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New comment by rusk in "The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home"

rusk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:58:01 +0000

https://steelroofsheets.co.uk/categories/ventilated-wall-cla...

New comment by rusk in "The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home"

rusk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:13:48 +0000

Already in widespread use https://www.sips.org/what-are-sips

New comment by rusk in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

rusk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:50:12 +0000

This was tried before but was presumably scuppered by the market intelligence and surveillance communities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

New comment by rusk in "Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots"

rusk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:41:05 +0000

> If there are tens of thousands, it may make you feel less bad about tossing them.

That’s a great point.

It doesn’t eliminate the problem but it helps break it up a bit, which is definitely helpful.

New comment by rusk in "Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots"

rusk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:38:22 +0000

I had considered this. Up cycling them as eco bricks but that’s nearly as destructive as burning. Life would be so much easier if I had no qualms.

New comment by rusk in "Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots"

rusk — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:18:13 +0000

That’s no good to me. It’s the physical volumes I need to get rid of. I couldn’t give a fiddlers about what’s in them

New comment by rusk in "Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots"

rusk — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:01:48 +0000

I have lots of old books that aren’t very good. That I can’t give away. What do I do with them? I have this strange taboo feeling about destroying books, even bad ones!

New comment by rusk in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

rusk — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:50:33 +0000

Unless you’re hoping the regulators will build you a moat.

Stupid, yeah but that’s the kind of thinking that a highly leveraged and desperate situation breeds.

New comment by rusk in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

rusk — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:39:54 +0000

Maybe that’s the point!

New comment by rusk in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

rusk — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:50:00 +0000

My main issue was it was bricked. I had given up on it and then just got an email out of the blue. Just because I bought direct from them I guess.

They didn’t demand any proof or that I send the device back or anything. They just gave me the money which due to exchange rate fluctuations actual turned a profit!

New comment by rusk in "Understanding the AI Economy"

rusk — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:48:14 +0000

Correct you will be left with the people who couldn’t switch

New comment by rusk in "Understanding the AI Economy"

rusk — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:32:33 +0000

How’s this for a working theory. Economic actors that were established doing the “easy stuff” that got displaced first got a head start on everyone else and started low balling on the harder stuff and that’s why we’re seeing impacts in the parts of the economy that aren’t being directly hit by AI. It could explain why people who know stuff are finding themselves squeezed for cost in every direction even though their specific area defies automation. There is a latency at play here while all the corner cutting of the cost based competitors mount. Not sure what is the outcome when the inevitable correction kicks in but the economic impact will be long lasting as skilled workers leave the industry and we are left with decades of slop to clean up.

New comment by rusk in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

rusk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:32:33 +0000

They did the decent thing with the Versa and refunded everybody.

New comment by rusk in "The lost joy of music piracy"

rusk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:31:45 +0000

Okay bro.

New comment by rusk in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

rusk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:34:37 +0000

They’re not going to support legacy pebble by any chance?

New comment by rusk in "The lost joy of music piracy"

rusk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:05:50 +0000

> You can’t really call it a pro-piracy message though.

Of course not. That would probably infringe on advertising standards. But it is the clear implication.

New comment by rusk in "The lost joy of music piracy"

rusk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:37:39 +0000

> Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music

If I’m remembering right, the tagline on the Mac mini was “rip mix burn”

New comment by rusk in "How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari"

rusk — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:56:32 +0000

It’s not a big secret. I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in Chris Pratt’s recent adaptation…

New comment by rusk in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

rusk — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:46:53 +0000

I was suggesting that website hosting isn’t a particularly hard problem with no moat. European customers could go literally anywhere.

New comment by rusk in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

rusk — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:22:21 +0000

“American website hosting companies are disproportionately exposed to market shock from their European customers”