- My interpretation was/is that they're both right. The word originated as 'wares with a Z' but once it was spelled that way it became natural to pronounce it 'ware-ez' but nobody thought you were unintentionally mispronouncing it. The in-joke continued on certain boards as 'warez' became 'Juárez'...
- I don't doubt the trends cited in this article; it seems well-researched. However I will say that anecdotally, as the parent of two boys in the US, Nike's brand is still very strong. I have a 3rd grader who refused to let us buy him any sneaker brand other than Nike. When my older one was the same age it was the same thing -- all the cool kids were wearing fancy Nikes and we had to pony up. That seems to have faded for the older one in middle/high school though.
- I'm in your camp but I go for the cheap VPS. Lightsail and DigitalOcean are amazing -- for $10/mo or less you get a cheap little box that's essentially everything you describe, but with all the peace of mind that comes from not worrying about physical security, physical backups, dynamic IPs/DDNS, and running out of storage space. You're right that almost nobody needs most of the stuff that AWS/GCP/Azure can do, but some things in the cloud are worth paying for.
- Software-y people also have a way of being deliberately and performatively obtuse about their technology choices. This person's proclamation about not using any USB-A peripherals hits the same as when they feign surprise that any non-luddite would still have a use for printers, scanners, and fax machines.
- I must be doing something wrong. When I last tried to use Codex 5.2 (via Cursor), no amount of prompting could get it to stop aggressively asking me for permission to do things. This seems to be the opposite of the article's claim, which is that Codex is better for long-running, hands off tasks.
- I feel you brother/sister. I actually pay for Claude Code Max and also for the $20/mo Cursor plan. I use Claude Code via the VSCode extension running within the Cursor IDE. 95% of my usage is Claude Code via that extension (or through the CLI in certain situations) but it's great having Cursor as a backup. Sometimes I want to have another model check Claude's work, for example.
- Personally I bit the bullet and went with the Max plan for Claude Code. After tax it costs me ($108) less than I earn from one billable hour. I have been punishing it for the last two months, it defaults to Opus 4.5 and while I occasionally hit my session limit (it resets after an hour or so), I can't even scratch the surface of my monthly usage limit.
- I'm reading this thread's comments and a LOT of you are missing OP's point. OP is not describing the risk that your SaaS product is now easily cloned by your customers' internal devs (or startup competitors) armed with agents. The risk is that certain SaaS products (but not all) mostly exist to provide answers to end users' questions about data, answers that can now be obtained by providing the same raw data to an agent with a prompt.
- As I'm sure you're aware, glyphosate is usually only appropriate as a weed killer on your property if you're looking to kill all vegetation in/around where you spray it. For example if you wanted to "nuke" your lawn by killing all the grass and starting over with new grass. It's a non-selective herbicide in this context, it kills everything.
If you've got some dandelions or thistle, and it's not out of control, the nice safe way is to pull them up by hand or, if they're between pavement cracks, pour boiling water on them.
Broadleaf weeds growing in your lawn that aren't easily hand-pulled can be killed with a selective herbicide like 2,4-d. Tough underground vine-style weeds like creeping charlie or wild violet will need a selective called triclopyr. Crabgrass is best killed by a selective called quinclorac. Yellow nutsedge requires a selective called sulfrentrazone or another called halosulfuron.
Selectively kill the weed infestations as best you can, get rid of the bad ones before they go to seed, and focus on the health of your grass -- in most parts of your lawn, healthy grass will out-compete weeds.
- I know a guy who has this theory, in essence at least. Businesses use software and other high-tech to make efficiency gains (fewer people getting more done). The opportunities for developing and selling software were historically in digitizing industries that were totally analog. Those opportunities are all but dried up and we're now several generations into giving all those industries new, improved, but ultimately incremental efficiency gains with improved technology. What makes AI and robotics interesting, from this perspective, is the renewed potential for large-scale workforce reduction.
- Almost nobody who works in software development is a licensed professional engineer. Many are even self-taught, and that includes both ICs and managers. I'm not saying this is direct causation but I do think it odd that we are so utterly dependent on software for so many critical things and yet we basically YOLO its development compared to what we expect of the people who design our bridges, our chemicals, our airplanes, etc.
