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I have since moved out of NYC but yes I had an apartment number. If the doorman was helping this scalper, the scalper could have varied the address he used enough to avoid exact ma…

Doorman buildings are quite common in NYC. [edit: to be clear they are not the norm, they are more expensive than buildings without one, but there are still lots of them that are n…

I really wanted a PS5 when it was first released, and I refused to pay the scalper tax to get one, so I spent a few minutes a few times a day over a couple of weeks trying to snag …

Much like what Anthropic very recently did re: Mythos

Hah, did not realize it was from 2021 when I posted it as I came across it in my bsky feed. Still - I think the list of examples provided in particular is of interest now as tech c…

Agreed. It really all is an obvious consequence of optimizing only the things that can be measured on a two dimensional graph, at the expense of all the things that can't (even tho…

I think, ultimately, what is not serious here is the author of TFA. Ruby (and Rails) still work, the ecosystem is still healthy, and their dubious citations of ruby's shortcomings …

and kind of a counter point to the GGGP's "Unix compliancy isn't what's keeping me on macOS, the Unix tools it has under the hood still is." I certainly replace a large chunk of th…

> I had a driver's license. I used it so little that I let it expire and I'm not in a rush to renew it. Don't wait too long - I did that and had to take the test again! :)

Not to be too, um, dismissive, but one of the things we discussed in my 300 level class called _Artificial Intelligence_ in college 2 decades ago was regular expressions, so, that …

indeed, isn't hallucination one of the purported intended effects of a sensory deprivation tank?

Their Irish tax haven is rather specifically _not_ in the UK.

this really makes me regret doing nothing like this when I recently had my passport photos taken.

The tight integration of the Apple Card with their hardware also means it makes their hardware (iPhones) better. They can lose money on the Apple Card and make money if it means so…

I'm curious how you can find rails incredible while simultaneously hating ruby? Rails takes a lot of its inspiration from the language itself (internals relying heavily on metaprog…

It's been a while since that one's crossed my browser. This is the first time I've noticed the moderator's note at the bottom: "Moderator's Note This post is locked to prevent inap…

Significantly less secure at that. I imagine GP has iMessage disabled on their computer because other people use their computer, and they don't want iMessages/SMS going anywhere ot…