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transitorykris··on Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
To bring that full circle, Fairmont (the hotel) does their house Old Fashioned using 50/50 rum and bourbon. I believe it was Mount Gay and Woodford.
transitorykris··on Pareto Front
You’d be looking at fuel level affecting choices of ride height, brake bias, etc. Possibly changes in line and distance travelled too. But, I’m curious how psychology can fit in here (or not. How do you measure it?). Driver concentration and confidence are important when trimming out aero or other adjustments for single lap flyers.
transitorykris··on RamenHaus
It's a fun scene, but dear beginners, just eat the ramen. Be curious as usual about all the things. But you do not need to poke at your food and get all contemplative over fast food. I defy anyone to find a salaryman in Tokyo at 7am before work plowing a bowl of ramen (and clearly enjoying it) and also being weird about it.
transitorykris··on US DOT deleting bike lane references
"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion.

transitorykris··on The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency
Single Piece Flow fits with other Toyota ideas of how to get high quality work done. If something is frequently blocking the line, the solution is to put resources toward the bottleneck, not spin up more work in parallel.
transitorykris··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Nice to give Claude their own blue bubble iMessage. Can be done in a VM of course if you have the capacity, but old Apple hardware seems to accumulate for many.
transitorykris··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
I loved the product early on, but they became the Adobe Creative Cloud of cameras. Play dumb subscription games win dumb prizes.
transitorykris··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
Brilliant feature, well done Vancouver PD. A very serious boss mode. Lotus 1-2-3 wouldn't look quite right here but weather.ca is plausible.
transitorykris··on Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context
She absolutely would have read Heidegger
transitorykris··on The food science behind designing an ice cream
Painful trying to scroll. But I will say I’ll never be as astounded as seeing a bowl of Breyers sitting on a conference room table for an hour and never losing its shape.
transitorykris··on SCC Technical Assistance Program
Who needs a roll cage?
transitorykris··on My Mathematical Regression
A massively abused book that led many to justify being assholes. You don’t have to read it, here’s the Cliff’s Notes:

Care personally, challenge directly.

transitorykris··on A website that lists websites to submit your website to
Hard to say, drkoop.com is a landing page now
transitorykris··on A website that lists websites to submit your website to
What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.
transitorykris··on Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other
I came to this realization after seeing developers churn out 30 minute long reads of slop documentation. It's for the agent, and the human interface to it is through the agent. Over the last week the plans that Claude has been writing for issues have been largely a single massive unreadable paragraph of awkward sentences, but it's working, the implementations from it have been solid.
transitorykris··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
Is anyone doing story point estimation in terms of tokens? If you have a token budget, does this change how you prioritize?
transitorykris··on The real cost of owning a home
PSA: it’s probably time to change your furnace’s filter
transitorykris··on Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.
“Completely acceptable” is not accurate. I’d wager that for any success story there are many stories of heartbreak due to timing and travel for TN renewal. A risk I wouldn’t advise a friend to take. But, yes, doesn’t matter anymore after last week.
transitorykris··on Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.
Immigrant intent on a TN is a big no-no
transitorykris··on Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing
I deeply believe this but have no strong evidence. Revenue has always been a cure all remedy. This will keep model providers alive along with the very wide range of companies that are experiencing growth with them (from chips to backhoes), for a time anyway. If/when that house of cards starts going in the other direction there’s going to be widespread pain. By analogy the nonsense of the dotcoms and that crash had a very direct impact on their suppliers (e.g. telecoms). My only advice is to let the Microsoft’s and Meta’s do the tokenmaxxing, and don’t get suckered into the idea you (startup, individual, etc) should be playing that game.
transitorykris··on Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
It’s really a solipsistic philosophy. The awkwardness of it was the fact he had a king and the church to appease in his arguments. Willfully forgetting Descartes is one way of dealing with it! (..or plotting a path out of it by reading him as a proto-existentialist)
transitorykris··on Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
For reference on that: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serv...
transitorykris··on What's a mathematician to do? (2010)
Parents reads as a comment on the usefulness of applying mathematics to problems in the world (applied mathematics) and discovering mathematical problems that push mathematics forward (pure mathematics) in the process. Pure mathematics is incredibly important, but I’d hardly count it as useful if we need to wait centuries.
transitorykris··on Inkscape 1.4.4
Love inkscape and wish it could get some engineering love around MacOS. For quick work I'll use it on MacOS, but anything deep I switch to Windows.
transitorykris··on From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
Social logins, email logins, password resets, multi-tenant, organizations, many to many users to organizations, etc etc. Not necessary for MVP, but can definitely be painful hacking in later if the MVP hits.
transitorykris··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
Share price can and does go up because layoffs usually means opex goes down
transitorykris··on Work with the garage door up (2024)
This is the first time I've encountered this. I want all footnotes to work this way! Otherwise I'm off into a rathole and never return. Love it.
transitorykris··on I am building a cloud
FTA “Hence the Series A: we have some computers to buy.”
transitorykris··on Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code
Admittedly I might be missing a flag or two with claude, but how are multiple loops and comparisons of solutions done with just headless mode?
transitorykris··on Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code
Maybe not adds in, but wraps around. You could accomplish much of this with fairly simply bash scripts.
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