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>You are basically describing predatory pricing I'm describing business . Period. It's incredibly rare to encounter products above a fairly small revenue level (niche products), th…

>doesn't turn a profit. This isn't the condemnation of AI that you think it is. When you are building an industry, you don't want to be in a "cash cow" phase. Because the person wh…

I thought Fable 5 was pretty good, but with all the shenanigans (specifically the we're pulling it on X, j/k, you get it another week; too bad you burned all your Fable tokens)... …

I'm going to take it that you were being sarcastic. However, in the case of the apt cacher, the DDoS of Ubuntu infrastructure showed that the existing apt cachers left a *LOT* of r…

You say that, but I asked Codex to build a Asteroids (but FPS) as a web app, and it wrote it in under 4K LOC, and a Tempest implementation in 6.5K LOC. Those seem like really reaso…

I'm not familiar with Stellar 7, but from a gameplay video it does look somewhat similar. Funny you should mention tanks, because that same day I had Claude build a Battlezone-insp…

Similar, last week I had AI imagine Asteroids, but as a first person shooter, play RoidBelt in the browser at: https://linsomniac.github.io/roidbelt/

Last month I said to my wife that we should start paying homeless people to hold their signs while standing in front of the radar speed cameras the city has been putting up around …

>It doesn't affect knee room at all. There are definitely airline seats where the reclining seats impact the knee room. I'm 6'2" but I seem to have more of it in the legs than typi…

This isn't news, the real news is that the AI tooling allows YOU (specifically) to have a custom prompt tool built specifically for you, in the same or less effort it would take to…

CloudFlare has their plusses and minuses, but they do offer domain registration at cost, for example $10.46/year for .com (every year, not one of those deals for the first year the…

Looks like that system uses the "AP Systems EZ1" microinverter I mentioned above. Their "latest news" page lists UL 3700 with a date of about a week ago, so it looks like they've g…

Unclear to me: does this also do shell history? I'm using atuin and not interested in changing that. I did just switch over to oh-my-posh a few weeks ago and it's good, but I would…

It is likely not going "back to the grid" unless you have the rest of your house shut down; where the "balcony solar" output is greater than your house usage. These systems are "ba…

As I understand it, the US is mostly waiting for UL listing of equipment, which hasn't been a priority because no US locals have allowed them. With Utah and others starting to allo…

I've had a similar experience with NixOS configured by Claude Code, and it's been really nice. I have the same config on 3 machines, all managed in one git repo, including home man…

It seems like the "lightweight" they seem to be concerned with is RAM, not disc. I can't really comment on disc space usage on my own NixOS system, though my "thin client" skin doe…

TheOutdoorBoys youtube channel mentioned something about special batteries for cold temps. -10c for many of his hiking and camping trips isn't unusual, and (as I understand it) he …

This comment is WAY more interesting than the article it is a comment on.

My concern there is that the friction is too high: it wouldn't be something that family members would use in casual conversation, and could also be written off by the AI: "They won…

A year ago I promoted the idea among my wife's family that we should establish a sign/countersign system for the family and use it regularly so that in the event of something like …

>People need to stop yelling "Slop!" all the time People are applying that label to anything that has the taint of AI on it. I get why. I realize there are a lot of reasons why peo…

Reminder: Serious people have been predicting a market crash "within the next 3 months" for 3 years now. In that time, the "market" has gone up around 70% (66%-86% depending on the…

As another reply said, the consensus I read is that you really shouldn't memorize the table of "-.- is K", if you do you'll likely need to "unlearn" it to get any level of speed. T…

A few months ago I had Claude build a morse code trainer web app, it was pretty fun but my interest waned: https://morsetrainer.linsomniac.com/