jmux

I feel like ~300pgs in is where infinite jest reaches critical mass. before that, it felt like a slog.

after i had enough context to start making connections, I couldn’t put it down

not only does this miss the point of why the neo is special, id be curious to see how unusable windows running on 8gb of ram is.

dell’s xps hardware quality can also be dubious, multiple people I know (including myself) have had issues in years past with high end XPS machines. If they’re trying to meet a low price point and can’t cut costs on the enclosure it’ll be interesting to see how the reliability of the internals fares

In the past I found that I had poor spacial awareness - a few months ago I started using navigation apps solely in the “north up” orientation. this is much less intuitive when navigating, but forces me to think spatially about where i am and I’ve found has helped me retain much more spatial context about my environment.

I’m much more able to navigate without the map than I was before I started this experiment - and it’s had the added benefit of giving me the ability to know what part of the 101 I’m on solely by the angle and shape of the nearest exit.

I hope eventually AI gets to a point where I can split the difference between ambiguous and incidental friction like this, although tbh I’m not really sure what that would look like.

dudes rock

https://archive.ph/HBzaU

vaultwarden is great, but password managers are security critical software that need consistent maintenance and constant updates.

if bitwarden is acquired and the new owner decides an open source version of their product is not a business necessity, without someone actively supporting the salaries of engineers it’s unlikely to continue to be secure for much longer.

Participants in the occasional and daily groups used their own cannabis at the doses they typically consume.

“We didn’t tell people what to use because there’s a really big continuum of how people use and how they respond to that dosage,” Brooks-Russell said, explaining that they wanted these studies to reflect how people use cannabis outside of the lab.

Actually a really smart process decision - in past studies I’ve seen they always used a prescribed dose but having the participants choose makes a lot of sense

the story behind the Oorah scam is actually pretty interesting - it’s good to see it finally get banned.

I originally learned about it through [the trueanon podcast](https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-477-kold-135145076), their episode on it is really good.

nice work! the interactive visuals are really cool

Evilcore is a fitting name.

Connecticut’s Insurance Department recently reviewed EviCore and Carelon. It found no problems with Carelon. EviCore was fined $16,000 this year for more than 77 violations found in a review of 196 files.

$16k is such a low fine that it’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad. fines should be increased to actually represent a threat to the company - maybe as a % of yearly profit?

our system is so fucked dude

tbh these last few months of anthropic’s behavior is the most aggressively I’ve seen a company burn so much customer goodwill so quickly

Hell yeah - I just checked and kubuntu 26 LTS also came out today - with plasma Wayland as the default

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-26-04-release-notes/

Look into openepaperlink. It’s an open source project that integrates with home assistant, and lets you control multiple tags over WiFi with just one device. you can create custom display setups in yaml to show anything you want.

my favorite that I have set up is a tag in my bathroom that shows me today’s weather and chance of rain when im brushing my teeth - I haven’t been caught by surprise in the rain since :)

if you read the thinking context while in plan mode (I had it shown to me, i think mistakenly, by switching modes while Claude was thinking a week or so ago) plan mode is just a pre-prompt saying “you are now in plan mode, don’t propose edits, read the code and understand how it works.”

it’s not an actual limitation on the harness.

nooo

really good piece, sums up almost exactly where I'm at with AI currently.

cognitive debt is a real problem in my domain (embedded software) because AI simply can’t debug the symptom when the reasons for the bug aren’t in code, and a stack trace may not exist. finding the REALLY hard bugs requires in depth systems understanding and the ability to connect things you’ve seen around the codebase together - and the fix usually isn’t adding code, which means the patchwork fixes Claude likes to do only makes things worse.

that said, it’s made writing harnesses and supporting tools WAY easier and faster, and my workflow is better for it. Searching the git history for the why of things is also made way easier; helping me to reason more effectively

Great idea, i love the simple html website :)

For determining the number of balls, i had an idea but not sure of how well it’d fit in. Could you feed the listing title, unit count, and description into an LLM with a basic “figure out how many balls are in this listing and make sure that number makes sense with the price” prefix prompt and then store that number with the ASIN? One LLM call per product should be pretty low cost, and it could automate a bunch of repetitive manual work

yes this is totally cursed but I kinda love the idea

Waymo does their LiDAR in-house, so unfortunately we don’t know the specs or the cost

I’ve been wanting to get rid of Spotify for months as the service has been getting worse and worse and this might just be the straw that breaks the camels back.

Does anyone know of alternatives with 1) decent discovery for new music 2) preferably not self hosted 3) a functional Linux desktop app 4) allows downloading playlists for offline listening

getting all of these in one place and having them work well is why I’ve been stuck with Spotify for so long :/

This is a really method for solving that problem! I wouldn’t have thought to use the tangents but that makes perfect sense

when I was at JPL, Akins laws (html version) were linked on the front page of the wiki. still one of the best (funniest) sources of engineering tips I’ve come across.

My favorite is still Mar’s law:

Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.

A good solder sucker is your friend.

I have the SS-02, and I like it - I had one of the cheap blue ones first, but the pliable rubber tip really makes a difference. If you’re soldering smd by hand, it’s more than worth the $20

I hadn’t seen this before, this is sick! thanks for posting it here :)

this is super cool!

I love reading these, for some reason the super remote mundane infrastructure is fascinating

The USB-C step is humongous, and hard to implement.

the complexity is high, but how else can you tell a cable that supports USB4 (40GBps) from one that’s only good for charging your phone (and everything in between)? users aren’t going to be able to tell the difference (using a cable with no data lines is already a super common issue with people getting into MCUs) so the device needs to be able to tell how much data and power the connected cable can distribute automatically.

this also why usb-c extension cables (M-F) aren’t spec complaint

it’s a real cool port, but the complexity demon is definitely present in the spec :)

Hope the documentation is correct (it isn’t)

real

compared to every exception-based language I’ve used, rust error handling is a dream. my one complaint is async, but tbh I don’t think exceptions would fare much better since things like the actor model just don’t really support error propagation in any meaningful way

A few months back I built a scraper for camping reservation sites, starting with recreation.gov.

if you think recreation.gov is bad, wait until you see the sites state parks use for reservations - especially those ran by usedirect

example: https://www.reservecalifornia.com/Web/

This is really cool, nice work!

Something I’ve been looking for for a while is an interactive view of SF from above - I think it’d be cool to experience the verticality of SF and see how all the different hills relate to each other (and gmaps/earth just isn't cutting it).

this is actually pretty good for around the panhandle, but if anyone is aware of something like that for the whole city please let me know!