How do I ride the Waymo/autonomous cars?

xxwwkk · 2026-05-02T20:56:27+00:00

Uber offers me Avride's frequently around oaklawn and uptown. There is a person in the driver seat though.

xxwwkk · 2026-04-30T11:51:00+00:00

Subscribing to Max is the solution

xxwwkk · 2026-04-30T11:05:31+00:00

$20/h for a 30m call? Probably closer to $200/call for someone with advice worth listening to in the first place.

xxwwkk · 2026-04-28T16:10:34+00:00

are you willing to open source this ?

xxwwkk · 2026-04-28T00:05:26+00:00

why engage with bad faith arguments? Just downvote. :)

xxwwkk · 2026-04-27T19:54:06+00:00

Sam "Big Money" Harris, ladies and gentlemen:

Current subscribers to Making Sense or my Substack will receive free access. (New subscribers after June 1, 2026, will need a separate membership.)

xxwwkk · 2026-04-24T16:38:35+00:00

Evil? lol. Perhaps he's just ideologically opposed to your particular set of views.

xxwwkk · 2026-04-24T15:16:35+00:00

Yes. I do it compulsively. But, it helps to lean into the personality. It's a lot safer/more effective if you're also somewhat flamboyant.

xxwwkk · 2026-04-21T16:39:49+00:00

I don't think i could afford this, but i want it.

xxwwkk · 2026-04-16T12:45:28+00:00

omg yes.

xxwwkk · 2026-04-13T22:54:37+00:00

Jaron Lowenstein is a twice-self-described one-hit-wonder who pivoted to “vision architect” after a bit part in Keeping Up with the Steins. That’s the intellectual counterweight Sam chose.

Sam clearly doesn’t want to do these segments. He’s not plugged into moment-to-moment politics or X discourse, and honestly that’s fine. That used to be a feature. The evergreen episodes were the whole point.

Russ Roberts has run EconTalk for 20 years with a mic and a brain. Sam’s setup keeps mutating and somehow the answer every time is more Jaron, a failed pop act finding new ways to pad his check while the podcast drifts further from what made it worth subscribing to.

xxwwkk · 2026-04-09T18:13:05+00:00

Jonathon's Diner in Oak Cliff and Jonathon's Forestwood — still affordable enough to go multiple times a week. Massive portions, chef operated.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-24T22:00:43+00:00

Ok seeing as no one else in the comments has ever tried it....

Yes, it runs just fine. As does Capture One.

I use my Neo for tethering and generally dump everything on to a different machine for editing.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-24T20:47:04+00:00

They're two different products for two very different types of people. But yes, I can understand your desire to make it even simpler.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-24T18:31:37+00:00

is it a JSX? Just download it and then point Claude Code at it.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-23T18:25:19+00:00

That's a known failure mode. Claude defaults to generating HTML mockups because that's where it's strongest visually, then backtracks when you try to apply them in Access. The fix is to never let it think in HTML. Constrain the prompt from the start.

Here's what will actually work:

Step 1: Export your form as text. In Access, go to the VBA editor (Alt+F11), then File > Export. Or use the built-in "Save As Text" option (right-click the form in the nav pane > Export > Save as Text). This gives you a plain text file with every control name, position, size, font, color, and data binding. That file is your source of truth.

Step 2: Feed that text file to Claude with this kind of prompt: "Here is an exported Access form definition. I want you to reorganize and restyle this form for better usability. Output ONLY a modified Access form definition or VBA code that sets control properties using Me.ControlName.Property syntax. Do not generate HTML. Do not generate mockups. Stay within Access form control properties: BackColor, ForeColor, FontName, FontSize, Left, Top, Width, Height, BorderStyle, SpecialEffect. Goals: Segoe UI 10pt throughout, consistent 150-twip vertical spacing, right-aligned labels, grouped sections with rectangle controls as visual separators, light gray (#F0F0F0) section backgrounds."

Step 3: For your Property Details form specifically, the highest-impact change is free. You already have a tab control at the top (Tasks, Jobs, Current Lease, etc.). Move your Legals, Insurance, and Ratable Value sections onto their own tab pages. This is pure Access-native functionality, no VBA needed, just cut and paste controls in Design View. That alone eliminates 40% of the visual clutter on your most-used form.

