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Amazing fresh ice cream is just not that hard to make at home. It’s also a fun social thing especially with young kids. Companies need to be taught that if they enshittify they die…

Apple is historically successfully secretive. I suspect their security “lapses” are more along the lines of “give them enough rope to thoroughly hang themselves”

This is something you don’t need to argue about. You don’t need a cite studies. The studies are not geared for a sample size of one there is only one you. Just… Try it. You can jus…

How? I would argue Jack is a much better 0 to 1 guy than Zuck and Zuck is a better 1 to N guy Jack: Twitter, Square (Block), Bluesky/ATProto, bitchat (interesting), buzz (we will s…

I would agree with that, but we probably have different definitions of poor. Destitute? Absolutely. I don’t think anybody is shocked that starving people commit crimes to not die. …

This looks very interesting, thank you for the recommendation.

Because it is naive to think that the people with the power of absolute surveillance would ever permit “sousveillance”. People already survey atrocities committed by regimes and re…

There are high trust communities all over America. Fewer every year.

People always want high trust societies. They are incredibly hard to create and incredibly easy to destroy. However, once the cameras go up, you will never ever create one there. H…

Safer for who? Definitely not anyone critical of the Chinese dictator or regime. Definitely not the Uygher population. Free society is more important than marginally safer streets.…

I don’t understand how you could possibly get that take away from my comment. Not maintaining existing public transportation and making it dirty, difficult or dangerous to use is w…

This still feels like a good faith discussion so I’ll engage. The US does over incarcerate on average. There is clearly a problem there! The solution is not abdicating prosecution …

I don’t think you appreciate how hard it is to get arrested and how ineffective it is when a DA won’t prosecute crimes. Like yes in a more perfect and just society, this would not …

Lol, no it was not just graffiti. I dont mind graffiti nearly as much as say: - open drug use (literally smoking crack on the bus) - screaming threat of violence to everyone one ar…

https://growsf.org/news/2026-02-12-bart-fare-gates-10-millio... The maintenance cost graph is very eye-opening.

The impact in SF was absolutely incredible. A very small percentage of the writers was causing 90+ percent of the problems and vandalism. Treating these people like adults would be…

Enforcing fares massively decreases vandalism, and antisocial behavior on public transportation. If you don’t have public transportation that I feel safe having a 10-year-old ride …

I dont know. The tooling feels trivial. I swapped from claude to codex and back with zero friction. If they were very expensive to me personally I would probably just use them to b…

Counterpoint: XCode is such slop that an app made by a developer with the taste to avoid it has a higher probability of being less "sloppy" than average.

“ You ask me if your verses are good. You ask me. You have asked others before me. You send them to journals. You compare them with other poems and you worry if certain editors ref…

Not with a new language but novel approaches within a framework or paradigm feel outside the LLM wheelhouse. Even if the LLM is adept at novel languages the developer still has to …

Interesting, I am thinking/expecting we will see a massive decrease in new languages. Or people might make new languages but the will not get any adoption. A new language now has t…

Australia is also going bankrupt just slightly faster than the United States. Looks like deficit spending and debt levels are only trending the wrong direction there as well. I am …

I think what I’m saying is being misinterpreted. I should have been more clear. Everybody’s definition of “taken care of” is different. The government needs to balance the interest…