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I just have to add on about how great Fastmail is. They are completely focused on having a stable product, that is relatively simple and cheap. They are not ambitious as a company at all, in the best possible way. They haven't tried to build an office suite. They don't upsell me on any new features. They just deliver a solid, basic product that has been consistently good for more than a decade now. I wish more software and services were like this, I'm tired of everyone hiring an MBA and following the exact same "maximization" business model.

I think you're missing the point. The folks pushing 996 (and willingly working 996) feel like they are in a land rush, and that AI is going to accelerate their ability "take the most amount of land" No one is optimizing for the "9 to 5" oriented engineer.

Part of the point is that you cannot use it without it being online. This is a big difference between the Switch and Switch 2.

The reason I don't want AI integrated into my browser (or really anything else) is that the mental model for big tech moved from "providing value" to "capturing value" about 15 years ago, and I expect they will try to use this integration in an attempt to build a layer between the customer and all downstream services (stores, banks, information) so they can extract some form of tax on every transaction (ads, micro-fees), all while consolidating data about me to create new sources of revenue. I am one of those 'bright minds' who has wasted their talent improving marketing conversion by 0.001% instead of working to cure cancer. (Let's be honest, improvements are way better than 0.001%, I am good at my job).

My personal belief is that we can’t control every thought, but we can make sure we’re in a positive feedback loop instead of a negative one. For example, when I am getting negative, I’ve learned to take a step back and try to figure out why. If I can’t get myself in a better mood, I go to bed early and generally wake up happier. I also try to structure my days to make time for the things that make me happier (exercise, eating well, friends, family, hobbies) and cut out things that make me feel more negative (social media, news, sugar, etc). Not perfect, but it helps.

I don’t understand the appeal of smart home devices. My Honeywell thermostat may not be as optimal as the nest but I’ve had it for thirty years and it just works without thought.

I have found the the secret to a Todo list is to create the habit to keep it up to date and actually use it to prioritize your time. The list tool itself is much less important.

I don’t think this is too niche of a feature. Instead, the issue is that this would decrease the engagement (and profitability) for any customer using it, so they have a disincentive to building it. Same reason that Facebook removed features that helped customers narrow their feeds down to just favorite friends and family.

I came to say this as well. I really like the design and all the fun statistics.

Monetization will come with agents that take action on your behalf (reorder dinner, find and buy a gift for your niece, make dinner reservations). Bots will take a cut of every transaction, and intake ads to steer recommendations.

I feel this exactly. However, I find more fun to create and modify the site vs actually writing articles, so my deployments are probably 5x my actual blog posts. I got into computers because I love to code. I will still be here, writing dumb things for my own fun long after AI is the primary creator of professional coders.

Tim's problem is that he has a bad manager. One of a manager's core jobs is to communicate upwards the value that each team member is providing (or not providing). His job was to ensure that Tim's contribution were reflected and visible.

Don’t forget to make a donation to Asahi, maybe it will be ready in time for your next laptop.

I care a lot about privacy, I think others do as well. We don’t actually have that many choices as much of the privacy issues are difficult to avoid.

We did this, we realized we never really used them. It has made our home feels a bit more peaceful. Our inflection point was the upsells we would get every time we talked to it. “Would you also like to shop for Prime Day?”

Try Asahi Linux

I think you are crazy. The performance difference between MacOS and WSL is like night and day. I was just shopping for a Linux laptop and I have found that the top end models from Microsoft, Lenovo and Dell to be as or more expensive than Apple (with the exception of having user replaceable SSDs). There is nothing in the PC world that compares to Apple Silicon. If the price is too much, look at the refurb or used market where you can get really significant discounts.

You can replace that with a 2TB SSD yourself.

Ha, I worked on that project. That drove a lot of good requirements into Windows that set us up for web based services (eventually)

Tomography or tombography :)

I have always written my own static blog generator, moving from PERL to Ruby and most recently Python. I find the other blog systems are too complicated for what I want. Plus, I think I like writing the generator more than writing actual posts.

