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Hey, paying for blowing up towns is expensive! PG&E's gotta get the money from somewhere! /s

I've been using it for a little over a year now, and I just upgraded to the unlimited search subscription. Totally worth it.

"Wantrepreneur." Today I embiggened my vocabulary.

The Xeelee would like a word.

How... how did he think this was going to turn out? You fake your death, then run to mommy & daddy's house, and hope no one finds you? And just keep the cash?

I feel the same way. "The Tao of Pooh" is a book I come back to a lot. "The Te of Piglet"... is not.

Jeg byder vores danske overherrer velkommen.

That was physically painful to read. Brilliant.

There have already been incidents of people getting frisky in the back of the robo-taxi. Cameras be damned, I suppose. https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cru.…

I took my first Waymo trip this past weekend. I will be using it every time from now on. I try to take an actual taxi (Flywheel) whenever possible, because Uber and Lyft feel... I …

Is this why Microsoft named it "Bing?"

"If you can't find a hit on the internet, home-made is fine."

My Dad worked at Wake Forest University when I was in elementary school. One of my favorite "toys" was an amber-screen terminal in his study, which connected to the HP 3000 mainfra…

"Unity would not be where it is today without the impact of his contributions." something something damning with faint praise...

As soon as I see the word "learnings" in the title, I know that whoever wrote the article has nothing of value to say.

I still listen to the soundtrack on repeat when I'm doing work that requires intense concentration, like coding.

The original was grey. ThinkGeek put out a "remake" a few years ago, which was white.

There are a lot of famous books on the subject of best practices: "Code Complete" and "Clean Code" are the first to come to mind, but I'm sure the folks here can recommend others.

I got one of those, and let my Chinese coworker listen to it and tell me what it was about. She got the same call, and when she called the number back (which was the Chinese Embass…

South of Market, a district in San Francisco with a lot of clubs/nightlife.