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splap··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
I find claude often comments about what the code *does not* do. Relevant at the moment, but doesn't belong in the codebase.
splap··on The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister
dotcom was more SV than SF
splap··on Phone searches at the US border hit a record high
only 3% of us citizens had a passport back in 1989!

passport to resident ratio usa, 1989-2023:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/44102530-5b24-467a-8510-c...

splap··on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections
for the history on Boeing's rot and the issues with this plane, this book is great:

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

splap··on United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft
for the history on Boeing's rot and the issues with this plane, this book is great:

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

splap··on AirPods causing tinnitus?
I started getting spasms of my tensor tympani muscle around the time I began using AirPods with noise cancellation. Could hear it clearly and had a doc visually confirm.

Correlation not causation, but weird enough that a stopped using them.

splap··on Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied
I have a couple of these nest speakers. They are are wildly unreliable - buyer beware.
splap··on IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
Anyone know what effect this will have on folks drawing a pension from IBM?
splap··on I Miss Rails
That's what we do. Rails mostly just a json api, with a React front end. Devise handles auth. Useful gems in models and services, sidekiq doing its thing... Happy with the setup.
splap··on Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption
same here. using gcloud, not web console
splap··on Reid Hoffman and Brian Chesky on Handcrafting and Scaling Airbnb [pdf]
It isn't. Audio production was done by respected pros.