KooShnoo
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That is actually what sold VCRs in the first place, and there is a lot of important history there when it comes to the legality of recording copyrighted content for personal use. Court cases and all!
I think it's important that we don't forget that history given how we don't get to own anything.
I think it's important that we don't forget that history given how we don't get to own anything.
January 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
That is actually what sold VCRs in the first place, and there is a lot of important history there when it comes to the legality of recording copyrighted content for personal use. Court cases and all!
I think it's important that we don't forget that history given how we don't get to own anything.
I think it's important that we don't forget that history given how we don't get to own anything.
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As whatever kind of technological historian I am, the reason it's important to me to keep the term VCR alive is that these devices could record TV shows.
Home video was not simply relegated to renting movies or purchasing your own tapes to build a library. You could record stuff from TV.
Home video was not simply relegated to renting movies or purchasing your own tapes to build a library. You could record stuff from TV.
January 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
As whatever kind of technological historian I am, the reason it's important to me to keep the term VCR alive is that these devices could record TV shows.
Home video was not simply relegated to renting movies or purchasing your own tapes to build a library. You could record stuff from TV.
Home video was not simply relegated to renting movies or purchasing your own tapes to build a library. You could record stuff from TV.
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we should be building so much affordable housing in every california city so people can afford to not just move here but do it in dignity and not be dependent on making big money from tech or living with multiple people
oh and give queer people a ubi
oh and give queer people a ubi
As Californians, we should be prepared to receive over a million LGBTQ people moving here, and that is on top of other groups moving here for other reasons, whether it's to get away from racism, to find jobs, etc.
Getting more housing built quickly will be important.
Getting more housing built quickly will be important.
January 11, 2026 at 2:31 AM
we should be building so much affordable housing in every california city so people can afford to not just move here but do it in dignity and not be dependent on making big money from tech or living with multiple people
oh and give queer people a ubi
oh and give queer people a ubi
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my dream is still turning the mall into a station for geary subway/powell with towers on top like an MTR station or something
just not another mall full of big box store chains and luxury brands nobody can afford
give me spaces with a bar that seats 8 people max with low rent for locals to open
just not another mall full of big box store chains and luxury brands nobody can afford
give me spaces with a bar that seats 8 people max with low rent for locals to open
“There is no pundit I trust more than history.”
A look back at an 1800s ballpark on Market Street (!!!) and how it should give us hope when looking at our dismal downtown dead mall.
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
A look back at an 1800s ballpark on Market Street (!!!) and how it should give us hope when looking at our dismal downtown dead mall.
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Is there a future for S.F.'s dead mall on Market? An 1800s ballpark offers hope
Feeling down on the future of downtown San Francisco? Look to a forgotten ballpark at Eighth and Market streets — and the city’s history of resilience.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
my dream is still turning the mall into a station for geary subway/powell with towers on top like an MTR station or something
just not another mall full of big box store chains and luxury brands nobody can afford
give me spaces with a bar that seats 8 people max with low rent for locals to open
just not another mall full of big box store chains and luxury brands nobody can afford
give me spaces with a bar that seats 8 people max with low rent for locals to open
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is he... y'know... a friend of claude
January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
is he... y'know... a friend of claude
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people like to prance around this, but if you look at the last let's say 40 years, it's very clear which states have their borders violated and which states do not
i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation
i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
people like to prance around this, but if you look at the last let's say 40 years, it's very clear which states have their borders violated and which states do not
i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation
i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation
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easy solution to the current political situation: give greenland a nuclear submarine
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
easy solution to the current political situation: give greenland a nuclear submarine
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heard the RAM shortage is getting bad so I've been trying to stock up🤞
January 5, 2026 at 3:32 AM
heard the RAM shortage is getting bad so I've been trying to stock up🤞
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legalize these everywhere in the bay
January 2, 2026 at 5:40 AM
legalize these everywhere in the bay
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Guangzhou really do be working those external elevator retrofits.
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Guangzhou really do be working those external elevator retrofits.
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seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
December 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"
and
"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"
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Additional updates from the recent meeting include the announcement of three additional rebrands of the service before the end of 2026, and reducing snack box size by 98.97%. All items were unanimously approved by the zero board members that appeared at the meeting on the morning of the 29th.
December 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Additional updates from the recent meeting include the announcement of three additional rebrands of the service before the end of 2026, and reducing snack box size by 98.97%. All items were unanimously approved by the zero board members that appeared at the meeting on the morning of the 29th.
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you can always tell who’s got a student level understanding of coding by how impressive LLM generated code is to them
And CS is particularly bad: LLMs for programming have serious problems, but one thing they are great at is undergraduate programming assignments (because of how they operate and what they are trained on). So we can't allow students to use them. And its double so...
December 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
you can always tell who’s got a student level understanding of coding by how impressive LLM generated code is to them
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From 2012 to now, Sound Transit built:
23 new stations, and opened 1 new line, at a rate of 1.8 new stations / year
Hangzhou Metro built: ~277 new stations, and 13 new lines, at a rate of 21.3 new stations / year, or a new station ~every 2 weeks
(Seattle metro GDP: $567b
Hangzhou metro GDP: $330b)
23 new stations, and opened 1 new line, at a rate of 1.8 new stations / year
Hangzhou Metro built: ~277 new stations, and 13 new lines, at a rate of 21.3 new stations / year, or a new station ~every 2 weeks
(Seattle metro GDP: $567b
Hangzhou metro GDP: $330b)
December 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
From 2012 to now, Sound Transit built:
23 new stations, and opened 1 new line, at a rate of 1.8 new stations / year
Hangzhou Metro built: ~277 new stations, and 13 new lines, at a rate of 21.3 new stations / year, or a new station ~every 2 weeks
(Seattle metro GDP: $567b
Hangzhou metro GDP: $330b)
23 new stations, and opened 1 new line, at a rate of 1.8 new stations / year
Hangzhou Metro built: ~277 new stations, and 13 new lines, at a rate of 21.3 new stations / year, or a new station ~every 2 weeks
(Seattle metro GDP: $567b
Hangzhou metro GDP: $330b)
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[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service
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best christmas present
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
best christmas present
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my body is a machine that turns disk space into not enough disk space
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
my body is a machine that turns disk space into not enough disk space
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every time you experience imposter syndrome as a software engineer, simply open microsoft teams
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
every time you experience imposter syndrome as a software engineer, simply open microsoft teams
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all I want for christmas is blog.yoshuawuyts.com/extending-ru...
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
all I want for christmas is blog.yoshuawuyts.com/extending-ru...