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LastTrain··on Amiga Screens: A Primer
I don’t know much about Amiga, but from this article I recognize the Atari 8 bit / ANTIC DLI heritage at play!
LastTrain··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
An illiterate person has no interest in a 3 minute video on how to enable paste mode in VIM
LastTrain··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Why would someone spend their time online advocating for themselves to pay a higher percentage of their wealth to taxes than people who make more than them?
LastTrain··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Idaho. No. Idaho has almost the worst per-capita GDP in the country but California dollars go a long way there, although not as far as they used to. Californians also like to use the phrase “don’t Califonicate Idaho”, because high wages there would ruin their lifestyle, which is paid for by their California dollars.
LastTrain··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
There is a very weird but real phenomenon where it costs more to build/remodel in an upscale part of town. Roof repair: same roof, same company, two jobs 10 miles apart with wildly different invoices.
LastTrain··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
If price was the driver they’d all live in Oklahoma.
LastTrain··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
> Rent is a function of supply and demand, not a landlord's costs

And one of the functions of supply is cost.

LastTrain··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
I think it means just that, which is why I used TL;DR? The article points out the correlation between mafia prevalence and lack of fentanyl overdoses and some speculation on whether those two things are connected.
LastTrain··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
Us non pod-people feel betrayed when we’ve been lied to.
LastTrain··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Explainer videos are dark patterns that replaced written howto documents in order to serve ads. Not seeing them pop up any more in search results is one of the few positive outcomes of Google switching to AI-first search results.
LastTrain··on Claude Opus 5.5
Well now you’ve started people criticizing people for criticizing people criticizing language and how the fuck is that productive?
LastTrain··on Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
The various safety measures in place: special regulations, extra equipment needed, guardrails like remote driver intervention. These are not dissimilar to the kind of measures we are currently putting in place to make AI code production worthy. As we get more “miles” trust will be earned and these measures will lessen.
LastTrain··on Explaining to business people why building software is still hard
We’re in the self driving car stage right now. A Waymo can drive itself but the belts and suspenders involved are more expensive than a normal car.
LastTrain··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
The next bottleneck is customers. There better be a lot of them, they better have loads of money, and they better be willing to install updates for every fucking release that goes out whether they want it or not because how else are we going to pay for all this?
LastTrain··on US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut
Right, a dependency. Those aren’t the only choices.
LastTrain··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
As I like to say to my fellow blue friends who don’t seem to understand this “what would Joe Biden have to have done for you to vote for Trump”
LastTrain··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
Nobody is being a pedant. How you phrased it is wrong and, more importantly, politically charged.
LastTrain··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
It will not because there are still immigrants and trans people to hate.
LastTrain··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
This is entirely in the “rights” control right now, any of them “unhappy” with it are outliers.
LastTrain··on US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut
Ah yes let’s make our entire infrastructure depend on a company controlled by a single person.
LastTrain··on What happened to the Snowden archive
Why must there be?
LastTrain··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
Research requires pedantry.
LastTrain··on How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
Not to mention HN posts don’t spontaneously emerge out of the randomness of the cosmos.
LastTrain··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Some people only have taste in their mouth
LastTrain··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
This writing smells like the aggrandizement of subcultures seen in early Wired articles.
LastTrain··on Why Does the Universe Expand?
Dunning Krueger is most prevalent in software engineers for some reason. Fortunately most of us grow out of it and begin to appreciate how hard other disciplines are.
LastTrain··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
This
LastTrain··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Nah, if you voted for him three time you’re MAGA for the purposes of this thread, which is basically a response to someone saying “all you Americans are dumb assholes”
LastTrain··on Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
Prompting is an intermediate situation at best anyway. I think the most lucrative AI field going forward is going to be liability litigation since there will be only a small handful of AI companies, each the size of small nation states, who will need to be held accountable for what they unleash.
LastTrain··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Did you miss the part where the US president said he would annex Canada against their will?
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