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Anticheat is indeed a huge blocker, and given how invasive shady kernel anticheat software is on Windows I kinda hope it stays that way

In my own experience this is 180 degrees from reality. As a generalist, feeling out the depths of a single domain (something I've been forced to do at least 50 times in my career, …

Making a billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Blowing up billions of dollars.

I have a relatively large "vibe coded" project that I let Claude 4.5-4.7 drive over the past few months, and my read on it is: 1. It's much more verbose about how it perceives the …

The 80s and 90s were pretty much the golden age of music production in terms of breadth and sheer volume. This is the distilled essence of a “first world problem.”

As someone who built a custom serial cable (not my idea, greetz to the original designer) to load assembly programs on TI-85s for all my friends, the “approved for exams” shit is s…

The article is clearly not "about" ICE. One paragraph talks about the ICE deployment

Personally, I make a lot more "out of hour" commits than I used to because I'll batch up low priority tasks throughout the day and let the computer chug on them at night when I'm e…

As insane as American politics is "I can blast robots on my property" has exactly the right amount of crank appeal to be possibly the final 90/10 issue

As a security conscious dev that has worked in various highly regulated spaces I want to say we really appreciate people like you, because they’re super rare

Are we pretending that optimizing for taste is a bad thing? It’s obviously bad to eat super salty “ultraprocessed” food all the time, but it’s not like the salt is the primary prob…

It feels like you’re using “industrial food” as a pejorative, but the best chefs in the world also do not skimp on salt

> People spend hundreds of dollars and many hours sharpening kitchen knives With a mass market electric sharpener and a reasonable knife I spend maybe 15 minutes/yr on sharpening a…

I generally agree you should buy fast machines, but the difference between my 5950x (bought in mid 2021. I checked) and the latest 9950x is not particularly large on synthetic benc…

(That said, I liked the Pixel 4a better than the iPhone 15 Pro I’m typing this on)

My experience in the mobile space from having a personal lab with all the flagship phones paid for by my employer was that the hardware on the Android phones was at least as good a…

BlackSky seems to be run by a competent dev with a high enough profile that I see his posts regularly without following him directly Based on his progress posts it seems that ATpro…

> It will undoubtedly lead to great advances "Undoubtedly" seems like a level of confidence that is unjustified. Like Travis Kalanick thinking AI is just about to help him discover…

Wade Boggs is one of my favorite players, but better than Mike Trout?!

I agree with your first paragraph, but there are lots of basically-broke people who live on boats Old sailboats can be had for practically (and in many cases actually) nothing. If …

It would be sick if they could leverage this increased efficiency to reduce how frequently they bother already paying customers with annoying upsells

This is what I hoped for but based on the Ultra implementation in the Astons is not at all what we’re getting It seems to require pretty deep integration with the automaker (Aston …

FWIW I'm a happy paying customer of Kagi search for quite a while. I am very much not opposed to paying for things _if paying = value_

I don't think pointing out "this is a web directory full of links submitted by people willing to spend $20/yr" is being cheap, per se, the same way I don't think paying to be "veri…