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I wish it were that simple. ~: sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app chmod: /Applications/Music.app: No such file or directory ~: sudo chmod -x /System/Applications/Music.app chmod…

I remember following this at the time! FYI it was "shut down" (kept online but no further development) two years ago ( https://x.com/KennethCassel/status/1620500575183073280 ) > De…

I like betting because I find it fun to quantify probabilities of future events, and having a ~small amount of money at stake keeps me motivated to follow through on whether I was …

> an unrealistic maladaptive cope I like betting myself, but I don't think abstaining from betting is maladaptive at all. Most of the bets we encounter in the real world are negati…

I'm mostly surprised that someone can so consistently and repeatedly demonstrate an inability to filter information he receives and still be trusted with LPs' money. It's another f…

I would bet in the direction of this being a bug on big corp's side rather than Cloudflare's.

Enjoyable read, but kind of ironic that it interrupts your reading half way down to nag you to subscribe. Everything is an overcrowded airport lounge, indeed.

Cars are only “heavily regulated” in the sense that you pass a test once when you are a teenager and then never have to pass a test again, just pay a nominal fee to renew your lice…

This is by Steve Ruiz of https://tldraw.com , in case anyone noticed the similarity between the two.

This is great! Thanks for writing it. One nit, the unquoted quotes in this file seem to be a parse error (I replaced the inner ones with single quotes and it ran) https://github.co…

I had a trip with my family and used v0 to create an itinerary app with a timeline view of our flights, hotel/airbnb bookings, activities, etc. It was the only thing I’ve 100% vibe…

I've said it before but really feels like a flaw that the halvings are discrete and happen suddenly every four years, instead of gradually each block. As far as I can tell the only…

That's a dated rule at this point, ChatGPT has been able to use its Python interpreter as a calculator for a while and in my experience will opt to do that for back-of-the-envelope…

I think the intent is less about the CO2 emissions as about the air quality that people have to breathe (hence a stricter standard in some locations). I don’t know about measurable…

I see where you’re coming from, but the alternatives are either that the law isn’t enforced, or the state ramps up its own surveillance, which is more dystopian to me. I see this a…

It’s 75% lower off-peak though, so there’s still an incentive.

> Whether someone is driving because of speed, or comfort, or some other factor, the cost has to exceed their personally calculated benefit. It's a dynamic system though; as some d…

> That's the fundamental argument against the assertion that traffic speed increases will offset the costs. It cannot be true, or people would choose to drive. I think the mistake …

It was not just an idle threat either, they tried to do it until they were blocked by a judge https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/nyregion/nyc-congestion-p...

> Literally everything we buy and use in the city gets more expensive because of this law. Congestion was already priced into all goods and services in NYC, it just came in the for…

My experience is that the best LLMs can produce syntactically valid strudel but don't understand the actual semantics of the "mini notation" language, unfortunately.

> Their determination? I wasn't entitled to a $3 refund. Frustratingly, Lyft’s position on this is that if you don’t like the car that arrives you should reject it when it arrives,…

Part of what makes it seem shady here is that airline ticket prices are pretty opaque. If they advertised it as a group discount, it would be received differently.