RattlesnakeJake

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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
On my work computer, my theme preference follows my mood: When I'm feeling happy and engaged, dark mode is great. But when I'm feeling down (often in the dark days of January or February), I get a decent lift out of switching back
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Android verification coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores(arstechnica.com)
7 points by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago|1 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
It could be a cousin to Wikipedia's List of Lists of Lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
> It’s getting into Sagrada Familia territory. Or "A million monkeys with a million typewriters writing Shakespeare" territory
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
> ...someone cute might see me reading and become interested in me. Did it work? :)
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
"The Adventures of a Free Lunch Junkie" by Earl Bronsteen: https://a.co/d/0b7sZ26V It's an old guy writing about accepting every "Sit through our seminar and get a free lunch" offer that came h
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
"Guild" might have been a better choice :)
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
I had a Lumia with 512MB of RAM. The OS ran great, but the web outpaced it. I couldn't open a lot of JS-heavy sites without Internet Explorer crashing.
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
> What happened next was predictable in hindsight. Employees began inflating their scores through tokenmaxxing: running meaningless tasks through AI agents to consume tokens and climb the rankings. That was predictable in foresight.
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by RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
That's where I've landed as well. The current state of things is entirely the fault of the advertising industry. They've acted like users' banner blindness is an obstacle to be defeated, rather than a constraint to build
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
NSF is also reporting that it took out one of the lightning rod towers. It'll be interesting to see how much damage the pad and ground equipment sustained.
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
He built it for himself first, posting frequently about it on X. Once it reached a point of stability, he announced that Basecamp was starting to transition it's employees from macOS to it.
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
Sounds like the "Organizational Update" meeting that meant I was getting laid off :)
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
I'd call it one of those middle-ground things: • On the one hand, E Ink devices have a fairly known set of limitations, and it would be ridiculous for me to expect them to render the whole web well. • On the other hand, it's good
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
And now it's time to put my foot in my mouth. I haven't used it in a while because it was frustrating, but you guys seem to have already fixed it :) The previous version of the site had two major flaws: 1. The search bar had been
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
Check out Standard eBooks. They take the text from Gutenberg and add a level of polish to the ePubs.
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
As a Kindle user, I still miss the old version of the site. The new one looks great on normal desktop, but the old one was simple enough to load and directly download books on the device's built-in browser.
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
"Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom" sounds like the beginning of a teenager's bad joke
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by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago
My first thought is that it's a default base image for a lot of containers, which also include an `apt update` in the Dockerfile. If Iran wants to cripple US industry, then taking down the update servers could screw up a lot of deploym
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Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"(arstechnica.com)
129 points by RattlesnakeJake 5mo ago|28 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918549
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by RattlesnakeJake 6mo ago
Yeah, all of that felt a lot like Claude's writing style.
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by RattlesnakeJake 7mo ago
He's looking back to a time when they were still special. When every keynote brought out a new, interesting product, feature, OS enhancement, etc. Back in the Steve Jobs era, it was still worth tuning in every year to see what was new.
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by RattlesnakeJake 7mo ago
> What Is a Tort? My brain always starts with the assumption that it's some sort of British pastry, and takes a minute to adjust.
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by RattlesnakeJake 7mo ago
Ooh - did this carry forward into Wayland?
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by RattlesnakeJake 7mo ago
I don't think LLM use cases are the target audience's chief concern here
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by RattlesnakeJake 8mo ago
At least they can comfort themselves with the fact that their iPhones support Lockdown Mode XD
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by RattlesnakeJake 8mo ago
It's giving me flashbacks to a few months ago. (*cries in X12 270/271*)
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Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis(arstechnica.com)
3 points by RattlesnakeJake 8mo ago|0 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 9mo ago
Swiss Army knife

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