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thesimon

1,862 カルマ登録 13 年前
Software developer, mostly Java with Spring Boot, React and Vue these days.

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thesimon
·5 日前·議論
I would love to, but no official Kindle publishing exists and at least the open thingys out there kinda suck. It's okay, but I don't like the formatting.

Maybe write a better Economist->Kindle transformation with Claude or something to make it better.
thesimon
·先月·議論
Matt Levine described it well (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-21/spa...)

> The deal, with SpaceX, is that Elon Musk runs it however he wants, and he does weird stuff, and you have to trust him, and if you don’t like it you can’t complain.

> When SpaceX acquired xAI a few months ago, did a special committee of independent directors approve the transaction? Did Musk recuse himself from negotiations? Was the price set by independent valuation experts using a rigorous process? Did outside shareholders sue to block the deal? Stop. Musk wanted SpaceX to buy xAI, so it did.

> [...] Surely SpaceX has created all that shareholder value more because Musk does what he wants than in spite of Musk doing what he wants; it is hard to accidentally create $1.75 trillion of value. SpaceX’s shareholders signed up for this deal — letting Musk cook — and have been rewarded;
thesimon
·2 か月前·議論
These stores are a big thing in Portugal as well, but doesn't really seem to be a thing in Germany. Closest I guess would be Action [1].

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Nederland
thesimon
·2 か月前·議論
It is mostly just sports betting

https://closingline.substack.com/p/the-takeaway-kalshi-non-s...
thesimon
·2 か月前·議論
Yeah, Kalshi can't pay. 17 CFR § 40.11

> A registered entity shall not list for trading or accept for clearing on or through the registered entity any of the following:

> (1) An agreement, contract, transaction, or swap based upon an excluded commodity, as defined in Section 1a(19)(iv) of the Act, that *involves*, relates to, or references terrorism, *assassination*, war, gaming, or an activity that is unlawful under any State or Federal law.

Polymarket doesn't seem to care too much.
thesimon
·2 か月前·議論
Makes it tempting to buy paid captcha solving just to enjoy life more
thesimon
·2 か月前·議論
> Yeah, there's the nice thoughts like "we wouldn't know how to maintain our app" -- but Claude would do a decent job in a single dev's hands, or "AI will potentially change the application unintentionally and introduce bugs" -- but proper observability, testing, and further prompting could fix those things in minutes to hours.

I was thinking about that the other day when I was automating a workflow: I hooked up Jira to Claude so that bug reports would automatically get a pull request. Opus 4.7 is pretty good at it. And compared to dev costs it's still quite cheap.

It's nice to not be distracted by simple bugs, but aren't I killing my own job?
thesimon
·2 か月前·議論
I'll be visiting next month so can't comment yet if it is any good, but kayaking Sydney Harbour sounds like a lot of fun.

Lots of tour operators doing it, deals on BookMe and Groupon.
thesimon
·2 か月前·議論
> Runs against your regular Claude Code subscription (Max plan recommended) — unlike /ultrareview, which charges against your Extra Usage pool.

How expensive is it to run in your experience? In $ or tokens?
thesimon
·4 か月前·議論
> This is a great insight. For software engineers coding is the way to fully grasp the business context.

> By programming, they learn how the system fits together, where the limits are, and what is possible. From there they can discover new possibilities, but also assess whether new ideas are feasible.

Maybe I have a different understanding of "business context", but I would argue the opposite. AI tools allow me to spend much more time on the business impact of features, think of edge cases, talk with stakeholders, talk with the project/product owners. Often there are features that stakeholders dismiss that seemed complex and difficult in the past, but are much easier now with faster coding.

Code was almost never the limiting factor before. It's the business that is the limit.
thesimon
·7 か月前·議論
Same in Germany and basically all of the EU.
thesimon
·7 か月前·議論
DB machines have been accepting all sorts of cards for a long time (Visa, AMEX, Discover). Local vending machines might vary though.
thesimon
·7 か月前·議論
> They are forced to (at least try to) make a profit for their shareholders [...]

Not true. Shareholder primacy is not as huge as in Delaware.

And in the end it's the government that owns all shares and thus can decide how much profit the company should make.
thesimon
·9 か月前·議論
> when seeing labels that talk about kWh/day

That's at least kinda reasonable. I'm always amused when I see TV energy labels that state

xx kWh/1000h
thesimon
·9 か月前·議論
Can complain to your local MEP about that. They updated the passenger rights regulation recently, but still kept this/

Regulation (EU) 2021/782

> Railway undertakings may introduce a minimum threshold under which payments for compensation will not be paid. This threshold shall not exceed EUR 4 per ticket.

Sadly the MEPs cared more about railway companies than passengers.
thesimon
·9 か月前·議論
> and can only be cancelled in small windows a long time before auto-renew

any examples?
thesimon
·10 か月前·議論
> Amazon/Walmart

They are also in the advertising business. Walmart cleared $4 billion last year.

https://www.adexchanger.com/commerce/walmarts-ad-business-cl...