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New comment by transitorykris in "Pareto Front"

transitorykris — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:45:32 +0000

You’d be looking at fuel level affecting choices of ride height, brake bias, etc. Possibly changes in line and distance travelled too. But, I’m curious how psychology can fit in here (or not. How do you measure it?). Driver concentration and confidence are important when trimming out aero or other adjustments for single lap flyers.

New comment by transitorykris in "RamenHaus"

transitorykris — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:09:41 +0000

It's a fun scene, but dear beginners, just eat the ramen. Be curious as usual about all the things. But you do not need to poke at your food and get all contemplative over fast food. I defy anyone to find a salaryman in Tokyo at 7am before work plowing a bowl of ramen (and clearly enjoying it) and also being weird about it.

New comment by transitorykris in "US DOT deleting bike lane references"

transitorykris — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:35:02 +0000

"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion.

New comment by transitorykris in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

transitorykris — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:13:46 +0000

Single Piece Flow fits with other Toyota ideas of how to get high quality work done. If something is frequently blocking the line, the solution is to put resources toward the bottleneck, not spin up more work in parallel.

New comment by transitorykris in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

transitorykris — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:35:27 +0000

Nice to give Claude their own blue bubble iMessage. Can be done in a VM of course if you have the capacity, but old Apple hardware seems to accumulate for many.

New comment by transitorykris in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

transitorykris — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:50:19 +0000

I loved the product early on, but they became the Adobe Creative Cloud of cameras. Play dumb subscription games win dumb prizes.

New comment by transitorykris in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

transitorykris — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:52:41 +0000

Brilliant feature, well done Vancouver PD. A very serious boss mode. Lotus 1-2-3 wouldn't look quite right here but weather.ca is plausible.

New comment by transitorykris in "Agnes Callard’s theory of the uni-context"

transitorykris — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:18:28 +0000

She absolutely would have read Heidegger

New comment by transitorykris in "The food science behind designing an ice cream"

transitorykris — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:10:25 +0000

Painful trying to scroll. But I will say I’ll never be as astounded as seeing a bowl of Breyers sitting on a conference room table for an hour and never losing its shape.

New comment by transitorykris in "SCC Technical Assistance Program"

transitorykris — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:53:13 +0000

Who needs a roll cage?

New comment by transitorykris in "My Mathematical Regression"

transitorykris — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:58:23 +0000

A massively abused book that led many to justify being assholes. You don’t have to read it, here’s the Cliff’s Notes:

Care personally, challenge directly.

New comment by transitorykris in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

transitorykris — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:58:30 +0000

Hard to say, drkoop.com is a landing page now

New comment by transitorykris in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

transitorykris — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:47:47 +0000

What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.

New comment by transitorykris in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

transitorykris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:38:40 +0000

I came to this realization after seeing developers churn out 30 minute long reads of slop documentation. It's for the agent, and the human interface to it is through the agent. Over the last week the plans that Claude has been writing for issues have been largely a single massive unreadable paragraph of awkward sentences, but it's working, the implementations from it have been solid.

New comment by transitorykris in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

transitorykris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:06:42 +0000

Is anyone doing story point estimation in terms of tokens? If you have a token budget, does this change how you prioritize?

New comment by transitorykris in "The real cost of owning a home"

transitorykris — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:15:48 +0000

PSA: it’s probably time to change your furnace’s filter

New comment by transitorykris in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

transitorykris — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:23:33 +0000

“Completely acceptable” is not accurate. I’d wager that for any success story there are many stories of heartbreak due to timing and travel for TN renewal. A risk I wouldn’t advise a friend to take. But, yes, doesn’t matter anymore after last week.

New comment by transitorykris in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

transitorykris — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:11:40 +0000

Immigrant intent on a TN is a big no-no

New comment by transitorykris in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

transitorykris — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:09:05 +0000

I deeply believe this but have no strong evidence. Revenue has always been a cure all remedy. This will keep model providers alive along with the very wide range of companies that are experiencing growth with them (from chips to backhoes), for a time anyway. If/when that house of cards starts going in the other direction there’s going to be widespread pain. By analogy the nonsense of the dotcoms and that crash had a very direct impact on their suppliers (e.g. telecoms). My only advice is to let the Microsoft’s and Meta’s do the tokenmaxxing, and don’t get suckered into the idea you (startup, individual, etc) should be playing that game.

New comment by transitorykris in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

transitorykris — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:19:31 +0000

It’s really a solipsistic philosophy. The awkwardness of it was the fact he had a king and the church to appease in his arguments. Willfully forgetting Descartes is one way of dealing with it! (..or plotting a path out of it by reading him as a proto-existentialist)