Luca K. B. Masters

@HistoryBoomer Camembert is just Brie, but slightly better.

Best cheese

@thomasunise @martyrdison Depends if it's flying to Europe or driving six hours to visit my for Christmas.

@martyrdison Travel a lot vs 1-2 trips/year Lmao what? 1-2 trips a year IS A LOT

gaps in relationships: - restaurant gap (going out vs. staying in) - museum gap (do you want wander vs. sprint) - travel gap (need to travel a lot vs. fine with 1-2 trips a year) - money gap (spending heavily vs. stingy) - living gap (city vs. suburb vs. middle of nowhere) - ambition gap (highly driven vs. ok with career not being focal POV) - texting gap (heavy communicator vs. sporadic) - friend gap (big social group vs. 1-2 friends max)

@James32980438 @GarrettPetersen @martyrdison Your definition still is covered by visiting family for Thanksgiving or Christmas. If those are included, 1-2 doesn't strike me as a lot.

@GarrettPetersen @martyrdison I guess it depends on how you define a "trip". For me that means serious (5+ hours) travel and multiple days away from home. Others might consider a two hour drive for a day trip to be a "trip".

@HistoryBoomer I could 100% make a dumb mistake like that, but seems like if you have a team of fact checkers, it oughta get caught earlier in the process. Especially since an LLM can do it with reasonable sensitivity and specificity. "100k people will read this. Should we double-che--naah."

A thing that almost everyone is wrong about is thinking they would never be so stupid. Yes, you would. People are idiots. It's lucky we all don't screw up more than we do! You won't agree, but that's ok. I'm right, and you're wrong.

@CityVolatility @thenanyu It's so crazy to me. A small startup can't afford to fix every obscure bug, but if you have a hundred million users, it's worth fixing minor bugs that hit even 0.01% of your users. There *should* be a quality that comes from scale, yet Google doesn't bother.

@lkbm @thenanyu I switched to Apple Music because of that! I would download a playlist. Play it from the standard library. Then move offline and it stops. Get a prompt to go to "downloads"! And then had to choose the same playlist. Apparently, to the system, it is a different one?

Reminds me of how the weather app on iOS is designed by people that experience 70 degree F weather 300 days a year

@shaggysurvives "no longer given freely" is a...bad phrasing. If you asking makes a yes compulsory, you're asking wrong.

everyones hating on this but actually its fine to want this imo. its kind of complicated

@Tablesalt13 "What does $300k get you in your city?" You mean 45 minutes from my city?

What the f*ck man 🤯🤯

@apanasenko The crazy thing is I'll be listening to a downloaded podcast with no service. I'll pass by somewhere with service very briefly (in range for seconds). The podcast pauses for a minute until it's *sure* I'm no longer in service.

@lkbm It has a timeout; eventually, it will show you downloaded music.

YT Music: Hey, did you know you can download music to your phone? Me: Great, so I can play it when I don't have service? YT Music: Well....no, you'll just get a loading spinner if you don't have service. But when you do have service it will use less data to play the music.

@manraymane @mxndni @thenanyu What I've observed is that once it's going, it's mostly fine, but it has trouble loading initially if you open the app when you have no service. Open it up, let it load the list of music/episodes, and you're free to leave service. Open after leaving, it's slow to figure it out.

@mxndni @lkbm @thenanyu me too, never had anything close to an issue lol

@hankgreen @gstrompolos Wizard Rock was *cringe*. Being unironically enthusiastic about your (non-sports) interests was *cringe*. But people didn't say "cringe" yet. They just said "loser" or "nerd". Back then, those were close enough in the popular mindset to be related, even if they're opposites now.

@hankgreen @gstrompolos I think in 2008, it was still early in the transition of "nerd" going from an insult to a compliment, and your (and the huge ecosystem of 5AG and whatnot) embracing the identity suggests that outside our bubble, it was still near the "loser" end of public perception.

They said the same thing about YouTubers in 2007 vulture.com/article/hacks-…

`"workbench.editor.useModal": "off"` is a super important vscode setting. Holy moly what an awful feature. I hope their telemetry shows reveals deep unpopularity and they make it default off.

@AndyMasley I agree that people seem to just assume it *can't* be beneficial to consumers. It's very doable, and by assuming the hyperscalers are necessarily bad for consumers, we miss out on the very real possibility of getting rich off of them (with them still seeing it as a good deal.)

@AndyMasley It should be, but is it typically? I think we should make the data centers absorb the full costs of upgraded, including a guarantee that if they decide in five years they don't need the electricity, they continue to cover the amortized cost. But I dunno if we do that.

I think very few people in the debate understand how positive-sum very consistent wealthy buyers from a utility can be

@discordspies I saw someone yelling at another passenger once (maybe twice?). Bus was my sole source of transportation in Austin for about four years. (Daily commutes to across the street from the probation office, so not a great neighborhood.) It needs to be fixed, but it's also overblown.

It's so weird to hear Americans talk like this because I've been reliant on public transport my entire life and it's just Not Like That in the UK Is it really that consistently bad or is this a thing where everyone has like one story that colours their whole experience

@JerusalemDemsas @mattyglesias I just realized yesterday that there hadn't been any new episodes in over a month. Excited for more of it in its new format.

Matt Yglesias and I have been arguing about policy since our days at The Weeds. We agree on a lot -- which makes the disagreements way more interesting. Introducing: The Argument, a new podcast where @mattyglesias and I, well, argue about politics, policy, and whatever else we're interested in that week. Episodes start Thursday, April 9! Subscribe here and watch the trailer below: theargumentmag.com/p/matthew-ygle…

@lthlnkso Yes, but only after a series of other doctors gave me the dumbest, wrongest diagnoses they could come up with.

Has a doctor ever cured you of a serious health problem?

@ATabarrok @Vanguard_Group Alex, stop, please. If they remake it, it will be worse. I guarantee it will be worse.

How can @Vanguard_Group with $12 trillion in assets have one of the worst websites in existence? It's atrocious and indefensible.

@KentonVarda I've seen this a few times in the past week or so.

Anyone else seeing Claude (both Sonnet and Opus) going into excessive reasoning loops today? I'm just sitting here watching it spend 10 minutes generating reasoning text for a problem it normally solves in 45 seconds. (I use the same prompt a lot as a test of my own harness...)