I suspect that in the not too distant future, the majority of comments are going to be from AI bots driving an agenda of their own under the guise of public discord. Maybe this will drive people back towards more in person forums for discussion and community?

There are a whole set of things we did differently when I was a kid. For example, we always had a plan for where we were going to meet up, because cell phones hadn’t been invented. We also had a lot more experience getting lost in low stakes settings, which helped build the needed skills and confidence to deal with getting lost in more complicated scenarios.

I think it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that we deserve the insane wages of tech because we earn them. I have a friend who is a school principal and what she does is easily as complex, ambiguos and impactful as what I do, for a fraction of my salary. Maybe what she lacks in income is made up for in the satisfaction of contributing to the world in a positive way? There certainly is a hollowness I feel in tech. I started because I loved technology and how it helped in so many ways — image processing to help my astronomy classmates glean new insights from data. Tech today is about locking in customers, driving additive products and maximizing profitability. That said, I don’t have the courage to leave.

Before I watched the video, I thought this was going to be a non-profit (or a b-corp) trying to make high quality/ low cost tents to house the many refugees around the word. I clicked on the link thinking - what a great cause.... I only made it about one minute into the video. When I skipped forward and saw all the electronics under the "doug fir" panel, I was super confused. Why do they need all that tech? Do random people really need lights/ solar in your perma-tent? The people I know who are interested in something like this just end up building a platform on their land and either setting up a canvas tent, or just hiking in with their own.

I just did some quick research, and here are some common foods that are naturally rich in magnesium. In addition a lot of cereals like shredded wheat, oatmeal, bread also have mg. Looks like some delicious options. There was also a note in the article about that you can't absorb too much Mg through these sources.

* Almonds, dry roasted: Serving Size 1 oz, 80 mg

* Spinach, boiled: Serving Size ½ cup, 78 mg (does it have to be boiled?)

* Cashews, dry roasted: Serving Size 1 oz, 74 mg

* Peanuts, oil roasted: Serving Size ¼ cup, 63 mg

* Black beans, cooked: Serving Size ½ cup, 60 mg

* Edamame, shelled, cooked: Serving Size ½ cup, 50 mg

* Dark chocolate -60-69% cacoa: Serving Size 1 oz, 50 mg

* Peanut butter, smooth: Serving Size 2 tablespoons, 49 mg

* Avocado, cubed: Serving Size 1 cup, 44 mg

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/15650-magnesi...

This is a popular narrative, that you make money or live, but you can’t do both. That is complete BS - it is equally dumb to be on either extreme, but it is very possible to do both. I have several friends who took the ‘live’ route, only to wake up in their 30s realizing they have an equally empty soul as the guys who worked too hard, and feel boxed out of the future they want with not much nest egg to start a family, or the experiences to have the career they want.

Here is to taking the reasonable middle road, the one no one writes songs about, but (I think) the one that most often leads to happiness for the average person.

This is really easy to fix -- stop using Windows. Microsoft is going to continue pushing the boundaries as long as nothing bad happen to their core business.

I will say the cost of MacBooks has fallen through the floor with the new Apple Silicon. My M1 MacBook Air was $1,100 for 16/1TB. I'm not sure how much good Windows laptops go for these days.

I just installed Fedora on my personal computer (X1 Carbon, 6th gen) and it is everything I've ever wanted. There was no configurations I needed to fiddle with. The semi-annual update is amazingly smooth. It also makes my old laptop feel like a hotrod again. I'm happy to have a computer without an AI chip. I use a Mac for work, and it is good, but I sense the subscription mania creeping in there as well. I couldn't make the jump to Windows 8 - because Microsoft created a UI without considering the customer at all. Windows 10 was a great reprieve, especially with one of the early Surface Laptops. But I can't even remain a Microsoft customer with Window 11. The whole system is built with the only intention of driving ad-based subscription revenue. The new Edge browser feels the same way. Sometimes I really hate what our industry has become. Boy am I an old curmudgeon, I think I need to go yell at someone to get off my lawn.