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veryfancyon DoorDash to acquire Instacart

Mind giving more detail into how it went? Did first-party delivery options tend to exist and work well, or did you just adjust your expectations re: convenience?

veryfancyon The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history

The first two were more like Tuesday, without the extra innings.

veryfancyon Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

Nice to see public goods in this space.

veryfancyon Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

+1 to keeping ownership of skills defining just what I like and symlinking them in where I work.

veryfancyon Does anybody like React?

Chesterton’s framework.

veryfancyon GitHub is sinking

I’m with you here. Further: Even though I disagree with it, “GitHub down, Microsoft bad” is a defensible take, but we’ve seen it ad nauseam at this point.

veryfancyon American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were

And it’s great.

veryfancyon LLMs can be exhausting

In agent-mode mode, IMO, the sweet spot is 2-3 concurrent tasks/sessions. You don’t want to sit waiting for it, but you don’t want to context-switch across more than a couple contexts yourself.

veryfancyon Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

GitHub Copilot with Opus 4.5 as the model is great. I have not tried Claude Code, so maybe I don’t know what I’m missing.

veryfancyon Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time

Our problem with modern lego is that the sets are so cool and complex that the kids don’t want to take them apart after they’re built.

The 11yo wants few new sets now because he doesn’t know where he would put them, and declines to swap out his assembled sets.

veryfancyon Most technical problems are people problems

Saw this post title and immediately thought of Jerry.

veryfancyon Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

Hubber here. This didn’t affect us.

veryfancyon The Recombobulation Area (2023)

Beloved Milwaukee institution.

veryfancyon Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids

> Noting down the exact type adds complexity to be honest.

Strongly disagree. Metabolic-syndrome diabetes is so different from autoimmune diabetes that it should really have a different name.

veryfancyon Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse

So like dating?

veryfancyon All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)

Conspicuously near the Great Lakes (NA)

veryfancyon The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

Everyone’s got a basket of things they can love or hate about this place when they’re in the mood to love or to hate. That’s something to love, I think.

veryfancyon Scientist Wants to Block the Sun to Cool the Earth

Immediately thought of Monty Burns when I read the title.

veryfancyon Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030

It’s not unreasonable. I like Messi as a better suggestion though.

veryfancyon Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert

Bananas are amazingly cheap. At least here in the US Midwest. Even the organic ones. They’re my reference for “cheap food”.

veryfancyon FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor

Wondered this too. Diabetics are at risk for hypoglycemia because of the insulin they take, not the diabetes itself. Maybe metformin for a prediabetic could have this effect?

veryfancyon Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It

It is surely news to some.

veryfancyon Are cooking videos making us better cooks?

Really dig Kenji’s low-stakes YouTube vids. He makes it look easy in a way that ends up actually being easy.

veryfancyon Are cooking videos making us better cooks?

Chef John is a delight. Charming man, straightforward recipes.

veryfancyon Are cooking videos making us better cooks?

Same for my two sons. Wonderful book.

veryfancyon DiaryLand is still going?

Greetings from Wisconsin, “America’s Dairyland.” We are still here!

veryfancyon Writing summaries is more important than reading more books

Derek Sivers does this and has a section of his site with all his notes: https://sive.rs/book

Great source of interesting reads, too. So some potential prosocial utility there, too.

veryfancyon Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

> "which part of this game constitues giving it a 10/10?"

The logic I imagine here: "BotW was approximately 10/10. And this is no worse than BotW."

(YMMV on whether BotW was that good.)

veryfancyon Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

Link to the Past was my Zelda, too. But BotW surpassed it for me, and TotK so far has been "more BotW". I guess I could imagine being disappointed by that, but so far the prevailing feeling is delight. And a wish that I had more time in my schedule to play.