rkuykendall-com

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Comment · 8 hours ago
Two companies valued at 3 trillion dollars who sell a product anyone can make that falls in cost by 50% every single quarter.

I don't understand how anyone could argue that doesn't crater with any conviction.

Comment · 1 month ago
I typed this into Google because I expected you would be correct, and the LLM would return examples of the meme, and I wanted to see it.

Instead, the AI answered that it is "actually a famous example from internet culture used to describe how people use search engines. The phrase stems from discussions on tech forums like Hacker News regarding the differences between "keyword searching" and "natural language searching"".

Comment · 1 month ago
You missed some really good jokes.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
In Texas, you get alerts for anything the government wants to virtue-signal about. Silver for elderly, Blue for police, Amber for children, Clear for adults, and of course Camo for veterans. If a cop is shot anywhere in the 250,000+ square miles of the state, the entire population gets woken up by the same blaring noise they use for tornados.
Comment · 3 months ago
This was a theme in early Futurama (before it just became another Simpsons). A great example from the pilot is the Star Trek doors that keep closing on Fry.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's the opposite really! On Gleba, you are subsisting on an infinitely fertile river. On one end, the resources flow for ever and ever. On the other end, the resources burn for ever and ever. In the middle, you create whatever you want, for free, for ever and ever. Do not disturb the flow, but draw from it and feed into it. This is a zen of Gleba.
Comment · 4 months ago
> the best solution is just massively overbuilding all products and burning huge waste piles

Yes, you have figured out Gleba! Once you build with this mindset, you will achieve enlightenment.

Comment · 4 months ago
Trains don't need to be optimal, they just need to be viable. The fun makes them optimal. I think the quality, speed, and belt improvements did enough to return them to this balance (but I have not played, so I can't say myself).
Comment · 5 months ago
Take a look at `2313 NW Military Hwy # 100, San Antonio, TX 78231`

This is an intersection I myself felt daunting my first few years driving. It is within Waymo's San Antonio coverage, and they seem to be handling that just fine.

However, they had to pause them recently related to a lost car, due to, drum roll please... flooding.

Comment · 6 months ago
I was going to comment "audio track names" but it appears that has finally been added, at least on web UI.
Comment · 6 months ago
This was true of Cable as well.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
I have a Synology NAS I can push docker images to. The key is to set up the docker image so it does a git pull on start, that way I just push to Github and restart it.

This was _incredibly_ hard to set up, in a way I did not expect, even with frontier models. It took me 3-4 evenings.

If someone can solve "Heroku for home server" it would open up a world of what HackerNews calls "home cooked" software.

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