dpkirchner

No amount of child deaths and dismemberments are enough to deny me the right to get to where I'm going 30 seconds faster. Don't you know how important I am?

Apple offers replacement batteries for an 11 year old phone, now -- past performance is no guarantee but they're already way, way ahead of the pack and there's no sign they're going to stop repairing old phones.

What about the fraud that led up to the GFC -- pre-TARP? I think that's what people meme about.

It remains to be seen if companies are going to spend more effort in to making AI-accessible design than they do user-accessible design.

I've yet to receive an accurate response from Gemini about GCP services, beyond completely trivial topics. The most recent, I think, was Gemini advising me that I could attach an existing pd SSD PVC to a n4 or c4 VM. For whatever unknowable reason, Google doesn't allow this and doesn't offer a migration path, and Gemini doesn't "know" anything about it either. It's wild.

That's standard for Firebase apps. It's also recommended by Google (they describe the keys as "public by design").

If we all spent more time listening the guy who called someone a pedophile because he suggested the guy's plan to save people was ridiculous, would that improve discourse? I am skeptical.

Not the person you're replying to but yes, sometimes I do tell the agent to remove the cruft. Then I back up a few messages in the context and reword my request. Instead of just saying "fix this crash", or whatever, I say "this is crashing because the string is empty, however it shouldn't be empty, figure out why it's empty". And I might have it add some tests to ensure that whatever code is not returning/passing along empty strings.

Ironic that this link is hosted on Substack, eh? It's always a bummer to see that in the header after opening a page.

I caught it using Parameters<typeof otherfn>[2] the other day. It wanted to avoid importing a type, so it did this nonsense. (I might have the syntax slightly wrong here, I'm writing from memory.)

But it's not all bad news. TIL about Parameters<T>.

> A famous person once said the customer doesn’t know what they want until it’s shown to them.

That's the test part, is it not?

Maybe if my bank emailed me, otherwise I doubt it. Local gas stations routinely use $200 holds and I'd have to go way out of my way to see it happen.

We can barely convince powers thar be that eye-witness testimony is unreliable, after all.

Companies may get multiple options but you and I and Joe average are going to have to submit PII to several vendors chosen by someone else, exactly like the credit bureau system but without the regulations they have to follow.

The fact that the powers-that-be need to understand but choose not to is that what they want is literally impossible, even with mandatory government blood screenings to access computers. Anything short of requiring identification per POST is inadequate. This whole thing is a fools' errand and we must not give any ground.

OneDrive pop-ups in the system tray, OneDrive buttons in explorer are two of the most egregious because they are presented as though they are not ads.

I think it's more likely that what you consider ads and what we consider ads don't quite line up.

Plus if I hit someone with my sofa, I'm going to jail. If I hit them with my car, it was just an accident.

It's almost every 4 years.

"Secondarily titled" is not a thing in our constitution, so it is correct to use "Defense".

Also I just noticed in my pedantry I typed Department of Justice. Embarrassing.

FYI an accurate timeline should use the correct name for the government agency: Department of Justice. Hesgeth is the Secretary of Defense.

There is no such thing. That's a fantasy term used by deluded people to signal a particular virtue.

In Austin we saw water trucks roll up and water em with hoses out the back. It was weird to see after having lived in a wet climate my whole life.

Reminds me of Claude's time estimates. Yeah this project isn't actually going to take 12 weeks, Claude, nice try though.

He was quick to ban links to Mastodon when it was on the rise, I'm not sure why he'd treat SpaceX/xAI competitors any differently.

Interesting. I wonder if it's just a matter of prompting properly or if GPT/GLM just doesn't have that training.

Progressive disclosure is good for reducing context usage but it also reduces the benefit of token caching. It might be a toss-up, given this research result.

Claude Code's handling of multiple choice questions is awfully nice (it uses an interactive interface to let you use arrows to select answers, and supports multiple answers). I haven't seen opencode do that yet, although I don't know if that's just a model integration issue -- I've only tried with GLM 4.7, GPT 5.1 Codex Mini, and GPT 5.2 Codex.

Prediction 2: companies will hire full-time Slack Cops whose whole job is shaming coworkers and talking about threads (the #1 Slack anti-feature).

Well, this was my prediction pre-easy-to-use LLMs, anyway.

I'm not the site owner but it might help to share some of the content you'll see in Gmail when you hit "show original". That'll show things like SPF and DMARC pass/fail.

Google Maps regularly sends contractors, delivery drivers, etc to a blocked off utility "road" that has never allowed traffic. Apple Maps doesn't. I've given up reporting the problem to Google. (And besides, Google eventually took away the report feature from either desktop or mobile, I forget which, telling me their engineers don't care at all about quality.)

So at least for me Apple Maps wins.