Thank you for Claude Code (Web). Google has a similar offering with Google Jules. I got really, really bad results from Jules and was amazed by Claude Code when I finally discovered it.

I compared both with the same set of prompts and Claude Code seemed to be a senior expert developer and Jules, well don't know who be that bad ;-)

Anyway, I also wanted to have persistent information, so I don't have to feed Claude Code the same stuff over and over again. I was looking for similar functionality as Claude projects. But that's not available for Claude Code Web.

So, I asked Claude what would be a way of achieving pretty the same as projects, and it told me to put all information I wanted to share in a file with the filename:.clinerules. Claude told me I should put that file in the root of my repository.

So please help me, is your recommendation the correct way of doing this, or did Claude give the correct answer?

Maybe you can clear that up by explaining the difference between the two files?

CLAUDE.md is the correct file for Claude.

What makes me wonder after reading the article, how did AT&T bill its users, especially in its early days.

It was so capital intensive that it must have been earning good money, but without computers, how was their business model?

E.g. a fixed fee per line, or did they have a way to charge its customers per call, or duration of the call as we're now used to?

In 1920 long distance calls were charged by the minute, and by the distance. The operator would write down when she connected your line on the switchboard, then note down the time when she unhooked it.

In 1920:

>a call from New York to Indianapolis, Indiana would cost $4.15 for the first three minutes and $1.35 for each additional minute

>a call from New York to Los Angeles, California would cost a lot more - $15.65 for the first three minutes and $5.20 for each additional minute.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/35135/how-much-d...

In Germany during WWII (according to Richard von Rosen's memoir) you had to wait a few hours for your long-distance call to connect. You could pay double to get connected faster and ten times the price to connect faster still.

From what I recall from the 1970's, we paid a monthly charge for each line (number), phone rental (each), and then long-distance calls were itemized. If you had two phones in your home for the same line, you'd be charged an additional location fee, as well as the rental for the second phone. If you had two numbers (like one for the parents and one for the teenagers) then it was 2 lines, 2 phones, plus any long-distance calls each month.

By that time their billing was computerized, so the monthly statements would list each long-distance number you called and how many minutes you spent talking. I was calling BBS's at that point (300 baud acoustic coupler hotness!) and I had a phone budget that I had to stay under or pay the parents. Long distance calls (basically anywhere outside your city) were expensive!

Bell planned for the 2 line scenario, as your wiring out to the pole had red/green (tip + ring for line 1) then black/yellow pairs (tip + ring for line 2). So they could offer two lines without needing to run additional wires to the house. Or use the second pair if the first one went bad. The Bell System did forward-thinking like this all the time. And could afford it because (as mentioned) they amortized their system investment over 40+ years.

They did more than that, my house was built in 1968, it was wired with 6pr for Picturephone service.

One of the elements that came with mechanical (as opposed to human-powered) phone exchanges was introduction of "impulse billing" (there's probably a proper term for it) where establishing a connection triggered a device that printed a symbol every "pulse" from the timer on a ticker tape. This would be then collected, pulses counted, and you'd be billed based on the amount of those pulses. Similarly different devices would be able to generate "logs" of actions like "connected line A to line X", which would be collated and sorted regularly.

Different billing strategies often were based on how often the pulse was triggered. This is also related to "billing by the second" - it was originally a technological issue that caused per-minute billing.

Yes, at first it was an analog process with toll tickets making their way to your local business office who would prepare your bill, eventually it went to tabulation technology (punched cards) and then into the 1960's computers.

As far as the bill - you'd be billed for local service (either unlimited or metered rate), plus a phone rental, and then on top of that local toll and long distance usage. For this, you got a telephone, and the phone company was responsible for your inside wiring as well.

There were things like flat monthly fees but operators would also fill a ticket or in other words manually record long distance calls (ie: their duration, how far apart the 2 parties were etc.).

I hope they will also add a feature that allows you to set a second pin code. That would be useful in case the thief forces you go give him your phone and unlock it e.g by having a gun pointed at you.

If that second pin code is entered the phone will go in anti-theft mode and e.g. hide specific apps, automatically erase it self or whatever you can think of.

