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I just discovered typhoon/cyclone predictions and they're insane. I get mine via https://zoom.earth (whose iPhone app is terrific). Here's a selection from Typhoon Dolphin, current…

Reeks of AI. Dripping in it. So does that make it worse? At this point, I'm sorry, it does.

Encourage them to move their money to where it's at least more difficult to access. Recently I discovered that my mam – a middle-class ex-civil-servant, not rich, but not poor – ha…

We, tourists, were driving in one helluva rainstorm in Texas back in 2017. It was all I could do to focus on the road. (And yes, we found a spot and pulled over. A Denny's, IIRC.) …

If you're going to be a pointless language pedant, it really helps if you don't fuck it up. OP said: > me and my friends together built an 8 bit CPU… – and if one replaces that wit…

Is it detecting bots? Or just matching ‘fastmail’? A bot I am not.

I just ordered a pizza from Uber Eats here in Taiwan and was offered the option to "Try Uber One". Clicking "Try now" in fact just signs you up for Uber One. So I suppose you are, …

> Basically you should pre-authorize the senders This is kinda what 'masked email' services like Fastmail's – of which I am a delighted customer – do. Until you've known the comfor…

I use Astro but it's not static, I server-render. There's a whole bunch of other stuff once you're signed in.

That's not a terrible read of the site's tech. It over-sells it a touch – I use Umami for analytics, for example – but yeah, auth, payments, entitlement-gated downloads, those down…

Okay. I rebuilt my website in ~a month with the help of Opus 4.7/.8 and it would have taken me, unaided human, at least 6 months. Link's in my bio if you care. Satisfied now? Will …

> a universal existential risk I'm not sure it is, if your primary business is selling hardware. People are still going to need a 5" wide screen and battery in their pocket in orde…

> Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into Siri over the years. Orders of magnitude less than the literal trillions that others have?

> Yet I'm glad my index funds have to buy Coinbase. Curious why? Its chart is a nightmare – up and down like a yo-yo. Not something I'd want to have to depend on.

> I know some who bought during the IPO who are now underwater Yeah you don't say. High of $124, currently $22. But hey: that's ~~gambling~~ stock trading for you. https://au.finan…

- you can't carry 50 of them in your backpack. Invaluable as I travel the world. I still vastly prefer paper books, however.

Half an hour in and I'm already thoroughly sick of "look I need to be honest with you here…" Edit: OMG too much. Toooo much. Want me to: - (a) stop here and save honest memories + …

Right. But how much of that 30% food cost is insurance that the farmer paid? It's insurance all the way down.

I'd love someone to build a tool that shows the price of that burger, say, and breaks it down to the input cost. Burger: $5.00 ---------------- Meat: $0.20 Bun: $0.05 Staff: $0.25 …

Because the stock market won't care about that.

I blocked the email. I use one-time addresses at Fastmail. I meant that after step 3, I was never interested in hearing from the service again.

There's a false dichotomy here between 'deterministic creation' and 'vibing'. I use Claude all day. It has written, under my close supervision¹, the majority of my new web app. As …

1. Goes to site. Clicks appointment.tb.pro link in sidebar. 2. Gives email address. 3. Is told to join the waitlist. 4. Blocks email address given at 2. Hardly a terrific experienc…

Oh, catch yourself. Tell me you wouldn't do the same for your family. I run a tiny thing that a lot of people like. Its licence is permissive: if I 'sold out', nobody who is using …