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I can think of another reason there are more BMWs sold in the U.S. than Cadillacs in Europe.
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I can think of another reason there are more BMWs sold in the U.S. than Cadillacs in Europe.
This aged well
Who's Mozi'ing?
March 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This aged well
No. It is not. What level of psycho are you to live your life like this?
March 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
No. It is not. What level of psycho are you to live your life like this?
Silence in my house:
My loud Italian wife: my butt scrub!!!
My loud Italian wife: my butt scrub!!!
March 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Silence in my house:
My loud Italian wife: my butt scrub!!!
My loud Italian wife: my butt scrub!!!
“Leeks are in season now, so” shut up and go away
March 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Leeks are in season now, so” shut up and go away
The F1 driver presentation sequence is an absolute embarrassment to the entire planet
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The F1 driver presentation sequence is an absolute embarrassment to the entire planet
I’m getting whiplash
"The United States has requested that Denmark and other European countries send it eggs, according to the Nordic country's egg association." 😂😂😂
p.dw.com/p/4rnEg
p.dw.com/p/4rnEg
US asks Denmark and others how many eggs they can send – DW – 03/14/2025
p.dw.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’m getting whiplash
My not-particularly-generous take on the Rolex episode of Acquired 3 hours in, is that it's a brand mostly built on a bunch of half truths?
February 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My not-particularly-generous take on the Rolex episode of Acquired 3 hours in, is that it's a brand mostly built on a bunch of half truths?
Reposted by Nick Bruun
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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Whenever you read these types of prognostications, just remember they were all wrong about Web 2.0 and 3.0 too.
February 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Whenever you read these types of prognostications, just remember they were all wrong about Web 2.0 and 3.0 too.
What in the utter nonsense is this? TCP provided ordering, reliability and error checking on top of a lossy layer. And I'd be damn hard pressed to say it maintained application context/state nor generalized error handling. akashbajwa.substack.com/p/model-cont...
Model Context Protocol: AI's TCP/IP
Agent-Computer Interfaces
akashbajwa.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
What in the utter nonsense is this? TCP provided ordering, reliability and error checking on top of a lossy layer. And I'd be damn hard pressed to say it maintained application context/state nor generalized error handling. akashbajwa.substack.com/p/model-cont...
Today on LinkedIn: "Acknowledging your expertise in the tech field, I would be grateful for the opportunity to connect."
February 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today on LinkedIn: "Acknowledging your expertise in the tech field, I would be grateful for the opportunity to connect."
Good for Sven vinepair.com/articles/lak...
In Norway, Lake-Harvested Cocktail Ice Is an Old Business Making a Quiet Comeback
Frosty, cooling drinks like juleps and cobblers were trending in early 1800s America, their popularity driven by the recent year-round availability of ice. Blocks of it were cut from ponds and lakes i...
vinepair.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Good for Sven vinepair.com/articles/lak...
What’s with the aggressive flagging of news about the government on Hacker News all of the sudden?
February 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
What’s with the aggressive flagging of news about the government on Hacker News all of the sudden?
I’ve been thinking about doing this for years, and on day two I can confidently say: it’s a game changer to my blood pressure. Should have actually done this years ago.
As a QOL improvement, I’m now proxying all RSS feeds I consume through a filter, that removes all AI nonsense along with certain companies owned by certain unelected government “officials”
February 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I’ve been thinking about doing this for years, and on day two I can confidently say: it’s a game changer to my blood pressure. Should have actually done this years ago.
As a QOL improvement, I’m now proxying all RSS feeds I consume through a filter, that removes all AI nonsense along with certain companies owned by certain unelected government “officials”
February 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
As a QOL improvement, I’m now proxying all RSS feeds I consume through a filter, that removes all AI nonsense along with certain companies owned by certain unelected government “officials”
The fact that the setup screens do not allow you to preemptively disable Apple Intelligence, combined with the fact that they’re now seemingly reenabling it (because of a bug?) during patch version upgrades is just very far below my expectations lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...
Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence
lapcatsoftware.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The fact that the setup screens do not allow you to preemptively disable Apple Intelligence, combined with the fact that they’re now seemingly reenabling it (because of a bug?) during patch version upgrades is just very far below my expectations lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...
Would have been a lot cooler if this was a map of time travel
February 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Would have been a lot cooler if this was a map of time travel
Our Super Bowl plans fell through, and I am elated
February 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Our Super Bowl plans fell through, and I am elated
If you changed the Deal, you made a new Deal. That’s twice as good as one Deal.
The Art Of Repeated Last Minute Deals That Are The Outcome Of Serial Games of Chicken With The Same Players But With Little Guarantee That Commitments Made At The Last Deal Will Be Upheld At The Next Deal But As Long As Someone Can Claim They Won, Hey That’s Fine.
February 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you changed the Deal, you made a new Deal. That’s twice as good as one Deal.
Cake pops are a coffee tax on parents. The administration should really look into this.
February 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Cake pops are a coffee tax on parents. The administration should really look into this.
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Ahab could've done this even cheaper. 🐋
Osaka whale burial cost could have been 14 million yen less | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
OSAKA—An external review released by the city government here on Jan. 30 found that improved negotiations could have slashed the 80 million yen ($517,000) cost of burying a deceased stranded whale by ...
ajw-origin.potaufeu.asahi.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Ahab could've done this even cheaper. 🐋
Not DJ Ötzi! vetmed.illinois.edu/i-tick/2019/...
Ötzi the Lyme Mummy – Tattle the Tick blog
Brrrr! It's a chilly day here in Illinois with all the wind. I'm not complaining however. Can you imagine being frozen in a glacier for thousands of years and suffer from Lyme disease?! Whew, I can't ...
vetmed.illinois.edu
January 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Not DJ Ötzi! vetmed.illinois.edu/i-tick/2019/...
Oh, the fucking irony www.404media.co/openai-furio...
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh, the fucking irony www.404media.co/openai-furio...
I went to bed at 8 PM to get a good night’s sleep. Now my back hurts. What even is the point of trying in your 30s?
January 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I went to bed at 8 PM to get a good night’s sleep. Now my back hurts. What even is the point of trying in your 30s?