tomjakubowski

the dates of his articles (well, month and year) are all here: https://danluu.com/

You wouldn't need to read all of it to glean that it's slop. Merely a skim or even less signal than that is needed, like simply seeing that it's a multi-paragraph post on LinkedIn. I suppose even surface-level engagement with slop causes some psychic damage, though.

For others who didn't know, the APA is the Administrative Procedure Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act

from those numbers it's actually 0.00007%. you missed shifting the decimal by two places when converting to a percentage.

There were malaria epidemics in even quite temperate parts of Europe up to the mid 20th century, including Bavaria and even England, and it was endemic to parts of Italy and Greece. P. falciparum was found in bone samples of the Medicis.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8277918/

A handful of people I used to work with lost their US manufacturing jobs in 2025 by exactly this mechanism. Their job was assembling products from components built in China, for export to Europe. Their inputs got new tariffs in 2025, and European retaliatory tariffs hit them on the other end. The jobs were moved to a factory in China.

Head to the shed:

https://www.idler.co.uk/article/sheds-in-the-time-of-lockdow...

Fascinating stuff. And what a logo.

> Starting a national crusade to cast away coin-operated commodes, Gessel told newsmen, "You can have a fifty-dollar bill, but if you don't have a dime, that metal box is between you and relief."

I'm sympathetic to this argument. Carrying around loose change with US-style billfold wallets has never been convenient, and back in the day you'd often find yourself without change for a bus fare or a pay phone and so on in a critical moment.

Today, though, almost everyone carries either a contactless credit card or a phone with an NFC wallet. I would pay $0.25 for access to a clean public toilet if I could swipe one of those instead of having to carry change.

LA Metro has these restroom facilities at their rail stations, which are free for a 10 minute visit but require an access code on your phone or a standalone entry pass. I've never used one, but heard great things. https://thronelabs.co/

I would also think that unscrupulous scrap buyers would offer a lower price for copper which has obviously been stolen or stripped from public works, since they are taking on more risk by buying it.

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It isn't clear to me what advantages OpenRouter has over running a similar router-aggregator locally for ~free. I guess they have stronger bargaining power than a solo engineer or small startup, and can therefore negotiate volume discounts with model providers. The question is if those discounts let them offer cheaper rates than a local router-aggregator even after the markup. And if they can do that, then OpenRouter is undercutting the providers themselves on price, which I would imagine the providers would not want to see.

Strange. The back button in the UI is disabled once you get back to September 2016. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/8l4ygp009s5s?page=40

The earliest recorded downtime for Git Ops I could find is in December 2018. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/8l4ygp009s5s?page=32

DuckDB is much like SQLite, but built for OLAP workloads: it's in-process, with a single file format on a disk, and (unlike SQLite) the data is stored in columns for better OLAP performance.

Like SQLite, concurrency options are limited compared to client-server databases like Postgres or MariaDB. DuckDB 2.0 will be adding a client-server mode with the Quack protocol which can allow for greater concurrency.

But you can also use DuckDB as a multitool to connect to and query all kinds of other data sources from one connection. Being able to pull in data from Postgres, CSVs or parquets on a file system or S3, and JSON returned by a web API, and then query across all of it in one place, can be quite handy for ad-hoc data analysis and exploration.

Strang's OCW lectures are fantastic. His voice rings "combinations of columns" in my head almost ten years later whenever I do a matrix or matrix-vector multiply on paper. I found the textbook was a good accompaniment for the lecture course, but maybe not a good book to use on its own for self-study. (IIRC, when following the lectures, you jump around the chapters a bit out of order [or, you read the chapters non-linearly]. So the disorganized thing may be true.)

Yeah, I think N_Lens was saying the manager's behavior in that anecdote was too high a bar.

Would be nice if they did support that, but on a LAN you can always encrypt at layer 3 with WireGuard.

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There's an open source project which is a syslog daemon that stores logs in DuckDB. You can configure journald to forward logs to it.

https://github.com/phare/sloggo

The author self-submitted a Show HN for it earlier today, so maybe that's out of date.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287604

Here in the US, on the regular retail side of Amazon, I see a twelve pack of 3.75oz canned sardines in water, Beach Cliff brand, for $18.96, or $0.42/oz. I don't buy sardines but this seems not terribly out of line with prices I see at Walmart and Target, maybe a 20-25% premium. A local fancy grocery store has sardines in water from Chicken of the Sea at $0.58/oz.

Shelf-stable foodstuffs like canned sardines can be ordered for delivery from the regular Amazon, the same side of their site you might order a book or a laptop from, outside of their newer grocery retail channels.

When we've done both we will have fully automated Erdős.

Genealogical software, historical video games (CK2 has at least one mod which adds alternative calendars), I can imagine there are some needs for this in contract management software for countries with very old businesses and properties like England and Japan.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it's not necessarily a terminal feature per se. Have you tried setting `vi` mode in your shell? There is a bit of lag going into normal mode in ghostty; maybe ghostty is configured by default to wait for a second keypress when you hit Esc and you can disable that.

Bash (also works in zsh): https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-...

Notion pages are pretty good for shared trip planning docs. Although maybe without so many live updating widgets.

Might their professionals market segment (designers, video editors, 3d artists, and so on) still be using thunderbolt and LAN storage? This was the case ~7 years ago when I worked adjacent to these sorts of users. Video files are huge and expensive in time and money to transit with cloud storage providers.

pydantic-settings is not limited to loading from config files. It is easy to populate a settings model from environment variables, for example. With a little bit of glue code it could load from the secretspec sdk.

There is actually quite a lot of variation from person to person in caffeine elimination half-life, from about 1.5-9 hours. Some of my extended family could drink a cup of coffee right before bed without issue.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223808/

Drip coffee has ~40-50% more caffeine per 8oz serving than Red Bull (about 90-100mg vs 65mg). The nice thing about coffee is that the mouth-puckering tannins make it harder to absolutely pound them, like one can do easily with cans of Red Bull.