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Missing so many fundamental pieces of digital infrastructure, at least getting mapping to the point where it isn't a Google monopoly is amazing.

> Being product-led means caring about your users

Show me a platform team with a full product setup and I'll show you a platform team with over capacity.

Not to mention the average level of PMs will take a team like this down if you can even find one who can understand the type of work that the team is doing.

Who remembers the picture of inside Zuckerberg's home that got leaked with the grotesks living their private lives?

This is entirely how FP is supposed to work. Don't like that, don't use it.

It ships database files over the network and does that blazingly fast.

I had to setup a Passkey recently and wanted to store it in 1Password and the experience was quite absurd.

I don't know who designed this or who thinks these are acceptable affordances, but it seem to be part of the same disingenuous push that's behind passkeys in general.

It's the same here in the various city libraries of Berlin both in the state library as well in the various branches across town.

State: https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/

And this is by no means special. I'm pretty sure this is the case for most major city libraries in Europe.

Other than that lots of people do their work or homework there, hangout in the outside spaces, book rooms for community meetings. With some more budget, I think there's a lot to be said for these to become default community activity/collaboration spaces.

> not claiming that the model wasn't trained on those sessions

The math group inside OpenAI may be training or fine tuning their own models which given some reward functions would definitely bias their usage of the training data towards things that look like math.

You can launder all of it without a human "directly" doing anything.

It's fine. They only need to steal the discoveries long enough to go IPO, then the companies will enshittify and the scientists can go back to doing their original work (which the models can't do anyway).

Just take Baby Rudin and a serious stack of paper with you on these holidays and you should be set.

My two experiences of de-brainrotting:

1. Doing a pilgrimage walk in Japan with a cleared phone home screen. Only the Gaia GPS app on there with the route, and some other local weather and mapping applications. No consumption of anything external during the day. Just steady walking and eating and looking around. It was excellent. You can probably do this anywhere given the right context and commitment.

2. We slept several nights in a hut at 2100m altitude in the Austrian Alps just out of range of cell reception so the icon on my phone was "satellite" all the time. It turns out that without the possibility of communication or fresh input, you can read a bit on your kindle in the evening and then go KO at around 22:00 sleeping like a rock until 06:30. Such an amazing amount of rest and refreshment just from a simple accident of geography.

I have a basic task that I run every day and I use it to eval models and these days the Qwen3.8 model I can run on my laptop is competitive with both Claude and Codex because the models have just been adulterated so far. I have to ask and ask again for it to follow the single skill that describes how to do the task and maybe then will it do it.

For full text search you could also use pg_search (Tantivy) which looks very cool.

But at scale you probably don't want to manage a bunch of mission critical systems that were jacked into your database server. The database is slow? How do we monitor that?

So I would definitely begin like this, but you need to have a plan to break all of these out sooner or later.

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> personalized feedback, quickly identifying where you are stuck and focusing the explanations and exercises on that area,

This has been a huge blocker when I tried to study advanced math myself. Many of the exercise books don't have worked out answers, so often you're either stuck or you have to hunt a variety of sources online for solutions and advice. It kills flow.

A classic German example of a zaibatsu.

Privacy extremists are always very vocal but most people do not care at all about this.

Maybe people have pornography production streams they want to manage using Immmich?

Though, that is a steep price.

My most likely one that I would take is this one: https://jezailfunder.jp

Oh cool! Always a new one to discover.

I need a split wireless mechanical keyboard to use with my phone on the go. Anybody have something good?

I realized long ago that this is a complete waste of time and now I'll usually only argue with people for (blood) sport and love of the game but only if I feel like it.

I have a fairly beefy M4/48G but I haven't been able to get any local model to behave anywhere near satisfactorily.

At least the guys got fired. In Germany they probably wouldn't.

Were they ever "special"?

The inbound stuff we get through the vulnerability e-mail is pretty much exclusively spam. Then they start e-mailing random people of the company they can find to get through, and in the end it's still spam.

> the Tony Blair Institute

Making war crimes palatable?

"Global Thermonuclear War"

Who are paid at a steady and relatively decent rate. That's cool.

It's unbelievable what lengths people will go to to hate on this. The article is good, I learned a bunch of stuff and was putting off verb conjugation for a while now.

> Rules for thee but not for me

This pretty accurately describes lots of stuff going on here in Germany as well and well the state of most of our "liberal democracies".

If you're going to go into this direction, it seems like this would become sort of a "Letterboxd list visualizer" which honestly could be pretty cool.

Github should be treated as a toxic waste site. I don't see it ever being secured by Microsoft.

I'm in Berlin where there's a glut of offices which are all sitting empty. I'm living next to a top line historic renovation/office space and it took them 8-9 years to complete the renovation at probably an astronomical cost and now it's been sitting empty for a year or so.

This financial model is also the main reason why it's so hard to convert these buildings to residential. Somebody has to eat the markdown.