Something related is part of Android 15 Beta 2 released today -- "Private space lets users create a separate space on their device where they can keep sensitive apps away from prying eyes, under an additional layer of authentication. The private space uses a separate user profile. When a user locks the private space, the profile is paused and any apps in the private space are no longer active. The user can choose to use the device lock or a separate lock factor for the private space.": https://developer.android.com/about/versions/15/features#pri... (there is a known bug related to it https://developer.android.com/about/versions/15/release-note... that will be fixed in a hotfix in next few days.)

The fact that you need a Google account to associate with a private space moots the entire purpose of private space.

Some Airport security doors work like this.

At an old job, I was on a project at an international airport and was given one of those cards to get you through all the doors. Bypass security, get down to poke the planes, etc. Slide the card and key in a code to get through.

They gave us two codes: one to open the door, and another that opened the door and set off the silent alarm.

If someone pointed a weapon at me, I'd hand them my phone. There's nothing life-threateningly important on my phone. Whatever they do with it is better than death.

When I read this, I thought "come on, does that really happen?"

https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

Automatically erase itself sounds good, but silent 911 call might be better than giving your attacker with a gun to your head a reason to pull the trigger.

It's literally in the second item under Section 1.

In the Netherlands our IRS equivalent does prefill the majority of the requested information automatically as in many other countries, I noticed in other comments.

Obviously this means they are able to gather lots of data from different other government agencies (e.g. annual income is usually prefilled) and banks (so bank account / savings numbers are prefilled)

For the majority of people the convenience will probably prevail over any thoughts about the data collection going on in the background.

Also, for us, at least in the Netherlands and maybe also in many other countries, we are usually happy about all this data sharing, because it saves us filling in many forms / bureaucracy.

If you move to another city, you hardly have to do a thing, the old/new city will automatically inform many government agencies about your new address.

I personally also consider this as very convenient, I am pretty much accustomed to all this data sharing also because the data has to be provided to whomever needs it, and is legally accustomed to receive it, anyway.

However, after reading the linked article, it made me think.

I now wonder,are there people who read what happens in my country and who gets the shivers? E.g. from a privacy perspective?

The IRS already has that information (and one could argue that they need it to enforce that tax is paid correctly, though that's a separate debate). Preventing them from using it for citizens' benefit doesn't improve those citizens' privacy at all, it just props up the tax prep industry.

This type of -- understandable -- confusion comes up every time there's a discussion about the American tax system.

The IRS already has all the same information that your country's tax authorities have. Employers, banks, investment firms, etc. are all required to report these sorts of income to the IRS.

Unfortunately, companies like Intuit (and other tax-prep juggernauts) have lobbied to bar the IRS from making it easier for people to do their taxes. And they've convinced a disturbing number of US citizens that this is right and correct, because if taxes were streamlined and easy to do, that sneaky, evil government would slip through even more taxes, and no one would even notice. Somehow, enough people buy this nonsense that nothing changes.

Here (NL) the laws around data sharing are very strict about who can and can't access this data. Rest assured, it is very good here and sets a reasonable balance between privacy and necessary data sharing.

No shivers from me (an American). I think I'd prefer your way of doing it.

Trust me, nobody's thinking about what they're paying for. More often, they're just stressed.

If you want to educate the taxpayer to be more well informed, there's way better mechanism than inflicting pointless bureaucratic misery and anxiety.

That's nonsense. It's amazing that Intuit and the others have been so effective at their propaganda that they can not only convince people that they are too stupid and lazy to notice when the government tries to add new taxes, but that it's their patriotic duty to make their lives harder in order to counter that stupidity and laziness.

I also suspect most people don't really realize how much tax they pay under the current system, since W-2 employees have the bulk of their taxes automatically deducted from their paychecks and paid throughout the year. Sure, the total number ends up on the tax return, but the number of focus is always either the amount due or amount to be refunded. People doing their taxes by hand, either on paper or by filling out the PDFs directly, may be more likely to realize these numbers, but anyone who uses TurboTax or goes to a mass-market accountant like H&R Block might not even notice.

Regardless, I would much prefer a system where the IRS sends me an email telling me my tax return is ready, and then I can read it over, edit it if there are things I don't agree with or deductions the IRS didn't know about, and then sign it and be on my way. If that sort of system causes people to ignore it and just approve it without reading it, that's on them, and I'm sick of the idea that I have to suffer (and spend money on a CPA[0]) because others might -- might! -- treat their tax returns like a click-through software license agreement.

