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by dcrazy 2mo ago
A bar here in SF made local news for using Kalshi for just this purpose: https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/06/san-francisco-world-cup-ka... In a similar vein, companies that run skill competitions (hole-in-one p
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Insurance protects life and property (including future income). Until you wagered $100 on the Knicks winning, none of your property was threatened by them losing.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Heh, that idea resonates with me. I’ve been contemplating some projects that will require pulling permits, and as part of that process have been trying to understand how an engineer reviewing my submitted plans would think. While you could
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
I was replying to this: > the tech companies that are bigger haven't offered human support to anyone in decades.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Oh hey, it’s Graffiti! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Microsoft offers human chat support for consumers, once you try their self-help tools: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus?ContactUsExper... Apple offers online, telephone, and of course in-person support for
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
But you’re not self-hosting the tasking service
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Yep, but in fairness I paid more for a version of this in the mid-2010s. The Fujifilm X20 was a rangefinder-style camera with an optical viewfinder with embedded LCD. Based on the focal length of the integrated zoom lens, it would attempt t
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Around the Evergrande collapse there were stories about Chinese retail investors who had pushed money into their domestic real estate industry’s stocks. Also you might painting too wide a brush with “the West”. I wouldn’t assume that Americ
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
FWIW, in most architectures the first few function arguments get passed in registers. But so many of today’s programmers grew up with 32-bit x86, which has a paucity of registers, that they mentally shortcut to “every argument gets passed o
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
We do it every several years. It just takes a lot of paperwork. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
The benefit of “Hollywood accounting” isn’t necessarily tax avoidance; that’s what the tax credits are for. Rather, “Hollywood accounting” provides a way to avoid paying profit-based compensation.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
If you’re not a name, you’re not getting gross points. There’s a wide swathe of participants (actors, writers, directors…) who need to demonstrate risk by taking net points to get signed, and they are routinely screwed by tactics like artif
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Speaking of Europe, when the topic of airport security comes up I often think about how many European countries use the gendarmerie for public security. We explicitly do not have any such thing here in the U.S., so we wind up with all of th
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
SFO has had private airport security (Covenant) instead of TSA since 9/11. It’s been great.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Manipulating the market is literally the job of both the Treasury and the FOMC. It’s how we enact monetary policy.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Yes, tori paitan is one nice light alternative to the popular and heavy tonkotsu.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Check out Kenji’s book, The Food Lab. (Also the name of his blog before it merged with Serious Eats.) You’ll get a sense of what makes him popular among nerds who like to cook. He used to own a restaurant in downtown San Mateo called Wursth
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Microsoft Excel after 1-2-3 (the previous dominator) and before Google Sheets? Word after WordPerfect (close to dominant) and before Google Docs? PowerPoint before Keynote?
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Still no new Glyphs Mini, though. :(
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
For Anthropic models, yes. But OP was using Claude Code with GPT.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Jeff, I’m curious whether you really would have needed the $1,000 version of the Sonnet TB5 PCIe chassis. Would this $400 one have sufficed? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1932655-REG/sonnet_ec...
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Any reason to think this flower of fluorines (seriously, that thing looks INTENSE) would be any more environmentally safe than PFOA?
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
In addition to writing Box2D, the author of this article was the lead physics programmer at Blizzard for 15 years. He also wrote an evaluation harness called Solver2D where he has pitted many solvers against each other. I suspect that he ha
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Wookash Podcast just interviewed Erin Catto (the Box2D author): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-makes-a-good-phys... (sorry, I couldn’t find a player-agnostic feed link, even on wooka.sh, the podcast’s
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
I am using AI to trick my team into writing specs.
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by dcrazy 2mo ago
Same reason people use Instagram. Network effects. Replace x.com with xcancel.com to get around the block.
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by dcrazy 3mo ago
That didn’t answer my question. Did Battlemage ship? And didn’t that streamer in his attic definitively say it was canceled?
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by dcrazy 3mo ago
Didn’t somebody claim Battlemage was canceled? But they shipped it?
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by dcrazy 3mo ago
There really was a time when “make no mistakes” was thought to increase response quality. Maybe it steered the content of the thought channel?

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