havaloc

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by havaloc 5d ago
I live in a small midwest market, and all the landscaping companies are locally owned and awful. PE bought two of them, combined them into one, and now they, at about the same cost, do what they say they are going to do, answer the phone, h
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by havaloc 7d ago
Author authorized epub available here: https://github.com/gfscott/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aest...
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by havaloc 7d ago
Being of that age, hearing about and then using ethernet in the dorms was sort of like discovering Oz after living in Kansas. I had so many questions! How did they manage all that traffic? It was like having a firehose after using an eye dr
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by havaloc 10d ago
Firefox/Mozilla really lost the plot. Remember when it was the fastest thing around and simple? Now it's an also ran. AI doesn't help here. Focus on what made it great in the beginning, make it the most performant browser aro
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by havaloc 16d ago
$49.99 a month, up to six family members (uses previous family sharing system), unlimited devices (with some carve outs for Vision Pro). Limit of six total claims a year seems low until you realize that's every 60 days. Available start
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by havaloc 16d ago
I imagine it was ran past their likely large legal department.
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by havaloc 16d ago
Having used a Z Fold 8, it's sort of a Mini. I'd love to see a non-folding phone in the same passport form factor, I think they'd sell a ton.
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by havaloc 16d ago
You can easily turn it off - it's a security feature: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-face-id-and-at...
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by havaloc 19d ago
Saying you're not going put in a very popular feature (CarPlay) that probably doesn't cost that much to put in is one of the biggest self owns I can think of, especially when saying "we're going to do a better job."
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by havaloc 28d ago
It's day job tasks/database CRUD, so I tell the LLM what I need. I used to write all my work apps in plain jane PHP/MySQL and I use that as a guide for the LLM, as in use this app as a guide on how I want things. The bonus of
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by havaloc 29d ago
Before vibe coding was a thing, HTMX made it super easy for me to implement Ajax like features. It was the most approachable library I've ever seen, and I'll always be grateful for it.
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by havaloc 1mo ago
The Neo keyboard just feels nicer than even an M5 Air.
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by havaloc 1mo ago
Just because it's easy for say you and me, does not mean it's easy for others to do. Helper seems like a more appropriate word here, consultant being a loaded term these days!
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by havaloc 1mo ago
Something seems off here, I don't see a huge climb in pricing. I feel $9 a month a seat is inline with SAAS pricing. Today's pricing: https://www.getharvest.com/pricing Pricing in 2023 (I looked at various years):
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by havaloc 1mo ago
I do some tech consulting on the side and beg people (literally) to switch from Comcast (US TV and Internet Provider) to say YouTube TV, saving them hundreds of dollars a month. They WILL NOT do it, even though I would do all the work, show
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by havaloc 1mo ago
In general, I would agree, but I think some small businesses are romanticized. I have a house and have been with every small/medium local landscape company in town, finally settled on a landscape company that was bought by private equi
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by havaloc 1mo ago
I picked up a Z Fold 8 for a test device, in order to optimize my app for folding phones (also in anticipation of Apple's folding phone), and the squat form factor really seems like something out of the future (certainly something diff
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by havaloc 1mo ago
I would move back to Fastmail if they offered it. Yes, I could muck about with MCP but give me AI light features, such as categorization and perhaps AI conditional rules.
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by havaloc 1mo ago
McDonald's. I wish I was kidding. https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/can-i-change-the-emai...
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by havaloc 2mo ago
I have an elderly client who sends me links of stuff to buy all the time. One day it's one of these streaming sticks, the next day it's half-price stamps, and I tell her every time, please don't buy this stuff. And yet she do
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by havaloc 2mo ago
This bubble too will pop, and life will go on. Costs will slowly drop down, just like the dot com days, but some useful things will be come out of this.
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by havaloc 2mo ago
I loved reading his columns at PC Magazine growing up, it's an end of an era. He had such an interesting view of the PC industry as a whole and his column was almost always the first thing I read when a new issue would arrive at my hou
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Block agrees to pay $45M due to fraud and provide live customer service(reuters.com)
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by havaloc 4mo ago
I really like Fastmail, but I wish they offered a lightweight AI feature. Their filtering system is unmatched, yet I’d love a basic, privacy-focused AI filter powered by a small, private model they run. For example, I could set rules like “
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by havaloc 4mo ago
Come on, a one gigabyte Pi is under $50. There's no plot lost, it's just expensive RAM. 2gb is $75. That's where Pi plays well.
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by havaloc 4mo ago
The 12gb number is weird, but also telling. iPhones have 12gb, current Neo has 8gb, the next gen Neo is speculated to have 12gb (as it'll be based on a later iPhone chip).
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by havaloc 4mo ago
If you spend more than 1 minute on Facebook, you realize what they are potentially training their data on, and it is not good. Their advertising algorithm is very good, I'll give them that.
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by havaloc 4mo ago
And you should have the right to stop them immediately. I don't see how that's controversial.
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by havaloc 4mo ago
I like how I can slap up a free Turnstile on my projects in two minutes and not have to worry about endless comment spam and user registration spam. Yes, I understand there's problems with Cloudflare, but there's also a lot of pro
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by havaloc 4mo ago
Now Mac is almost the same if not cheaper up front, and in the long run too. It's a wild thing to see.

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