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Jgrubb

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https://www.thefinoperator.com

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Jgrubb··on The Future of Email
If only there were some interest on the part of Big Telco to solve these types of problems.
Jgrubb··on APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs
Yes. Not to mention, I have several crates of records that I've had since the 90s. Some of those were taken from my dad collection that he bought new back in the 60s. Those albums still play just fine, despite less than archival care taken.

Contrast that with several folders of CDs I still have which have begun to delaminate and are plastic trash now. CDs were largely an invention to allow record companies to resell back catalogs, and it worked.

Jgrubb··on APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs
Vinyl is a terrible technology?? Have you never put on an old record and considered the miracle of it?

70 years ago Miles Davis vibrates some air with his horn, which is translated into electricity by a microphone, which is translated through magnetic tape and eventually back into electricity and then back into vibrations on a disk. 70 years later I can take that disk and turn its vibrations back into electricity that moves the air on my living room. No encoding, no decoding, just air and electricity that my ancestors will be able to replay until the end of time.

That's as close to magic as anything humanity has ever come up with in my opinion.

Jgrubb··on Can we have the day off?
I don't know what's gonna happen man, but I'm gonna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

- Jim Morrison

Jgrubb··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
I think actual thinking is now more valuable than ever.
Jgrubb··on Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch
Part of the magic of their account rep strategy is how they keep them on your account for so long, you get to develop not just a rapport but a trust that they truly understand your business. It gives me faith that when they advise us on their new AI products, they're going to be a good fit.

Edit: I forgot to mention the curiosity and humility they bring to our calls. If I point out another vendors approach to a problem that we have, they always lean in and want to help improve their offerings from our feedback. They know it's not enough just to "be Google".

Jgrubb··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Railway has not had the best month in the tech press have they? And in both cases it was an automated process belonging to some other party that put them there, damaging their reputation.

I was going to talk to our google rep about their killing the Gemini cli but this is way more concerning.

Jgrubb··on USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought
"All the new data centers" are being built everywhere.
Jgrubb··on The left-wing case for AI
> I wonder what we’d find if we rigorously compared the baseline teacher error rate with the hallucination rate of current LLMs.

The teacher stands in from of the class, but the lesson plan he can't recall.

The students eyes don't perceive the lies mounted on every fucking wall.

His composure is well kept.

I guess he fears playing the fool.

The complacent students sit and listen to that bullshit that he learned in school.

This lyric pops in my head a lot.

Jgrubb··on Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?
I'm sorry, we should shame the people who are following the only tattered script left for trying to make a better life for themselves?
Jgrubb··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
From my source:

> Things that are not true: not every Louisiana lawyer is smart. Some of them are very dumb.

> You don’t have to speak 2 languages.

> Louisiana has a mixed jurisdiction, just like everywhere else in the United States. The difference is that common law relies on stare decisis, and Louisiana relies on the civil code as the basis for law.

> It is true that Louisiana originally took different parts of the law from historical bases that are uncommon for America. Our property law comes from the visigoths or something.

> However, the Napoleonic code did not actually arrive in Louisiana until two or three years after the civil code of Louisiana was officially adopted, so it is not based on Napoleon code, though that is frequently asserted.

Jgrubb··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
update from my bud:

> Almost all of the references to the “law firm hired by trucking companies” refer to my firm.

He's been telling me about this scammy former stunt woman attorney since before covid.

Jgrubb··on I've sold out
Sorry I'm late but stick with CC. I introduced a coworker to Pi and spent most of the morning feeling like I should apologize for it not doing this or that out of the box.
Jgrubb··on New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy
My best friend is an insurance attorney in New Orleans, and has been telling me this saga for years now. It's wild to see this coming out.
Jgrubb··on I've sold out
> vim versus an IDE is exactly how I describe it to some of my coworkers who are old enough to have used vim.
Jgrubb··on I've sold out
I switched about a month ago, looked back once for about 10 minutes and decided I'm officially done w CC. I didn't realize what a dull knife CC is until I tried a really sharp one, and that's Pi.
Jgrubb··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
Does your employer use Salesforce? Crappy software is practically the only software that anybody really pays for.
Jgrubb··on Big data on the cheapest MacBook
It really is one of the greatest open source gifts of recent years.
Jgrubb··on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads
I know nothing about hardware, but is there a world where an OpenWRT firmware for smart TVs is possible? Are there that many different chipsets and manufacturers?
Jgrubb··on Microslop Manifesto
The "hide distracting items" option is the best thing Apple has done lately. Unfortunately there's not anything worth your time once you get that nav out of the way.
Jgrubb··on Code has always been the easy part
...to the person who knows how to code.
Jgrubb··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
I was "ideologically tied" to using products created by people who clearly cared more about creating them and my experience using them than their competitors. That era seems to have finally passed.

If this phone dies before they right the ship, I'll be looking around for the first time in almost 20 years.

Jgrubb··on Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
I agree with the other poster and gladly converted to a paying customer of Wispr because they did this right.

Honestly, I bet your question is exactly what every team adjacent to this problem at Apple is doing. Pointing fingers at each other and saying, "This isn't my problem. This is some other team." It's so egregiously broken that obviously no one inside there considers it their problem. I think this must be rampant at Apple currently. There's just no explanation for how their software has gone so completely to shit over the last ten years.

Jgrubb··on Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
I'll settle for "gets voice to text right most of the time". Seriously, Apple is so far behind on the cheapest table stakes at this point I highly doubt their high standards is the issue.
Jgrubb··on ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
Could you elaborate? because that sentence made my brow wrinkle with confusion. I have thought to myself before that all business data problems eventually become time series problems. I'd like to understand your point of view on how LLMs fit into that.
Jgrubb··on Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them
Because money.
Jgrubb··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
That tool search tool y'all announced recently - huge upvote for getting that into Claude code.
Jgrubb··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
Including the Claude Code v2 experience in VSCode.

Thank you, whoever added the setting to revert back to the terminal experience.

Jgrubb··on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
Legend
Jgrubb··on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
Live by the vibe, die by the vibe.
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