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Credit where it’s due: USPS accidentally put a package of mine on hold. I file a service request online using just the tracking number. Within the next business day, they resolve it promptly and the lady from local post office left a voicemail apologizing!
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Credit where it’s due: USPS accidentally put a package of mine on hold. I file a service request online using just the tracking number. Within the next business day, they resolve it promptly and the lady from local post office left a voicemail apologizing!
I can see banning single-use plastic bottles completely but what is the point of this except to annoy everyone? It has the same effect as those GDPR-compliant “Allow cookies” pop-ups.
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I can see banning single-use plastic bottles completely but what is the point of this except to annoy everyone? It has the same effect as those GDPR-compliant “Allow cookies” pop-ups.
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Wrote up my first impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's new browser - I remain unconvinced by the entire category of "browser agents", the security and privacy challenges still feel insurmountable to me simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/...
Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
Last year OpenAI hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher, which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline. Today it arrived. ChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser …
simonwillison.net
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Wrote up my first impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's new browser - I remain unconvinced by the entire category of "browser agents", the security and privacy challenges still feel insurmountable to me simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/...
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I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London
Good overview of how the current employer-based health insurance system came into place in the USA after WWII due to an attempt by the government to control inflation by freezing wages. But they allowed a loophole - pensions and healthcare were exempt.
open.substack.com/pub/notborin...
open.substack.com/pub/notborin...
Thatch
Curing American healthcare through incentives and choice
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Good overview of how the current employer-based health insurance system came into place in the USA after WWII due to an attempt by the government to control inflation by freezing wages. But they allowed a loophole - pensions and healthcare were exempt.
open.substack.com/pub/notborin...
open.substack.com/pub/notborin...
This is weird. I have a brand-new Win11 laptop (Intel Core Ultra 7 258V). It has a 1TB SK Hynix PC801 NVMe SSD. The spec sheet says the SSD can do 1+ million write IOPS. But if I run a disk benchmark, I only get 80k 4KB write IOPS. Seq write speed is good.
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/sk...
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/sk...
September 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is weird. I have a brand-new Win11 laptop (Intel Core Ultra 7 258V). It has a 1TB SK Hynix PC801 NVMe SSD. The spec sheet says the SSD can do 1+ million write IOPS. But if I run a disk benchmark, I only get 80k 4KB write IOPS. Seq write speed is good.
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/sk...
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/sk...
I have the setting in iOS 18.6.2 to retain messages only for 30 days and yet iOS doesn’t seem to clean up old messages for months. This bug has been there in iOS for a while now.
The workaround is to change the setting and then change it back to 30 days and it will GC older messages instantly.
The workaround is to change the setting and then change it back to 30 days and it will GC older messages instantly.
August 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I have the setting in iOS 18.6.2 to retain messages only for 30 days and yet iOS doesn’t seem to clean up old messages for months. This bug has been there in iOS for a while now.
The workaround is to change the setting and then change it back to 30 days and it will GC older messages instantly.
The workaround is to change the setting and then change it back to 30 days and it will GC older messages instantly.
Japan should allow American cars to be sold there with no new safety certification and no tariffs and in return be able to sell Japanese ‘kei cars’ in USA. GM & Ford will quickly realize how popular ‘kei trucks’ are with American consumers. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/b...
Does Japan Want American Cars? Trump’s Push to Open Foreign Markets Faces Test.
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Japan should allow American cars to be sold there with no new safety certification and no tariffs and in return be able to sell Japanese ‘kei cars’ in USA. GM & Ford will quickly realize how popular ‘kei trucks’ are with American consumers. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/b...
Scientists Are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
All this talk of AGI being very near meanwhile Ring notifies me for the 10th time in a day about “person detected” and it’s just the plants moving in the wind.
July 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
All this talk of AGI being very near meanwhile Ring notifies me for the 10th time in a day about “person detected” and it’s just the plants moving in the wind.
Paper from JetBrain folks describing how they shipped a local model for single-line code completion in their Python IDE that's based on GPT-2.
arxiv.org/abs/2405.087...
arxiv.org/abs/2405.087...
Full Line Code Completion: Bringing AI to Desktop
In recent years, several industrial solutions for the problem of multi-token code completion appeared, each making a great advance in the area but mostly focusing on cloud-based runtime and avoiding w...
arxiv.org
July 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Paper from JetBrain folks describing how they shipped a local model for single-line code completion in their Python IDE that's based on GPT-2.
arxiv.org/abs/2405.087...
arxiv.org/abs/2405.087...
All of this talk about AGI, but when is your agentic AI going to be able to file my taxes for me? It should be able to automatically download all my tax forms from banks/brokerages and W-2s and generate the return. I pay my accountant $1k for this service every year.
July 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
All of this talk about AGI, but when is your agentic AI going to be able to file my taxes for me? It should be able to automatically download all my tax forms from banks/brokerages and W-2s and generate the return. I pay my accountant $1k for this service every year.
How Republicans Supersized Silicon Valley’s Favorite Tax Break www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
How Republicans Supersized Silicon Valley’s Favorite Tax Break
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
How Republicans Supersized Silicon Valley’s Favorite Tax Break www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
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The New York Times wants your private ChatGPT history – even the deleted parts | Discussion
The New York Times wants your private ChatGPT history — even the parts you’ve deleted
Today it’s ChatGPT. Tomorrow it could be your cleared browser history or your location data. The precedent is terrifying.
thehill.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The New York Times wants your private ChatGPT history – even the deleted parts | Discussion
‘Unsafe to Inhabit’: The Toxic Homes of L.A. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
L.A. Homeowners Face Toxic Hazards After Wildfires
After the fires clouded neighborhoods in smoke, residents whose homes were spared learned that danger was still lurking in the walls, the furniture and the air. But their insurers have doubts.
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘Unsafe to Inhabit’: The Toxic Homes of L.A. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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jemalloc Postmortem | Discussion
Jason Evans
The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to anend. This post briefly desc...
jasone.github.io
June 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
jemalloc Postmortem | Discussion
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The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs | Discussion
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it
qz.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs | Discussion
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Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups | Discussion
Exclusive: US Airlines Are Quietly Hitting Solo & Biz Travelers with Higher Fares
It's not just Delta. The country's three largest airlines are charging some solo travelers higher fares than groups of two or more.
thriftytraveler.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups | Discussion
May 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Makasano rose garden in full bloom. Ibaraki, Osaka.
May 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Makasano rose garden in full bloom. Ibaraki, Osaka.
Best part of visiting the Cup Noodle museum in Osaka is watching a group of 5 European boomer men coloring their cup noodles with the Japanese toddlers and questioning their life choices. 😂
May 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Best part of visiting the Cup Noodle museum in Osaka is watching a group of 5 European boomer men coloring their cup noodles with the Japanese toddlers and questioning their life choices. 😂
This is just sad & pathetic.
NEW: How the Pacific Northwest’s Dream of Green Energy Fell Apart @opb.org
Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.
The Northwest states passed aggressive goals to decarbonize the power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency ha...
www.propublica.org
May 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is just sad & pathetic.
All this AI and compute capacity in the world but we can’t automate more of an ATC’s job to reduce their stress?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...
How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
All this AI and compute capacity in the world but we can’t automate more of an ATC’s job to reduce their stress?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...