It's too late. They showed their hand. It's not wise to buy gear from a company that is trying to find ways to limit consumer choice. They'll just try again later.

The concept of a total loss on a comprehensive car insurance policy is terribly wasteful because it silently diminishes the value of the policy every year even as rates stay the same while the replacement cost rises, leading to situations where the car is "totaled" over cosmetic damage.

This is a good reminder that LLM interfaces use a random number generator to select the next token in a stream from a short list of most likely options based on data observed during training. That's not intelligence. That's dumb luck, no matter how lucky it can seem.

Loan scammers adding insult to injury in their robocall by saying "this may be the last chance to wrap this up" as if they'll actually stop calling about a "loan" that is in the "final stages of being approved." ...

Tuesdays are the most annoying day to be on T-Mobile. They dropped their Scam Shield app and put that feature in their "T-Life" app, which runs much slower on Tuesdays -- the days when ad sales are more important than customer experience. No, I don't want a FREE drink (with $8 purchase), thanks T.

I wouldn't tell anyone if I won a big lottery jackpot, but there would be signs.

Here's neat trick: GitHub public keys can be downloaded from `https://github.com/<username>.keys`. The file lacks comments, but it is properly structured to be dropped into `~/.ssh/authorized_users` when deploying an environment with an SSH server, reducing the risk of deploying stale credentials.

Are any studies being done on the impact of early warnings being too early for the general population to accept? For example, if a tsunami could be predicted a year early, would that give energy to a counter movement of people who reject science so they can get louder than the truth?

I've been on the verge of switching back to Linux for my base OS for a while, but some of my apps rely on the GPU and don't have good Linux alternatives. If I pass the discrete card into a Windows VM, I wouldn't be able to use it to drive my three monitors on the host. Does anyone have a solution?

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

If Aurora can't figure out how to deploy a reflective triangle warning device 100 feet up the road without a human driver when their big robot breaks down on a public road, maybe they shouldn't send robots on the road without a human...

The co-principal investigator on that was one of my professors! Dr. Gloria Washington broadened my understanding of human computer interaction and affective computing. It's so cool to see this project pop up in the news.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

TIL how toothless the CAN-SPAM act really is. Shoe Carnival won't stop sending me notifications about a $10 reward as an excuse to advertise their inventory, but only the federal government can sue them over the CAN-SPAM act violations (or maybe an ISP if it can prove damages).

I wouldn't address arrogance by holding back deserved praise — that is manipulative. appreciate the good someone does, and where appropriate, give constructive feedback: ● if in doubt, ask permission first ● rooted in relationship ● describes cause -> effect ● non-judgemental roe.dev/ama #ama

Wouldn't the intent of the law be more effectively administered by requiring Mississippi ISPs to provide effective parental controls on all internet service plans? How are they going to enforce the law on companies based in some other country?

The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls? nomouse.org

Whenever a verification code email is delayed, and I start to get impatient, I like to imagine there's an actual person trying to come up with yet another random number. "Almost five o'clock. Oh, jeez another code request? Uhhh... I don't know.... 458... uhh... 001"? I get it, fella, take your time.

A package was "out for delivery" all day. Darkness fell, so I left the porch light on. Hit refresh, same status. 10 PM rolls around, so it must be delayed. No big deal, but instead, today's tracking events are all gone. Now it's just "On the Way," and I'm wondering how many people get gaslit by UPS.

Super cool!

A guide to academic event names

Can someone please do a quick sanity check for me before I open an issue? The copy button on a code sample in the SvelteKit docs pulls a completely unrelated Node.js logging sample. It only happens with the TS, not the JS, `route` code sample under `Using URL data`. @sveltesociety.dev

Losing VirusTotal would be a huge loss. It's such a great resource for users to get results from multiple virus scanners and for security researchers to study and identify the latest threats from those samples.

This app needs a little badge that only I can see, letting me know how long it's been since I've replied to any of the person's other posts. I don't want to accidentally become somebody's reply guy.

90% of programming is thinking and 10% is writing code and llms can't think.

Refusing to add a Microsoft account to Windows feels like an uphill battle with a seemingly un-skippable "Let's add your Microsoft account" step that comes after every minor update, but hopefully this group policy works so I don't have to resort to unplugging the Ethernet cable again.

Leaving an app review on the Google Play store is one of the most annoying editor experiences. Why it scrolls up to keep my selection at the bottom of the window is beyond me. It makes it impossible to edit what I've written.

On vibe coding:

I love little facts like this one: shell scripts with conditionals like `if [ -f $SOMEFILE ]` look like they use brackets the same as any other language -- wrapping the condition. But `[` is actually an executable in `/usr/bin`! What other things do we take for granted that are actually different?

This is a friendly reminder not to give agentic LLM tools access to anything that lets them get around the boundaries you set. People need to watch The Terminator for an example of what can happen if you forget that autocomplete can go off the rails no matter how large or accurate its model gets.

The output of an LLM is a hallucination. A portion of their hallucination aligns with reality. Some models are fairly well aligned with reality. But, it's still a hallucination - a series of predictions about the most likely next token based on the context. They don't think.

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Do I know anyone who could slap together a fairly quick/flat/simple vector art thing of a character? I have a ref, and happy to throw some $ your way for it (esp since it might eventually be used comercially) Boosts welcome!

There's a fused multiply-add operation?? I'll have to check my code for opportunities to improve accuracy.

Here I was thinking the big danger of those new autonomous tool-calling AI agents was that it would break your own local dev environment, but they can also create hallucinated issues and pull requests via MCP, burdening other developers as well.

Just tried the "one sec" app. It's so much better than Android's Digital Wellness feature because it interrupts the pattern and asks you how long you need to use the app. Digital Wellness just has a daily time limit that doesn't even hide the app while letting you increase your timer.

Obsidian is great for knowledge management and the Day Planner plugin is pretty good for task management, but I need a way to periodically announce my current task (like Super Productivity's "domina" mode). Anyone have a good Obsidian task setup with a similar feature?

The news about Brother printers going to the dark side hit me hard and left my casting irritated side-eye at my Brother multi-function printer, but apparently the evil firmware update only helps troubleshoot problems rather than blocking third-party toner.

This is just too cool. I haven't even made the time to use my Flipper Zero yet, but I want one.

Added a smear cursor to NeoVim. It's like a tiny, digital comet trailing my edits. Purely cosmetic, but it brings me joy. And sometimes, joy is productivity.

My brain: "I need to build a sophisticated date selection system for precise data extraction!" Also my brain, 35 minutes later: "Wait... I only need one year's worth of my mileage data, and I'm probably the only person who will use this tool to extract it." Tax prep is a wild ride.

Mind == blown

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April Fools is such an exhausting day, mentally.

This is such a great use of AI/ML! Brain Implant Enables Stroke Survivor to Speak in Real Time After 18 Years ground.news/article/a-st...

Uhh, Cursor doesn't let you query your local LLM without logging into their backend? Their reasoning is "to avoid abuse of our backend," but I'm using a local LLM by overriding the OpenAI URL... to avoid their backend. Did I do something wrong?