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Heh, that idea resonates with me. I’ve been contemplating some projects that will require pulling permits, and as part of that process have been trying to understand how an enginee…

I was replying to this: > the tech companies that are bigger haven't offered human support to anyone in decades.

Oh hey, it’s Graffiti! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)

Microsoft offers human chat support for consumers, once you try their self-help tools: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus?ContactUsExper... Apple offers online, telephon…

But you’re not self-hosting the tasking service

Yep, but in fairness I paid more for a version of this in the mid-2010s. The Fujifilm X20 was a rangefinder-style camera with an optical viewfinder with embedded LCD. Based on the …

Around the Evergrande collapse there were stories about Chinese retail investors who had pushed money into their domestic real estate industry’s stocks. Also you might painting too…

FWIW, in most architectures the first few function arguments get passed in registers. But so many of today’s programmers grew up with 32-bit x86, which has a paucity of registers, …

We do it every several years. It just takes a lot of paperwork. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System

The benefit of “Hollywood accounting” isn’t necessarily tax avoidance; that’s what the tax credits are for. Rather, “Hollywood accounting” provides a way to avoid paying profit-bas…

If you’re not a name, you’re not getting gross points. There’s a wide swathe of participants (actors, writers, directors…) who need to demonstrate risk by taking net points to get …

Speaking of Europe, when the topic of airport security comes up I often think about how many European countries use the gendarmerie for public security. We explicitly do not have a…

SFO has had private airport security (Covenant) instead of TSA since 9/11. It’s been great.

Manipulating the market is literally the job of both the Treasury and the FOMC. It’s how we enact monetary policy.

Yes, tori paitan is one nice light alternative to the popular and heavy tonkotsu.

Check out Kenji’s book, The Food Lab. (Also the name of his blog before it merged with Serious Eats.) You’ll get a sense of what makes him popular among nerds who like to cook. He …

Microsoft Excel after 1-2-3 (the previous dominator) and before Google Sheets? Word after WordPerfect (close to dominant) and before Google Docs? PowerPoint before Keynote?

Still no new Glyphs Mini, though. :(

For Anthropic models, yes. But OP was using Claude Code with GPT.

Jeff, I’m curious whether you really would have needed the $1,000 version of the Sonnet TB5 PCIe chassis. Would this $400 one have sufficed? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/…

Any reason to think this flower of fluorines (seriously, that thing looks INTENSE) would be any more environmentally safe than PFOA?

In addition to writing Box2D, the author of this article was the lead physics programmer at Blizzard for 15 years. He also wrote an evaluation harness called Solver2D where he has …

Wookash Podcast just interviewed Erin Catto (the Box2D author): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-makes-a-good-phys... (sorry, I couldn’t find a player-agnostic feed link,…

I am using AI to trick my team into writing specs.

Same reason people use Instagram. Network effects. Replace x.com with xcancel.com to get around the block.