if they comply with CAN-SPAM. And you should comply with it by having a clear opt-out mechan…

What an unpleasant attitude. People have emotions. If they're apologizing, maybe they feel bad. Accept it and get on with your day. A punctilious email etiquette isn't going to imp…

> But if you haven’t used specifically Opus 4.5/4.6 with specifically Claude Code for at least an hour, then you’re in for a real shock. Because all your complaining about AI not b…

> How do you know one party isn’t 15 when the other is 25? You don't. That's why parents need to be involved in their children's lives. CSAM is the easy excuse, anyway. That's the …

> Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting. [1] That presumably includes selfies? That mean…

It hasn't done that to me. It's worked according to their docs: > Copilot Chat uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate. > Each prompt to Copilot CL…

And a request can consume more than 128k tokens. A cloud agent works iteratively on your requests, making multiple commits. I put large features into my requests and the agent has …

Even without hacks, Copilot is still a cheap way to use Claude models: - $10/month - Copilot CLI for Claude Code type CLI, VS Code for GUI - 300 requests (prompts) on Sonnet 4.5, 1…

Your body converts ALA into EPA and DHA, however, so plants are fine sources of both.

The ratio of Omega 6 to 3 needs to be below 4:1 to be a good source of Omega 3, and hemp hearts are at 3:1, so they're listed as a good source of Omega 3. Flax seeds are even bette…