[0] I use a CPA because I have enough income sources and line-items that doing it myself would be annoying, time-consuming, and error-prone. But everything that ends up on my tax return is still data the IRS already has, and I expect that if they were legally allowed to prepare my return for me, it would be accurate, and I wouldn't have to do much (if anything) in order to approve it.

This. Everyone should pay quarterlies and employers should not withhold. People should feel the visceral pain of having their money taken away and be inconvenienced by the complexity of the tax code. Then we can have real discussions about what is worth funding with taxes and how to structure them.

Good question, if I am correct there is also a higher chance to develop MS if you are a woman and if you live in the northern hemisphere and some parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Also if you are of Northern European descent the risk is higher if I remember correctly.

Possibly it's a mix of many things and you have to be one of the unlucky people where that mix triggers something in the immune system and the disease develops.

I am very unlucky in that regard.

According to my doctors the number of autoimmune diseases I have is rare in a single person.

I have a sysmetic autoimmune disease (Rheumatoid Artritis) and autoimmune diseases in my kidneys, liver,thyroid, skin and mouth.

So somehow multipe times there were events in my life where a mix of things caused my immune system to turn against me.

A little off-topic, but to give an impression of how that works out in daily life, in case you are also diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.

If you are lucky, there is good medication and you will hardly notice you're ill, except for the checkups with your doctor

I also know some autoimmune diseases can (become) pretty aggressive, but n=1, most people I know with autoimmune diseases have a decent quality of life.

Fortunately, in my case also for each disease there is medication that either supresses the inflammation or the protects my body against the effects of the auto-immune response.

So I take my pills and a bi-weekly injection with a biological and I can continue to live with a decent quality of life.

Except for one important thing, my main remaining symptom is that I have a lot less energy than most people and need much more sleep.

Despite that all inflammation parameters in my blood show no signs of inflammation or activity of the disease, my body somehow loses energy to something.

This seems to be a complaint of many autoimmune illness sufferers, no signs of activity of the ilness, but more tired than before the disease came into their life.

Hopefully there will soon be more developments in this area of medicine.

> if I am correct there is also a higher chance to develop MS if you are a woman and if you live in the northern hemisphere and some parts of Australia and New Zealand. Also if you are of Northern European descent the risk is higher if I remember correctly.

I believe this has been largely disregarded. The higher incidence rate in Europe/Anglosphere was a consequence of higher testing and accurate diagnoses, coupled with the ability to provide treatment.

Yes, inflammatory signals can and do pull metabolic levers, something that is criminally under appreciated, and this can manifest as feeling tired somehow. There is absolutely a connection.

I just noticed the original story from the Rolling Stone has now also been picked up by Dutch news outlets. I can imagine the same happens in other countries all over the world.

It's amazing how fast the lazy behavior of a single journalist can make incorrect news spread that fast.

I notified a couple of Dutch journalists on Twitter, as I am curious whether they will (and how) correct this.

It seems that many journalists in my country just pretty much translate and summarize foreign media.

Straight up fake news. Don’t know how you can “accidentally” post something like this

not lazy. this is intentional information war against safe and easy targets

There's nothing noble about lying.

Tell that to everyone involved in Covid

So this happens because journalists apparently use one source. I thought journalists learn that one source is no source.

Especially on health subjects, journalists should be more thorough.

It amazes me that Business Insider does not have one hour of an interns time to confirm sensational stories like this. More likely everyone in the publishing chain was deathly afraid of questioning any part of the narrative of obedience to medical authority that their main stream editors require.

Business Insider is part of Axel Springer AG, a German publisher best known for their flag ship BILD. They've always played loose with sources and facts, and have always favored attention/clicks/sales over truth.

BI isn't as one the nose as their tabloids, but I haven't had the impression that they operate by different principles either.

Accuracy doesn't matter when you're paid to push an agenda. Whether that payment is in literal money or just a continued seat at the cool kids table.

And Winnuke, when you knew an unsuspicious user without a firewall (which was a necessity on IRC those days) saw his Windows crash when the user left with error message: "connection reset by peer"