I always understood it as "the further from the (dirty/basic) Earth, the more luxurious".
(At least in Europe) Toyota used to name their models "Sol", "Luna" and "Terra" as well. Sol had all the trimmings, Terra had the least. It sounded nicer than something like "Luxury" and "Basic".
I agree there might be a more or les arbitrary border, and it will probably be in different places for different people. However the original statement: > The CEO’s extracurricular activities are none of my business.…
Let's draw this to its ultimate conclusion. Would you subscribe to an excellent VPN service, if it was run by [insert universally abhorred brutal dictator from history here]?
Unfortunately, somehow AirPods also at random go from my wife's iPhone to my iPad. And then when she "steals" them back switch to my Mac a minute later. Doesn't matter that they are linked to her iCloud account/Apple ID…
My experience with German colleagues is not efficiency; but they do have a remarkable ability (in my field) to read a 400 page regulator rulebook and overlay it on a 200 page design document and pinpoint the rulebook…
Days of our Lives is staged and so is The Godfather. Yet one is not like the other. Valve staged a scene of two people playing a game like how most people play a game. Just like that, there are many small human touches…
Beautifully said. Engineering is often just a cost center and I often have the feeling management is suspicious that the engineers are just wasting time and throwing up roadblocks for nothing. This in turn makes…
Always appreciate people answering their own questions in great detail!
I bought my parents a M1 iMac in 2021. Connected a drive to it for Time Machine. Set up an admin account and wrote its password on a sticky note. Set up auto update. Gave a 5 minute instruction. I haven’t had to look at…
+1 for Fastmail. I migrated from Gmail a few years ago. Setting up your own domain is peanuts. Migrating all your mail from Gmail is literally just clicking some buttons in the UI and then it all happens in the…
Me too. To be honest, I am not that interested in reading the first 5-10 search results to find what I am looking for. If Google can do that for me and summarize the main points, that's another 10 minutes of my life…
Apart from the tone which is not my cup of tea either, I think what these types of articles/advice try to convey is that we (the working population) are still the monkeys we were thousands of years ago. Sometimes we do…
I’d be fine with America not wanting the world to feel “entitled to” it, if at the same time they’d stop feeling entitled to the rest of the world themselves. Vietnam. Middle America. Afghanistan. Iraq. Greenland.…
May the world extend Americans the hospitality that the US has extended to the world in the last year.
All day every day my iPhone makes me feel like an idiot. I need to correct every other word I type (or at least what my iPhone thinks I typed). While correcting, autocorrect introduces new and even more baffling…
It's interesting the economic damage a few disgruntled WASP's in US swing states can do to the US economy by electing an orange toddler.
Idea! Maybe these now redundant humans can be turned into a kind of battery, so they serve as a source of energy for the machines? Perhaps it's then smart to make the humans have a brain/computer interface, to make then…
> The obvious objection is that code produced at that speed becomes unmanageable, a liability in itself. That is a reasonable concern, but it largely applies when agents produce code that humans then maintain. Agentic…
I read ZoneAlarm and it was like suddenly a part of my brain that went unvisited for 25 years lit up...
While Microsoft in general is a mess, this article is like saying: what even is “save”? Microsoft has 1286 save products! Save in Word, Save in Paint, Save in Notepad… Copilot means there’s a button/menu/command in the…
My favorite coding font is the one that is pre-installed on my work laptop because I cannot install additional ones... So Aptos Mono or Consolas it is.
Honda seems to love pulling out of things just when they are about to succeed. Both in F1 and apparently now also in EV's.
I admire and applaud Kagi for what they are trying to be. But on the AI front, the Assistant is simply worse than using for example Gemini or ChatGPT directly. It is slower, it cannot generate images etc.
Every time some site or person tries to make me feel bad for using AdGuard DNS, ad blockers etc. I read an article like this and I feel fine. I see three options: 1. Show me reasonable ads and I will disable ad blocking…
I always understood it as "the further from the (dirty/basic) Earth, the more luxurious".
