also some Aztek related trivia came up, so I updated that post as well. See second comment, with EDIT 2025 in it. https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/the-pontiac-aztek-and-the-perils-of-design-by-committee/1078/3?u=codinghorror

@codinghorror we can do some of Phase 3 right now, like transitioning more bottles to cartons and bags, wrappers, etc. to paper, cardboard, or cloth, each of which can be waxed (though we may need more innovation to make wax-coated products more recyclable and/or compostable)

@codinghorror I knew it would either be EICAR or that other thing

@codinghorror Maybe this is why the police may never show up?

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Nate Silver continues to suck https://www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silver-s-big-list-of-grievances

I have very much soured on the usefulness of mouse-hover type user interface behaviors. For one thing, useless in an era of dominant touch displays (how does one "hover" a finger), and second, I keep getting hovers I don't want obscuring work I am trying to do..

Apple could make so much money just using their off-the-charts SOC design skills to compete with nvidia on GPUs. Even after all these years -- the incredible increase in trajectory started around 2014-2015 -- their in-house SOCs are VASTLY more efficient and powerful than literally everyone else in the industry. It isn't even close.

I regret to inform everyone that cat has happened again

@grishka "no plan survives contact with users"