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by alexjplant 2mo ago
For my fellow '90s kids: the Canadair CL-215 [1] was the chief visual inspiration for the plane that Baloo flies in the Disney cartoon series "Talespin". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-215
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
> In order to lease an iPhone, you must select one of the following carriers (but you cannot use a prepaid carrier plan): ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I suppose I'll keep buying my phones outright... no protection money to the carrier mafia == no
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
I've too many wacky interview stories to list here, but the first time I came to this same conclusion was when I had an interviewer interrupt me mid-answer to correct my pronunciation of "idempotent" (because I said it in wha
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
I've been getting into 3D printing recently and while the flagship Anthropic models can regurgitate community wisdom about the hobby they can't do spatial reasoning. They'll tell me that objects will fit on my print bed when
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
It's cultural. Rave kids who listen to melodic dubstep drink Ghost because they like everything brightly-colored and artificial. Good ole' boys blowing stuff up in the woods drink Bucked Up or Rip It because they work hard and wan
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
My favorite college food hack was the 1/4 lb Big Bite at 7 Eleven. The one near my house sold them for $1 and had an extensive bar of vegetables in addition to the machine that secreted warm nacho cheese and chili (!!!) out of a bag. M
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
From TFA: > Applied with a handheld tool, the patch stays on the skin for around 10 to 15 minutes You'd notice.
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> I know a lot of people use postpaid, but I can't understand why. Two reasons: data caps and device cost. People want iPhones but they cost $1000 outright which isn't a small amount of cash these days so they roll the cost of
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
I didn't read a good chunk of what we were assigned in high school because I was stuck there for almost 8 hours every day and had jobs and extracurriculars afterwards. In college I only had to go to five classes a few times a week so e
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
This was a central plot point of the film adaptation of "Johnny Mnemonic". From Wikipedia: > In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerative effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome&quot
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> Kubuntu treats you like an adult and will tell you what's going on This means so much to me in the modern era. Contrast with the SaaS approach that's also been leaking into Electron apps, etc: - "Something went wrong&quo
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
My grandparents sprung for a subscription to PC Magazine when I was a preteen for a year or two so that I could read his column in the very back of each issue. I'm sure my thoughts on his opinions would be radically different today but
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> home ownership doesn't significantly (or at all) increase happiness N=1 but for me it didn't. I'm probably repeating myself on this site but 70 years ago a home was a box that kept you out of the weather. Now it's a
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
Claude does this too. I asked it recently to compare two versions of a song (the original and '97 remake of EPMD's "You Gots To Chill", if anybody wants to try and replicate this) and it flatly refused. No amount of reas
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
We do. People who, for example, memorize question banks to pass certification tests without knowing the underlying material are equally frowned upon for not having the problem solving skills that they purport to. I'll leave the contras
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
The Zapp & Roger shout-out in the title is gold too.
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> I am in neither of these and nor is any of the many people I know with macbooks. I honestly do not understand why any average person would buy anything else than a macbook today. Because a used Thinkpad running Linux is the people&#x27
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
I must confess that I asked a leading question. At no point did I say that the usage wasn't real; by way of dramatic omission I was more pointing to the fact that a common ECMAScript/React-ism is overrepresented in Claude's t
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> This is the same shape as many other life-cycle bugs [...] Claude-ism detected. IME with Claude Code an object does not have a type or definition, apparently, but rather a shape (or at least it reaches for that word before more technic
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
I was about to link to something I'd read in Foreign Policy a few days ago until Krugman beat me to the punch: > I don’t want to overstate the case here. The dollar’s role as the dominant currency for ordinary business is not under
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IBM System/4 Pi(en.wikipedia.org)
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
Makes complete sense to me. Fender has immense cultural cachet among multiple big-spending demographics: blues boomers, Cobain disciples, indie kids, even the hair metal guys via Charvel. The Gibson/Harley-Davidson move of leveraging a
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
Rock and Roll San Diego (the aforementioned rehearsal space) is slated to be part of the redevelopment :-( as is Soma. I only moved here 6 years ago and it already feels like the end of an era.
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
Les Girls is still there. I chuckle every time I pass it on the way to the rehearsal space my band uses. I always suspected that it had been a bigger deal in some bygone era; glad to see that confirmed via photographic evidence.
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
> “There is a subset of people, maybe the smallest subset, who are literally making a choice not to pay rent, and we don’t do well with acknowledging that but there is a subset for whom that is the case,” [...] Others bristle at the noti
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
> It seems to really be a nice step-up and is getting quite close to the frontier. IMHO it's already surpassed them. I vastly prefer my personal GLM and OpenCode setup to the Claude Code and Opus one that I have to use at work. The
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
> I drop photo of my water meter and tell it to read the value and serial number. It was far from instant but it was also easily under 3 minutes and result was correct. "Useful" as in "has a use that isn't just for sh
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
The Claude web UI popped a modal up a few days ago advertising their new model to me. It was full of HTML tags that were escaped or otherwise not rendered so that the text was literally <b>Included in your plan limits until Jun 22
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
I've spent the past week trying to scheme a way to get affordable local inference of something useful (Qwen3.6-36B-A3B) for ~$500 and have come to the conclusion that it simply isn't viable. A pair of power-restricted P100s in a w
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
> I've heard every lazy comment about hipsters and rich kids who are supposedly their target audience, and the cost of the products, as if the visible ingredients are all that accounting measure. Swiss watches cost orders of magnitu

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