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That sun is very similar to the one from the background of this other top HN post about the OS museum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009

Could this open Cantor Fitzgerald up to class action law suits from consumers who ultimately paid the refunded tariffs?

I would say in this case it makes it enigmatic.

Tailwind Plus is great - I love the lifetime access, but I always wondered how sustainable that model was. Even without AI, how many of those memberships could they sell?

I've been using Claude Code in their iOS app (on a Pro account). I just point it at my GitHub repo, and tell it to work on one of the issues I created. It required very little setup beyond what I did for Claude Code CLI.

Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers.

I tend to see much more discussion about how the main downside is for sellers of content. Why is this bad for consumers?

Watterson serves as one of the symbols of an era when selling out was considered a great sin. It makes me laugh how thoroughly that idea - that selling out is bad - has been defeated.

That being said, I'm sure he would've done it the same way today.

The Simpsons went more meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qh1JlNaOxo

back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3

Wow, hadn't thought about that in a while. For a laugh, go back and take a look at some of the architectural choices they were replacing.

All The Simpsons episodes are on my YouTube TV DVR, along with a lot of the shows my kids like (although really what they care about is a couple channels on YouTube proper), so even before this I was wondering why I was paying for Disney+ at all.

A little thing that doesn't help the situation is when legitimate emails link you to domains that aren't obviously controlled by the company.

For example, yesterday at work I got an onboarding email from Lattice (lattice.com) with a link to latticehq.com, which triggered my phishing instincts before I remembered that was their old domain.

It's kind of an expression of the success of an abstraction. If an abstraction is good (hx-get="/clicked"), it feels local. If an abstraction is bad (id="d1"), it's spooky action at a distance.

So a site just needs to generate enough content until its under that threshold?

Good bit of trivia:

In 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired the trademark of Oswald (with NBCUniversal effectively trading Oswald for the services of Al Michaels as play-by-play announcer on NBC Sunday Night Football)

I get the sense that a lot of science in the 19th century was done by the idle rich.

Just came across this, which I enjoyed: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wes-anderson-difficulty-working...

A Wonder just opened near my house, and the "different restaurants" seem to really be just different sections of a large menu with distinct branding. I.e., there is a single physical kitchen that makes food from the different "restaurants".

Scala has a library called Slick which takes a similar approach: https://scala-slick.org

The DSL is nice for simple querying and for composing queries based upon user input. But, for anything slightly complex, I found it's better to just use regular SQL.

I think every project passes a threshold after which the time invested will only be considered worthwhile if you ship it.

Before this threshold, you're learning new technologies, trying new techniques, and generally developing skills that could be applicable elsewhere. After this threshold, you're becoming an expert in the project itself, which will all be for naught if you don't finish it.

So my advice would be give up on projects that are near that threshold, and only continue beyond if you intend to finish it.

Seems more like professional jargon to me.

TIL that Norway had a Merovingian period

Working on Jira is just that rewarding.

I'm sure his publicists do. Is he going to spend the next 120 years buying media coverage of his metabolic age?

"John Smith is buttering his toast with a spoon, much to the bemusement of our waitress Jane at the All Day Diner on the outskirts of Duluth Minnesota..."

I think Instagram in particularly is bad in this regard. It seemingly becomes convinced that I care deeply about the subject of any post that I even momentarily linger on.

Didn't Chernow say that at the time that Hamilton and Burr dueled, that dueling wasn't really a thing anyone did?

I was doing something with hpricot at one of my first jobs when he disappeared. I went to the docs page (was it on Github at the time?), and then a couple minutes later I went back to check something else out, and everything was gone. I assumed it was something intermittent in the moment; I can't remember how or when I figured out what had actually happened.

I had a car that had a single physical input: a dial that you could press. The dial would move the focus around the screen, and you'd press the dial to click. This was, in my opinion, a far superior experience than regular touch screens, and it probably doesn't suffer from the problem you're describing.

I've noticed that the docs sometimes use the verb "spell" in an interesting way, e.g. "IN GROUP is an obsolete spelling of IN ROLE."

If anyone finds this subject interesting, I recommend The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com.