I’m 20min by public transport and still much prefer my 3 days at home than my 2 in the office. I think the thing people miss about RTO is that management are more likely to be extroverted. They’re the kind of people who…
Well, we already use password managers for all their benefits: autofill, syncing, password generation, passkey storage etc. For a while we’re using `pass` which doesn’t have an easy way to share passwords, so my wife…
That’s… not how software works, no matter how it is produced. Complexity is the enemy; always.
We use Vaultwarden and Bitwarden to share passwords with the family. My wife has my master password and I have hers. The bigger issue if I drop dead is all the nontrivial tech crap I have set up (self hosted Vaultwarden…
I agree. I’m using copilot more and more as it gets better and better, but it is getting better at the fun stuff and leaves me to do the less fun stuff. I’m in a role where I need to review code across multiple teams,…
Out of interest, what sort of products/systems are you building?
Thanks for putting in the effort with that comment. I understand what you’re saying, but it seems like a local optima problem to me: enshrining race differences in corporate policy and law may be optimal right here,…
> A well serviced rolex in 2026 with laser cut gears drifts +/- 15sec per day. Modern Rolex (and Omega et al) are more like +/-2s.
Maybe this is a generational thing, but that first sentence is nonsensical to me. DEI wants to enshrine race differences, so mocking DEI is… racist?
Of course naturally “trim” people don’t count calories - they don’t have to. Just like I don’t have to monitor my blood glucose level, but my Type 1 diabetic friend does. You can’t apply to habits of one physiologic…
There’s a whole field of research on this (look up Floyd Toole) - while any one individual can have skewed taste, on aggregate people prefer speakers that are as close to neutral as possible.
Often for me it’s not about not liking the book, but not wanting to read it right now. This is particularly true with philosophy, but also true of fiction (I’m currently reading and loving Infinite Jest, but I’m not…
The point about not setting a goal rings true for me. A few years ago I set a book-a-week goal and it definitely had a large influence on the books I chose to read. I tend to read a lot of books simultaneously, but much…
I use Manet as a music player an tailscale to have access to my home server. Before I tailscale set up, I’d just download what I wanted to my phone before leaving home.
Bandcamp, and when what I want isn’t there, qobuz usually has it. A couple of times I’ve had to buy the CD off eBay and rip it.
That probably depends on how you listen to music. I still have a qobuz family subscription but barely use it. Mostly I listen to new albums on Bandcamp, and if I like them enough, I buy them. I bought ~20 albums last…
That’s fine, but with something like Jellyfin you get multi-platform apps (including tvOS and android tv etc), tracking of progress within a movie or tv series, play next etc.
I use Manet on iOS
Not the GP but I don’t think they were talking about “building something to make some guy richer” - they was were talking about building a life and relationships that positively impact the people they care about.
When you say transactions, what are you thinking of? I was thinking of your usual VAT/GST - in that case any sort of progressive tax would be hell for small businesses (or large ones) to implement. If you’re talking…
This is something outraged rich people tell themselves to feel better about their outrage.
I’m not deeply into Jung, but he has a concept around phases of life that rings true to me. It’s a good and proper (and somewhat inevitable) to move though these phases as you age; there’s not a lot of point as a 20yo…
Scott’s Meditations on Moloch, where I’m fairly sure the concept originated, is one of his best (from back in 2014): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
That logic only works if you take a “1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters” approach to thinking about creativity. If you want to argue that art is created by pure randomness that’s fine, but I don’t think we’re going to…
There was nothing grifter-ish about this article that I could detect - what are you seeing that I’m missing?
I’m 20min by public transport and still much prefer my 3 days at home than my 2 in the office. I think the thing people miss about RTO is that management are more likely to be extroverted. They’re the kind of people who…
Well, we already use password managers for all their benefits: autofill, syncing, password generation, passkey storage etc. For a while we’re using `pass` which doesn’t have an easy way to share passwords, so my wife…
That’s… not how software works, no matter how it is produced. Complexity is the enemy; always.
We use Vaultwarden and Bitwarden to share passwords with the family. My wife has my master password and I have hers. The bigger issue if I drop dead is all the nontrivial tech crap I have set up (self hosted Vaultwarden…
I agree. I’m using copilot more and more as it gets better and better, but it is getting better at the fun stuff and leaves me to do the less fun stuff. I’m in a role where I need to review code across multiple teams,…
Out of interest, what sort of products/systems are you building?
Thanks for putting in the effort with that comment. I understand what you’re saying, but it seems like a local optima problem to me: enshrining race differences in corporate policy and law may be optimal right here,…
> A well serviced rolex in 2026 with laser cut gears drifts +/- 15sec per day. Modern Rolex (and Omega et al) are more like +/-2s.
Maybe this is a generational thing, but that first sentence is nonsensical to me. DEI wants to enshrine race differences, so mocking DEI is… racist?
Of course naturally “trim” people don’t count calories - they don’t have to. Just like I don’t have to monitor my blood glucose level, but my Type 1 diabetic friend does. You can’t apply to habits of one physiologic…
There’s a whole field of research on this (look up Floyd Toole) - while any one individual can have skewed taste, on aggregate people prefer speakers that are as close to neutral as possible.
Often for me it’s not about not liking the book, but not wanting to read it right now. This is particularly true with philosophy, but also true of fiction (I’m currently reading and loving Infinite Jest, but I’m not…
The point about not setting a goal rings true for me. A few years ago I set a book-a-week goal and it definitely had a large influence on the books I chose to read. I tend to read a lot of books simultaneously, but much…
I use Manet as a music player an tailscale to have access to my home server. Before I tailscale set up, I’d just download what I wanted to my phone before leaving home.
Bandcamp, and when what I want isn’t there, qobuz usually has it. A couple of times I’ve had to buy the CD off eBay and rip it.
That probably depends on how you listen to music. I still have a qobuz family subscription but barely use it. Mostly I listen to new albums on Bandcamp, and if I like them enough, I buy them. I bought ~20 albums last…
That’s fine, but with something like Jellyfin you get multi-platform apps (including tvOS and android tv etc), tracking of progress within a movie or tv series, play next etc.
I use Manet on iOS
Not the GP but I don’t think they were talking about “building something to make some guy richer” - they was were talking about building a life and relationships that positively impact the people they care about.
When you say transactions, what are you thinking of? I was thinking of your usual VAT/GST - in that case any sort of progressive tax would be hell for small businesses (or large ones) to implement. If you’re talking…
This is something outraged rich people tell themselves to feel better about their outrage.
I’m not deeply into Jung, but he has a concept around phases of life that rings true to me. It’s a good and proper (and somewhat inevitable) to move though these phases as you age; there’s not a lot of point as a 20yo…
Scott’s Meditations on Moloch, where I’m fairly sure the concept originated, is one of his best (from back in 2014): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
That logic only works if you take a “1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters” approach to thinking about creativity. If you want to argue that art is created by pure randomness that’s fine, but I don’t think we’re going to…
There was nothing grifter-ish about this article that I could detect - what are you seeing that I’m missing?