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My wife and I lived in Hamburg for a few years. Nice place and I often miss our lives there. However, I know many other foreigners do not share this experience - even I had to get …

Surprisingly I've found some stigma attached to it - because people can get "preachy" about exercise I guess.

This looks remarkably dystopian.

It is, of course, wild that people are saying "just use a VPN"... in the context of the UK.

I really wish seemingly intelligent people would stop using the abstraction analogy (like the article does). The key word is: determinism. Every level of abstraction (inc. power to…

Spotify DJ is terrible - just like their Apple TV app (which is perpetually buggy). However, their radio mix feature is so good that it's become the #1 reason I can't switch.

Quadruple espresso + some good deathcore solves this pretty nicely for me.

A Figma competitor is a really good thing - many people are waiting to jump ship for a decent competitor. However, for the sake of longevity & lawsuits, maybe tweak the UI a little…

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I wonder if we're heading to a situation where agent written code will function as something distinct, like bytecode.

Yup. Unfortunately common I think - not just with UI components. Occam's razor is sometimes only for others.

"I'm in the Empire Business"

I wish Europe would just push back. More than what they are currently. There is so much potential there, but somehow the EU all look at the US as some form of idealogical father fi…

Recently I've put Claude/others to use in some agentic workflows with easy menial/repetitive tasks. I just don't understand how people are using these agents in production. The aut…

I think a lot of modern day stoicism is stoicism-without-hardship. And I think hardship is necessary for stoicism - otherwise all you have is determined detachment, which is someth…

Really like the forthrightness.

I'm commenting on the article, and the first point in the article doesn't sound like search or infra. Maybe read that before assuming things. And why would it be "logically flawed"…

oh shit. actually, yea

Privacy, as well as overall product experience. Btw, I didn't just mention Fastmail.

> are quickly catching up. If you were Yahoo a few years before Google it would sound the same.

> 1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems. Complete bullshit. Sorry, but the reason why people use Google is because of the ecosystem + value proposition. Goo…

> put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I smell some bullshit.

Lol, amazing! Love the voice.

Phew, that is very close to Plex.