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I've been really enjoying using DMS as a daily driver. I had been partial to Cosmic DE, but the overall visual appearance, pace of development, and ecosystem around DMS made me swi…

This looks really cool and more modern than Nextcloud. From the homepage, I was a little wary of the idea of hosting my own email server -- doesn't that require a ton of effort due…

Why does he have to use a hex editor for this, can't you just edit the menu directly in ResEdit?

Also, other characters in XR have predilection to say stuff like "You can't make it spicy enough for me!" and “Holy moly, Stromboli!”

ChatGPT#

It incentivizes you to continue saving the principal, rather than dump it into house. For others, higher rates disincentivize taking marginal credit card debt and large mortgages. …

Northeastern, Rice?

Such a cool project! Also the example conversation in the screenshot is hilarious.

There's so much potential for this as a tech powering all sorts of products, I hope it doesn't just become some Tarsnap type thing. (judging from initial site)

Agree with this. There isn't really much challenge in managing the city itself after a certain point. You're just expanding.

Loved Tom Cunningham's internal posts when I worked at Meta, great to see he has public blog!

Can Chrome just hurry up and add those so we can be done with Electron?

It doesn't make sense because the barrier to "apphood" in whatever Chrome defines to be an app is scarcely more than making a manifest. The distinction between a chrome app and a w…

I was there 2016-2022. The hiring boom in 2020 was definitely palpable. Entire vast orgs of teams who had no context on the problem they were solving, previous efforts, etc, becaus…

Tech money should be flexed in politics more. We’re paying taxes too, right?

Yes, Haney was originally very NIMBY in his politics but has become more moderate.

I was a PM at Meta from 2016-2022. I work at a startup now and have to write detailed specs and deal with lots of small details —- something I was discouraged from doing as I rose …

It would be funny if, after years of research, that was the only condition it exhibited such behavior under. “Sooooo what fields should be (hiccup) required for users to register a…

That's pretty good!

This was counter-intuitive to me too! I was recently playing around with some of the LLMs that can run on consumer hardware (via KoboldAI, RWKV, etc) and, boy, are they not as good…

This misunderstands the management that happens in companies. Of course you need to sort through goals, figure out priorities, get groups to align on key decisions, monitor them, d…

The writing here reminds me a bit of that of a friend who succumbed to schizophrenia. Just unconnected word salad. What did I read?

Margins can be low in some kinds of retail. Not sure how it stacks up for Home Depot