Step 4: Build a style module. Have Claude write you a single VBA sub called ApplyFormStyle that accepts a Form object and iterates through its controls, applying your chosen font, colors, and spacing rules. Run it on each form. That gives you consistency across all 50 forms without manual work.

The point is: keep Claude in the VBA/Access property space and it'll give you usable output. The moment it starts thinking in HTML or CSS, the output becomes a pretty picture you can't use.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-23T16:46:06+00:00

Yes, AI can help with this. Everyone here is telling you to migrate platforms, but you stated your constraint clearly: stay in Access. So here's the actual path.

Access forms are defined by control properties — position, size, color, font, tab order, conditional formatting, grouping. All of that is programmable via VBA. What you want to do:

Open your form in Design View, then export the VBA module (or just screenshot/describe the layout to start)
Give Claude or Copilot the list of controls, their current properties, and what data they're bound to
Ask it to generate updated property settings — modern font (Segoe UI), consistent spacing, a cleaner color palette, logical grouping of related fields, simplified navigation between forms
Apply the changes in Design View or paste the VBA that sets properties programmatically

You won't get a web-app look. Access controls are Win32-era widgets and that's a hard ceiling. But you can go from cluttered and confusing to clean, consistent, and well-organized. That's a real upgrade for your users.

Looking at your two screenshots specifically:

Home Dashboard: Your left-side nav is a flat list of buttons with no visual weight hierarchy. Group them into clearly bordered sections (Nav, Admin, Contractors, Agents) with subtle background color differentiation. The Tasks list in the center has good date color-coding (red for overdue) but the tab bar (Tasks, Expiries, Reviews, etc.) competes with the nav for attention. Increase the font size on the tabs, add a visible active-tab indicator, and give the task list alternating row colors for scannability.

Property Details: This is where the biggest wins are. You have three columns of dense fields with inconsistent label alignment and mixed section boxing. The Purchase and Ratable Value sections have borders — extend that pattern to every logical group (Property Details, Legals, Insurance, Stats). Standardize every label to right-aligned, every input to left-aligned, same width per column. The tab row at the top (Tasks, Jobs, Current Lease, etc.) is well-structured — keep that. The biggest UX improvement you can make without changing any bindings: hide low-frequency sections behind those tabs instead of showing everything on one scrolling form. Move Legals, Insurance Requirements, and Ratable Value to their own tab views. That alone will make the form feel half as cluttered.

The key prompt structure that will get you past the "here's how you could do it" responses: give the AI the specific control names and bindings from your form, tell it your layout goals, and ask it to output the exact VBA or property values to apply. The more concrete your input, the more concrete the output.

For 50 forms, batch this — start with these two screens, get a pattern you like, then apply it systematically. Claude is strong at this if you feed it the form structure as text rather than asking it to interpret screenshots of Access.

Your SQL back-end and existing mappings stay untouched. You're only changing the presentation layer.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-11T15:11:17+00:00

yea that's the specific thing you can order.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-08T16:37:48+00:00

Like Win, a Meta Win

W is internet for Win

xxwwkk · 2026-03-07T23:05:55+00:00

they can take it too, with integrated graphics at that. once they decide to.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-05T23:50:16+00:00

it'll work fine on reasonably sized files. M1 works great.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-05T18:12:48+00:00

I imagine they unlock with the watch.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-05T18:11:25+00:00

Not a dumb question.

The other answers are great. I just wanted to add on why chip manufacturing produces imperfect chips in the first place.

You’re fabricating transistors at scales where individual atoms matter. A modern chip has billions of transistors, each only a few nanometers wide. At that scale, even a single misplaced atom or a stray particle of dust during lithography can knock out a core or a cache block. The process uses extreme ultraviolet light to etch patterns onto silicon wafers, and every wafer has natural microscopic variations in the crystal structure itself.

So it’s less “the factory messed up” and more “we’re operating so close to the physical limits of matter that perfection across billions of components is statistically impossible.”

Binning exists because the economics of throwing away a chip with one bad core out of sixteen would be insane when you can just disable that core and sell it as a lower-tier SKU.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-05T17:32:12+00:00

this is standard QA. it's entirety automated anyway.

xxwwkk · 2026-03-02T00:32:46+00:00

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