crazygringo

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by crazygringo 2mo ago
> I had a friend who bought a new Mac every year, selling his old Mac. I considered that at one point, and it would have made sense based on prices alone, but it didn't work at all once I factored in having to pay sales tax on a b
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by crazygringo 2mo ago
No, the message history wouldn't. Because the message history was for his actual account, not the criminal's account. The whole point is that they looked up the wrong username. And when they looked it up, they found an innocent ma
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by crazygringo 2mo ago
Yes, this is an atrocious article. It makes no sense as presented. The first thing the records should have shown was the full messaging history which would not have contained any of the incriminating messages. But even if the messages no lo
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
But if you're taking notes by typing then you have to be listening as well. You can't daydream and transcribe at the same time. At least I sure can't.
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
Math is different, because most people aren't quick/accurate enough with LaTeX to take notes with a keyboard. And taking notes in math is different from other subjects anyways, because you are literally just copying verbatim. You&
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
I'm very curious what that's like. Like, handwriting doesn't do a thing for me. It doesn't help me learn at all. I can't help but wonder if there's some advantage that I'm missing? But on the other hand, I
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
When I hand write taking notes, I am indeed forced to slow down, and it's maddening. I'm busy trying to figure out how to condense the ideas into something I can quickly write, and in the meantime the lecturer is continuing and I&
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
As do I. The hero image clearly says "SORRY ROBOT" to me, which is the message supposedly intended for AI... kind of a fail. It's only when I squint hard that I can see "HAPPY HUMAN".
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
> and the thing we’ll never get back was the cultural buy-in and network effects. You must not be using Spotify the way I do. I access my friends' playlists and they access mine. Spotify lets you do exactly what you're desc
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
No, this has nothing to do with which temperature scale is being used. This is measuring change in degrees from a baseline.
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
They often are not, because they highly distort shape and size. Values that are smaller than the mean occupy much less space (area-wise) and seem less significant than they really are, while values that are larger than the mean occupy much
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
The climate spiral can be misleading though, because it's natural for a viewer to interpret the change in terms of area. Then, the increase from 1.5° to 2° looks much, much larger than the increase from 0° to 0.5°. So it's mislead
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
The actual page title is "The story of a beloved IKEA bag". Neither the title nor page says anything about a "free lifetime warranty", as the HN title currently claims. And as far as I can tell, it does not have a life
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
> Specs are meta solutions. They describe the general shape of the solutions by refusing to make any technical decision that would leads to incidental problems and thus only needs to focus on the essential ones. Yes, this is a feature
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
> Writing and maintaining “specs” in plain english is painful. The subject of this entire post is development with agents. Writing specs in English is how you do that. If you don't like it, then this is probably not the right arti
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
Not true. This is about ensuring that when AI's make future changes, they aren't just looking at the existing code and making assumptions about intent. They should always be pulling the specs to ensure that changes maintain compat
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
Disagree completely. The spec is vital so that future changes continue to conform to it. Specs absolutely need to live in the VCS, because they continue to be needed to keep the code conformant. They essentially are a form of code now. An
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
I've got to disagree. I really disliked previously, when icon prominence could be wildly different because one icon takes up the full area with a big square, while another is a circle that necessarily has a significantly smaller area w
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by crazygringo 3mo ago
It's not very helpful if the contract gets renewed 99.9% of the time, but in this case it didn't happen to.
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
Thank you! That's amazing . I had no idea! It's one of those things I've been wanting for a decade now, sounds like it's been around for about a year and a half. Man, this is the kind of stuff I come to HN for. EDIT: Ug
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
> Being generally active and eating fruits/vegetables is like 80% of the work for being healthy. Except for the things that you get from sunlight, not diet. > If everyone is deficient, then it must not be that important. But
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
Same. This is insane, I had no idea! There's nothing I personally want to bring, but these would make AMAZING gifts, cool things for your desk/bookcase, etc. There have got to be so many interesting, educational, and cultural ob
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
I love swiping for speed, because it's usually faster than tapping and easy to do one-handed, but then there are always a bunch of words that are too similar that it can never get right, it doesn't deal well with doubled vs single
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
Do NOT do this with your manager. The key part of this article is: > When you have something you want to do and that you feel is in scope for your position, but you want a bit of reassurance or to let the boss know what you are up to, i
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
Most iced coffee that people buy is not iced espresso drinks. Those are specialty drinks. Think an iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts or McDonald's or whatever instead.
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
I think it's quite obvious that the target market has almost zero overlap with interest in the Commodore products from the 80s. There's nothing wrong with a new company (new as of last year I think?) that owns the Commodore brandi
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
Isn't it the opposite? Automated re-factoring means you can refactor duplicated code only as long as it is exactly duplicate . Whereas the whole problem is that when somebody changes 3 out of 10 of the duplicate cases in a simple way
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
I swear to God, I've read the article twice and I've read the comments replying to your question and I still have no idea. I think the problem is that, for any given sentence, it is unclear whether the author is talking about the
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
By making regular hot brew coffee and putting it in the fridge. If you go to any random cafe and asked for an iced coffee, that's what they're going to give you. If you want something else, you have to ask specifically for cold br
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by crazygringo 4mo ago
This is not true. A standard iced coffee is just regular brewed coffee that is then put in the fridge. (Which is different from cold brew which is brewed in the fridge.) Absolutely not espresso-based.

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