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New comment by mertd in "The Amazon tax"

mertd — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:16:25 +0000

I'm equally confused here. Who searches "Seth Godin The Knot" and if the first result isn't that exact book, goes and buys a book about knots or weddings or something? The book should be there in plain view at the top of organic best matches. Did they really test this "yield" claim?

New comment by mertd in "Pixel Watch 5"

mertd — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:50:59 +0000

Walking navigation is immensely useful for me when I am going somewhere in an unfamiliar town or neighborhood.

New comment by mertd in "California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget"

mertd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:18:52 +0000

What I observe as a parent; 95% of the teacher's job cannot be scaled with technology.

New comment by mertd in "Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety"

mertd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:40:46 +0000

> Going to the gym is very boring for me.

Try group exercise studios, if you have one available. The classes are usually one hour. It makes planning very easy. Same time, every week. All you need to do is to show up.

New comment by mertd in "Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish"

mertd — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:59:14 +0000

Ç is a brilliant name

New comment by mertd in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

mertd — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:13:06 +0000

I must be the minority that barely noticed any changes after upgrading to Tahoe.

New comment by mertd in "Eat Real Food"

mertd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:22:54 +0000

Good luck getting Americans eat sufficient broccoli to source their protein without also adding a ton of cheese or fat/sugar based sauces.

New comment by mertd in "Eat Real Food"

mertd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:17:35 +0000

My personal anecdotal experience is that once you make a conscious effort to avoid added sugars, your taste buds eventually recalibrate over the course of a few months and you end up perceiving stuff with added sugar as way too sweet.

New comment by mertd in "Clicks Communicator"

mertd — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:01:20 +0000

They have a standalone keyboard product that snaps with magsafe.

New comment by mertd in "Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away"

mertd — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:17:26 +0000

That's a phone compass problem no? Perhaps the specific way you're holding the phone is confusing for the algorithm?

New comment by mertd in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

mertd — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:06:40 +0000

There is a million ways where that interaction goes sideways and becomes a drama between the parents nowadays.

New comment by mertd in "Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]"

mertd — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:46:58 +0000

What's the play here? Afaik there are no monetary perks to being a top maps contributor.

New comment by mertd in "Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]"

mertd — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:42:23 +0000

I was reading about shield volcanoes and it sounds like the low viscosity lava is the defining feature. So the flow is par for the course.

New comment by mertd in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"

mertd — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:08:34 +0000

That's not very useful?

For homeowners, the real estate transactions are public and majority of white collar people have LinkedIn accounts.

New comment by mertd in "The Great Downzoning"

mertd — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 07:54:54 +0000

Did you read or even skim the article? It mentions fire safety codes specifically, violation of which is the very reason that fire happened not because it was a tall building. Do you understand why California wild fires are more lethal as of recently?

New comment by mertd in "Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight"

mertd — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:26:57 +0000

Also not very clear how they attributed the failure to solar radiation.

New comment by mertd in "Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry"

mertd — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:53:13 +0000

I meant to say it's not new information. The blog post I linked is from a month ago. It is also more accessible for casual reading.

New comment by mertd in "Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry"

mertd — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:46:13 +0000

This is hardly a secret. Matt Levine blogged about it: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-29/put...

New comment by mertd in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

mertd — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:40:23 +0000

The start menu cluster, incessant pushing of Edge and OneDrive are the reasons I installed Linux after about a decade of not using desktop Linux outside of work. I am genuinely shocked and impressed how clean and snappy the experience is (Arch + KDE Plasma). Thanks to Valve, Windows games run just fine, too. Not going back...

New comment by mertd in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

mertd — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:35:23 +0000

Do coding in non-assembly programming languages make you a worse programmer in the long run because you are not exposed to the deepest level of complexity?