I really want to know the story behind this remote having a standard power button that only works for turning the screen on, and a separate nonstandard „power off“ button for turning it off

if I joke around it doesn’t mean I‘m not taking the meeting seriously, it means I‘m actually paying attention

claude just called me "occasionally funny"

internet discourse is reading 99 people’s takes complaining about 1 person‘s take you haven‘t even found amid the noise yet

perhaps surprisingly, the experience of using microsoft teams is not made more pleasant by not having a microsoft account and being a guest user in multiple external orgs simultaneously

oh: "so basically we are in the process of building a stochastic house of cards on top of a stochastic foundation"

indicating the direction on public transit lines by the full name of the terminal station is clearly the way to go, yet somehow every other city seems to not manage to do this and use 2-3 slightly different indications between vehicles, maps/apps, and timetables

after eternal september came sloptoberfest

feeling out of posts, I'll be back once I have a nice walk to share or smth

That was always the best bit of teaching European Politics. Happy days.

opus 4.6 is the most disagreeable an llm has ever been with me when I ran something personal by it (good)

me looking at oil prices rn

the real MoE is asking claude and gpt about the same thing in parallel

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

few know this, but in Switzerland we use yogurt for all road markings

in Austria they expressly allow you to use the internet at train stations!

guys only want one thing and it‘s to be in charge of mountaintop telecommunications infrastructure

„abfrühstücken“ is my new favorite German word

"putting off getting a haircut is working out great" vs. two days later

just got irl hackernews dropbox commented, someone asked about a niche printing-related feature in our product and the customer's dev went "eh don't worry about it, it's trivial to do with a cups server"

eu bottle cap innovation update

oh: „I keep the disneyland app on my phone, sometimes I check how long the queues are for fun when I‘m not even there“

🧂🏰

walks good

I won’t announce when AI has taken over my job but there will be signs

connected all my apps so I can properly notificationmaxxx, if you reply to me in a google doc there's now 5 dings across ten seconds on three devices

guy who mentally models interactions with his strategic opponents ten iterations out but assumes there will be no unintended second-order effects from anything applied to a wider population

writing end-user documentation is a great way of surfacing design issues in a product/feature, you can pretty much instantly tell when the thing you're trying to explain is needlessly convoluted or doesn't make sense

how do the ad algos always know exactly how I dress, this is creepy af

people will be like „there should be world peace we can all get along“ and then do stuff like this

there's an old saying in diy — I know it's in woodworking, probably in diy — that says, 'measure once, cut... cut twice, measure... if you just cut it you don’t have to measure again!

kinda sad they made the 🫂 hug emoji one of the coldest and most impersonal ones

buddhism 🤝 linkedin minigames

I feel like at this point I have a middleware in my mind to try and tone down/filter out all the clickbait and frenzied cliches ("this changes everything!", "it's so over!", ...) I read online, and the overhead makes browsing most sites increasingly exhausting

audit trail features in software are like 1% legal-/oopsie insurance and 99% getting to say „…because you changed this setting here“ when they ask you why something behaves weirdly

POV you googled an issue after the Tahoe upgrade

ISO/ANSI jazz standards

I really have to stop getting nerdsniped into debugging weird stuff right when I when I wanted to call it a day

Mein Mann hat gerade „Yeah“ von Usher angemacht und gemeint, es wäre der Song des Tages. Weil heute Ushermittwoch ist.

the concrete is raw but the chicken is fried

James Murphy was really ahead of his time for singing this line in 2007

this kind of smart, clickable, mixed-use skeuomorphism is illegal to build in most frameworks

was at work two hours earlier than usual and unfortunately it's great

Wikipedia could be sub-titled “It’s way, way older than you think”.

social media feed algos sit in an uncanny valley between the firehose of unranked & unfiltered posts and actually helping you sort through the noise every time I opened LinkedIn today, there was a different low-effort, semi-viral post about the Steinberger/OpenClaw news on top

TIL the moth-trapped-in-a-relay thing isn't the origin of the term "bug" as used in engineering, which has been around since the 19th century

„Documentary/Sci-fi“

I feel like 150 iq labrador retrievers would also be a fun addition to the world

as a kid my parents said it was bad to spend more time on the computer than with other people because a computer will never disagree with you or require compromise, a view I directionally agree with but which only someone who never tried programming one could fully hold