- 100%.
- After reading the first couple paragraphs I realized it was structured like marketing content. Then I saw the first emdash and nope'd out. Control-W, get that slop out of my life.
- If you look at the article, you can see that games have been getting progressively slower since records started being kept back in the 1920s. The recent rule changes have managed to cut the duration back to what they were in the early 80s.
By your logic, the games my mom grew up watching weren't slow enough, and the games my grandma watched were true blasphemy at around 2 hours flat.
Meanwhile, from my wife's perspective, I spend all afternoon watching even these sped-up games.
- While I also dislike the ghost runner, I can't deny that it's been a net positive for the game. By mostly eliminating marathon extra-inning slogs, not only does it speed up the game, but it also makes it much harder for teams to run out of pitchers they can safely use, which reduces injuries and ensures that we are not subjected to watching two backup catchers throw 48mph Eephus pitches in the 17th inning, long after they stopped selling beer.
- The pitch clock is undoubtedly the most impactful of the changes made recently to speed up the game. However, other changes were implemented alongside it that have contributed in meaningful ways:
- Limit on the number of times per plate appearance a pitcher can "disengage" by stepping off/calling time or making a pickoff move.
- Limit on the number of times per plate appearance a batter can "disengage" by stepping out/calling time.
- Minimum of 3 batters must be faced by an incoming relief pitcher (or must finish the half-inning)
- Limit on the number of mound visits per game
- Larger bases
- Elimination (mostly) of the defensive "shift"
- Team at bat starts with an automatic "ghost" runner on 2nd base in extra innings
- I don't support what the Trump administration is doing. But saying it's "categorically, scientifically, absurd" to lay people off is some next-level stuff. I can guarantee to anyone reading this, that this person has never owned a business with any kind of significant overhead.
- The article also misspelled her last name.
- I am reminded of an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry gives his dad an expensive, multifunction PDA called "The Wizard" but his Dad doesn't immediately see the use. Jerry explains it can do all kinds of things, for example, it has a calculator he can use to calculate tips at restaurants, leading Dad to conclude it's a $200 tip calculator. Jerry keeps protesting "it does other things!" and the old folks act like they can't even hear him.
- Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
- > The way they can afford to make it cheap for people who can't pay is by charging high prices for insured Americans
This is a hugely underappreciated aspect of why the cost of health care, including insurance premiums, is so high in the US. Well-meaning folks have called for decades for the US to transition to single-payer, citing the overall lower cost experienced in other countries as a primary motivator. Meanwhile, US companies remain the global leaders in the development of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. That development is often subsidized by US taxpayers and the remainder is largely recovered from US patients because the single-payer systems in other countries often impose price controls that largely don't exist in the US.
(This is not meant to argue against single-payer in the US. All things being equal, a single-payer system would likely solve many more problems than it would cause. I'm just pointing out what many before me already have about how Americans disproportionately subsidize the development of the healthcare the rest of the world benefits from).
- I just turn off all the news, ads, crypto wallet, etc. stuff in Brave and it honestly feels just like Chrome but with really good ad-blocking. I'm just a little disappointed to see that it isn't as good at blocking fingerprinting as they claim to be.
- As a Jewish American my experience has lately been that about 25% of the Jews in my circle have always been Republicans and are all-in on this administration, believing that Jewish people and the State of Israel have no better friend than Donald Trump, and that all previous (Democratic) administrations have been anti-Israel. The other 75% are moderate Democrats who roll their eyes at the idea that Trump, his admin, or the vast majority of his voters care one iota about Jews or Israel, that they've found a convenient pretext for clamping down on private institutions and free speech, and see only minor differences in their actual foreign policy vis-a-vis the Middle East and Israel.
I consider myself a moderate's moderate and I do see where everyone's coming from, but if you held a gun to my head I'd probably agree with you: it's not actually about Israel.
- Read what I wrote again please. You didn't understand it the first time.
I think I'm in this boat too. I use this feature, I'm accustomed to it, but throughout my day I am constantly forgetting whether something is in my selection buffer or my clipboard. Windows and Mac users just don't have this problem.