aaronbrethorst

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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
Crystalline Entity? Q? Guinan?
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
Lwaxana is very unusual. How haven't they guessed yet?
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
I've been using calendar versioning quite happily with my mobile apps for a while now. It reduces the amount of angst and bike-shedding that comes along with otherwise rev'ing a major version number.
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
William Gibson's writing really fell off a cliff post-Trump. Agency was one of the dullest reads I've encountered in a long time. Speaking of Fall , after a couple hundred pages I ended up just skipping the chapters about Bitwo
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
Totally agree.
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
DIY’er exclusively but if my thesis is wrong it sounds like an interesting backup.
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
Have you considered becoming a residential electrician? Good job, pays well, lots of problem solving, and it won’t be replaced with an AI. I’m serious!
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
That “likely” is doing a lot of work, especially in mission critical software.
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Domain expertise has always been the real moat(brethorsting.com)
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by aaronbrethorst 4mo ago
It's a $650,000 car. These are not anyone's top priorities with it.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
We already have Soylent
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
1984 was as much (or more) about Stalinism and totalitarian tendencies in 1948 as it was a cautionary tale about the future.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
The actual Ruby for Good website has more information: https://rubyforgood.org/
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I'd love to see a comparison with other spec-driven development tools for Claude, like OpenSpec and Superpowers. How does this compare and contrast with them?
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I see what you did there.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Banana man on the Segway
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
The aesthetics of this feel very similar to this project I saw on here a few months back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656834
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Malta has a population of 574,000 people. That's slightly more people than transit through the NYC metro area's airports on a daily basis. Yes, ChatGPT has a large user base, but Malta's not a particularly meaningful datapoin
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
They struggle to avoid cliches and to produce prose with actual substance I have bad news for you about the writings of most Ph.D.s and University professors...
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
They're fourth from the bottom on the happiness index. https://mwnation.com/malawi-named-the-4th-least-happiest-cou...
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
For anyone too young to catch the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
in the case of Claude Code, I explicitly kick off skills I want to use by prefixing their name with a `/` e.g.: /go
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I am not familiar with Trenes Argentinos, so I can't say for sure. The UI doesn't look like it's a white label app, but it could well be built on that data. Sorry I can't say for sure! Sovereignity is quite important at
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
There are several different ways that OBA can be deployed and used for a transit agency or a group of transit agencies in a given region. I'll give you four examples, but this isn't an exhaustive list: 1. The Puget Sound region, w
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I’m building OneBusAway Cloud, which you can think of as being Heroku for public transit . https://onebusawaycloud.com/ It’s a project of the non profit Open Transit Software Foundation that we’re using to fund our other i
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Guy_pointing_up_saying_this.gif
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
MICROSOFT MARL was definitely my all-time favorite product from Microsoft.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I feel compelled to add that we took our toddler to Costco after daycare today. He had his slice of pizza, I got my guacamole and gluten-free, high protein Magic Spoon cereal. Somehow we spent $500. Everyone left happy and thoroughly exhaus
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
Renting a car once a year through Costco Travel is worth the membership fee.
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by aaronbrethorst 5mo ago
I'm 43, own a home, live in Seattle, and feel attacked by this article. "every Costco shopper has a certain item or two they’re compelled to purchase on each visit" Organic, single-serving guacamole and Magic Spoon cereal f

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