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ajay-b commented on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/robenkleene

Ultimatt · 2 days ago

Because Spotlight now rarely finds your applications in search so you can't just quick launch anything.... from a launcher widget

ajay-b · 2 days ago

This. Spotlight has gotten awful under Tahoe. I was forced to upgrade at work but in my humble opinion, it's best not to update MacOS unless I really need to. Things get worse, things get better, but overall the experience is diminished.

ajay-b commented on I built a programming language using Claude Code ankursethi.com/blog/progr... · Posted by u/GeneralMaximus

tines · 2 days ago

Next you can let Claude play your video games for you as well. Gads we are a voyeuristic society aren’t we.

ajay-b · 2 days ago

Why not let Claude do our dating? I'm surprised someone hasn't thought of this: AI dating, let the AI find and qualify a date for you, and match with the person who meets you, for you!

ajay-b commented on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable dexerto.com/youtube/youtu... · Posted by u/robtherobber

ajay-b · 2 days ago

Does anyone have a good study as to how much advertising is too much advertising? There are some content creators on YouTube I enjoy watching but it's an ad every five minutes and it just ruins it all. For some, I've reached the point where I don't bother watching anymore because the ads are just too much. I sympathize with creators wishing to make money, but ... it's just becoming relentless. I'd love to see a study or even better YouTube internal analysis of how much viewers are willing to take before they just say enough.

ajay-b commented on San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/darth_avocado

zingar · 2 months ago

We have 30 hours of free childcare in the UK (for nursery, schooling in older years is free) if both parents are working and neither earn more than £100k. It has the interesting impact that a salary of £99.9k is worth more to me than £130k, give or take some extra contributions to pension.

It’s interesting to me that the threshold is so much higher in San Francisco given that SF is only 8.7% more expensive than London, at least according to numbeo.

Maybe healthcare makes up some of that difference?

ajay-b · 2 months ago

I am pessimistic that the reason it is so high is because someone making $220k per year said "yea but what about me, I have to pay for childcare too..." The number should be significantly lower. Anyone making a combined $200k a year has other options and opportunities, the immigrant family making $60k combined does not. This feels like a policy designed to "help" the poor but also benefit the rich..

ajay-b commented on San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/darth_avocado

ajay-b · 2 months ago

San Francisco’s measure will make childcare free for a family of four making less than $230,000 a year, or 150% of the area median income, and offer a 50% subsidy to families earning less than $310,000 a year, or 200% of the area median income. Previously, free childcare was available to families earning less than 110% of the area median income.

But.. why not flip that on its head. Make it free for people UNDER $50,000, and a sliding scale up from there. I get that it's San Francisco, one of the most expensiv4e places in the country to live, but $230k is much, much too high. I get it: You make $200k a year and have four kids and you have expenses, and daycare is expensive, etc. but this should be for the MASSIVELY OUTNUMBERED of parents who don't make, nor can ever hope to make, anywhere near $230k.

I'm all for free child care but the parameters and numbers of this are insulting.

ajay-b commented on Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10... · Posted by u/hhs

ajay-b · 5 months ago

They film us on the street. They film us at traffic signals, from law enforcement vehicles, and drones, parks and even through our doorbell cameras. I don't mean this glibly, or in its entirety, but the big screen watching your every move in 1984 seems not too far off..

ajay-b commented on SpaceX Took Money Directly from Chinese Investors propublica.org/article/el... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0

ajay-b · 5 months ago

I don't follow the logic, Hollywood has taken money directly from Chinese investors. Major infrastructure projects, major companies, auto manufacturers, have all taken money from Chinese investors. This feels more like a hip piece.

ajay-b commented on Why America still needs public schools theconversation.com/why-a... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

jklowden · 5 months ago

90% of funding for K-12 public schools comes from state and local taxes. That’s hardly a one-size-fits-all national system.

Would you tell me though, please, what language and cultural differences should inflect science or math or literature or history? Are you suggesting evolution not be taught where there are parents who object, or that the civil war be taught differently in the former confederacy, so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings? Those things are happening, of course. I’m just innocent of any defense for them.

ajay-b · 5 months ago

I can't tell if you're playing devils advocate, but in Texas, many students speak Spanish as their first language, we also have students and other parts of the country whose first language is not English. Some of those make up the majority, if not overwhelming majority, of some of these schools. I think it's naïve to assume that they can be taught the same as the rest of the country. There's also students with attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, autism, disabilities, and all of that is best handled the local level so they can serve the local students. I get why some people prefer federalism and education, it allows for greater federal control. But clearly it's a disservice to students, or else the testing would show it.

ajay-b commented on California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers' identities npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/1659447091

ajay-b · 6 months ago

I don't see how this will be enforceable.

ajay-b commented on Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/manveerc

ajay-b · 6 months ago

I think this has less to do with policy and more to do with grocery economics: They will raise prices until the public stops buying - basic economics. They've raised the prices and have zero incentive to reduce them. What are you going to do, grow your own food? Buy local?