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"Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>"

Incredible.

It likely is acceptable for business-focused code. Compared to a lot of code written by humans, even if the AI code is less than optimal, it's probably better quality than what many humans will write. I think we can all share some horror stories of what we've seen pushed to production.

Executives/product managers/sales often only really care about getting the product working well enough to sell it.

Don't know about the others, but Illinois permanently shut down (and demolished or repurposed the land) the majority of its coal power plants over the past couple decades.

Illinois gets about half its power from nuclear (we have 6 plants and 11 reactors), followed by natural gas at around 20%, and then about equal amounts of coal and wind, at around 10-15%.

So Illinois is actually a pretty decent place to build datacenters, from a clean power generation perspective.

https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=IL

Agreed. It's more practical to tell seniors that all gift card requests are scams rather than teaching them to identify warning signs, since legitimate gift card payments are so rare.

Wow, back in the 70s the bugs were only detectable by x-ray scan. Makes you wonder what kinds of things can be hidden in the ICs of today.

I'm not particularly old yet, in my mid-thirties, but I reacted like someone much older when I learned kids are allowed to carry around their phones all day at school.

Back in my day (when we walked to school uphill both ways), we weren't allowed to carry around basic flip phones. They had to be in our locker and only used before or after school.

When and why did it become acceptable for much more distracting and stimulating devices to be allowed in class?

The telltale for me is the excessive comments. No reasonable human being would do all that extra, redundant work.

Many people are tired of the toxic positivity common in corporate speak, which lets poor performers off the hook, and prevents high-quality talent from speaking freely.

"A complete lack of empathy" is a bit of a stretch, no? Calling someone a monkey is fairly lighthearted, while getting the point across that maybe they should take stock of the awareness of their abilities.

According to Wikipedia, looks like only the Nest Nub.

To whom it may concern, for those who use the modem in bridge mode, it is possible to discreetly pop open the Xfinity modem and disconnect the wireless antennas.

Ah yeah you just reminded me of the rabbit hole I went down a couple years ago.

Yeah I had to flash the firmware on the Anker dongle, following this guide: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dp-usb-c-thunderbolt-to...

I just tried streaming 4K through the Apple TV app on my M1 Macbook Pro and no issues, so I'm assuming HDCP works.

Not sure what the other guy uses, but I use this Anker with my LG OLED to get RGB 4k@120 HDR with my M1 MacBook Pro:

https://www.anker.com/products/a8317?variant=42329259475094&...

When I lived in Chicago with a car, and parked it in the small lot behind a condo building, I had to battle with the rats chewing through my car's wires. Twice they chewed through the MAP sensor wires which caused all kinds of misfires. Had to rewire that whole section of the harness. Then wrapped every wire I could see with this rat tape, and it worked for a while, until maybe the hot/cold cycle of the engine bay degraded the tape enough to not be effective.

They loved the warmth of the engine in winter. They'd climb up into the engine bay and hang out throughout it, bringing along nesting material, aka trash.

To try get rid of them, I tried the typical bait boxes, specialized rat traps, regular rat traps, peppermint, moth balls, a motion sensor light underneath the car, and more. The only thing that really worked was sending so many rat reports to the city that they had to keep coming out to bait the burrows in the neighbors small yard, until they likely talked to the owner directly to do something about it. I had talked with the guy briefly once and asked him about the rats (that were obviously only coming from his small backyard), and his response was pretty much "well it's the city so yeah they're around." Pretty sure one of his tenants also abruptly moved out because the rats chewed through their car too.

The lack of awareness from the guy contributed to me moving out of the city for good. Couldn't stand playing the lottery of good neighbors when most were either renters or inept owners, or a combination of both.

You can either set each up yourself, or there are a variety of containers available. A chatbot of your choice can likely guide you through it, since it'll depend on your specific network setup and how exactly you'd like it configured.

AdGuardHome is fairly straightforward: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome?tab=readme-ov-fil...

And here is a nice script to install wireguard: https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install

And you'll likely need to forward the WireGuard port.

A one-off solution like this is really the only type of solution we have in the face of a massive ad tech industry that largely piggybacks on top of, and inserts itself into, foundational network and web protocols.

Fixing the problem itself would likely require legislation and regulation to get ad tech companies (or the companies that use the ad tech) to pay attention to the data use.

A solution:

AdGuardHome and WireGuard running at home. WireGuard connects on-demand when I leave home.

