If I use the web interface to my self-hosted library, each book's cover is shown along with a progress bar if it has ever been opened in the web interface.

If I use the OPDS interface, that doesn't happen; I suppose it would be nice to push some reading information back. Sync between reading devices is handled by koreader-sync, so I can pick up any device running koreader and be on the page where I left off.

I asked Claude to explain how the lyrics of "Birdhouse in Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants should guide investment strategy. It promptly produced five paragraphs of bullshit that read just like a persuasive essay on the Net.

If you don't firmly hold in your mind "this is a bullshit generator", you can get in real trouble fast.

What's to understand? They think they can vibecode PG19.

I won't be running that, though.

Every recruiter I have dealt with (on the hiring side) has had a provision in the contract: if they have a documented exchange with a candidate whom we hire during or within (a month, two months...) of the contract end, the recruiter is deemed to have done the work. Contrarily, if we have a documented exchange with a candidate before the recruiter does, the recruiter is not owed anything.

So: the recruiter has an incentive to mention the hiring company as soon as they get a response from you.

If they don't do that, they are either bad at writing contracts or don't actually have authority to recruit. Mostly the second: you would not be surprised at the number of cold emails I get saying that they represent a candidate (or a pool of candidates) who are exactly right for the position that we filled last month.

That's like domain brokers that contact you, saying they have a certain domain, and would you be interested?

They don't actually have the domain. If you respond, they reserve it, immediately, so you can't get it.

A fun thing to do, is respond, then block them.

The 0.01% number is a ridiculous exaggeration.

In a roughly 50 person company with refresh every 3 years, we send a macbook back for repair/replacement roughly three times a year. I would estimate that as a 2% hardware problem rate, 200x higher than what you quote.

2% is satisfactory for corporate use, by the way.

Work computers have different usage profiles than personal computers. Employees move their laptop to and from home 5x per week, into offices, use them on trains, buses, etc. Work laptops are used 40+ hours per week. Whereas personal devices are closer to 5-20 hours.

Employees also take worse care of work laptops than their personal machines.

Even in the extremely rare case my device has issues. I can take the device to an apple store in any city I am in and they will hand me a loaner laptop while a professional performs the repair.

If your Framework laptop dies, you have to debug the problem yourself, wait for parts to arrive, and pray that the part you ordered is the only part you need.

It is.

Guatemala, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Afghanistan (that's deliberate), Kuwait, Ukraine, Georgia, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam (also deliberate)... all of these countries and more have been invaded by nuclear powers.

And grit, not grid.

Pascal of the famously backpedaling and unsupportable Wager?

Lewis the apologist?

Bach the "who pays for music around here? OK, I'll get them to pay me" pop songwriter?

All of these folks living so far apart from each other in time and place that some of them would vitriolically deny being of the same religion as some of the others?

(Bach was an awesome composer, but he needed the money and catered to his audience.)

Don't be ridiculous. The US operates gulags in other countries, so that they don't have to pretend to follow our own laws.

If your behavior doesn't change when you realize the world has changed, that's a bad sign.

So, the change in behavior by the students is a good sign.