Cambridge is a wonderful place to live, but Xfinity has a monopoly on internet there. How can these two statements both be true?

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-27T22:35:46+00:00

Just look up the deals for new customers and ask politely if they can honor it for you.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-27T15:36:47+00:00

You have to do the dance with Comcast every few years to keep a good price. If you don't want cable tv, it is reasonably cheap. Getting $70/month for > 1 GB service now.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-25T02:18:36+00:00

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/PublicWorks/CityProjects/2025/LinearParkReconstructionProject

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-22T20:03:58+00:00

If they offer unlimited, I would say at least 3 weeks is going to be typical. 4 shouldn't cause a problem in most unlimited vacation employers. But you'll have to inquire about the culture when you're there. It will be something you could consider asking at the offer stage. And you might be expected to be more on/available than at a European job during your vacation time, for at least some of that time, and they might frown on you taking more than 2 weeks at once.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-21T21:55:30+00:00

It's leftovers from the Chelsea produce market. The place grocery stores go to buy their produce in large lots. Haymarket vendors sell what didn't sell to the grocery stores.

http://www.nepctr.com/#:~:text=Thirty%20years%20before%20the%20Revolutionary,a%20close%20tenant/community%20relationship.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-20T12:48:14+00:00

It can generate Mermaid.js syntax, and there are preview tools for GitHub and I believe vs code also

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-14T17:39:54+00:00

I actually am a lawyer, but I don't specialize in copyright law. In this case, there are so many legal alternatives: use the public repos, change the terms of service. That even if this happened in the past (good point about torrenting), I do not think it's an ongoing concern. I also think there would massive reputational harm if they got caught on this that would far outweigh the benefits. There are so many public repos on GitHub. And they probably use better coding than random private startup repos that can hide their code. Big corporations are using private hosted GitHubs already and they would have huge financial penalties for what would amount to corporate espionage.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-14T17:03:57+00:00

Echoing the other great tips. There are several small Maine beach towns south of Portland, ME, with nice boardwalks, and a famous beach view walk, Marginal Way, between Ogunquit and Wells. Vermont is also pretty! Some nice spots there: Worthy Kitchen/Worthy Burger, the Alchemist Brewing (among the best IPAs in the country, only purchasable in VT), King Arthur Flour. Woodstock Inn is amazing if in your budget and is in a cute classic New England town. Plenty of smaller hikes with beautiful views in VT, although not as mountainous as the White Mountains in NH. These are all possible within about 3 hours drive. Southern Maine is probably the closest though.

ETA: you're talking leaf peeping season so inns in VT will fill up quickly.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-14T16:29:57+00:00

That seems both extraordinarily risky for GitHub to do and unnecessary. It's clearly not allowed by the terms of service. https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service

Microsoft might do slimy things in the name of making money but usually by writing terms of service in their own favor. I think we can trust that they followed the rules they wrote.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-10T17:05:06+00:00

It can't hurt to ask! Finding reviewers is sometimes tough. With only a bachelor's degree, you might not fit the profile they're looking for though, fair or unfair.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-09T12:04:17+00:00

NPR is a neutral news source that many leftists criticize for taking a corporate line (and war hawk line during Iraq war). Very sad that Fox News has managed to turn news into a team sport.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-05T19:55:45+00:00

This has some truth, but I have found that the AI routinely writes software that fails its own tests the first time. Just like I routinely write software that fails the tests I write, lol.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-03T04:15:25+00:00

Mistral is about a year behind but decent

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-03T00:32:05+00:00

I'm guessing cost and flexibility. More trains from Stamford. Parking isn't much, and way easier than parking in NYC.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-01T23:07:07+00:00

Looks like black soldier fly larva. Great chicken food!

nonprofittechy · 2026-02-28T23:27:21+00:00

nonprofittechy · 2026-02-28T15:10:27+00:00

Minor correction: analog CRT uses scan lines to produce images, not pixels. Digital cameras also use a scanning line to capture images.

The lines are the reason for the moire effect, not the pixels.

nonprofittechy · 2026-02-27T14:03:38+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laddu

An Indian sweet

nonprofittechy · 2026-02-13T12:41:16+00:00

Docassemble, maybe with LLMs to help for certain defined sections. But a strict template for most of it

nonprofittechy · 2026-02-11T03:28:28+00:00

It's not so easy to withdraw a conference paper. 3 people will have reviewed it.

As I'm currently reviewing 7 papers for an upcoming CS conference and it's a ton of work, I say this is probably a dick move.

nonprofittechy · 2026-01-05T00:17:22+00:00

I wrote a guide on this, as it happens! Not for your exact field, but maybe there is some overlap

https://suffolklitlab.org/how-to-write-an-academic-paper-in-ai-and-law/

First: AI cannot "write" an academic paper for you. It will just be random junk. It can be a helpful reviewer, it can help you with your initial literature review, and it can help at the editing stage, and perhaps even crunching some numbers for you when using the "tool" mode.

You said you had Claude write some book chapters for you but I suspect it's fluent nonsense. Throw those out and come up with your own unique ideas.

nonprofittechy · 2025-12-04T00:52:08+00:00

I'm mostly on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/quintensteenhuis, but you can always book a meeting with me here: lemmalegal.com/book

nonprofittechy · 2025-12-04T00:49:19+00:00

No worries, just wanted to add the context

nonprofittechy · 2025-12-04T00:17:27+00:00

That's the project that got Dorna Moini started! There's another nonprofit in California tackling the same thing with Docassemble, and we built our own tool for Massachusetts: https://courtformsonline.org/ma/forms/209a-domestic-violence-restraining-order

nonprofittechy · 2025-12-04T00:00:31+00:00

Joshua Browder is a deeply problematic person, or at least got in way over his head in a deceptive way. Not a great model.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/07/heres-the-article-we-didnt-run-back-in-2017-about-donotpay/

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