Most economists think that tariffs are not a good way to collect tax, because it distorts incentives far more than e.g. a tax on wealth or property.

I run a low 7 figures SaaS as well. This is the blurb I answer with when asked about SOC2 (yes, yes, AI generated):

"While we follow industry best practices that align closely with the requirements of SOC2 and similar frameworks, we have chosen not to pursue formal certification at this time. Maintaining multiple certifications and undergoing recurring audits across the various regions in which we operate would significantly increase our operational costs and, consequently, the price of our service."

Text based accounting is a great use case for LLMs. I was pleasantly surprised how well Codex works with ledger CLI, especially in combination with git.

I wonder if this is going to give text based accounting a boost. Reviewing clearly worded git commits is so much more reassuring then letting an LLM drive your accounting package and hoping it doesn't mess up somewhere.

> ... something you know well and is easy to read ...

For this reason I tell my LLMs to use Ruby whenever possible. In one rare case where the performance of my script was critical, I told Claude to convert the working ruby script to Rust. It got it right in a single shot.

Getting Time Machine to work reliably over a network is painful, even the old Apple-made Airport with built in TM stopped working twice a year.

However, I have multiple Macs where I simply have a USB-C laptop SSD attached for Time Machine and they have worked without issue for years. These laptop SSDs come in huge sizes nowadays, and you don't need an especially performant one, so they can be pretty cheap.

I agree, but this app was created in 2006. That's when IE6 was still roaming the earth. Might have been easier to get it to work as an app.

It also works fine with Ruby and the "caxlsx" gem. Codex works fine with it as also.

Reading that BBC article, how the attacker got caught while shouting at an OpenAI building, it would seem likely that this attacker is confused or deranged. Not specifically someone with deliberate evil intent.

So the headline seems to be more "high profile person attacked by lunatic" than "OpenAI CEO attacked for being evil".

USB-C is decent for data transfer. It's pretty poor for power delivery: the pins are too close, so it's not rated for use in bathrooms or kitchens, and there are many more of them than needed for power delivery, making it relatively expensive to use in things like children's toys.

It was a mistake to conflate flexible power delivery and data transfer, you rarely need both at the same time. It's possible to design a better and cheaper 3 or 4 pin power delivery standard that can use higher power. But the law now says USB-C and good luck ever changing that.

1. The law doesn't mandate USB-C in particular, the port can change without the law changing

2. Nobody was going to add a second port for charging when USB can handle fast charging already. And if you need to charge in a damp environment then use wireless.

3. I'm pretty sure you can add a second port and the EU law doesn't mind at all

And assuming USB 2.0, how much cheaper do you expect a simpler port to be?

USB is a bus that is intended to be universal for serial *data*, that is what it is designed for.

Agree! I still have several (now discontinued) Philips 40 inch monitors, and that is the perfect size to do programming work. Very little scrolling needed while you work. But I would love to have a 40 inch in 4K+ instead of 2560x1600, why is no one making these? (I did get a Samsung 8K 50 inch, but that's too large for a multi screen setup)

Any other requirements? I noticed this one recently, but 40" is a bit big for my taste: https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-ultrasharp-40-curved-th...

Yeah, I worked on that one. It's passable, but I don't like the aspect ratio very much, it's too wide, I rather have 40" on 16:9

Ya idk what people are getting from ultrawides tbh. They're not great for video, not great for my neck, not enough vertical space, and can be disorienting for gaming. I can certainly imagine scenarios that would make them effective, but I'd just rather have more vertical space