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God that's sad. I almost feel bad for all the engineers there, though I'm sure they made good money and probably left

I've been building a smart personal finance app with AI integration and I've heard great feedback from my first users. I had a friend ask me a financial advice question the other d…

> It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand pe…

> But the corollary, which the article doesn't really acknowledge, is that reforms like credit card interest caps and the Credit Card Competition Act would substantially limit cons…

Author here! I promise I didn't use Claude for any of this. I will admit I'm working on developing a "voice" in my writing, so maybe that's what you're sensing. Thanks for the read…

Is there an example in your eyes that proves this wrong?

>It pales compared to the $3,000 a year in interest towards the national debt I'm responsible for. Thinking of country-scale finances in the same way you think about personal finan…

> And finally, they did not have to raise Game Pass prices to improve the profit margins. Of course, consumers pulled out. Myself and 2 of my friends stopped our subscriptions the …

And just like that you’ve done more due diligence than the VCs who just threw money at this.

CEOs do get there with lots of politics in almost all cases. It’s all about who’s ass you kiss and who’s ass you don’t and if you’re lucky with timing things might just fall into p…

It’s already irreversible, but it’s just disappointing to see how the U.S. administration has chosen to actively fight against it, while other countries like China are embracing re…

I hate ads to the point I either pay or use other means to avoid ads in basically everything I use - NPR (I pay, happy to support) - Podcasts (I skip ads, using a client that suppo…

Admittedly, I’ve gone through waves of feeling scared for the future of software engineering. I manage many people so I care about them and their futures. But the more I use AI in …

Thanks for the answer! I do see both sides

> Using existing CLI directly: No context wasted on tool definitions Can someone explain this to me? I've seen claude code try to run a not-well-known package and it basically shot…

Yeah give me the median

I love accessibility, I just want to preface what I’m about to say with that. I found this site hard to read. I’m reading on my phone btw. The text is too big for me and the line h…

fwiw I got one of the first products listed on amazon when you search mycorrhizal fungi and I'm seeing the same effects stated by the grandparent comment

Interesting, their price bump announcement actually just went and made me upgrade to lifetime (at $250 while I could) instead of write them off completely. Netflix will never allow…

Hop on plex amp. Take control of your music. I realize that sounds like an Ad but I’ve been using it for a few months and I feel like I’ve rediscovered my joy for music again.

I mean.. did he turn anti-Elon or did society turn anti-Elon when Elon started doing insane shit? Reminder: Elon bribed his way into leading a self-formed and now essentially defun…

> The real danger was not allowing smoking because if you ban smoking, people will smoke no matter if it's banned. This same concept is why full prohibition never works. People who…

Yep, many older people right now don’t have a smart phone and never will. As long as some younger people stay that course we should be fine. Hopefully we’ll see an increase of dumb…