What does "use it too much" even mean for someone who is sight-impaired and who needs to use it every time?
I own my own domain in the .us TLD, and I've been using it for my email for the past 20 years. When I applied for an "Electronic Travel Authorisation" (ETA) to enter Great Britain earlier this year the app flat-out…
> A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k. I have a kid in an American university right now, and a quick search of my bank account statements confirms that there…
Meanwhile Qwen3.8 27B got both the 'f's and the 'i's questions right.
Gastroenterologists generally categorize feces into ~7 categories. They can be indicators of a variety of dietary deficencies, including dehydration or insufficient fiber intake. Others can be indicators of a variety of…
I recently had to set up a new Android device for work. Since I keep all my personal accounts separate from my work accounts, I needed to create a new Google account on that phone. I ended up paying $8 for a month of…
This is exactly why Amazon has also been doing this acquisition and destructive scanning of millions of books for some time now.
Just like BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it.
Apple isn't exactly competing with China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China
I owned only EVs and PHEVs since 2012. The GR Corolla was so compelling that it pulled me back to an ICE. I had forgotten what it felt like to have FUN while driving. The biggest feature for me is that I could pull the…
I've heard it said that Oracle doesn't have customers. They have hostages.
I started on a faulty 1200 BAUD modem that would only connect at 300 BAUD. And I used to load my programs off a cassette tape. If we keep this up, someone's bound to jump in with a brag about memory cores and punchcards.
I'm one of the greybeards who has the 2400 BAUD modem negotiation tone sequences emblazened in my neurons. For a while I've been meaning to set up some Wireguard connections among some of my systems. Being as busy as I…
This isn't really news to many people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In fact, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is often misdiagnosed as MS. I think it was 10 or so years ago that a movement swept over the…
Makes me wonder what the value of a PhD is.
Volkswagon has no jurisdiction over how I manage my fob, which is the client for the vehicle's unlock and start API. Once you hand a bearer token to me that governs full access to the vehicle, including the accelerator…
I can't even manually resolve the merge conflicts alone that happen between my code and that of everyone else submitting code at agent speed in my team's repo. So long as I have financial obligations toward my family, I…
The most plausible near-term path is probably micropayments embedded invisibly in AI agents. Your agent that has learned what you value and can make a reasonable decision to allow a micropayment for certain content pays…
I had an eerily similar situation in a behavioral interview I had with a company where I had a very strong internal referral from a very senior person. I didn't have any time at all to prepare for the interview and was…
I like to ride my bicycle with my friends in rides organized by the (Pacific Northwest) Cascade Bicycle Club. They require that I solve a Google reCAPTCHA in order to register for a ride. Google is already completely…
In my experience the overwhelming majority of services permit me to change my email address.
This guy just went to federal prison on a 25-year sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Syonyk https://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-s... Some of his blog posts in the past several months…
> so how on Earth do you expect to realize any of these desires? The same way this sort of thing has always been accomplished: Government regulation. Vote, write reps, donate to the ACLU and EFF, socialize.
The last time I was in SF I used Waymo to get around town and Uber to get to the airport. The Waymo rides were near-perfect. At one point when a delivery truck was blocking 3 lanes, the vehicle assertively merged over…
Whenever I start feeling smug about how cagey I've been about data brokers in the past, I remind myself that enough of my relatives have handed over their DNA to operations like 23andMe so as to render my efforts futile.
What does "use it too much" even mean for someone who is sight-impaired and who needs to use it every time?
I own my own domain in the .us TLD, and I've been using it for my email for the past 20 years. When I applied for an "Electronic Travel Authorisation" (ETA) to enter Great Britain earlier this year the app flat-out…
> A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k. I have a kid in an American university right now, and a quick search of my bank account statements confirms that there…
Meanwhile Qwen3.8 27B got both the 'f's and the 'i's questions right.
Gastroenterologists generally categorize feces into ~7 categories. They can be indicators of a variety of dietary deficencies, including dehydration or insufficient fiber intake. Others can be indicators of a variety of…
I recently had to set up a new Android device for work. Since I keep all my personal accounts separate from my work accounts, I needed to create a new Google account on that phone. I ended up paying $8 for a month of…
This is exactly why Amazon has also been doing this acquisition and destructive scanning of millions of books for some time now.
Just like BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it.
Apple isn't exactly competing with China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China
I owned only EVs and PHEVs since 2012. The GR Corolla was so compelling that it pulled me back to an ICE. I had forgotten what it felt like to have FUN while driving. The biggest feature for me is that I could pull the…
I've heard it said that Oracle doesn't have customers. They have hostages.
I started on a faulty 1200 BAUD modem that would only connect at 300 BAUD. And I used to load my programs off a cassette tape. If we keep this up, someone's bound to jump in with a brag about memory cores and punchcards.
I'm one of the greybeards who has the 2400 BAUD modem negotiation tone sequences emblazened in my neurons. For a while I've been meaning to set up some Wireguard connections among some of my systems. Being as busy as I…
This isn't really news to many people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In fact, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is often misdiagnosed as MS. I think it was 10 or so years ago that a movement swept over the…
Makes me wonder what the value of a PhD is.
Volkswagon has no jurisdiction over how I manage my fob, which is the client for the vehicle's unlock and start API. Once you hand a bearer token to me that governs full access to the vehicle, including the accelerator…
I can't even manually resolve the merge conflicts alone that happen between my code and that of everyone else submitting code at agent speed in my team's repo. So long as I have financial obligations toward my family, I…
The most plausible near-term path is probably micropayments embedded invisibly in AI agents. Your agent that has learned what you value and can make a reasonable decision to allow a micropayment for certain content pays…
I had an eerily similar situation in a behavioral interview I had with a company where I had a very strong internal referral from a very senior person. I didn't have any time at all to prepare for the interview and was…
I like to ride my bicycle with my friends in rides organized by the (Pacific Northwest) Cascade Bicycle Club. They require that I solve a Google reCAPTCHA in order to register for a ride. Google is already completely…
In my experience the overwhelming majority of services permit me to change my email address.
This guy just went to federal prison on a 25-year sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Syonyk https://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-s... Some of his blog posts in the past several months…
> so how on Earth do you expect to realize any of these desires? The same way this sort of thing has always been accomplished: Government regulation. Vote, write reps, donate to the ACLU and EFF, socialize.
The last time I was in SF I used Waymo to get around town and Uber to get to the airport. The Waymo rides were near-perfect. At one point when a delivery truck was blocking 3 lanes, the vehicle assertively merged over…
Whenever I start feeling smug about how cagey I've been about data brokers in the past, I remind myself that enough of my relatives have handed over their DNA to operations like 23andMe so as to render my efforts futile.