I choose to run it at home because there are cases where services and/or sites block datacenter IPs, and I have complete control over what and how I block, no proxying through any blocking service.

Autopilot for my sit-on-top fishing kayak. Designed, modeled, and printed an assembly which attaches to the rudder rod. Moves the rod via a stepper motor connected to a Teensy 4.0 which gets NMEA 2000 messages from a Garmin heading sensor and a Garmin fish finder/chartplotter. Uses PID control to maintain any course I set on the chartplotter, using the cross-track error and heading. I’ve had it out on the water a few times now and it works great. Also put together an iOS app that communicates with the assembly via BLE so I can modify the PID gains as needed depending on conditions.

There was a bit of noise to the sonar transducer since the stepper motor was so noisy, but I mostly eliminated it by routing the motor wires through liquid-tight flexible electrical conduit, connecting the conduit to ground.

It's almost as if it was an intentional artistic choice in phrasing... /s

"We began an investigation after seeing repeated complaints mentioning specific ActionTec devices, as a massive number of device owners stated that they were not able to access the internet beginning on October 25, 2023. A growing number of users indicated the outage was common to two different gateway models: the ActionTec T3200s and ActionTec T3260s, both displaying a static red light."

I'd love to see one of these on each end of the arterial 4-lane streets of Chicago. When spring hits, fire them up and go from one end to the other in either direction. Potholes become a thing of the past.

We're already used to overhead infrastructure with the L all over the city.

Kind of wild at the end of the GMA video in the twitter post, they tell passengers to be careful of how you display your boarding pass. It’s not on the passengers to maintain the security of the system.

I had some of the most satisfying fun I’ve ever had putting together my 0.2. It’s like Lego but with the extra satisfaction that comes from printing some of the parts yourself, and you get a high-quality, modifiable, useful tool when you’re done.

And now I’m printing the parts for a 2.4, using the 0.2.

"Within the expansive Apiaceae family are some of the tastiest ... food plants in the world: ..., celery..."

Hmm, we have different tastes.

As someone who has lived here for going on 15 years, he really unintentionally nailed the whole spectrum of experience of living in Chicago.

And “Live in a city for any amount of time and you'll start to develop a subconscious odds calculator.” was very relatable.

Side note, I like the casual technical writing style used here, with the main points summarized along the way. Easily digestible and I can go back and get the details in the main text at any point if I want.

I recently put something together similar to this, to switch between my personal PopOS/Windows machine and my work Macbook Pro.

I used one of these manual USB switchers, (https://sabrent.com/products/usb-sw30), and connected its switch to a Raspberry Pi 4B via GPIO (4B is overkill by wanted hardwired network). There's a small separate keyboard (which will later be a macro keypad of some sort), connected to the Pi. Using inputexec (https://github.com/rbarrois/inputexec) to detect keypresses and then firing off a specific script to send a network request to the LG TV I use as a monitor to switch the source, and then set the GPIO connected to the USB switcher to high or low to switch the keyboard/mouse to the other machine.

I can also turn on/off the TV using the same WebOS API (and Wake-on-lan) as used during the source switch. A Kasa smart outlet also gets toggled to turn on/off a BenQ ScreenBar Halo (https://www.benq.com/en-us/lighting/monitor-light.html).

So with 4 different keypresses, I can switch to Work, to Personal, turn off monitor and light, and turn on monitor and light.

Trying not to sound as sensationalist as the original story, but this part specifically had me infuriated:

"Hunter has had less luck. Of the news stories, he said: “They’re infuriating but they’re comical if you have the facts… I tried to give the facts to KIRO, I tried to give the facts to Daily Mail, I tried to give the facts to Business Insider. I would send them actual proof of everything, and none of that mattered. They just wanted that [online] engagement.”

How do we solve that problem? Educate people to instead read properly informed news sources that still have journalistic integrity? Hold the journalists to a higher standard and call them out when printing sensationalist stories? Even if they are called out, the damage is usually already done. The press is supposed to check society, but who checks the press?

Likely related to biometrics laws. I know Illinois has restrictions on the collection of biometrics, not sure about Texas. Facebook in particular paid out a significant amount of money in a class action in Illinois, I know because I got a chunk of change from it.

Quick side note on Best Buy abandoning selling physical media, the cashier at Best Buy said they'll probably just throw the rest of their stock in the trash when they stop selling them in early 2024. So if anyone is interested in some free blu-rays and doesn't mind dumpster diving...