A is for Agilent. C is for Citigroup. T for AT&T, the Telephone Company.

And that's why capitalism must be strongly regulated; it's a powerful tool and a terrible master.

If you're going to spend a quarter of the day travelling, why not spend a third of the day and do it more comfortably?

The F-35 isn't the fastest jet; fighter jets aren't business jets; apples are not rutabagas.

If you do this with COBOL or Python, at least you get consistent operation and errors when you're wrong. If you do this with any LLM, consistency is dropped in favor of obsequiousness.

The base problem is that people aren't equipped naturally to think about all the details of their problems.

If I use the OPDS interface, that doesn't happen; I suppose it would be nice to push some reading information back. Sync between reading devices is handled by koreader-sync, so I can pick up any device running koreader and be on the page where I left off.

If you don't firmly hold in your mind "this is a bullshit generator", you can get in real trouble fast.

I won't be running that, though.

So: the recruiter has an incentive to mention the hiring company as soon as they get a response from you.

If they don't do that, they are either bad at writing contracts or don't actually have authority to recruit. Mostly the second: you would not be surprised at the number of cold emails I get saying that they represent a candidate (or a pool of candidates) who are exactly right for the position that we filled last month.

In a roughly 50 person company with refresh every 3 years, we send a macbook back for repair/replacement roughly three times a year. I would estimate that as a 2% hardware problem rate, 200x higher than what you quote.

2% is satisfactory for corporate use, by the way.

Guatemala, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Afghanistan (that's deliberate), Kuwait, Ukraine, Georgia, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam (also deliberate)... all of these countries and more have been invaded by nuclear powers.

Lewis the apologist?

Bach the "who pays for music around here? OK, I'll get them to pay me" pop songwriter?

All of these folks living so far apart from each other in time and place that some of them would vitriolically deny being of the same religion as some of the others?

(Bach was an awesome composer, but he needed the money and catered to his audience.)

So, the change in behavior by the students is a good sign.

Visibility is fine, comparable to other minivans and much better than a few older models. It no longer has rear vent windows, which is a pity.

The software for the infotainment system is horrifying. Everything else is quite good.

We have a person who wants, effectively, a formatted report generated on demand from four sources. The current interface is four different programs, all of which were written by different groups inside the corp, but they also all draw from the same or similar databases. There's a unified login, but each interface has its own permissions.

The company brings in an AI initiative and soon enough drops all security restrictions for the AI's access to the databases. The new formatted report gets generated through the use of a few tens of thousands of tokens each time, and about 5% of the time synthesizes non-existent data.

A competent DBA and application programmer could have spent a week doing the same thing, producing a program which would do the job faster, cheaper (at run-time), secure and in a way which could be extended and debugged.

But DBA and application programmer time is expensive up-front and the execs are gung-ho about the stock-price now that they are hip and trendy.

> Your HN comment on 'feature request tracker open source' caught my eye. Just > shipped InboxKit — $9/mo Canny alternative for indie SaaS. 8KB embed, AI dedupe, auto roadmap.

> Real story: launched yesterday, demo URL was broken for 12 hours (rebranded > from "eventium" → "mindie", forgot to > grep). Fixed now. Wrote up the postmortem here if you're curious: XXXX

> 5 early-user spots today: $3/mo first 2 months total (~$6 for 2mo), I'll > install on your site over Loom. Code > EARLY10 pre-applied: https://polar.sh/checkout/XXXX

I suspect that this is pure phishing, not an attempt to sell a product.