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Most banks will print a sheet of 3 on demand at a branch. I think they're called counter checks? I haven't used a checkbook in probably about a decade, so when they've been needed …

A stopped clock is right twice a day. A broken clock could potentially never be right, like if it's perpetually 10 minutes behind.

It's quite possible that the founders cashed equity out of the funding round, and that could possibly be why it was such a large round. During the FinTech/Web3 boom back around 201…

Parent might have been talking about Twitter's Grok AI?

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Notability isn't the same as credibility. Blue checks used to be useful so that you knew whether or not the person you were interacting with was who they said they were and had som…

The section that Spiro included about robots.txt belies just how amateurish this attempt is. That file has become the effective standard for instructing web scraping utilities, but…

Fair enough. I don't think it's that unsafe now either. It just felt like it had a lot more rough edges when I was younger, but that could've been due to differences in experiences…

I didn't feel safe in SF until maybe the mid-late 90s. SF was seriously a violent place until the tech boom. China Basin, where the ballpark is now, was one of the worst parts of t…

"A Few Good Monads" -- coming to theaters soon! Starring Jack Nicholson as Kernel Jessup

If he was in any way trying to save his stake in Twitter and Tesla, he wouldn't be acting out the way he is. Dude's completely divorced from reality at this point. My wife's tinfoi…

Sorry, but how can you possibly see his behavior and think the simpler explanation is that Musk knows anything about what he's talking about at this point as it concerns Twitter? J…

As an ex-tweep, there are plenty of architectural decisions that I didn't agree with or that didn't go as well as had hoped. On the other hand, there were some amazing feats of eng…

20% of the services might be necessary to support home timeline rendering, but I guarantee that at least 60-75% of the remaining services are indirect dependencies.

When I worked there, margins on the cables were something like 85-95% so employee discounts were huge. On other items, TVs and such, the margins are much much lower so at most you …

That's not exactly how that worked - configuration files and build artifacts were delivered by either puppet/ansible or via Murder (bt-style p2p). If there was cron involved, it wa…

I think the concern there is that these different failure modes are all given the same error/exception messaging? The caller could make different decisions based on these different…

I worked for Netopia for a short time back in the 90s. Really fun company! Working next to the hardware guys was seriously informative. Lots of interesting kit to play with for sur…

There's definitely an existing product market fit with drugs, but commissions are extremely low for entry level salespeople. Since there's a very low bar to entry, the business isn…

I thought that was reductio ab absdurdum?