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Yeah, by most definitions at least 50% of “40-somethings” are solidly millennial.

I think AI is a great learning tool - I have learned a ton from it. But when I just ask to do a thing and then read the code (typical in a professional environment when there’s pre…

Pre-AI juniors were valuable because on many tasks, it was faster for me (senior eng) to write a quick spec have a conversation with a junior, and have them go off for a few hours …

> mentioned a Telegram bot idea > Fast forward: she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland (I use Xorg/i3 though), fully riced with cats. Did she end up building the bot or did the LLM …

This can sometimes be a challenge with OSM, if the way you want to structure data doesn’t align with the way the community has decided to structure data. I was looking into buildin…

One of the nice things about OSM is you can profit from it from it if you want to. I don’t think you’ll find even most the die hard OSM fan disagree with you on the POI data. On th…

Yeah, Claude told me what a great idea converting my LLC to an S Corp would be and how much I would save in taxes. When I asked my accountant about he told me it would actually cos…

I used to quite like instagram when it was a good way to keep up with a well curated group of friends who would share occasional interesting photos (though even then it could end u…

Yeah, seriously, New York just passed law that makes it illegal to show engagement-driven feeds to kids. I can’t wait to not age verify on instagram and permanently get back a feed…

Generally I think lifestyle business means a business that is going to make the owners a comfortable living but not likely to make anyone filthy-rich. In silicon valley/tech it's s…

Like notable lifestyle businesses Datadog, Squarespace, Etsy, Tinder, and Snap.

I dunno, not losing data and minimizing unnecessary downtime is table-stakes for a pretty significant class of businesses. If for no other reason, dealing with these at any scale o…

I love SQLite, and I really want to run it in production, but my clients expect minimal data loss and downtime when one of my servers goes down. The answer to that being running it…

If that is really what they are concerned with, they probably could have just had Claude Code rewrite Claude Code in rust? That likely would be far more efficient than changing the…

As I recall, OSM already tends to have many golf courses mapped in extreme detail, because there’s a game that lets you play OSM golf courses on your golf simulator. This sometimes…

I continual find the amount of ink spilled on having a clean commit history amazing, when you can basically get all the same benefits with: git log --first-parent git bisect --firs…

If your end point does something like: * read from the database * make a request to an API (or really any kind of long running non-database thing) * write to the database You're go…

I love SQLite, but my clients expect minimal data loss and downtime when one of my servers goes down. How are people solving that issue with SQLite? Everytime I’ve investigated it,…

Clean!

If I'm understanding this correctly, you're going to need a LOT of user ratings before the rating content is worthwhile to most people. Maybe focus the site on capturing ratings to…

Kinda seems like OpenAI didn’t actually have that idea or the ability to execute it, if they had to go to apple’s supplier and lie to them to get them do it.

Yeah, the models have all been really good at generating greenfield apps for a really long time (in the scope of LLM time). I suppose it’s interesting to see how they make better g…

I'm sure they could technically do that if they have the right wording in their terms. But most consumer services are not actually going to give you a paid service without billing …

Yeah I find the Mac mini trend is kind of baffling. It seems like it's driven either by 1) people hearing Macs are good for AI, buying one, and using Claude for inference, not real…