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by com2kid 5mo ago
> People lauding Chinese expediency in the context of industry and construction often don't realize it's almost entirely enabled by extreme underregulation and underenforcement of industrial safety standards Kind of like Tesla&
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Except we have the entire commerical business districts of small and mid sized cities destroyed from these practices and there is often no bouncing back from that. Oops.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Sounds like a solution would be to average rent prices over some period of time to account for rental market fluctuations.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> So there is a project that you care enough about to keep it alive, but 1-2 hours every FOUR YEARS is too much? At some point I just have to call you lazy dude. I want the machine that serves my static blog pages to have, ideally, 0 mai
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by com2kid 5mo ago
When AdWords first showed up (decades ago) they were legitimately useful at times. They were a dramatic improvement over previous ad tech that just used plain word matching to try and find "relevant" ads.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Not only are people slow to react to unusual situations, but this is taken advantage of by city designers to force people to slow down. Random planters in the middle of the road? Streets that narrow and then widen? Drivers start slowly cree
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by com2kid 5mo ago
If I spend a couple hours reading I can understand how git works, but I'm going to forget an hour later because it is so damn complicated with all the different details that my brain flushes it's cache to make room for something w
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by com2kid 5mo ago
The most recent attacks have been incredibly sophisticated, executed against orgs that have taken all the right steps. Requiring domain name verification is not going to do anything when 2FA tokens are being stolen. What it will do is preve
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Earlier PBs were a complete hard fork of VS. I was out of the show by the time the CE7 PB came along.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Why should someone need a credit card to contribute to open source? Why should they need to understand DNS? Heck domain names are ephemeral, forget a deadline by a day and they are snatched up my squatters. They don't provide any extra
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Most airports have kiosks to print boarding passes. It isn't the end of the world. Also luggage check-in counters will print a boarding pass.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> Enforce scope (namespace) requirement, and require external verification (reverse DNS for example). Who the heck says everyone who publishes a library has a domain? That seems absurd.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
I worked on WM6, 6.5 and WP7. WP would've had a better chance if the windows org hadn't murdered CE to move everything over to the Windows Kernel.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
I wonder how different this is from having companies let Fortune or Inc magazine do their thinking for them. Or random consultants. Is "AI said it was a good idea" and worse than "we were following industry trends"?
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Tl;dr wince team forked visual studio 6 (I think it was 6, I don't recall it was long ago) to make a custom UI and a tool called platform builder. This was needed because VS didn't have the extensibility needed to do this without
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by com2kid 5mo ago
CE 6 doesn't get enough love. It was an amazing OS that had a tiny runtime and a tiny on device foot print (it could get under 16MB iirc). Too bad the tooling around it was so bad. I should do a writeup of why, it is an interesting cas
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by com2kid 5mo ago
There is a limit somewhere, but I keep finding more and more ways to use AI. Not just coding, but things like "here is my teams mandate, go through all my company's slack channels, linear tasks, notion pages, and recent merges in
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by com2kid 5mo ago
It means Google will show you the top 5 brands for a product category and then give up. If you want something more specific you have to search through reddit threads. Or you can have chatgpt search through reddit threads for you.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
I needed some extra wide toe box shoes. Search results had been SEOed to hell so I could only find a handful of brands (that I'd already tried). Chatgpt found me a lot more choices. I wanted custom lifts for a shoe. Chatgpt found me a
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Here is the guy I used last time http://www.ravisehgal.com/
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by com2kid 5mo ago
It has been a long time since I used the services, the shirts I got a decade ago are still good, but it was like $130 for a really nice shirt where I got to customize everything including the stitching and the buttons. I have one shirt wher
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Yeah I get the custom parts thing, curved screen, curved batteries, and our optics stack for hr was custom built, now days those are off the shelf and a dime a dozen. I guess my main point is that your device's price is firmly in the l
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> Families pay double that or more for a week at Disney. Not anymore. Disney now targets high income earners, not the average American.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
There are multiple Thai tailors that fly around to major US cities. They'll take your measurements, and then sit down and design a bunch of custom clothes for you. Quality is amazing, fit is incredible, and the price is only 20-30% mor
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by com2kid 5mo ago
ChatGPT has helped me find multiple niche products and vendors. It is really good at that. Products I fruitlessly tried to find for years, ChatGPT found right away. > I can imagine lots of cases where people with specific needs would f
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> We decided to go with a low device cost When I worked on Microsoft Band, we wanted to have really nice side buttons. Great feel, not only the material, but the perfect spring tension, a great clicking sound, everything. We had someon
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by com2kid 5mo ago
I understand your subscription model but I honestly hope you don't have large backend costs. If the device came with a year free, or even a 6 month subscription, sure. But over $500 for a sleep aid is asking a lot.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Just went to my neighborhood HW store yesterday. They didn't have any of what I needed, so now I'll be going to Home Depot. I just wanted some landscaping rocks. I didn't think I was asking for much....
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by com2kid 5mo ago
My $200 home depot bidet does the same. Toto survives by brand name reco only nowadays.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
American here, only every heard it meaning someone who likes fancy food. Never heard of it being a fat person, except in so far as the word is old fashioned enough to conjure the image of a fancy dressed fat person eating fancy food.

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