I've been talking about such issues with relatives for decades now, and I can affirm that they would absolutely be down for this nonsense. If you force the argument, they accept as proper that the state opens and reads old-style paper letters, even.

But our zeros are much more to the right of comma. So not really relevant to the discussion. Should have tweeted this.

I recently got an offer from an MSP to migrate away all our infra from AWS. Projected savings: -200%

At least this would have bought us contract durations measured in years.

You need Purchase Power Parity. How many Tflop/s to open your daily news site?

Working on some of my famous realistic dialog

Baumol all the way.

I believed this nonsense for a long time, having been taught by the SUSE 5 point something manual, IIRC.

So far it looks like Amazon is doing the right thing, zero issues with the return process so far.

Apple, well, this will have been the first and last attempt at buying an Apple device.

I hope I can return this device to Amazon as defective.

As far as I understand, this means: Somehow I triggered the fraud detection system, and now the IP, or the GMail address, or the phone number, or some combination of that, is toast.

I have an iPad that I cannot use, because the device initialization screen is de facto blocked.

I wanted to set-up an Apple iPad for my grandma, as the old Android one crashes so often as to be unusable.

Too bad though. "We cannot create an account at this time".

For now, computation-intensive LLMs advantage those who do task-switching well. If you require a continuous stream of thought to solve problems, you'll wait a lot, and lose possible productivity gains.

Most programmers I know won't like this. Me neither, I suck at this.

How often is it possible to fuck up your life before it's fucked up for good? Let's find out!

And it goes way beyond cars.

Stuff should Sound A Certain Way and when it starts sounding a different way... things are going wrong.

Whether you are satisfied with them or not.

Wouldn't it be better if DNS domain verification would usually be done using an unguessable subdomain instead of TXT on the root?

It's like a giant ad banner for all your vendors in front of your office door.

Found it! Ordered it! Let's see if this is the proper replacement for a new or for a defective battery.

I'd argue their financial statements have proved that their security department is optional.

Thinking about this further, surely we've seen this kind of effect play out many times in the past?

Upgrading from paper filing to computerized forms, or paper ledgers to Excel, should have had impacts like this

Whats the best material out there on the economic impact of those kinds of changes?

It solves real problems in an adequate way. Can recommend it for both personal and business use.

I recently became convinced of this too. If email recovery is the final and most authoritative step in your auth process, start with that. (Magic links.) Build everything else (passkeys) later, and focus the extra layers on improving usability.

I observe that in recent years I more and more often do not understand the meaning of tweets when first reading them, although sometimes I get it on the second or third read a few days later.

Senility approaching?

That sounds like one of the few support cases that are not soul crushing.

Am 26.6.24 sagte FPÖ-GS Hafenecker in einem ZiB2-Itv den absurden Satz, er hätte den ORF dabei „überführt, dass Sie gefakte Experten hier auftreten lassen und das aber ständig“.
Ich antwortete darauf: „Herr Hafenecker, das ist eine Lüge.“
Hafenecker hat mich dafür wegen „übler Nachrede“ geklagt. /1

I'm trying and failing to get contractors to avoid complexity.

They write Python like old-Java. Instead of a single function I have three conversion classes, a registry, ...

But at least they ship something that mostly works. Which is more than can be expected.

Yeah that’s fine, pay for the whole production, that’s the art. Just cut out the stupid distributors that can barely figure out how to distribute it anyway, especially if you’re in a plane or a foreign country or with slow Internet or using a device they didn’t deign to support.

Orange site often has its issues. But the quality of discourse about any AI topic is persistently less than worthless.

The old meme about the ups and downs of discourse on HN has not been true for quite some time, but it's doing a nosedive. AI is the recent, most flashy failure.

Only with time I'll know about the durability, but I've seen no reason it should be anything less than great.

The switches are silent/damped on both press and release.

The original is not a loud keyboard by any means, but the new one is library ready.

It's not just less loud, but the frequency/tone you hear is less crisp, fading batter into the background.

Arrived today, the "Cherry Blossom" silent keyswitch version of the #MoErgo #Glove80 #keyboard.

Set-up to my own preferences: high tilt, Workman layout in firmware and keycaps, because on the Glove80 you can interchange *all* keycaps w/o issues.

I love the new switches.