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I can't speak for the Mamiya Press but the Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 for the Graflex XL is rad.

I did expect there to be more strong applicants, but that hardly means I expect "perfect" applicants or "cream of the crop for nothing." With one role, for example, there are basically unqualified people, and qualified people who won't accept the top of our range (~$120K).

I have multiple open roles right now and am finding that I can’t afford to hire the top applicants. I honestly did not expect to have so little leverage.

Don't forget the Native Americans in Peter Pan!

Just dropping by to say how much I passionately hate documentation that uses fib() as an example.

Well, it would probably need to be part of a physical product and not software alone unless the vendor is dumb and forgot to disclaim the warranty (see https://repository.law.uic.edu/jitpl/vol16/iss2/6/).

Second, it’s not exactly about whether the change constitutes a drop in quality but whether it renders the product unfit for its ordinary purpose. The argument would essentially be that the change is a deliberately introduced defect.

It’s a little weird but a plausible claim given the right facts.

As a lawyer I think this could potentially be litigated as a breach of the implied warranty of merchantability.

I wonder how this compares to Technical Pan, which I imagine it was modeled after.

Eh, kind of. Right now I'm hiring for a role where nobody remaining in my applicant pool is qualified (all have only some of the experience I need) but I'm probably still going to hire one of them. Does that "qualify" them? No. It just means I'm probably going to hire despite it.

There’s always treason

That has never worked well in America.

Rather than trying to trip up the LLM I find it’s much easier to ask about something esoteric that the LLM would know but a normal person wouldn’t.

I sell you a cat for $1B and you sell me a dog for $1B and now we’re both billionaires! Whether the capital markets “want” that or not it’s still silly.

I'm also a fan of "Every B2B SaaS attempts to expand until it it's an ERP."

This has got to be the weirdest litigation strategy I’ve ever seen.

This is basically the opposite of how juror psychology works. Jurors in these cases tend to vote against defendants they identify with because they prefer to believe they’d never act like the defendant. Source: I’m a former jury consultant who researched and consulted on these kinds of cases.

You mean you never stay in a CC session long enough to even see the auto compaction warning?

You mean like the million dollar McMansions on the same block as a gas station, across the street from an office high rise? I think you’re over-estimating the effect of land prices.

In theory, sure, but in reality, please god no. 99% of LinkedIn messages you get as a hiring manager are “Hi I applied to your role”, “Hi I applied to your role and I’d be a great fit when can we talk?”, “Hi I’m really interested in learning about your work can we meet for coffee?”, or “Hi I’d be a great fit for your role because <insert enormous AI-written cover letter>.”

The AI-written cover letters are a dead giveaway and you can often spot them in less than 10 seconds easy, but it’s still a terrible slog.

If you don’t believe me, try clustering 1,000 cover letters.

Seems obvious to me that this is so the government can force the platform to silence users who are critical of the government.

They started dying quite some time ago, at least as early as when they hired John Yoo.

Iron would be fine since there’s basically no atmosphere to oxidize it right?

I’m building a moderately complex system with FastAPI + PG + Prefect executing stuff on Cloud Run, and so long as I invest in getting the architecture and specs right, it’s really a dream how much of the heavy lifting and grunt work I can leave to Claude Code. And thank god I don’t have to manage Alembic by myself.

“Reproduce” in this context reads like “copy/republish”, which would not be a derivative work.

There's nothing new here but it's definitely hilarious.

Basically, you donate to a PBS member station, and the station uses at least some portion your money to pay PBS dues.

PBS doesn’t make PBS content either. They acquire it from people who make it using CPB money, among others. Then the stations that don’t make the content license it from PBS, mainly using CPB money. And they use it to attract members/donors.

You’ve framed this as if the disappearance of CPB and its money is basically a big nothing-burger, which is extremely far from the truth.

Source: I work in the system at a level with visibility into these things.

Disney is a good one to bet on. They basically have the most sophisticated IP lawyering team in world history.

Meta seems like it's definitely worse than the others now, though, since you're liable to be explicitly labeled a "low performer" if you get laid off.