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actually the guardian article is better https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/02/karl-bushby-...

I thought this was interesting - honestly I think I'd buy one without hesitation for $13k (only partially inspired by the fact they're installing electric car charging stations in my apartment building's parking lot right now :)

I have since moved out of NYC but yes I had an apartment number. If the doorman was helping this scalper, the scalper could have varied the address he used enough to avoid exact match dedupes while still ensuring he could claim the packages as his from the doorman.

Doorman buildings are quite common in NYC.

[edit: to be clear they are not the norm, they are more expensive than buildings without one, but there are still lots of them that are not Trump Tower or other places for the absurdly wealthy]

I really wanted a PS5 when it was first released, and I refused to pay the scalper tax to get one, so I spent a few minutes a few times a day over a couple of weeks trying to snag one from one of the many retailers selling them. Extraordinarily frustrating, I was not so interested in this process that I was going to script it or any such nonsense, I just wanted to eventually get lucky and snag one.

I eventually did, and when it finally arrived at my doorman building I mentioned what was in the package to the doorman, and how happy I was to finally get my hands on it after the effort expended and he said "oh really? there's a guy on the 5th floor who's bought dozens of them - he sold me one at cost".

At the scale of the PS5 release (I don't know how many they first shipped in 2020, but they're at >80M sold now so undoubtedly X million in the first year) - would an address match intervention have been able to differentiate my order from the dozens of orders the scalper on the 5th floor had placed, presuming some cooperation from the doorman to allow for variance in the details of the shipping address the scalper used? I'm reasonably confident the answer is no and I would have been caught in the net that attempted to prevent the scalper from scalping.

Much like what Anthropic very recently did re: Mythos

Hah, did not realize it was from 2021 when I posted it as I came across it in my bsky feed. Still - I think the list of examples provided in particular is of interest now as tech companies' attempts to control "the narrative" remains an ever present concern in tech press.

Agreed. It really all is an obvious consequence of optimizing only the things that can be measured on a two dimensional graph, at the expense of all the things that can't (even though in the long term those complex, multidimensional things like culture and care and integrity do, indeed, "make line go up", though perhaps with a smaller first derivative)

I think, ultimately, what is not serious here is the author of TFA. Ruby (and Rails) still work, the ecosystem is still healthy, and their dubious citations of ruby's shortcomings (twitter's fail whale? comparing it to perl?) are just that, dubious.

and kind of a counter point to the GGGP's "Unix compliancy isn't what's keeping me on macOS, the Unix tools it has under the hood still is."

I certainly replace a large chunk of the "unix tools under the hood" with tools installed via homebrew.

> I had a driver's license. I used it so little that I let it expire and I'm not in a rush to renew it.

Don't wait too long - I did that and had to take the test again! :)

Not to be too, um, dismissive, but one of the things we discussed in my 300 level class called _Artificial Intelligence_ in college 2 decades ago was regular expressions, so, that ship has sailed far over the horizon.

indeed, isn't hallucination one of the purported intended effects of a sensory deprivation tank?

Their Irish tax haven is rather specifically _not_ in the UK.

this really makes me regret doing nothing like this when I recently had my passport photos taken.

The tight integration of the Apple Card with their hardware also means it makes their hardware (iPhones) better. They can lose money on the Apple Card and make money if it means some people like the integration enough to buy into the iPhone ecosystem (sign up for an Apple Card and get an interest free loan to buy an iPhone? I can see that getting new customers)

I'm curious how you can find rails incredible while simultaneously hating ruby? Rails takes a lot of its inspiration from the language itself (internals relying heavily on metaprogramming, lots of exploitation of ruby's quirks all over the place). Like, what do you like about rails and what do you hate about ruby and how do those two things not overlap?

It's been a while since that one's crossed my browser. This is the first time I've noticed the moderator's note at the bottom:

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Significantly less secure at that. I imagine GP has iMessage disabled on their computer because other people use their computer, and they don't want iMessages/SMS going anywhere other than their phone.