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by jefftk 3mo ago
I know you put an asterisk, but to make it clear: these locations are very far from random. They're the most informative positions, which is why we check them.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
"int radians" is a pretty strong code smell! I would be very worried about any struggle l autocomplete that followed something like that ;)
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by jefftk 3mo ago
> Free soda with large fry doesn't actually exist I just searched and found free medium fries with a large soda at McD if you order through the app. Seems like bundling to me, and you have to use their particular app.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
> Anthropic being a big company means they could trivially hire an iOS team Anthropic is primarily limited by how fast they can identify and onboard people who will be a good fit. Allocating that to ios would trade off against allocati
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Why compare to what historical tooling (which is very different in terms of how it's built and what it does) instead of to value over replacement?
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Substack handles emailing and payments well. Many people want to receive posts by email, which is a pain to do on your own with high deliverability. Some are willing to pay for it, and payments are similarly annoying (and benefit from a f
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Millions of people have signed up to receive blog posts by email with Substack. HCR alone has 3M subscribers. While AI replaces "here's common knowledge repackaged" blogs, people still care what the authors they trust think.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
No mention of Substack? Making money from paying subscribers has different trade-offs than making money from ads, but my read is that mostly traffic moved vs evaporated. But I do expect this to change further with AI, where as the author sa
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by jefftk 3mo ago
With Google moving their smartwatch efforts to the pixel brand I'm worried about longevity here. It also has a lot of the downsides of the Gizmo: 20 contacts max, texting only through the app, can't interact with friends. If I&#
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by jefftk 3mo ago
There aren't enough phone numbers to make this work. There are only ~5.7B phone numbers in the NANP that can be assigned to individuals [1] and these countries have >400M people, so it's just ~14 phone numbers per person. Which
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Definitely! But the form factor is really important: since it's strapped to their wrist they don't lose it. Classmates with phone-shaped phones seem to loose theirs a lot.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Apple watch only works if a parent has an iPhone, and we're both on Android.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Not an option, unfortunately, since my wife and I are both on Android.
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Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches(jefftk.com)
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by jefftk 3mo ago
It was announced in April, but it was leaked in March (CMS bug) at which point external partners were already using it, and the most common rumored date for training competition is 2026-02-07 (I think Feb is likely, but that specific date i
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by jefftk 3mo ago
We lost ten days of the original plan (June 13th through 22nd) and got seven days (July 1st through 7th). You're not counting the portion of the original 14 days we already got.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Sacks has been out since March
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by jefftk 3mo ago
I'm from Boston and I'd never heard of this, but reading a bit it sounds like Boston is unusual in not having pace runners. Given how hilly the course is, this makes sense: running an even pace the whole distance is not a good pla
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Limiting exports of AI services to all foreigners is probably allowed under GATS, since there's no favoring one county over another. But even then there's a national security exemption, which fits reasonably well with US arguments
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by jefftk 4mo ago
You very likely know this, but to make it explicit: "US Persons" under ITAR is US Citizens + Lawful Permanent Residents (green card) + Protected Individuals (Non-citizen nationals like Samoans, Refugees/Asylumees). It doesn&#
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by jefftk 4mo ago
I would expect tickets issued during the first 40 days to be higher than later, as people haven't adjusted yet
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by jefftk 4mo ago
But if you're going to take your distrust that far then the issue is that they have your data at all, not that they are telling you that they will retain it for 30 days.
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by jefftk 4mo ago
This is not true in SecureBio's case, and I really doubt it's true generally.
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by jefftk 4mo ago
Laws and strategy are not fixed, and public bickering is part of how they get optimized.
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by jefftk 4mo ago
Deepfakes in VFX is another borderline one.
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by jefftk 4mo ago
No appeals combines very poorly with any detector that sometimes has false positives.
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by jefftk 5mo ago
People are certainly welcome to feel a lot of different ways, not trying to be prescriptive here. My parent asked: "what exactly do I gain by allowing Googlebot to crawl my sites?" and I was describing what I get out of it, in the
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by jefftk 5mo ago
I'm not interested in a book, speaking tour, or podcast. I've never had consistent readership because I write about too many unrelated things. I blog because I have ideas I want to share; I don't feel at all ripped off.
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by jefftk 5mo ago
I write things on the internet because I want to share ideas. If someone reads my post and tells a friend, that's great. If an AI crawls my posts and passes along the ideas that's great too. (It doesn't work for ad-funded w
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by jefftk 5mo ago
I also did a bunch of shopping with AI to identify clothing recently. I was going to DC for a bunch of meetings, and did not have a good sense of what clothes are appropriate in different DC contexts. I did a bunch of iteration with AI to i

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