cscharenberg

4 mesi fadiscuss

Neat! Installed this for Claude Code and am adding Codex support to offer back, assuming it works out. Great tool idea and looking forward to seeing it in operation over the next few days. The 'audit' command is a great feature idea more tools should integrate.

cscharenberg

11 mesi fadiscuss

> So the bulge is sort of "in front" of the Moon and it pulls it forward speeding it up. The other bulge works in opposite direction, but it is more distant so the force is lower.

Interesting! I had never caught that key idea and need to read more about that. thanks

cscharenberg

11 mesi fadiscuss

I've been on Zoho for my (and my partner's) email for 4+ years and it has been great. Chose them because there is no per-domain charge, so I have like 12 domains on it.

The configurability is extensive in both web app and ios email app. Service has been fast and stable. They rarely change anything in the UI (no random tinkering is what I mean) so it is predictable and easy to use.

cscharenberg

3 anni fadiscuss

It definitely affected hiring. I work at a startup that is self-funded, profitable, and at about 24 people. The tax change increased our tax bill by around $125k, so that's an engineer we couldn't hire.

Made me glad our founders are so fiscally conservative, as other startups around had to lay off some people to have cash on hand to pay the increased taxes.

cscharenberg

3 anni fadiscuss

Thank you for sharing that. It's a beautiful set of ideas. I read it aloud to my wife and we're talking about it now the implications for all knowledge levels. Fascinating thing to share.

cscharenberg

3 anni fadiscuss

Indeed. At a former employer, when they announced removing free soda, I assumed they were about to stagnate very hard. Compared to the costs and profits of flying hundreds of sales engineers around weekly and any executive-level expenses the cost rounded to zero. It was routine to hear about the $200/person dinners for big groups of leaders when courting visiting customers. So when they start cutting something as cheap as soda maintenance, they're definitely desperate and going to cut all the wrong expenses.

Coincidence or not, their stock has slowly fallen and they've lost their shine since then.

I think "broadly cutting tiny costs" means the company is done believing in itself.

cscharenberg

3 anni fadiscuss

This is incredible software. Thank you for linking to it. It has features I've long wished for in a laptop!

cscharenberg

4 anni fadiscuss

And in those more complex interactions there is not enough adjustment capability. I often want Alexa to speak faster or just shorter (reduce filler words and pauses). There's no way (I am aware of) to make it more efficient for the determined user.

cscharenberg

4 anni fadiscuss

In 8th grade I read a book on Zinc and it projected the world's supply would run out by ~1985. The book was published in like 1970 and I was reading it in 1994. Since then I've had a big of skepticism of "it's running out" when it comes to raw industrial materials.

cscharenberg

4 anni fadiscuss

There's an older short story "Thirteen to Centaurus" by JG Ballard with an interesting take on this.

cscharenberg

5 anni fadiscuss

I have a strong memory of using an IDE that behaved like this - using size and font to communicate structure - at a job around 2005. I can't currently remember the name but think it it started with 'source'?

If someone else remembers this and the name I'd appreciate it. I could be remembering wrong too about how far it went with such decoration.

cscharenberg

5 anni fadiscuss

Thanks for explaining that. I feel like I heard about the "Tweel" in the 90s in Popular Mechanics, and occasionally since then.

cscharenberg

5 anni fadiscuss

Indeed. I installed half a dozen apps on my Ipad to figure out which one actually was the correct one.

cscharenberg

6 anni fadiscuss

Don't forget healthcare! Excel and CSV for tons of data exchange.

cscharenberg

6 anni fadiscuss

A new novel by Derek Kunsken called "House of Styx" explores in detail human habitation of Venus. In floating cities and airships and realistically dealing with pressures, temps, and the acidity of the atmosphere.

cscharenberg

9 anni fadiscuss

Same in healthcare. I work in one of the EMR companies, usually onsite at clients, and the whole operation is appalling in wasted human time and just cash wasted on stupid things.

cscharenberg

9 anni fadiscuss

This argument against checklists would apply anywhere for checklists: healthcare, airplane pre-flights, auto mechanics. Checklists enforce a minimum set of thought processes.

Suggesting checklists be discarded because some people don't do more than the minimum is a ridiculous misunderstanding of their value and human behavior.

This post argues for a detailed thought process of "Vulnerability Taxonomy" which could lead to new ideas, but also fails to enforce any minimum. Moreover, by encouraging exploration of various security areas (which is good) it still leaves you to your own knowledge which will be faulty and insufficient in some areas.

End result of this sounds like you'll have your own homegrown checklist, but it won't be called a checklist and it still won't adapt automatically and thinking will be required.

cscharenberg

9 anni fadiscuss

If you are talking about being overburdened by too much work, here's my thoughts:

I prioritize. I get as much as I can done in my usual 40 hours, maybe 50. Anything left undone apparently wasn't high enough priority, so gets dropped. I either delegate it or ignore it.

I used to put in long hours and scramble to do lots of extra work. My company pays me for 40 hours a week, so they get the highest value work I can do for those 40 hours.

If you're not using discretion and simply ignoring some things, you're not working effectively, you're being an automaton with no judgement. There's a lot of low-value things people request you to do or be involved in at work. You have to blow some of it off or you're wasting your own potential and time.

-- Don't anybody read into this I'm some kind of time-guarding jerk at work. This is my general mindset, but being practical and adaptable is important, as is being sure your manager agrees with your assessment of priorities.

cscharenberg

9 anni fadiscuss

Also a group chat site call Convore. It didn't last very long from what I remember but was pretty interesting. https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/convore-wants-to-be-the-ea...

cscharenberg

9 anni fadiscuss

That's how the Kansas City Airport (MCI) was designed. Before 9/11, you could park, go through security, and walk onto a plane in 15 minutes. Very minimal space is given to restaurants, shops, or even bathrooms inside gates.

The layour is 3 separate terminals which are each a semicircle ring: http://www.metafares.com/images/airports/MCI_Airport%20Layou...

It is great to fly in and out of. It feel optimized for people to get on and off planes quickly, and get out of the airport fast.

It is awful to have layovers in or have to change terminals in for a flight: you have to leave security for everything for one. And the waiting spaces are cramped and unfriendly.

After 9/11 it's still extremely fast to get in and out of, but the long waiting before flights is unpleasant. - Personally I would love to see airport design focus on passengers and less on retail space. All the proposals to replace KC Airport brag about all the shopping and restaurants... when all most people care about is spending as little time there as possible.

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