MPSimmons

If you are a financial brokerage and you want to offer the S&P 100 or the NASDAQ 100, you can't just do that. You have to license that - https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/custom-indices/solutions/

I imagine, though I don't know, that the requirement to use the index name and contents also dictates allocation.

A push on delivery dates is as likely to mean production issues as it is an influx of interest.

This is like QTdesigner but for the terminal. Huh.

I'm part of a pokemon go community, and the only time we ever do car raids is when the weather is terrible or freezing. What was the weather like?

I got to visit the exhibit when it was in Boston's MFA in 2014 or so, and it was really awe-inspiring. They had wood blocks from period prints and it's just amazing what artistry was able to come from that. I got a print of Red Fuji while I was there, and it still hangs on my wall.

There's probably a term of art for it, but that Family Guy style cut to some previous reference hadn't really been done before, certainly not to the extent that Seth McFarlane did it. Simpsons copied it, but it never felt good when they did.

If you watch The Simpsons DVD commentary on the very first season DVDs, they talk about how Matt Groening's team would draw the key frames and then they would ship them to an asian animation studio to provide the animation frames. The very first time they did this, they got an animation style that was all over the place - not just the quality of drawing, but the actual animation style was jello-y and way more wobbly than they wanted. You can see it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-wjF5AMmk

The main reason that they sent it back was that the style and physics represented in the cartoon wasn't the one they were going for, and it changed how the show felt. I feel like the rapid cut references they adopted from Family Guy did a very similar thing. It changed the flow of the show, which, maybe (?) is actually more of a sign of the times and attention span than animated show style, but still, I wasn't a fan and I didn't feel like The Simpsons did it naturally or that it fit, and it takes me out of the narrative every time they do it.

What is the grok feature? Literally just mentioning @grok? I don't really know how to use Grok on X.

I signed up for Claude two weeks ago after spending a lot of time using Cline in VSCode backed by GPT-5.x. Claude is an immensely better experience. So much so that I ran it out of tokens for the week in 3 days.

I opted to upgrade my seat to premium for $100/mo, and I've used it to write code that would have taken a human several hours or days to complete, in that time. I wish I would have done this sooner.

I am eternally grateful to media people who care a lot about this stuff. I know that it has an impact on my life that I’m not aware of, but I can’t bring myself to dive into this. I am glad that there are people who are into it, though.

sorry, fixed!

At what point do we start to re-evaluate and re-test old assumptions about how much weight/caloric restriction impacts things? It seems unlikely that a molecule that slots into receptors in the pancreas also does something(?) to cardiac muscle [1], addiction [2], and now osteoarthritis(!).

This feels like a stretch to say that this happens independent of weight loss, and much more like we may have underestimated the impacts of weight loss on all of these other facets of life.

[1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12431743/

[2] - https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2025/04/ozempic-addic...

The buffer exists to be used. Allowing people to merge into it makes the lane that they came from safer. Build a new buffer.

I played GTA after I played Carmageddon and I thought the graphics on GTA were kind of retro at the time, but in reflection, it does have some charm, I think.

The software can drive the web browser if you install the plugin. My knowledge is 1.5 weeks old, so it might be able to drive the whole UI now, I don't know.

My sweet spot of choice between power and price is the ESP32 S3 (2x core @ 240mhz) at ~$6 per board, but yeah, the power to dollar ratio is crazy these days, across the board. And they are absolutely tiny and sip power if you write the code well.

The contagious nature of yawning is so weird. It has to be evolutionarily advantageous because it's so wide spread, but it's also non-obvious.

I was going to say, "finally something that ivermectin can help with!" except https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7974686/

> the most ambitious thing possible

really?

Datacenter capacity (and thus heat) grows by the cube law, but the ability to radiate heat grows by the square law, so it seems like it would be advantageous to have a bunch of smaller satellites, if you were concerned about cooling them.

They re-enter and burn up entirely. Old starlinks don't stay in space.

Balloons work by displacing the atmosphere (mostly nitrogen with some oxygen) with something lighter (helium or hydrogen). This causes buoyancy, and makes the balloon rise.

This only works so long as the atmosphere being displaced weighs more than the balloon plus the payload. As soon as the air gets thin enough that the weight of the balloon+payload is equal to the weight of the air that would fill the volume of the balloon, then it stops rising. (Or, more likely the balloon rips open because it expanded farther than it could stretch).

Usually, this is really high in the atmosphere, but it's definitely not space.

This is all ignoring that orbit requires going sideways really, really fast (so fast, actually, that it requires falling, but going sideways so fast that the earth curves away and you miss).

yeah, they legitimately used to be but the rest of the world has definitely improved and Teslas weirdly haven't that much. They're cruising on name brand and a really decent charging network, but even that moat is being breached.

How many on the government side, I wonder. There are wars that haven't killed so many people. This seems like another revolution.

Cloud providers in general haven't gone very far toward providing hooks for validation.

It seems easier for the cloud provider to implement the equivalent of a dry-run flag in API calls that validate that the call would succeed (even if it's best effort determination) which could be used by tools like Terraform during the planning and dependency tree generation.

Instead, you have platform providers like AzureRM that squint at the supplied objects and make a guess as to whether that looks valid, which causes a ton of failures upon actual application. For instance, if you try to create storage with a redundancy level not supported by the region you're adding it to, Terraform will pass a plan stage, but the actual application of the resource will fail because the region doesn't support that level of redundancy.

There are unlimited other examples in a similar vein, all of which could be resolved if API providers had a dryrun flag.

>The whole premise of IPv6 is that every device should have a globally routable IP

I would agree with the small adjustment of, 'every device should be able to have a globally routable IP'.

There are a lot of devices, like the ones we're talking about, that should not be accessible to the internet at large. You're not preventing them from getting a public IP because you don't have enough, you're preventing them from having a public IP as part of the belt-and-suspenders approach because there's no need to have one.

I don't need that, I already have a Twitter account

>This difference in theory versus practice is precisely why we see people objecting that IPv4 is more secure as far as default configurations go when it comes to home use.

I mean, I agree with them. I think people who say 'NAT is not security' are only correct in the absolute most pendantic way and that the way NAT is commonly configured is literally the only reason the internet doesn't consist mostly of botnets.

But I also suspect that if IPv6 were more common, we as a society would be better at it, and not do dumb things like hand out globally routable IPs via DHCP6

I agree with the majority of your point, but hopefully your printer hasn't been assigned IPv6 IPs that are global in nature and is instead limited to site-local.

For anyone who is reading this but hasn't use IPv6, IPv6 addresses are a large flat 128-bit contiguous address space, but they are not universally routable. The prefix of any specific address determines what group of other IPs can get to it.

We often think of a computer as having an IP address, but with IPv6, computers will have several addresses, all with different prefixes to handle different types of traffic.

This site does a decent job of explaining - https://networklessons.com/ipv6/ipv6-address-types

That's an amazing book, and I highly recommend it, for anyone who isn't familiar.

I love this so much! Thank you!