the type of noise that bothers me the most living in an area with lots of nightlife is all the dumb pointless (intoxicated) fighting over random nothingburger drama you overhear

alternate universe where the EU legislates minor conveniences like marking which way the USB plug goes in or which sides of a fitted sheet are the long ones

I have beavers covered, ducks are oversubscribed taking applications, preferably for cows and birds, but open to suggestions

still enjoying this a lot two years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnZD...

bad weekend to be an overdue chore in my apartment

I just took a very brief look at the original study and rest assured, there’s something in there to upset everyone.

watching Claude often feels a bit like watching that 60y/o guy who's an absolute genius miles ahead of you at getting the job done, but whose arcane tool choices regularly make you go "damn bi***, you live like this?!"

chrome‘s memory usage was engineered as a predator to control runaway tab population growth

*grabs wrench* buckle up we're going to

"coming up with bad scenarios in your head" and "worrying" are less related than you'd think

3pm and I just saw a bird with a worm, don’t believe the propaganda

My favourite bit of trivia is still that the self-service luggage belts at Munich airport, when you put it to russian, show you occasionally not the translations, but rather transcriptions, i.e. for "Gewicht" it just writtes it in cyrillic as "Гевихт", not "весь". Same with "Fertig" - "Фертиг".

it‘s so alien to me how you could ever get radicalized on tiktok, every shortform video feed just keeps showing me stuff that makes me love humans and their endless creativity more

watching this video on the sub-2h marathon and they casually mention Kipchoge's first cracking of the 2h barrier was in 2019, I could have sworn that was like two years ago

app that changes to edgier content when you switch to dark mode

the existence of this implies the existence of the Betterbahn, the Fasterbahn, and the Strongerbahn

finding an old open window and getting a glimpse of the intensity of the week before last's rabbit hole from some distance is a slightly confusing experience

finally got around to updating my website and sorting my virtual bookshelf/library page a bit more plus adding various reading notes benjaminschneider.ch/library

people logging on to social media like

extremely tempted to start using "it is time-go!" from Project Hail Mary an annoying amount

a really cool way of using LLMs is as open-ended, variable difficulty tutorials for learning anything on a computer

I have such an incredibly strong aversion to anything packaged and marketed as "an experience", I instantly assume it's going to be soulless, mediocre, and optimized for repeatability and scalability

on some level I strongly feel that 1ml should be much less than 1cc

Dual-use Software, n. — an app you can use both for work and for play, so someone seeing it while taking a quick glance at your screen at the office can't tell whether you're being productive or slacking off

what‘s wrong babe you‘ve barely touched your special delicious pizza special from pizzas pizza restaurant

I should really not have a discretionary budget

european omelas kid tending to the email servers all summer to make sure all the ooo autoresponders are working while everoyne else is on vacation

shoehorns are called „shoe spoons“ in German, which just gave me a somewhat cursed idea while putting on sneakers

I'm always a little baffled when people just flat-out say they are goodhearting a proxy metric like it's completely normal and you're not supposed to at least be somewhat opaque about it

my memory is quite weird sometimes, I was playing around with some specific data and tool and thought "six years ago this guy at a party told me he'd spent three days doing something manually that this would have solved in fifteen minutes" — I remember nothing else about said guy

oh you‘re guitar george? name three chords

one reason why it can be hard to figure out what you want to do with your life is that most discussions of what you could do with your life are entirely decoupled from this kind of day-to-day texture of the work

rise and shine, it's a great day for putting your mug in the dishwasher and the remaining coffee in your mug all over your kitchen

Pierre Menard, Discoverer of the Wisdom His Grandparents Knew All Along

why is it called Claude team subscription and not token hire

Yay, an opportunity to post my favorite Wikipedia illustration

French guy whose affairs found out about each other: oh non, c‘est une

Claude just hit me with "a friend once told me (...)"

How to post on a twitterlike: eff it, if you don't take the risk of being a little misunderstood you won't have any fun or conversations

Creating the image of being effortlessly competent: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Feeling like you have to be effortlessly competent to live up to your image: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

nothing like realizing you were confidently wrong about something two days ago but you can't correct the record because it was an inconsequential conversation and everyone's moved on and forgotten already

my French language skills seem to be subject to surprisingly large day to day variation

*clicks on google maps search snippet* *clicks on google maps search snippet* *clicks on google maps search snippet* ah yes I forgot I'm in the EU again

all errors are wrong, some are useful

wieso heisst es ... und nicht ...?

hear me out

what's the best theory of when and why exactly everything became this ioi-got-into-yc-30-under-30-ified? gut feeling is it's somewhere downstream of zirp fueled vc mania plus more global awareness and competition because internet and social media, but not sure?

linkedin truly has the jim cramer of feed algorithms