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What’s next? Are they going to forbid the use of Intellisrnse? Maybe IDEs in general? Why not just specify all contributions must be written with a steady hand and a strong magnet.…

I'm a manager at a large consumer website. My team and I have built a harness that uses headless Claude's (running Opus) to do ticket work, respond to and fix PR comments, and fix …

Today is a good day to learn about Nazi Germany's Normal Type Decree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwabacher#History

This was always going to fail because the requirements were insane: solving SQL, XML and JSON generation should have never been part of the spec. There are hundreds, if not thousan…

An early version of the tech in Robert Heinlein's Life-Line[1]. We should be careful, these things lead to future histories. [1] https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743471598/0743471598…

> “caliber” What are you talking about? Laptops aren't even round.

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Apple first-gen products are often half-assed. But they iterate and improve on a regular cadence. The current Apple Vision Pro is a de…

$68 billion is a lot, but it also only three Big Digs ($22 billion). If Chernobyl killed the Soviet economy it was because it was in already terrible shape.

Because we outlawed railroad strikes but didn't outlaw airline strikes. Doesn't really prevent a strike though: it just makes it cost more. Here in Massachusetts it's illegal for p…

I’ve use a mouse to the right and a Magic Trackpad to the left for years. They, along with an ergonomic keyboard[1] help with wrist pain a lot. [1] https://github.com/ecopoesis/nek…

I agree. The only real use for more pixels is for crop-to-zoom. I want big glass and big sensors so we can get real bokeh. My ideal phone camera would be a single APS-C sized senso…

It feels like Xiaomi is chasing a market that doesn’t really exist. Smartphone cameras are good enough for most people. And for folks who want more, mirrorless and DSLRs start chea…

When was the last US bank failure where depositors lost money?

Literally none of what you listed is work. Board games, happy hours, friends: these are all things you can (and should) be doing in your non-work hours.

The state doesn't have unions, the teachers do. The state negotiates with the union and then the teachers vote to approve the agreed on contract. If the teachers don't like the con…

At what point are “rigorous specs” just another, higher-level programming language? We’ve already moved the needle on language “high-level”-ness without AI. The Kotlin and Java I w…

Most EVs have one pedal mode: lift your foot off the accelerator and the car rapidly decelerates to a stop using regenerative breaking. My BMW has a neat adaptive driving mode: bec…

I would love to see a language that considers tooling a first class problem. Most (all?) languages barely consider complex projects with 100s of dependencies and large multi-step b…

Preview, despite its name, does this really well. Its freeform drawing tools are a little different (shapes and lines are vector, not pixel) but they're very easy to use.

Wegmans has recently come to New England. They are generally much nicer, cleaner, and organized then our big local chain, Stop & Shop. However Wegmans has a weird inventory. Many t…