(At least in Europe) Toyota used to name their models "Sol", "Luna" and "Terra" as well. Sol had all the trimmings, Terra had the least. It sounded nicer than something like "Luxury" and "Basic".
I agree there might be a more or les arbitrary border, and it will probably be in different places for different people. However the original statement: > The CEO’s extracurricular activities are none of my business.…
Let's draw this to its ultimate conclusion. Would you subscribe to an excellent VPN service, if it was run by [insert universally abhorred brutal dictator from history here]?
Unfortunately, somehow AirPods also at random go from my wife's iPhone to my iPad. And then when she "steals" them back switch to my Mac a minute later. Doesn't matter that they are linked to her iCloud account/Apple ID…
My experience with German colleagues is not efficiency; but they do have a remarkable ability (in my field) to read a 400 page regulator rulebook and overlay it on a 200 page design document and pinpoint the rulebook…
Days of our Lives is staged and so is The Godfather. Yet one is not like the other. Valve staged a scene of two people playing a game like how most people play a game. Just like that, there are many small human touches…
Beautifully said. Engineering is often just a cost center and I often have the feeling management is suspicious that the engineers are just wasting time and throwing up roadblocks for nothing. This in turn makes…
Always appreciate people answering their own questions in great detail!
I bought my parents a M1 iMac in 2021. Connected a drive to it for Time Machine. Set up an admin account and wrote its password on a sticky note. Set up auto update. Gave a 5 minute instruction. I haven’t had to look at…
+1 for Fastmail. I migrated from Gmail a few years ago. Setting up your own domain is peanuts. Migrating all your mail from Gmail is literally just clicking some buttons in the UI and then it all happens in the…
Me too. To be honest, I am not that interested in reading the first 5-10 search results to find what I am looking for. If Google can do that for me and summarize the main points, that's another 10 minutes of my life…
Apart from the tone which is not my cup of tea either, I think what these types of articles/advice try to convey is that we (the working population) are still the monkeys we were thousands of years ago. Sometimes we do…
I’d be fine with America not wanting the world to feel “entitled to” it, if at the same time they’d stop feeling entitled to the rest of the world themselves. Vietnam. Middle America. Afghanistan. Iraq. Greenland.…
May the world extend Americans the hospitality that the US has extended to the world in the last year.
All day every day my iPhone makes me feel like an idiot. I need to correct every other word I type (or at least what my iPhone thinks I typed). While correcting, autocorrect introduces new and even more baffling…
It's interesting the economic damage a few disgruntled WASP's in US swing states can do to the US economy by electing an orange toddler.
Idea! Maybe these now redundant humans can be turned into a kind of battery, so they serve as a source of energy for the machines? Perhaps it's then smart to make the humans have a brain/computer interface, to make then…
> The obvious objection is that code produced at that speed becomes unmanageable, a liability in itself. That is a reasonable concern, but it largely applies when agents produce code that humans then maintain. Agentic…
I read ZoneAlarm and it was like suddenly a part of my brain that went unvisited for 25 years lit up...
While Microsoft in general is a mess, this article is like saying: what even is “save”? Microsoft has 1286 save products! Save in Word, Save in Paint, Save in Notepad… Copilot means there’s a button/menu/command in the…
My favorite coding font is the one that is pre-installed on my work laptop because I cannot install additional ones... So Aptos Mono or Consolas it is.
Honda seems to love pulling out of things just when they are about to succeed. Both in F1 and apparently now also in EV's.
I admire and applaud Kagi for what they are trying to be. But on the AI front, the Assistant is simply worse than using for example Gemini or ChatGPT directly. It is slower, it cannot generate images etc.
Every time some site or person tries to make me feel bad for using AdGuard DNS, ad blockers etc. I read an article like this and I feel fine. I see three options: 1. Show me reasonable ads and I will disable ad blocking…