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“All official things come through email — documents, confirmations, receipts, that thing you need to prove you actually paid for something three years ago.”

…although Amazon recently put an end to that…

The headline is annoyingly clickbaitey, but the article actually contains pretty good advice.

What is “AI revenue” here?

This is also what we lost in the field of music, with the switch from radio to streaming.

With radio, you used to have to sometimes sit through music you didn’t like so much, with the upside that you often discovered things you didn’t know you liked.

In the article: “Enlightenment 0.28 continues to boast both X11 and Wayland support”

It always astounds me that we’re using hard-coded device trees descriptions _in the kernel_ for ARM based computers. One for each board!

Every other desktop platform has had self-describing hardware with loadable drivers for 30 years now.

Why is it like this?

It’s extremely common to see other Macs pop up in the ‘network’ panel in Finder in the independent coffee shops around me. I imagine they’re just signing up for a business plan and using the routers the ISP gives them with a custom SSID and password.

I assumed that what they’re ’collecting’ there is at most stats on how much you like the product. Especially because, in my experience, if you say ‘good’ the next question is one that explicitly asks whether you permit Anthropic to analyze the session.

You said that the basis for your opinion was “oh damn, I would not want to be at the receiving end of this”. I used to have that reaction all the time too. But I no longer, on the whole, do.

I thought this was the crux of your argument. What did I miss?

I used to think this way too, and I believe myself to have high standards about this kind of thing.

But with the very latest models (like, Opus 5.5 class and up), I am now of the opinion that the output, in non-creative situations like code review and most software development, is fine. Great, even. Better than the reviews a lot of humans generate.

Honestly, if you’re at all open minded about this, get a $20 Claude Pro subscription for a month (they are easy to cancel) and ask Claude Code with Opus 5.5 to review your codebase or a PR or two. I was very (pleasantly? unpleasantly?) surprised.

I have complex emotions about this (‘sad’ on balance I think - although it’s definitely not all simply in that direction), but I can’t deny it to myself.

I still bristle at reading articles and even documentation that’s not just ‘reference’ documentation written by it - and even that can get a bit weird and circuitous. But for review and coding? It’s great.

It’s definitely not true even now. Even a moderately fast finger drag will lag noticeably - usually by at least a frame in even very carefully tuned situations. It’s just physics. If you aren’t noticing it, you’re just used to it.

Try rapidly dragging up and down to scroll a web page.

For some people, it’s motion sickness inducing of it gets too laggy

I know you’re being sarcastic with that first line, but touch latency is even more noticeable than mouse latency.

Does the page look and feel glued to your finger as you scroll?

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People regularly blow through all their Claude Pro tokens every week. It’s relatively easy to do.