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https://www.ckuhl.com/weblog/ It's intentionally obtuse, like ripping out the first page out of a notebook, so that I don't have an excuse _not_ to fill out the rest of the pages. …

I am not directly wired in to everything Large Language Model (LLM) that is going on. Still, I would like to play occasionally occasionally with whatever the new hotness is without…

And yet, what is harder to attain and yet more necessary than the knowledge and impetus to implement such a project? It may not be necessary, but the specific tools are't the part …

I think the real problem is that in a lot of companies, there’s a huge institutional inertia towards adding a new supplier vs. paying an existing supplier slightly more.

I think the biggest advantage scooters have over ebikes is that for a lot of people, there’s a place to store a scooter at both ends of a commute (under a desk) but not necessarily…

My bad, tried to do math before consuming coffee.

Not paying a middleman a percentage of the transaction would have some value to it.

I think it definitely depends on your use-case. Like you wrote, if everything else you have open also churns through battery life, it's unlikely having Slack open will make a diffe…

I can’t find a reference of the top of my head, but I recall s Logitech mouse(!) also installed a local web server.

It definitely negatively affects the battery life of my 2018 MBP. Using only native applications, I can get a full days work done. If I have Slack open, usually I can only work unt…

The definition of what a suburban area is in North America vs. Europe are so different they really need different words. A typical suburb in the US will have no public transportati…

To me that argument doesn't make sense... It seems like arguing that because there are wheelchairs that can climb staircases, there's no need to make buildings wheelchair accessibl…

The problem is that _everyone else uses Google_. Even though I don’t use Google for search, my friends do and they’ll gladly share AMP pages with me.

Do you ever wonder if Apple attracts the wealthiest mobile consumers because of the controlled user experience they provide?

Companies could absolutely disallow / block it. However they most likely won't for the same reason that people who are upset about Apple's 30% App Store cut still develop apps for …

From a nonexpert viewpoint, that sounds somewhat similar to how fracking works. Do you think there’s a similar risk of the ground settling as material is removed?

Oh it definitely does. I remember seriously messing up a Linux Mint installation a while back because I upgraded all of the 3rd party dependencies that were preinstalled (because h…

I think compared to the war on drugs, this would be incredibly effective. Social media is all about network effects - the more your friends are on social media, the more you want (…

I... I'm confused. They're permanent stamps. They always have the correct value.

In a way it makes sense - if the numbers all had smaller prime factors, they probably would have been found sooner than now, and so wouldn't be as remarkable

I have heard before (can't remember where) that a lot of companies won't donate to a project, but would gladly pay for "marketing" if the project simply listed companies that donat…