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- Comment on PARTY TIME 5 hours ago:
“2 for 1 Bonus: you can BBQ the surprise marinating at the bottom.”
- Comment on Experts discuss plans to save water as dry conditions worsen across England 9 hours ago:
There’s an easy way. Take all your residential and commercial customers. Export to spreadsheet. Sort by monthly usage in litres. Send the top 10% a letter saying their deliveries will be curtailed by 25% until the problems are over.
What? They’re ALL commercial services? Zero residential?
What do you mean reuse bath water for plants? What’s bottom line got to do with it? WTF! Emails?
- Comment on Tell me the truth. 10 hours ago:
Yet it’s always the unclassified stuff that makes life fun.
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 13 hours ago:
Have tried ALL the same ones. Probably even more.
Square Post-it notes. One for what needs to be done that week. Another for that day. Cross each item as I go. When every item is crossed off, crumple into bin. End of day, whatever item is left gets scribbled on fresh one for next day. End of week for the weekly one. That’s it.
Stuck on desk, to laptop, or carried in pocket. Works great. It’s all about reducing friction and clutter. If too much effort to keep track, gets easy to drift into bike-shedding territory.
Keep going back to new, shiny apps every once in a while. Always end up back on damn sticky notes.
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 15 hours ago:
Whatever you’ve heard about arterial maggots is NOT true.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 15 hours ago:
Not just that but they’ve also got the Choco-SEB modular battery swap thing going. 2min battery stops to full charge.
- Comment on AI Startup Perplexity Makes $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser 1 day ago:
AI inside browsers. Fantastic way to collect ML learning data.
Enjoy!
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 day ago:
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 days ago:
If you want to talk bigger picture… they built a pedestrian/bike lane with zero access/amenities at either end (unlike the Bay Bridge). No staging area to load/unload your bike, no parking, no bathrooms, no water fountains. Good luck finding all-day parking on city streets in Pt. Richmond or… San Quentin.
Here are the directions: marinbike.org/…/getting-to-from-the-r-sr-bridge-p…
Once approaching/getting off the bridge, if commuting by bike, there is no direct connection to the Bay Trail. So anyone living in Marin and wanting to commute to, say, Berkeley or El Cerrito so they can get on BART (or even the Richmond Ferry) has to risk going through heavily industrial areas or dicey parts of Richmond. On the Marin side to/from Larkspur Landing, you had to ride unprotected on the shoulder of the freeway!
Only way to use it for commuters on either end would be to park and ride, but again, no parking and ride facilities. And there’s any wonder more people don’t use it? There’s wide open space at either end of the bridge to build staging areas, especially on the Richmond side right near the Toll Plaza, but nobody wants to make it easy. It’s such a gauntlet I’m amazed that many people use it.
The solution to traffic congestion is to make public transit and alternate forms of transportation more cost-effective, functional, and convenient. That includes offering easy transition/transfer points. It isn’t to open more driving lanes. They’ve known this since the days of Robert Moses in NYC, but keep doing it.
- Comment on Kwasi Kwarteng to speak at event for firm that helps super-rich pay less tax 4 days ago:
Woz! Why?
- Comment on Houston Pastor convicted in $3.6M fraud case returns to Church after prison release. "It's such a blessing to have our visionary pastor back at church. We are so excited." 1 week ago:
Wait till the good pastor discovers crypto.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 1 week ago:
Clearly, the painting has special meaning to the owner and significance to the location. It’s likely made of heat-resistant material, and…
Oh, who are we kidding. It’s the same width as the stove and is matchy-match blue.
- Comment on Hope you like math 1 week ago:
Would plain old “What the Fuck” imply a null set?
- Comment on Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude 1 week ago:
Last week I asked ChatGPT for a list of coding AI agents and what was unique about each one, just to see what was out there. It spewed out a whole bunch, including a few that weren’t real agents, just tools like static code analyzers.
Funny enough, Claude Code wasn’t on the list. I had to ask explicitly “what about Claude Code?” Only then it generated a separate list with some overlap, also with irrelevant tools, that included Claude.
Laughed at how petty it was. Like Bing search not returning anything with Google in the name.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 weeks ago:
- Solitaire
- Doom
- Tetris
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 2 weeks ago:
Why did the snail cross the road?
Not clear. Let it cross the road first.
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
News report: www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/…/3753560/
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 2 weeks ago:
I backed all their original Kickstarters. After they announced the revival, I dug them up. Only one would charge. Wonder if their new app will be backward compatible with the old watches.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 3 weeks ago:
Home Alone.
- Comment on American former tech executive explains how to make users more addicted 3 weeks ago:
If a product makes money on engagement metrics (ads, eyeballs, time), they’ll do everything they can do to maximize for that.
The slot machine analogy is apt. There’s research out there on how much time to optimize the dopamine hit and how long to go before you dispense the hit.
The trick is, as a consumer, to set limits and step away. Considering we’re here, best of luck to us all.
- Comment on When you are really dumb and don't realize it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 4 weeks ago:
Eugenicists everywhere.
- Comment on Louis Vuitton 4 weeks ago:
It was just sitting there.
- Comment on Louis Vuitton 4 weeks ago:
Louis Button
- Comment on Works for me 4 weeks ago:
That looks like it took some effort to set up.
Could have just taken an empty cardboard box and drawn a dresser on it.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 4 weeks ago:
Keeps out the conspiracy-based posts and only lets facts through.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 4 weeks ago:
Not buying it, unless there’s smoke involved at the end.
- Comment on The End of the Internet As We Know It 5 weeks ago:
There was a core flaw in the whole CPM model. This means the web has to find a different way to fund itself.
Sadly, it will cause a lot of pain, and it’s not clear what will be next.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat 5 weeks ago:
Briar is Android-only and BitChat is iOS-only.
A quick search shows a few other cross-platform candidates: geckoandfly.com/…/chat-without-internet-connectio…
- Comment on Oatmeal 5 weeks ago:
