In 1993 I bought a manual transmission Chevy S-10 pickup for a hair under 10 grand, the first new vehicle I ever bought. I think the only upgrades it had over base model were the stereo had a CD player, it had AC, which was a requirement in Texas, and it came with floor mats. Indexed to inflation that's, what, about $23k-24k? If that vehicle existed they'd fill every rural high school parking lot in the South. The closest thing to the form factor is the Jeep Gladiator, but it costs about double that. The rest of the "small" trucks in the US are closer to the size of the Silverado/F150 of that era than to the S-10/Ranger.

The REO Trucks might fill this niche, if they turn out not to be vaporware.

Eh, I would not be surprised if they have a separate wifi that guests can use and you can hook up your private devices to. Basically every large company i have worked for, for the last two decades had that. I suspect deep in the bowels of the White House you don’t get good reception.

Mainly because they kept telling the developers "No". SREs just do that at scale.

I don’t know about that, but I was told by someone who worked at a power generation plant in the 1970s that they had a clock in the plant, that they would compare to the time broadcast on the radio frequency that carried the official time, and any time it diverged they would slightly adjust the frequency of the alternating current until it matched.

I was a kid but I do know the clocks in my elementary, middle, and high school were accurate. Near end of day, we would impatiently stare at the clock waiting for the release bell. Being a public school, the clocks were bolted securely to the wall. Being little shits, students would probably steal them if they could, LOL. So how did they keep 100s of clocks on time? I asked and was told by the school maintenance that it was done through power.

I would honestly like to see this as an animation, where the battles were fought over time. Maybe the site can do this but if so it’s not obvious.

Ctrl+F Play

the second result is the play button that plays the map.

Oh, that's really cool! Why is it so hidden... only the AI can probably answer that.

I saw it immediately :P

I honestly don’t know why people get worked up over this. I assume that either the person doing it isn’t a native speaker, or they are a techie that just doesn’t have good English language writing skills. And having those skills is rare for technical people. It’s much easier to deal with Claude than what those people would have written without assistance.

Over the last few decades I’ve read many technical docs that were obviously mechanically translated from some other language. This is much better.

Technology doing code is really cool because you give it an input, a functional purpose, and your intended function output - and it can do a pretty darn good job at producing the code that fulfills the requirements.

But when you want me to read something AI written, without the human refining the UI I see, it almost seems like I'm a test case and all the author cares about is my output in terms of "I like it" or "I don't like it". There's no information about _why_ the author wanted me to see this. Can you tell me your inspiration for making this? Some sort of personal connection I should have with the thing I'm seeing?

Vibe coded apps can still be useful in this state as tools, but don't expect me to use my creative brainpower to provide feedback on your product in a constructive manner if you can't be asked to ensure the text is your intention for the code, not how the AI interpreted it.

I don't really get worked up over it, but I do have a preference for original writing these days. If it's someone's pet project or something creative, I prefer the authenticity of the creative's actual writing. AI writing is just so boring and sterile out of the box. You lose nuance and personality.

It is a bit different with translation, in that case AI translation might get closer to the original intent than manual translation by the author. But otherwise I want the words from their brain meats, not layers removed and cleansed by system prompts and training.

I just know if the first spoonful tastes like dung then I'm not going to keep eating the soup.

> Over the last few decades I’ve read many technical docs that were obviously mechanically translated from some other language. This is much better.

I don’t think it’s better. Any frontier LLM is capable of competent translation without significantly re-wording the text.

I use Whisper to transcribe foreign language videos and then run them through a couple of models to translate into English. It works really well, and much better than mechanical translation because they can figure out likely mistakes based on how whisper might have misheard (or surrounding context from the script).

I dont find it better. I fimd it significantly worst.

Google AI suggests the rents there run from $5k to $9k a month, so, is 1.7% to 3% of the rent negligible?

I pay this much for a trash collection service that doesn't seem to ever show up and fines me if I get the unlisted rules wrong.

The unit I was looking at was listed $6k a month, so that’s about right.

I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters!

I only ever worked on one token ring network in the 90s - the client used mostly IBM hardware, and I guess that's what the consultants who set them up installed. It worked fairly well, but the main thing I remember was the switches were really, really noisy.

Every other network I worked on was ethernet, with the exception of one arcnet network. Which also worked really well, except it was very, very slow.

I run a wekan kanban board for household stuff. If I had any servers up 24/7 in the house I'd run them there, but it's handy to be able to access from anywhere and well worth the $5.