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Interesting, but hard to tell how accurate it is. Converting to midi and having a playback from the transcription would help you tell how close it was.

Love this, and immediately wanted a couple of copies for friends + office. Tried ordering from the US and could not increase the shopping cart quantity from 0 in Chrome or Safari.

1000%. I'm experimenting with running my agent (Claude Code) inside a docker container, so I can have a control plane and then YOLO within that limited access. The agent could stil…

Solved problems are invisible.

Packaging a capability into a consumable form will still be business. It's like web hosting; all the open source tools are there and free, and yet website tools, hosts, etc flouris…

"When you a realize a guitar cannot, in fact, be perfectly tuned, you are beginning to get somewhere with the guitar". Paraphrasing and I don't remember the author, unfortunately.

The final rebuttal to “the data doesn’t lie”: pull the sensors.

> If you think you could step into those shoes, you're either built different or delusional. Being a bit delusional is a critical quality of some CEOs, so the distinction hardly ma…

Thanks for the tip! Ironically it’s the opposite in this case; where we’re willing to exceed the upper bound for the right person. Your point about the good people self-selecting o…

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rivora/c146a25b-dddb-4ac0-a8c1-c8b3...

In the news I hear about tech layoffs, but I am having a difficult time trying to hire high quality senior SWE's. Perhaps it's not the senior's that were hit by the layoffs, or I'm…

In the US there is a widening income equality gap[0], of which outsourcing is one plausible component in a large, complex system. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/…

Exactly this. When I reject a refactor PR (or ideally, _before_ there's a PR), it's not because it's a bad idea, per se. But there's risk associated with every change, and it takes…

Adding a can of coconut milk for your liquids works really well, too. We skip the egg replacement altogether, and it just works.

We called drinking the raw batter a “cake shake”.

Love this idea, can’t wait to try it. Thank you for sharing!

> this fetish for controlling people through coercion that seems so prevalent in certain new modern business contexts, like amazon warehouse workers and delivery employees. The onl…

Jevon’s paradox. We’ve been constrained by how much software could be produced for decades. Making it easier/faster doesn’t increase leisure, it increases the demand for (cheaper) …

When the parent buys the store, they are also buying their contracts and obligations. Unless the contract was written so poorly this didn’t happen?

> One of the most prominent improvements in Opus 4.8 is its honesty. We train all our models to be honest—for instance, to avoid making claims that they can’t support. But a genera…

17 months of runway for the something with the scale and ambition of Wikipedia is living hand-to-mouth.

As an adult, I now write clean error handling first thing. The person it benefits the most is the author, when they are building it and the errors-per-use are as high as they’ll (h…

By “American People” you mean native Americans? Because Literally everyone else in the US is an immigrant. Or are you referring to the Spanish that settled the west? The French in …

It’s funny to me that this is increasingly how packages are delivered in the US, too. Asking someone who’s going that way already to drop it on their way is inherently efficient in…

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