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I've been a subscriber basically ever since it launched in the US and haven't noticed any discernible difference in the service in that entire time. What has turned people off? I h…

I don't think you can argue that California is significantly worse off in terms of housing than London, which is where a large number of productions go due to tax incentives.

I work at AWS, we got access to Claude Code very recently, most people are using Kiro and that seems to be the defacto standard. I have not heard of any nor run into any token budg…

My favorite solution to this is to use the Cline coding agent, which is open and allows you to easily switch between different providers and models.

The author mentions interest but not that there is the mortgage interest deduction, which is a massive tax deduction especially during the first years.

I'm primarily a Go developer and love the language and will defend it for most use-cases, but to be honest BPF seems like Rust's place to shine.

A screen for the backup camera doesn't necessarily mean everything has to be through the screen at all. Most Toyotas I've seen have a screen for the backup camera and the carplay/m…

As a parent, two reasons: 1. The admin work of parental controls in Apple is non-trivial and obscure. I would guess there are something like 300 different knobs and settings you ca…

As someone who grew up in America but lived abroad a few years, you just start using different markers but it's the same idea. Something like 0, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 gives you the fu…

> Advocacy group Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) ... Cynically I have to wonder if Meta recently made any major donations to this organization.

While they do show it live, it's in the middle of the workday, so almost everyone in the USA will have watched it delayed by many hours at "prime time", aka around 8pm local time i…

This would be much easier said than done, most video segments are served up by CDNs, so it would have to be done via processing on CDN edge nodes. Cloudflare might support somethin…

I'm in Seattle at AWS and haven't encountered this attitude towards AI at all. All of my coworkers pretty much love using Cline and Kiro.

The US is not perfect by any measure, but your argument that the US doesn't have innovative nor "high-value" jobs is absurd beyond belief.

Playback is 100% handled by the device. The primary (and essentially only) benefit of H.264 is that almost every device in the entire world has an H.264 hardware decoder builtin to…

He's a director not a "in the trenches" researcher anymore. He's being paid for being a highly technical leader who enables and recruits researchers he employs to do great work, si…

Nina Teicholz is a bit of a controversial figure in the nutrition world so I'd advise people to take this with a grain of salt...

That's a bit of an exaggeration, social security (state pension) and medicare (state healthcare for retirees) are not perfect but they're not terrible either.

On the other hand, I know someone from the UK who moved away and lived in places like Qatar and Oman for 20-30 years, keeping their UK citizenship and paying zero taxes to the UK (…

You are correct, but this only applies because: > Unlike the UK, the US levies capital gains tax on proceeds from the sale of a main residence. I understand why it can feel unfair …

Phoenix has extremely wide and straight roads, with very few pedestrians, and very little rain or snow. Compared to the entire world this is VERY anomalous, so I think we're still …

To be fair to Nintendo, they're very much still in the former category of making good products every few years. The switch was originally released 7 years ago, which is ancient in …

Modern airplanes should be compared to what is possible in modern times with modern safety standards. If you want an objective measure then compare the Boeing Max planes to their A…

Not really. No airplane was ever grounded by the FAA since the 1970s, when they grounded the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. Since the merger, the FAA has grounded both of Boeing's new pl…

You may not like his movies, but saying Tyler Perry is a "shit businessman" is a bit of a stretch...