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Actually, no: there’s a reason letters have ascenders and descenders (stick-out parts)

However if you’ve tried to read those cd-rw after 20-30 years, they would most likely be corrupted.

Factory stampted cds are better in this regard

Icon can be switched between ChatGPT and Codex at least on macOS in app settings

Unless you hire smart people from EU and what have you (especially ex-USSR)

Which takes us to a point of future US dev salaries if this thing with agents gets better more and more

If unable to sync (even via bluetooth), these models are rated for +/- 15 seconds of drift per month.

There is innovation in mechanical, no doubt, eg seiko spring drive which is a spectacular feat; stuff like new synthetic lubes or silicon balance springs to counteract magnets (which are everywhere now: from the back of the phone to the rim of a macbook).

So mechanical watch can be pretty accurate (very much so, if you buy one without a seconds hand).

Ultimately, it is a combination of inaccuracy, servicing at least once every 5-7 years, not so great running time (if you have many watches), etc. that turned my obsessive-compulsive gaze away from them (after I manually regulated with a timegrapher my Raketa Big zero to be accurate around to +3 seconds per day if I wear it constantly, which was fun akin to bonsai or what have you).

The only thing I would have wanted from gshock is having more apocalypse-level accuracy (if there is no time signal available): like having a built-in offsets to account for temperature-based quartz fluctuations.

That and a battery inside that can last a century of solar charge — so it can be an ultimate tool :-)

I can’t say nothing about gshocks that have moving parts (actual hands) and what have you

Gshock metal square (like the photo I referenced) never failed on me (and I have 3 of those in different colors: gold and silver lcd ones, and black memory in pixel new one)

You absolutely can skip setting this up

Though even if you consider any possible harmfull effects like thyroid nodules formation correlation [1] (people somehow only think about ionizing radiation, but there much more that happens in a cell that can be possibly disrupted without xray level stuff to damage dna or heat: there are ion channels and what have you), the Bluetooth on gshock — if set up — will work only for a few seconds twice a day. Basically nothing even if you sleep directly on it all night long

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-63653-0

Now it consistently interrupts you

That’s why I eventually settled with gshock that has solar charging and syncs time twice a day with radio towers (or bluetooth if you are somewhere in the world where there is no time radio signal)

Even rolex needs time setting, servicing to lube and clean metal parts, etc.

Gshock on the other hand will work for 10-15 years without a single manual time adjustment or battery swap needed.

Absolute unit.

This gold metal square one I especially love for summer:

https://www.casio.com/content/dam/casio/product-info/locales...

Everything is just one more prompt away, I swear — literally like a gambling addict with a slot machine.

You forgot the premise of the article and why the proposed solutions were not good. It was not the complexity of a solution: they were simple fast fixes like a tape on a leak, but the hacky tape they were.

(of course I tried, the code after “refactor” is still shit unless you start going very explicit about it at a point of being better and faster of doing it yourself)

As humans we have a concept of viscosity. That resistance, like being in quicksand or a swamp, is how you “easily” identify a code smell, something that needs to be refactored, etc. Part of it is human laziness, part of it some concept of elegance, an itch of being not quite tidy as it can be, etc.

LLM, being a tiresome little helper, will gladly output hundreds of lines, hacks, and what have you.

I don’t think any amount of tests, prompts, harnesses and other “my shaman is a better shaman” will help it to acquire this trait. Some other AI architecture someday maybe — just not today.

And that’s why it is good at what it is and really bad at stuff like code “design” (unless it is a well-known solution being baked in the training set)

Quoting literally the last paragraph is not helping to promote this as obviously satire

Something on your side

I bought Operator Mono circa 2020 for even more — still rocking it today. Seems like a no big deal for a thing you keep looking at for many hours every day.

kiliman/operator-mono-lig on github patches it to support ligatures. And I wish Hoefler guys added support for more languages

Video and some code screenshots: https://typography.com/blog/introducing-operator

Character set: https://typography.com/fonts/operator/overview

You can always switch to US app store region (cancel exisiting subscriptions, leave family, and wait until apple music/tv subscription is expired).

You won’t be able to use non-US credit card for the app store but you can always buy US virtual apple gift cards on amazon straight from apple shop there.

Memory stored in RNA is a known thing:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711021v1

https://www.sciencealert.com/worms-can-share-memories-of-a-b...

Does this solve the problem of internet segmentation due to politcs?

For example: dns control, tls certification bans (just this month both let’s encrypt and globalsign started revoking Russian certificates), once google starts really complaining about https it gets ugly.

Russia aside, anyone else is closely watching (europe, brics, what have you)

Well for one example of such case: German farmers (if there are any) could argue whether all those nuclear plants shutdowns were really for the best.

needs my best judgement for today and short term

But this is how they also fail long-term

Russians have a saying: you can only lean (which is the same word in russian as rely on/upon, thus the physics pun angle) on something that is resisting

Meaning, it is also your job to resist enshittification for the company to succeed

max.ru — Russian messenger

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-issue-certificate-fo...

Broken windows theory

The issue with “premature optimization is bad” is that some see it as a permission to not optimize at all. Hence you eventually end up with a system where everything is bad.

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Although for some of us being obsessive-compulsive weirdos this is the only way of life: an itch that keeps on physically scratching until resolved.

“Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I’ve done has had an aesthetic component, at least to me. Now you might think ‘well, building a company that’s trading bonds, what’s so aesthetic about that?’ But, what’s aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, and approaching the problem, and doing it right […] it’s a beautiful thing to do something right.”

Have you heard about the judge from international court or whatever it is called?

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250820-us-hits-icc-wi...

They already revoced certificates for some russian sites

You are not a person or entity that is: (a) located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory that is the target of comprehensive U.S. sanctions; (b) a prohibited or restricted party under U.S. or other applicable sanctions and export control laws and regulations; or (c) owned or controlled by or acting on behalf of anyone described in (a) or (b). You agree to use Let’s Encrypt Certificates and any services provided by or on behalf of ISRG in compliance with applicable U.S. export control and sanctions laws and regulations

Maybe openai wasn’t up to the level of customization and privacy they needed

Also openai and Jonny Ive (love from) are cooking some device — may be personal

You can easily “stand” glossy screen with white background: you only see reflection on dark background: like check your phone screen.

Also not that there were many alternatives to my 32″ 6k display at the time of purchase.

Literally wiki: vitreous collagen is organized as thin *fibrils* 10–25 nm in diameter with cross-striations.

Or did you come here to say that ackkhhualy fibrils are not fibers and gel-like structure is not a tissue? :-) English is not my native language so excuse me for not knowing 50 words for snow.

Regardless of the terms, are you saying vitrocap cannot help orient those fibrils, reduce clumps / improve transparency of collagen and what have you to alleviate floaters?

I don’t know how anyone with a glossy display can work on a dark theme.

I see my whole room unless it is pitch black inside.

PSA: if you have floaters, try VitroCap for at least 6 months. It doesn’t help everyone, but makes life much easier for some like my mother

If I remember correctly, it contains some stuff from ordinary grape seeds that helps to orient back the fibers in a vitreous body.

Hence the at least 6 months to understand whether it works or not — new tissue takes time.