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I dislike having to use any AI tool. Solving the problem is the fun part. Not telling the machine to solve it.

I say this as someone who is required to use Claude Code at work and is generally not happy about that.

The functionality is useful enough that it will never go away. I think after the bubble pops and these companies have to actually make a profit, it will be too expensive for your average person. Businesses will want to still use it and will be able to pay what it actually costs to provide the service.

The idea that everyone is going to write emails and manage appointments and stuff like that is nuts. The value proposition isn’t there. No “home user” is going to pay $50/mo for things like that. It just won’t happen.

I was in Montreal last summer. I felt like things were a little cheaper, but not enough that I could point to it. I mean gas is absolutely more expensive. Were other things less expensive? IDK.

As far as culture, no not the same…but I was in Quebec so it’s going to be different.

Interesting. I mean, “don’t live on the upper west side” seems like good advice, but they also aren’t really complaining about anything. It’s a different story if they were complaining about how tough it is.

I have my phone set to show me the temperature in Celsius. I’ve tried really hard to internalize how far a kilometer is, and have failed so I still have my distance units set to miles.

The crazier thing is that other bettors know people with inside info are cheating and don’t care.

This is just like gambling on sports when you know that the players are also betting. It’s insane.

The only winning move is not to play.

By that definition no one owns any open standard. Either way this was an academic argument to start with, so it’s not worth belaboring.

I do podcasts at 1.25x. I can’t do videos anything other than 1x because the movements of people become unnatural.

AP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.

Not trying to be that guy, but ActivityPub is technically owned by the W3C. I agree with the sentiment of your post regarding the free nature of AP.

When we bought our house, all the appliances were new. The roof was “recently” re-shingled and the HVAC wasn’t new, but was in good condition. I said to my wife that is was great but everything was going to fail at the same time.

In the past 3 years we’ve replaced:

1. Roof
2. Fence
3. Garage door opener
4. Dishwasher
5. Clothes washer
6. HVAC
7. Plumbing drain to sewer

The answer will be that these assholes are part of our club, so we’ll be happy to throw money at them. Rich people have class solidarity that would make a Marxist blush.

Used to be me. I ran Debian Unstable for years. Got tired of it breaking. I installed Stable probably 7 or 8 years ago and never looked back.

Nickname from my freshman football coach. If the name is taken, I’ll add my number.

The DMV might actually be sorry about it. The governor (who oversees the DMV) vetoed the bill, but the legislature overrode her veto. If it was up to the governor, this law would have never been in place.

The federal government will be subsidizing Florida homeowners soon enough. Florida is politically important and it’s is everyone’s god-given right to move to somewhere warm when they retire and have their homes rebuilt at no cost to them every 5 years.

I graduated from high school in a small town and in order to go to college of my choice, I had to move. I could have hung out and commuted to a community college, but I wanted the college experience.

If I had to do it all over again, I’d have stayed at home.

I’ve heard people complain that women with small breasts have an unfair advantage in several sports because women with large breasts are weighed down by them.