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I find claude often comments about what the code *does not* do. Relevant at the moment, but doesn't belong in the codebase.
dotcom was more SV than SF
Re:Phone searches at the US border hit a record high on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:00PM (#44964412)
only 3% of us citizens had a passport back in 1989!

passport to resident ratio usa, 1989-2023:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/44102530-5b24-467a-8510-c...

for the history on Boeing's rot and the issues with this plane, this book is great:

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

for the history on Boeing's rot and the issues with this plane, this book is great:

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

Re:AirPods Causing Tinnitus? on Saturday March 04, 2023 @03:07PM (#35024013)
I started getting spasms of my tensor tympani muscle around the time I began using AirPods with noise cancellation. Could hear it clearly and had a doc visually confirm.

Correlation not causation, but weird enough that a stopped using them.

Re:Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:09AM (#29893248)
I have a couple of these nest speakers. They are are wildly unreliable - buyer beware.
Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:46PM (#24721676)
Anyone know what effect this will have on folks drawing a pension from IBM?
Re:I Miss Rails on Thursday March 28, 2019 @07:50PM (#19517805)
That's what we do. Rails mostly just a json api, with a React front end. Devise handles auth. Useful gems in models and services, sidekiq doing its thing... Happy with the setup.
same here. using gcloud, not web console
It isn't. Audio production was done by respected pros.