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The SF bay area has about 279mi of commuter rail, the New York Subway about 693. SF seems a lot worse because the rail mostly mirrors the highways, serving as an alternative to driving between cities. If you want to go somewhere a few blocks away, the trains can't get you there.
Reading old press releases from silicon valley circa 2000. It's interesting when they start with "Walnut Creek" or "Burlingame". Today, a startup in one of those towns would never get VC money. You HAVE to be near Palo Alto or in SF.
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The internet is big enough that not every website needs to be mobile-friendly. There are more people using non-mobile devices than there were in 2002.
We should give book publishers 10 years to digitize all of their copyrighted works, and after that, anything not available digitally goes into the public domain, considered abandoned.
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(If you want your files to be synced to other devices within the same century)
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Dropbox > iCloud/OneDrive
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My wife took one look at Dark Souls II and said "when is Netflix making a series based on this?" and suddenly I could see it, in vivid detail, the rubber swords, the hastily-written generic fantasy plot, the plucky band of adventurers learning to parry and dodge.
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If I didn't know better I'd think ChatGPT was pulling my chain.
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Okay so apparently, ChatGPT is *really* bad at making up languages.
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If I could strike two holiday songs out of my life forever, they would be "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and "Mary, Did You Know?". In comparison, "Little Drummer Boy" is remarkably tolerable to me.
Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993)
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Most of the time, there is a clear roadmap that defines what changes packages will make. So why do adjacent packages not track this? If function X is going to be deprecated, now is the time to remove it from your library, not once people start complaining on github issues.
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Web dev life: Upgrade package A, but package B doesn't support it yet, so you need to add kluge code to make it work with package B. Then you update package B but now A doesn't support new B, so more kluging. Repeat until your code is 90% ugly workarounds.
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Well there go my plans to leverage ChatGPT to produce alternate-history fiction.
Why are programming book authors so often toxic and immature? Sheesh.
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I predicted that the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine wouldn't be around forever, so we should enjoy it while we can. And now it's instituted rate limits that block you from viewing pages for 10 minutes after you view more than 20 pages in 5 minutes. So yeah, it has begun.
NYT: "No actively managed stock or bond funds outperformed the market convincingly and regularly over the last five years"
I wonder if it's because crypto is effectively a single $800 billion security and all stocks rise and fall with it.
The reality of running a website... 90% of your traffic will be botnets looking for wordpress exploits. (Another 9% is SEO backlink crawlers, and 1% are real humans... if you're lucky).
(This is my personal website btw, "real" sites probably have it worse).
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Is Microsoft on a decade-long slide into merging with Google? Bing shows YouTube results. Windows 11 asks you to sync your Android phone, and runs Android apps. They make their own Android tablet. Edge is Chromium.
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There's no way Google doesn't have its own chatbots, rivaling the power of GPT. It's just a matter of time before we can ask Google things, and get real, chatbot-assisted results. I want to type "Show me the biggest online arguments from 2022" and get a list of forum threads lol
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My cat cracked my macbook air screen (he's very destructive like that) and now I'm trying very hard to be good and not immediately splurge on a new one.
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When I get a survey from a vendor, I often wonder if they're actually interested in my responses, or if they're subtly advertising their new features and benefits and trying to retain me as a customer.
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I'm torn on the Apple 30% cut. I don't think Apple can keep making better phones than Samsung/Google without it. But it's also disproportionately hurting small developers, because the big companies like Netflix and Amazon just make you buy through the web. Hmmm...
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Wayfair ads really get me.
TIL that Netflix doesn't have a big on-prem server farm as one might think. Instead, they have convinced *ISPs* to host their content. They've created the world's best CDN this way.
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mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things
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Startup companies need to start giving early employees lots of cheap stock options again, mint a few millionaires, to put more cachet in the coffer of the "stock options are unicorn ride tickets" theory. It's currently entirely exhausted.
At some point, after I have to remove my cats from my desk for the 10th time in one day, I wonder if I'm expecting too much from them.
Today I found the self-proclaimed "start page of the internet". I present to you... The Globe: the-globe.com
I have an irrational fear of barber shops that use anything other than scissors and clippers. Get that 1700s british naval cutlass away from my face, please.
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