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cheriot··on Waymo in Portland
During peak hours Waymo is more expensive than standard uber/lyft - I don't pay attention to black/premium pricing. Off-peak the price can be comparable. I mainly check because my wife prefers it.
cheriot··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Anyone know how much harder water resistance gets with replaceable batteries?
cheriot··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
Are there good hosted options that will not respond to non-judicial data requests?

Someone is going to say self hosted is better and I don't disagree, but there's limits to how much time I can spend on self hosted stuff.

cheriot··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
From the article

> In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

cheriot··on Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
Property taxes come to mind.
cheriot··on Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
They've blown up several ships so which ship owner will test them? Spend $1m on a transit fee or risk $90m on a new tanker.
cheriot··on Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire
I suspect more fighting in Lebanon means less oil through Hormuz. Iran kept its definition of "open" vague. Everyone is keeping the pressure up during negotiations.
cheriot··on Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
I suspect this is the real reason behind Anthropic limiting subscriptions to their own products and keeping API prices several times higher than comparable models. Applications more sticky than API users and less technical users more sticky than programmers (ie Cowork more sticky than Code).
cheriot··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
One supreme leader replaced by another, even more hardline, supreme leader. Trump failed.
cheriot··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
The nuclear program is orders of magnitude more important than everything else. If you think JCPOA was bad, take a look at Iran's 10 point plan.
cheriot··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Let's not forget the road to war started in 2016 when Trump walked into the White House at withdrew from the JCPOA. He's wanted the war for years, got it, and lost it.
cheriot··on Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%
I get where the authors are coming from with these: https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient/blob/main/...

But I'd rather use the "instruction budget" on the task at hand. Some, like the Code Output section, can fit a code review skill.

cheriot··on How Iran is making a mint from the current war
Agree it's a thin disguise. It works because the same sword hangs over Trump's head as well. He needs the price of oil to not spike too high so any oil supply is welcome.
cheriot··on Apple Business
Jamf shareholders got very lucky. The acquisition closed less than 2 months ago. Tough day for the new PE owners, though.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/francisco-partners-completes-...

cheriot··on FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers
Can't wait to see the price of the first US made home router. We [USA] really need a formal designation of trusted supply chain partners. Would improve security and make a useful bargaining chip.
cheriot··on Just Put It on a Map
Appreciate what you're doing!
cheriot··on Just Put It on a Map
Now map property taxes per acre and tell me who's subsidizing who in this country. Urban3 has been doing the work: https://codesigncollaborative.org/urban-revolution-through-d...

Municipal costs per resident are effectively the inverse of these maps because the more spread out people are the more roads, pipes, etc are required to reach them.

cheriot··on Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code
If this was human written sarcasm, bravo.
cheriot··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
Growth and fewer restrictions on what can be built makes your land more valuable. Apartment buildings in place of detached houses means rent prices can go down while land prices go up.
cheriot··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
> and each one will hit house owning voters hard making it hard to replicate

In a negative way?

cheriot··on FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
I'm game for throwing rocks at Apple and Google, but I don't get this one.

> consumer apps embed ad SDKs → those SDKs feed location signals into RTB ad exchanges → surveillance-oriented firms sit in the RTB pipeline and harvest bid request data even without winning auctions

Would you ban ad supported apps? Assuming the comment you're responding to is realistic, I'm not sure how the OS is to blame.

cheriot··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
Thanks. Do you have a view on whether the project went far enough?
cheriot··on Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
Condolences to those that about to be laid off

Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/meta-reportedly-considerin...

cheriot··on US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
Agree and make it two years for long term capital gains.
cheriot··on US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
Congratulations to the CEOs of fraudulent companies.

> Trump, who first floated the idea in his first term as president, has argued the change in requirements would discourage shortsightedness from public companies while cutting costs.

Having less information does not change one's time horizon. It just means large investors paying for proprietary data will have more edge.

cheriot··on The return-to-the-office trend backfires
I suspect there's a selection bias from poorly run companies using RTO to cut headcount. Now they can have layoffs and put a positive spin on it with AI.
cheriot··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
Does Atlassian still have the tech debt that lead to extended outages? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian
cheriot··on Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol
This is very cool.

I wonder if there's a way to control routing client side and remove the list of mac addresses. Eg manage DNS for customers (upsell ad blocking!) and CNAME the unifi entry to a customer specific vhost.

cheriot··on Making MCP cheaper via CLI
That's fair. I just really don't like the way MCP gives the tool author control of my context. It's worth setting up some env vars and config files to avoid them.
cheriot··on Making MCP cheaper via CLI
Is there any redeeming quality of MCP vs a skill with CLI tool? Right now it looks like the latter is a clear winner.

Maybe MCP can help segregate auto-approve vs ask more cleanly, but I don't actually see that being done.

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