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just another software guy, who cares about the purpose of his work.
I recently had the following conversation with Claude:
Me: how many P's are in the following text? [Pasted text]
Claude: There are 14 P's, all lowercase (no capital P's)
Me: how many in "strawberry"?
Claude: there are 3 R's in the word "strawberry".
You can also try asking Gemini to create art that is "as close as possible without infringing" - I've had success with that.
according to https://x.com/Mith_/status/2041911606213537971
The industry standard for the recovery of lithium (remember there is a difference between recovery and extraction) is 90%, with some platforms now achieving 95%+ like those that use carbonation.
The QR code that you use to transfer TOTP secrets to a new phone, is static. It never changes (unless you add a new service) and it requires no verification.
Do with that information what you will.
This could also be a legitimate lifesaver in places like India where extreme heat is common but delivery and gig workers have to travel outdoors.
If Jujutsu had become popular a couple of years earlier, it might have had a chance to catch on. I worry that it missed the most critical training window for AI and we may be locked in on Git forever.
your current wallet lets you add labels or stickers to your cards.
classic Apple situation - look, this is super clean, intuitive software! but if you want a reasonable level of flexibility that you would expect elsewhere, you are SOL.
In what cases do you need autoscaling on your home stuff?
nice concept! Beads did not age all that well, and Claude doesn't really want to use it since the TodoList upgrade.
Do you have any tricks for getting Claude to use guardrails effectively alongside (or instead of) TodoList?
Great, now do storage!
People shouldn't have to pay $$$ for a 128GB upgrade when a 1TB microSDXC card is under $200. It feels like a trick to sell cloud storage and new phones.
Any day that I learn something new about color is a good day.
Here's my favorite color factoid: There is no such thing as monochromatic pink. You have to make it by combining the two ends of the visible spectrum: somethung reddish and something violet-ish. So that means there is no pink in a rainbow, strictly speaking.
Data sources I'm using:
https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators
https://github.com/OpenSourceActivismTech/us-zipcodes-congre...
https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/
From my tests so far the territories and DC are pretty well covered.
Happy to contribute to your lawyer fund. I want to see how this plays out.
the things he does.
The things he does is convince investors to give him billions of dollars to build what he wants. Where exactly does that leave us?
Should be doable to implement GoL on an ortholinear RGB keyboard using QMK
Check out the video - you can draw on the game by pressing the switches.
Lots of folks use the Claude Max 20x $200/mo. tier, I think. Gets you waaay farther than $200 of API credits.
You have a point. They're not similar. OTOH, people do compare them. I think Apple realizes this and the Macbook Neo is a brilliant move.
It doesn't cost $1000 to get into the MacBook experience anymore, so drastically more people will be buying them for their kids and more families will have MacOS as their default.
You ask Gemini to make an Elsa and Anna Frozen-themed coloring book page. It says no, that would be copyright infringement. So you ask it to make something as close as possible but without infringing. It happily obliges.
Sam donated $1M to Trump's inaugural fund. Dario did not.
Hmm I know quite a few real people pushing QuitGPT and none of them work for Anthropic.
Reminder that at least in Washington state, all images from Flock cameras are public data and thus subject to public records requests.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules...
In this case, I'd say only share news where you have some kind of structured regulatory stuff attached to it. Like sure, Trump started a war, that's noteworthy. Follow that up directly with a link out to structured tally of what reps have said, when was the last time a President did something similar, what are the relevant regulations, etc.
Rather than try to compete in the "current events" space you might have more success in more differentiated channels like having people subscribe to issues, subscribe to reps... News should be part of it but you should lead as much as possible with your differentiator. I bet you could sell enterprise level subscriptions for industry-relevant regulatory news.
How would you handle user switching? Would users have to go through a password screen to use anything?
Love the idea. Thoughts from a UI/UX point of view, on mobile:
* Focus on the policy stuff since that's your differentiator. Put it front and center, currently it's below the "trending news". Nobody needs another trending news feed. I'd cut it entirely.
* Make your differentiator hyper-obvious at a glance on the front page. Right now your above-the-fold is dominated by a wall of AI generated text. It should include a tagline for your site and visuals that people won't get elsewhere.
* Your UI screams "vibe coded" which does not build confidence. Look to other authoritative sites for visual cues - consider a serif for headlines, make your spacing more thoughtful and consistent, reduce or remove your border radius.
Nice work. I have two questions.
1. Do you see any downsides to storing your graph as markdown files on filesystem, rather than, say, a graph DB? I have little experience with either but I imagine there would be perf advatages to certain operations on a graph DB at least?
2. If you're using Obsidian-like .md files, why not use the Obsidian format? I bet some folks would love to have an AI coworker helping build and maintain their Obsidian vault.
That also struck me as a pretty weird quote to highlight. Someone who "seems like they’ll get what they want" sounds more like a bully more than a persuader or value creator.
Isn't there something better to aspire to?
"Back pressure" is already a term widely used in computing for something entirely different: https://schmidscience.com/what-does-back-pressure-in-compute...
Looks like it's a monthly number.
The only rationale given for the initial switch to microservices is this:
Initially, when the destinations were divided into separate services, all of the code lived in one repo. A huge point of frustration was that a single broken test caused tests to fail across all destinations.
You kept breaking tests in main so you thought the solution was to revamp your entire codebase structure? Seems a bit backward.