David Ungar

@theficouple Notice the absence of any comparative figures in this post. That absence marks it for me as more persuasion than illumination.

When you bought the $50,000 Tesla Model Y to save on gas & maintenance. Then you learned: - It loses 20-35% of its value by year 3 - It loses 55-58% of its value by year 5 So by year 5 you lost $35,000+ of value? ....Congrats on saving ~$1,000/yr on gas.

@tvcutsem I’ve been supplementing my hobby programming with some Claude coding. My experience jibes with your takeaway. But, this may change and it’s very exciting to watch.

Main takeaway: low-stakes vibe coding is great for prototyping, but it’s not the same as real software engineering. AI is a huge force multiplier, but only if you have fundamentals to steer it and review it well.

Just published a short write-up of a fun experiment: I vibe-coded a Boids simulation with AI copilots in about 30 minutes. I built it for CS outreach, then documented what worked, what surprised me, and what I got wrong. tvcutsem.github.io/vibe-coding-bo…

Joking aside, there is no one alive who writes about the classics with such simplicity and depth as @SpencerKlavan. Reading him on the Greeks is like reading Sowell on Economics. Clarity that puts the pseudo-scientific jargon of academia to shame. This piece is a joy.

@alt_w_v_g After I read this post, I wondered how much your wife respects you?

Met with a financial advisor today My wife set it up She wants "a professional opinion" on our retirement Nice office Glass desk Diploma on the wall from a school I've never heard of The advisor was 23 Maybe 24 He had a pullover vest and a rehearsed handshake He handed me a pitch book It had someone else's name on it I chose not to mention that He said "based on your risk profile I'd recommend a 60/40 portfolio" I said "what's the fee?" He said "1% annually" I ran the compound drag over 25 years in my head Said the number out loud Then I said it again slower His smile went away I said "what's the tax strategy?" He said "we review that annually" I said "what's the Roth conversion ladder? The asset location framework? The blended expense ratio on the underlying funds? Why wouldn't I just buy VOO for free and do this from my phone?" He opened his mouth Closed it Excused himself Came back with his boss Same vest Bigger watch The boss said "I hear you have some concerns" I said "not concerns. Questions. Your 23-year-old couldn't answer them. That's my concern." My wife kicked me under the table I kept going The boss said "the value is in the relationship" I said "that's what my therapist says too. She charges $250 an hour. You're charging more and doing less." The boss looked at my wife My wife looked at the ceiling I've now been to a therapist, a realtor, a car dealership, and a financial advisor this month My wife has walked out of every single one I asked her in the car what she thinks the common denominator is She said "you" I said "interesting. Not sure how to model that." Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@heydave7 I’m amused and fascinated that the world has come to a point where we are now asking AI is what they think of current events. Sometime between when I grew up and now I was transported to a different planet. It is literally wonderful.

@SpatiallyMe There’s a WWDC video in which the woman who crafted the sound for that environment, talks a bit about how she did it. Amazing craft and talent there, too!

The making of the environments in Vision Pro is super fascinating. For Mount Hood they actually stitched together two completely different places into one scene, which is crazy to me since it looks so seamless in the device. The level of craft here is something else. Read more here: coolhunting.com/tech/crafting-…

@yishan Yes, when my large monitor broke, I didn’t replace it. Now, every day I spend hours with the headset and the virtual Mac screen. And I love the ability to position at anywhere I need to, at any distance from my face.

My faith in Tim Cook has been rewarded! I KNEW when I bought this two years (or whenever it came out) that even though the product had clear shortcomings, the hardware inside was very good and that all it would take to make it a great product would be upgrading the OS... and now it is! The biggest one for me: native MacOS virtual desktops (HUUUUUGE ultrawide screen) are now a thing! And to think I was considering putting a second Cinema display on my desk... this ultrawide is wider than two of them put together and you can place it at any distance/angle! And the avatar actually looks like a correct rendering (in the sense that I am confronted with what my mug really looks like after I take off the Vision Pro... but truth over beauty I guess)! (So for everyone wise enough to not buy one then, now you can buy one)

@pbeisel Ah, thanks. Yes, Dylan. I was aware of it, but never delved very deeply.

@senderPath Yes Walter Smith, NewtonScript. The other competing language within Newton (Advanced Technology) was Dylan, championed by Larry Tesler.

From 1990 to 1993, I worked on the Newton OS team. I was responsible for several networking and communications components, most notably the AppleTalk network stack that allowed Newton devices to operate on AppleTalk LANs— for example, printing to a LaserWriter. At the time, AppleTalk was a far more plug-and-play alternative to TCP/IP, which was still in its early stages. TCP/IP eventually matured and became the backbone of the Internet, but in those days it was far from the dominant standard. The AppleTalk stack was written in C++, the low-level language used for most of the OS components. C++ was so new that there was no native compiler. We used a two-pass compilation process: CFront translated C++ into C, which was then compiled into object code. In the Newton era, there were no cell phones or practical wireless data networks. GPS was just emerging and was not part of the Newton architecture. Communications were limited to the serial port. How much has changed. Today, Wi-Fi is assumed as a baseline capability for accessing network resources. Devices like the iPhone communicate wirelessly over LTE and 5G to cellular infrastructure. ncreasingly, they can connect directly to satellite networks such as @Starlink, extending connectivity to nearly any location on Earth— land, sea, or air, from New York to Antarctica. Even back then at Apple, we knew that world was coming. We experimented with in-building wireless technologies, including IR and RF approaches, but power constraints, lack of infrastructure, and the absence of standards kept them out of reach at the time. grokipedia.com/page/Apple_New…

@pbeisel Apologies for the bad spelling, but I dictated this

@senderPath Tell me more. Did we meet? Who did you work with?

@OwenGregorian I cast Trumpkin as Edward G Robinson when I read to my son.

@OwenGregorian Morning!

@OwenGregorian Morning, all!

@BowTiedTrance @OwenGregorian Me, too. Thanks for reminding me.

If I don't say it enough on my live streams and posts, I'm grateful for all the hard work @OwenGregorian does to provide a curated news feed. It's the closest thing you'll find to a digital version of an old school newspaper.

@edwardahn9 The new strap with a dual action knob was a significant improvement in comfort for me. I can go many hours at a time. More comfort would be better. When my 40 inch monitor broke, I realized I didn’t need to replace it because of the Vision Pro.

@senderPath you and me both! i love everything about the vision pro. every time I put it on I'm in awe and I also love my facetimes. i'll be the first buyer once it's light enough to put on for a whole day

@elonmusk But we already have Congress, nyuk, nyuk!

Seriously

@JasonJournoDC Scott was brilliant, and I miss him so much!

💥11/13/25. Scott Adams on Katie Couric: "She's sort of transformed into some kind of a Gollum and she's just sort of an anti-Trump troll now. And she even looks like she's turning into a troll."

@sjvsworldtour You put a grin on my face!

What's your day been like? grok.com/imagine/post/0…