every time I use an LLM I think of this German meme from 15 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQmF...

dire wolf this, woolly mammoth that, when are we bringing back the 200kg giant lemur?

I wonder how big the positive externality from Stripe showing everyone how to design and document APIs over the past decade has been

many such cases

Was editing and noticed that if you rotate-left "those" you get "ethos". Was curious how many of these are in English. Big dicts have a lot of junk, and most endings in "s" are for plurals. Here's a good list of rotwords.

being in your thirties isn't real, after 29 you actually enter a phase of being in a superposition of all ages between 20 and 40

have a nice weekend!

linux saves you from distractions on your computer by making tweaking your os the distraction instead

as a longtime marginal revolution reader, I've often wondered how well you could guess the author based on a post's title — so I had claude build a game where you can find out for yourself

guy who keeps his desk messy so he always has something to fidget with

reclusive semiconductor engineer, call that a chipmonk

the Swiss do not pursue cultural victory loudly, we stealthily infiltrate core technologies instead, you won't see us coming until it's too late

linux apps are often cold and abstract so I'm happy to see google taking steps towards humanizing them

a meeting invite without an agenda? in this economy?

Darwin looking down at 21st century bureaucracy from heaven like "endless forms, indeed"

I keep thinking "most companies would never let you design/build something like GIT in-house" asked Opus 4.5 about likely design differences and I think this mostly tracks — I think the storage model is the big one

I wonder if there's something similar to a baumol effect where as some parts of life get easier, other parts of life seem comparatively way too difficult and die out, even if nominally you have the time. The marginal returns no longer compare favorably.

today in sentences I never expected to read

water glasses that only hold like 1.5dl are the bane of my existence

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I love whimsical computing textbook covers

for some reason one of my most recurring kinds of dreams is „what if there was an elevator that was really weird“

stated preferences > revealed preferences > preferences others assume you probably have

Nerd escape room idea: You get dropped into a realistically simulated control center for some complex system that's in a bad state and have to figure it out and restore normal operations together.

"the extra buttons on my mouse are currently experiencing an outage" is not something I ever expected to be a true statement, but here we are

the only context that treats vowels as more precious than Wheel of Fortune is banking file formats

I thought the whole point of Adam Smith was there being no conductor, so to speak

Sunday ☀️

so happy about my new personal accounting spreadsheet I'm a little sad I have to wait a month until I get to update it again

if only cleaning up my kitchen felt as interesting as cleaning up my personal accounting

happens to the best of us...

This blogpost, by my friend Sam on his trip to Taiwan, is so interesting about many little tidbits of Taiwanese culture. Highly recommended for all Wikipedia rabbit hole diggers. open.substack.com/pub/thefitzw...

happy new year!

one of the great underrated QOL improvements of this century is the fact that you can now retrieve pretty much any receipt, document, ticket you booked a year ago, etc. again at any time within seconds instead of having to safeguard it somewhere yourself until you need it

POV you're a rat entering Olds' & Milner's lab in 1953

every workplace has someone like this

this is what the first coffee feels like

Falls noch jemand Substantive braucht 😂

„when am I ever going to use this“, you ask?

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merry Christmas everyone!

the nerd urge to bring a project with you when visiting family over Christmas

thought I came here to solve tech issues now I‘m assembling furniture under the supervision of my sister‘s dog

kid: waiting for christmas day is the hardest part youth: you can open all your presents right now! there's nothing but societal conformity stopping you! adult: waiting for christmas day is the delicious anticipation part

gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr

Has there ever been a study where an age-controlled set of the population is quizzed over time about the same period of time? Like, every year, survey a bunch of people and ask them how 1983 was, and then see how the response evolves over time.

Saturday in Düsseldorf