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I guess then, that he is relying on his customers not discovering that there are options out there that will do this for them, without a "middle man" as it were. Seems like shaky ground to be standing on, but I suppose it can work for a while, if he already has good relationships in his industry.

Waymo is doing very well around San Francisco, which is certainly very challenging city driving. Yes, it doesn't snow there. Maybe areas with winter storms will never have autonomous vehicles. That doesn't mean there isn't a lot of utility created even now.

Seeing images like that are always a good reminder that LLM's don't actually "know" anything.

Bit of an aside but that site is truly awesome. Good to see some real design chops out there. I could browse those fonts for hours.

I had a colleague who I sensed was giving me the cold shoulder. Just kind of cutting off attempts at friendly conversation, whereas before our relationship had been fine.

As the author suggests, instead of just letting it fester, I caught him at an opportune moment and asked him if I had done anything to upset him (I suspected maybe a not-tactful-enough code review may have been the culprit.) He just denied that anything was wrong, other than that he wasn't sure how to relate to me because our circumstances are so different (I'm quite a bit older than him and have a family, although it hadn't been a problem before.)

Unfortunately this interaction just made our relationship even more awkward, and it never recovered. He ended up leaving the company about six months later.

In summation, simply getting things out in the open is not necessarily the cure-all the author suggests it is.

As another data point, my son was 5 when the lockdowns hit and missed the end of his kindergarten year and the entirety of first grade. He's doing fine.

My daughter was 18 months and went back to preschool at age three. She's also doing fine.

In fact I don't know any of their peer group who I would consider to be "having a terrible time adjusting to school and normal social interaction" which could be directly tied to Covid. There were some kids who had already been identified as having developmental challenges, and that hasn't changed.

It looks like it's using an LLM agent to do the actual work of editing the site.

99% of users of FB would never hear of this extension, nor know what to do with an extension, nor care to even consider that they could improve their experience.

Also the typeface, kerning and line heights are a bit - unconventional, which doesn't help the readability

> In the cafeteria, Ryan Tripathi, 16, was paging through “Lord of the Flies,” which he said is slow-going. “I'm just not used to reading,” he said. “I’m usually on my phone.”

Damn, that hits pretty hard.

Can you seriously deny that it will take many fewer developers using LLMs to do what was done without LLMs? Many if not most software companies have either greatly slowed hiring, or laid off tranches of developers.

Not all developer jobs will disappear, but there will most certainly be fewer available. Any new grad can tell you how hard it is to find a software engineering job nowadays.

Certainly we cannot just let an AI spin and build software unattended. But what used to take days can now be done in minutes.

I was struggling with this too - maybe it means that at compile time, it just flags those nodes in the tree that might become dirty due to state changes, and ignores the rest.

I think it's a pretty common writing technique to start out with a personal anecdote, so the reader feels like they can relate to the person writing the story. Maybe this particular one didn't draw you in.

On the other hand, I'd posit that you're much less likely to feel motivated if your desk is messy.

I call this the "Wall of Inertia." Before you walk up to it and face it, it feels 10 feet tall, but once you actually just take it on, it only turned out to be 6 inches tall and you can easily hop over it.

But it feeling 10 feet tall is enough to make you avoid it entirely for a long time.

That doesn't really work for important things like going to the dentist, keeping healthy etc. The downside of just not doing those things is enormous.

Agreed. Another issue I have is that the requests will randomly stop propagating from the kids' iPads to my phone. To fix it, I have to either reboot the phone or if that doesn't work, change the name of my phone.

> time limits never worked for my kids (they could always override them with one click).

Huh, that's weird. Seems to work ok for mine in limiting their iPad use. They can request more time and I can decide to grant it or not, I get choices of 15 minutes, 1 hour or all day.

Four digits? Rookies.

> Mind you, some people also get motion sick by watching a first-person shooter on a flat screen

Yep I'm that guy. I blame it on being old.

Wow, I hadn't thought about Computerland for quite a while. That was my go-to to kill some time at the mall when I was a teen.

How would they charge for carryons though? Would they charge for say a bag of food you just bought? Also they'd have to put in infrastructure for charging right at the gate, and I'd imagine that would further slow things down, require more staff etc. Just don't think either thing will happen, since clearly they care a lot more about making money than passenger convenience.

Next up in the timeline - when a bad jobs report lands, the person reporting the unwanted data gets fired [0]. Undoubtedly a toadie will be put in their place who will report numbers that make fearless leader look better.

We are now well on our way to George Orwell's 1984 dystopia.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/trump-job-report-num...

It took me a while and a couple of re-reads to parse out the same conclusion. Basically they're batched instead of happening continuously.

I discovered justtherecipe.com and never went back. So far it's free and ad-free, though I suspect that will end soon.

I feel like what we're seeing now is that the uneasy truce which used to exist is breaking down. Each side is more or less openly calling for the destruction of the other, and not seeing each other as human beings.

That's weird. Where I am, if you buy tickets online you get a QR code. At the theater, there's someone in front who scans your QR code and gives you a physical ticket. That ticket is not really checked, but there is always someone there paying attention to folks walking in.

Generally in VSCode and its clones you can drag the window anywhere you like. I've been using my Copilot in the lower area which spans multiple panels, to give myself a little more viewing space.

I don't know that most people think that phone addiction is akin to brainwashing. Rather, endless scrolling robs people of time to pursue potentially more noble or productive pursuits, and tends to shorten attention spans.

Well how do you think they got to $50B profit? /s