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I'd talk to your Amazon rep and see if you can get them to agree to $800 million as a compromise. They are usually pretty good at that stuff.

Inventing completely new mathematics

There will be fewer good mathematicians, but more great mathematicians!

Also, should we capitalize the "C" in "Capitalism"? One might think we should, because C is a capital letter. But capital itself is lowercase, and therein lies the paradox.

I'm looking for the tablet that says "We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune..."

You're forgetting about property taxes (adverse possession / squatter's rights.)

In rare cases, yes. https://nypost.com/2009/04/16/small-tree-found-growing-insid...

No, they are tax cheats. It has been notoriously hard to arrest them and send them to jail however.

meh just put the head on the end of the tail, a lot less effort and no one will be any the wiser.

Splash colours can help you avoid decision paralysis when picking colours. It's an emotional tool that stops you fussing around— trying to pick the "perfect" colour.

OK I missed this. The intro paragraph explains "what" not "why". As this "why" is not immediately obvious (nor is something I've ever considered a "problem"), would suggest to put something short in the intro.

The site doesn't explain--what's the actual point of this? If we are seriously concerned about characters (which is generally silly in a gzipped CSS) why not just use 3-char hex like #a5c?

Was recently discussing N64 games with friends in Japan. Nobody here knew Goldeneye.

This is a game released in 1999. It's silly that source code isn't released for games this old.

The elephant in the room is AI. The frontier LLMs seem to prefer Tailwind by default. And they do a good job with it--likely because coupling style definitions to your HTML document structure is the least overhead way for an LLM to write code. The alternative--reasoning about a platonic ideal CSS structure, mapping the document structure to that an inferring how the layout will look, then juggling all that while making iterative edits--is a lot more "cognitive" work!

The robot scarecrows are used to ward off bears in rural areas

Two thoughts on this captioned image: (1) holy $&!# that is horrifying (2) if its designed to ward off bears, isn't it a scarebear?

So corrupt even the reporting of corruption is corrupt?

I think he means an owl that gets progressively angrier/sadder/more emotionally manipulative if you stop counting cards.

I tried to replicate this but Claude was already down https://status.claude.com/

The honest thing to do is to return the key you found to its owner Satoshi Nakamoto.

Sure there are misbehaving companies. But the solution should not be to block PRs from employees at well-behaved companies like mine. Instead the govt should clamp down directly on the bad behavior. Japan has mastered the art of ignoring real problems, and attacking substitute/scapegoat problems instead.

You mean immigration lawyer covering his ass? Possibly. It wouldn't be the staff member.

No, I'm American. I was working as a quant trader in Tokyo (originally Lehman Brothers, then Nomura) and I was laid off from my job, and with nothing else do I decided to found a company in Tokyo. 13 years later I'm still here with ~300 staff now.

Yep, I've heard variants of all of those first-hand from people who work at my company.

Company founder in Japan here. This is largely how I read this specific news--its narrowly scoped to prevent patterns of abuse, which there have indeed been isolated cases tantamount to human trafficking.

That being said, there is a broader trend, that Japan's immigration authorities are becoming more foreigner-hostile, reflecting a broader political view shift in Japanese society (see: Sanseito political party) and one could argue in the US and globally.

One data point: a few months back we had one of our employees denied a Permanent Resident Visa due to a clerical error where our company forgot to notify the immigration bureau of an address change--we literally moved our office across the street, same city block. Our lawyer said such a case was unheard of a few years ago; these were always handled as simple corrections, instead the poor chap had to go to the back of the 9+ month waiting queue.

Our lawyer says the news is too new to know what concrete ramifications it will actually have on us, a tech company which uses English as the main language for engineering roles.

It's an inclusive app.

They will have to acquire Lobstagram next

cigarettes never threatened democracy

"Democracy" itself was not at stake in the American Civil War because both sides practiced it. The Confederacy was/would have been a democracy analogous to ancient Athens--one where slaves (and women) were excluded from political participation. The vast majority of Confederate politicians, including Jefferson Davis, came from the "Democratic Party"--which, true to its name, championed enfranchisement for the "common (white) man" as opposed to control by elites.

Perhaps a better example is the "Tobacco War" of 1780 in the American Revolution, where Cornwallis and Benedict Arnold destroyed massive quantities of cured tobacco to try to cripple the war financing of the colonies.

Control of tobacco in Latin/South America since the 1700s (Spain's second-largest source of imperial revenue after precious metals) also had a directly stifling effect on democratic self-governance.

If you feel this way, you arent using AI right.

For me, Claude, Suno, Gemini and AI tools are pure bliss for creation, because they eliminate the boring grunt work. Who cares how to implement OAuth login flow, or anything that has been done 1000 times?

I do not miss doing grunt work!

Sure, send me a mail! shields at tablecheck dot com

I really need to make a blog hah...

OK you asked for it Denmark. I'm selling all my legos.