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I made davidpumpkins.com. I thought the skit on SNL was funny. #davidpumpkins #snl -- "I'm David Pumpkins! Any questions??"

@mkristensen This is when models like Sonnet/Opus create plans or summaries in Markdown. The content in the preview is blank until I selected keep. I think I installed a bundle or accidentally installed the MD one, but I'm aware 2026 has built-in functionality. Maybe no-op it in 2026?

.@mkristensen Your Markdown editor/previewer extension doesn't play well with VS 2026 Insiders and Copilot. I was trying to figure out why I couldn't view the Markdown preview in 2026 until I selected keep on the changes. I figured out I had your extension and removed. Works now.

@linusgsebastian @frgonz_ @miguelr98370144 @MythionVR @shirobruin @Pirat_Nation You're the bad guy now. You posting through it is so tone deaf and gross. I feel gross I bought tickets to 2020 LTX Expo with LMG Office Tour and Merch Pack. Thankful it was canceled and refunded now. I'm glad your money and houses comfort you.

@frgonz_ @miguelr98370144 @MythionVR @shirobruin @Pirat_Nation I checked my wallet. I checked my bank account. I checked all three of my houses. There were no fucks left in any of them.

Linus Tech Tips veteran Jake Tivy left the company in August 2025 after nearly ten years. He said his pay stayed flat for over three years while Vancouver housing costs soared. "You kind of start thinking, while you're working on your boss's third house, if you're ever going to be able to buy a house."

@benheck I miss him

Well it took 4 years but I finally got Felix his signed photo of Jeanette Goldstein!

@johnawahba @johnarnold That’s right. The square hole.

@johnarnold But where did the bottle itself come from? Same hole as the gasoline lol.

Same price in Houston today. - Branded spring water: collect at nearby spring, filter at plant, bottle and truck to store. - Gasoline: Drill down 2 miles, turn sideways and continue another 2-4 miles. Run steel pipe and cement through hole. Punch small holes in pipe. Send water/sand mixture down pipe at extreme pressures to fracture rock. Separate streams of oil/gas/water at surface. Truck oil to nearest pipeline where it travels 800 miles to refinery. Treat crude to remove impurities. Heat crude to >700° to separate into different products including gasoline. Remove sulfur and other remaining contaminants. Move to large storage tank. Blend with ethanol, naptha, and other products that require complex chemistry to meet octane and clean fuel specs. Truck on specialized tanker to underground tank at gas station.

@AffordAnything How do high HOA dues (condos) factor into your calculation? Do you discount the rent by that amount?

I own 7 homes free-and-clear. Yet I rent my personal residence. Why? Simple: I follow the price-to-rent ratio. The price/rent ratio (P/R ratio) is home price divided by annual rent. You can calculate this ratio to assess an individual property, or to assess aggregate data about a neighborhood or a city. The smaller the zone (e.g., calculating the P/R ratio for a specific zip code rather than an entire metropolitan area), the more specific and applicable your result will be. The lower the P/R ratio, the stronger of a case for ownership. The higher the P/R ratio, the more attractive the option of renting. Typically, a price/rent ratio of: •15 or less is a fantastic purchase. •16-20 is grey zone. •21-25 or more is darker grey zone. •25 is don't-buy-this-property. Rent this. The P/R ratio shows you how much home value you can rent for $1,000. In a neighborhood with an average P/R ratio of 25, every $1,000 in rent will get you $300,000 worth of home. In a neighborhood with an average P/R ratio of 8.3, every $1,000 in rent will get you only $100,000 worth of home. Therefore — The renter in a P/R 25 neighborhood is getting TRIPLE as much value for their money as the renter in a P/R 8.3 neighborhood. Conversely, the landlord in a P/R 8.3 neighborhood is getting significantly higher profits than the landlord in a P/R 25 neighborhood. Typically, high-cost-of-living cities (HCOL's) will have P/R ratios that strongly favor renting. In Manhattan, for example, every $1,000 of rent gets you more than $600,000 worth of home. I live in Manhattan, so I rent. But I still want real estate in my portfolio, so I own in Georgia, Nevada, and Indiana. I rent where it makes sense to rent. And I own where it makes sense to own. This is how you can own real estate, even when you live in a high cost city.

@benheck I miss that shop, the cast of characters, and the highly produced shows. At least we still get the movie and TV references and the addition of Bud now.

Drove past the old first shop today. (it's pretty close to Menards) Moved in there 15 years ago this month! Wonder how much it costs now. Was cheap back then (post 2008 GFC) I had 3 units to choose from! I guess WFH is handy when you're sick? Only took a half day off this week.

@EmilyAYoung1 Please upload more videos, especially Linux. I miss those vids from the old place you were.

Amusing how the timing lines up with Windows 10 EOL...

People kept saying "you can just work around it!" I've always asked "for how long?" The answer was precisely this long. I'm sure there'll be another workaround, but again for how long and how many mods will you need to do? oobe\bypassnro was always a Microsoft-supplied fix.

@fl_e89 @SenatorWarnock All Bronze plans are now HSA plans. That was part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

@SenatorWarnock Why did you add the HSA to the second one. I have my own job & my own homework. I need you know to post a side by side of the same plans. You did this. You added this. You posted this. You fix this.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

@Encephalarteae @TikTokInvestors Knowledge

Absolutely shocked he'd run a ponzi.

when bro suddenly starts submitting PRs with detailed descriptions, correct grammar and casing, and testing steps

I’ve been writing C# for 17 years and I still haven’t seen a good use case for regions

@MKBHD Will it be on your expensive wallpaper app?

Quick snap from S25 Ultra Accidentally framed up nice to be a phone wallpaper

@cheapchicknyc Cheap. Chick... in the city

Hey #NYC ICYMI, lots going on this week, esp with #juneteenth2025 tomorrow! cheapchickinthecity.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/che…

@voroninp @cibrax @okyrylchuk @stephentoub I definitely cannot speak to the compiler voodoo. I could put it in SharpLab, but why not just use Count that we know exists O(1). I don't get why using Any() would be better.

@cbenard @cibrax @okyrylchuk I don't think it's much slower ater PGO. JIT can infer that type is always the same, so TryGetNonEnumeratedCount always returns true. I'd expect that access to Count will be inlined and maybe devirtualized not to use interface. @stephentoub, is my expectation correct?

How do you check if a list is not null and has elements? There are several ways to do it: 1. Classic way 2. List.Count way 3. Enumerable.Any way 4. Pattern matching way Which one do you prefer — or do you use a different approach? Let me know in the comments! 👇

@voroninp @cibrax @okyrylchuk Btw I knew it did this for IList. Didn’t realize the others it short circuited for. Thanks.

@voroninp @cibrax @okyrylchuk Still slower. Why not just use Count? From docs: The method performs a series of type tests, identifying common subtypes whose count can be determined without enumerating. This includes ICollection<T>, ICollection, and internal types used in the LINQ implementation.

@cibrax @okyrylchuk A List<T> knows its Count and is O(1). Using Any() invokes IEnumerable<T> and is way more expensive using an enumerator.

@okyrylchuk Any all the time as you don’t have to count all the elements in the list, and only return after one element is found

@JJ_McCullough Can you remove the paywall on this one? I’m not paying to read your blog even though I enjoy your YouTube content and Twitter. This one seems important. If not, no problem.

Full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/jjmccullou…

This was how I put it: