Justus Brown

wanderer

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

After the Budget, millions will use online tax calculators. But there's a privacy catch: we tested the seven most popular, and every one sends your income to a server.

Here's what MoneySavingExpert sends:

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@JamieJukes4 Nebraska! 😍

[Justus Brown @justusb]

Preach.
The Wilshire subway took 46 years. Future projects should skip the decades of objections https://t.co/ajA7VdjGi8

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@orenbj Berlin, without a doubt.

[Justus Brown @justusb]

My life in summary.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Running a company:

2020: can you survive a pandemic?

2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds.

2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now.

2023: nice job! okay, SVB failed and we’re going to take away your bank account.

2024: a survivor I see. but can you pivot from ai to crypto to defense tech back to ai-enabled defense tech in a 12 month period to stay relevant?

2025: unfortunately all of your competitors have raised $2b series B rounds. oh and only 500 engineers are relevant and they cost $100m/yr each.

2026: well, well, well. you’re still in business? let’s deploy the thunderclap of godlike LLMs from the heavens so all of your customers can rebuild your app in 2 hours. can you survive?

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@SeanM1997 You forgot STP - XPG at 12.2 million journeys

[Gregor 🌹🇪🇺🇦🇹 @salingergregor]

it's actually possible to have trams and Erasmus

[Justus Brown @justusb]

How many times have I said someone should redo Finder/Explorer???

[Abhay Agarwal @Denizen_Kane]

For 40 years the file browser hasn’t changed.

Today, we’re launching with $8 million in seed funding to rebuild the file browser into something more intelligent, searchable, and delightful.

The world is in the middle of a data explosion. We’re generating and using more files than ever, but the apps we’re using to manage our files don’t even understand them.

It’s time for file browsers to become useful. When you search for “dog”, it should show you content with dogs in it, not just files with “dog” in the name! When you want to edit, convert, summarize, or organize a file, your browser should do that, too.

Your files tell the story of your life, but when you need a specific one, you usually can’t even find it anymore. Why can’t your file browser find it for you, or cross-reference it when you have a question? Prompting can give an LLM a million tokens of context. With Poly, you can give it the next trillion.

As long as we can afford it, all new users receive 100GB of free cloud storage. We can’t wait for you to try it out!

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Adjusted for inflation, Madrid built 35 miles of metro between 1995–1999 for about the same cost as a SINGLE mile of New York’s Second Avenue Subway (Phase 1). Imagine if every transit dollar here bought us 35 times more transit?

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@josh_salisbury It’s a great paper.

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@dredbeveridge @PrettyYende @AliceCoote @rbo_org Right?
Ripping the paper off the window was a nice touch. Lots of detail throughout I thought.

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@nicochristie Curious how it will deal with financial models for VCs…
As a former Excel add-in writer I’m also curious if a deeper excel API integration could be next.
Also data mapping could be an interesting use case

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@StatisticUrban They called it the Buffalo Commons https://t.co/7bkYIYshR6
Us residents weren’t very impressed.

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@State0fDisgrace Thank you for sharing the struggle with us. You’ll beat it! Despite the parental visit.

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@lewis_goodall Infuriating.

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@TerribleMaps This is how I feel about Ostwestfalen.

[London Gatwick LGW @Gatwick_Airport]

📈 Our plans to bring our Northern Runway into routine use will bring 14,000 jobs and inject an extra £1 billion into the UK economy every year.

Pending government approval, we're ready to go.

Our shovel-ready plans mean that dual-runway operations could be in effect at London Gatwick by the end of the decade.

Find out more about our plans: https://t.co/BijYRPjefX

[Justus Brown @justusb]

@AndyBTravels Would love one! Happy to reimburse. Am a big fan!