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No. I got from the article that he's saying that the purchase is sunk cost, so any sale is 100% profit. So it's correct

> Factory workers soaked the skins in a orange-coloured solution containing mercuric nitrate; a process called 'carroting'. Vapours from the mercury poisoned the workers' nervous s…

I agree with this in general but I think there's a nuance. 'dumb' prompts can get the result, but require more back-and-forth with the model and more token usage when compared to a…

and reader-mode doesn't show the text

yes. TLA and XTLA overloading is a real problem, particularly when going cross domain. Maybe we should insist on some standardised expansion of TLAs and XTLAs so you know unambiguo…

Thank you for posting this. I thought I knew a bit about what was going on with audio sampling and reproduction, but I learned a surprising amount from this well presented introduc…

Darwin Award recipients!

until quite recently I dealt with a machine that had uptime in excess of 16,000 days. Before anyone panics, it was on a closed network. It was a second hand machine and we were ver…

and the comment there about using emacs for the different shells in different modes possibly explains the un-resolved nit in TFA about proportional and monospaced fonts in differen…

I think it's more like the old adage 'the first 50% of the job takes the first 90% of the time, and the other 50% of the job takes the other 90%'. Except that with vibe-coded AI st…

There's much more information in the linked github repo at https://github.com/krauseler/muxcard It even includes an eInk display as well as the battery.Insane, but really impressiv…

Having associations with Aotearoa/NZ, I read it as w-eh-roh, which is part of the traditional Maori greeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(M%C4%81ori)

That wouldn't work (for me, at least). As soon as I figured out the pattern, I'd know I had a week after the 'deadline' and then the pressure is off until that week is passed/nearl…

How about Bill Gates as US's Benevolent Dictator For Life?

Sturgeon's Law (2026): 99% of everything is crap or slop

Another anecdatum: it definitely seems better to me in the last few days. Thanks again to you and tomhow for all your stellar work on keeping the site as close to its original inte…

you've got me. What's the typo?

And then there's trucks flashing an indicator to say it's safe to overtake if you're behind them. In the UK it's the nearside indicator, which makes sense: it's a bit like the truc…

thank you. I knew there was something I was missing

Sadly, I think the only answer is some other form of payment than ad clicks. I've no idea what that could be, though.

All. The. Time. And I hate it. Imagine giving a customer a rebate based on buggy code. You fix a bug, the customer comes back and wants to check that the rebate was correct that la…

But at least they're taking _some_ stance. Yes, it could be higher, but it's better than nothing, and requires courage

I invoke Hanlon's Razor [0]. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

back working on my lighting desk, after a couple of years of hating it because the communications bus between the many different modules was flakey and so the whole thing wasn't fu…

obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/882/