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Little extra "fun" anecdote: my building has two banks of eight elevators, each servicing 20 or so floors, and has six destination dispatch kiosks: one at each end and the middle o…

I have done this for years – it looks much better to me than an em dash – so it's nice to have some authority to cite! Especially unspaced—this is just way too close—I can't even r…

My 55" LG Wallpaper signage display is pretty much perfect – it just has HDMI in from an Apple TV and never bothers me. But, it takes ~10 seconds to turn on after a signal is detec…

Well, yeah – if the door's open for 30 seconds with no-one in the seat. How long should that battery-powered vehicle try to air condition the entire planet before giving up? If the…

Citing Aphyr's analysis of a pre-release version of Redis-Raft as though it applied to a shipped product is so disingenuous as to invalidate this whole post. The very next sentence…

You don't need an ORM for any of that, just a query builder. In Python e.g. you can use SQLAlchemy Core instead of the SQLAlchemy ORM.

I think they meant "evoked", for which Merriam Webster has 1: to call forth or up: such as a: to bring to mind or recollection b: to cite especially with approval or for support

Maybe April Fool's Day was the wrong day to release that.

Yeah, same – mine gives Claude a proxy to the host's Docker socket that disallows mounting anything outside the dev dirs or starting a --privileged container, so it can run tests. …

Hi, using the app now and it's been great fun. (Now if my wife would actually take an exit so we could eat!) However, we're on 290 E and it's showing me the exits that are behind u…

And for my iPod touch! I was prepared to keep using it around the house – it's so much lighter than a phone – but I was worried about leaving it logged into iCloud Keychain if it w…

Meanwhile: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaul...

It's "Daylight Saving", not "Savings".

The "funniest" thing about this is that in any other context , this administration absolutely insists that everyone should be called only by their legal name, not any other name th…

I'm excited for my preorder – but realistic in my expectations: it just won't integrate well with Apple tech. https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-... It'll …

It's a bit more than zero, because I have substantial tooling around Claude Code – subagents, skills, containerization, &c – that I'd have to (have Opus...) reimplement.

Wow, instant bookmark. Thanks!

And they had it solved! 3D Touch worked perfectly – you pushed the screen hard to get a cursor, moved it to the start of the selection, and pushed hard again to drag to the end. Th…

COPY INTO a temp table and INSERT INTO... SELECT FROM... ON CONFLICT UPDATE...

En dashes!

His favorite bar, Siberia, is also back, now at the south end of the Columbus Circle subway station. Same owner, Tracy, and same no-frills atmosphere.

The Earth is being pulled away from that water, just as the water on the right is being pulled away from the Earth.

I think you mean "eminent domain" – the emoluments clause prohibits government officials from accepting gifts, payments, or titles from foreign states.

He fixed underlines on Medium 11 years ago – and someone un-fixed them since then?

Mockingbird, by Walter Tevis (who wrote The Hustler and The Color of Money, and Queen's Gambit, and The Man Who Fell To Earth – quite an oeuvre!) has long been one of my favorite b…