Submitting to iTunes made syncing to the phone much easier, but I've been using claude to rebuild/repair my 20+ year old library, and have learned that iTunes has very weak if any support for "work" - a feature it has to split up classical music the way the CD does (once file per movement). Frustrating that there will likely never be a high-quality syncing player that works well with iPhones.

Same, my first viewing was on a betamax copy my aunt had - coincidentally the same trip I ended up buying a cassette tape that had Weird Al's Yoda on it.

A significant amount of my pop-clutter (er, culture) knowledge comes from Mad parodies.

What we need is a single line that can only be written two ways, each of which has a subtle security issue, so AIs can flip-flop it back and forth forever.

AI kills SaaS dead - because most will use AI to do what this does directly (presumably convert bank statements), and the rest will use AI to write a non-AI tool that does it likely just as well.

I did this… I have a specific system-generated PDF bank statement and it didn’t take too long to write a parsing program, which would have taken much longer before.

I take it in a get-ye-flask mode.

http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Ye_Flask

I visited a friend's apartment and he was going on and on about how everyone around him seems to be getting exploding dogs, so I think the key is to live by yourself in a house separated from others.

But down that path lies a cabin innawoods.

> exploding dogs

I've heard of bomb disposal dogs, but this is an angle I hadn't previously considered

This is correct. There needs to be some outside air in between you and people, not just a wall.

A moat would also be nice.

The perfect work-from-home office is a tethered balloon. Change my mind.

He's getting downvoted, but he's not wrong - however, finding someone who specializes in doing this would be hard, and knowing how to word it so you can use "standard crews" would itself be $2-3k for a GC.

This is the danger of "cheap projects" - they can grow legs before you know it, and you end up paying half the cost of increasing the square footage of the house (or the garage).

Yeah of course you could DIY this or find your own subs much cheaper, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not that bad.

You get a finished and conditioned room, and it most likely added value to his house.

Some things are deceptively complex (foundations and roof trusses come to mind) and the cost if you get it wrong can easily double the total cost of your build 6 months after you think you are done.

Walls, floors, ceilings and everything in between them are both less complex and cheaper to fix than foundations or trusses.

It's a shed, you can just compact gravel and put it on pavers

Unless he’s a commercial builder, I’d suggest he is wildly wrong about what is involved in properly pouring, leveling and making sure concrete has properly set in various weather conditions. And if you take a look at his post …

My problem is always the time necessary to get good at the tool is slightly more than just brute forcing it one more time.

I'm not always forced for time. And the time is slightly less when you know how to use man (with apropos and whatis, a few unix conventions (null vs newline when piping text) and the quirks/feature of your shell.