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by jamwil 11mo ago
I happened upon a bit of an unconventional approach to this with Zotero. It’s obviously more focused on academic research but it takes snapshots and works as a more general purpose archive tool really well.
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by jamwil 11mo ago
In this scenario does your employer have strong controls around what whether you can write hobby code on your own time?
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by jamwil 1y ago
Tried it and it worked quite well! Out of 100 headshots I got maybe 3 to 5 that I would use. A low hit rate but I think anything like this is necessarily going to employ a shotgun approach. The edit feature needs work. Anything I tried to e
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by jamwil 1y ago
I was quite excited to add this one! And shocked to not find it, given the overall high production quality.
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by jamwil 1y ago
They're not sidestepping accountability, or at least we can't infer that from the information volunteered. They're talking about retention, and the less data you retain (subject to local laws), the less data can be leaked in
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by jamwil 1y ago
I understand scaling. I’m saying there is a difference in severity of several orders of magnitude between “the computers are down” and “we can’t add additional computers”.
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by jamwil 1y ago
Is that material to a conversation about service uptime of existing resources, though? Are there customers out there that are churning through the full lifecycle of ephemeral EC2 instances as part of their day-to-day?
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by jamwil 1y ago
Close but slightly different. As I envision it, the random selection would only be for the pool of candidates. People in the pool would have the option but not the obligation to run and there would still be campaigns and voting as there are
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by jamwil 1y ago
Or ‘notepad.app’ would quite clearly convey that it is an editor in the spirit of notepad but for macOS.
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by jamwil 1y ago
Personally I think dropping the exe and just calling it notepad is the obvious low-hanging fruit. I like the nostalgic aesthetic—it’s refreshing in this age of cookie-cutter tailwindcss splash pages, but exe is just quite confusing.
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by jamwil 1y ago
Ya. Bit of a shame. It’s OP’s choice of course and I get that it’s kitschy or whatever but I think he’s leaving money on the table as a commercial product. If it were actually funny I think I’d feel different, but ironically calling a nativ
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by jamwil 1y ago
This is similar to my idea for a better democracy. Every cycle involves a lottery where, say, 1000 random citizens become eligible to run for public office. A small enough number to make ‘career politician/sociopath’ an unviable life p
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by jamwil 1y ago
Thanks for this.
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by jamwil 1y ago
If Discord says they delete the PII they collect and they ultimately fail to do that, whether by malice or negligence Discord owns 100% of the blame. If I get drunk and drive the wrong way down the highway and cause a wreck, the blame is no
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by jamwil 1y ago
I am super curious how other people use discord. I’m like you—trying and basically failing to keep up with 6 servers. I just want to watch a power user out of morbid curiosity. I suspect they are also browser tab hoarders, which I’m also cu
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by jamwil 1y ago
Pure victim blaming.
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by jamwil 1y ago
I'm getting timeouts or very degraded performance trying to hit github and smartsheet as of the last 30 minutes or so.
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by jamwil 1y ago
You are correct. The Garmin does less. They are different products.
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by jamwil 1y ago
Perhaps more focused on docker-based development workflows than final deployment.
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by jamwil 1y ago
Seems ok in Canada.
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by jamwil 1y ago
Whether you share it once or in perpetuity is of no practical consequence. They already have the photo at that point. I agree about the clicks—the UX should be one-shot select and share with the permissions handled implicitly.
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by jamwil 1y ago
That’s exactly what OP asked for. To select which photos an app has access to using the system picker so they can’t see the whole camera roll.
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by jamwil 1y ago
iOS already has exactly the experience you describe and it clearly urges you toward sharing only specific photos. The only feature request I have is to be able to scope app permissions to an album, since the current flow of selecting indivi
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by jamwil 1y ago
All I have is copilot as well, but with that I can configure Aider to use the copilot openai endpoint, and through that access most of the good models with a capable CLI tool. It’s a pair-programming experience more than an agentic one but
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by jamwil 1y ago
Just like the metaverse?
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by jamwil 1y ago
Some people work for large corporations and can’t just use whatever computer they want.
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by jamwil 1y ago
Uuuuuuuugh fine
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by jamwil 1y ago
Yes but you’re answering the wrong question. It’s not, “what is the probability of death on my next jump?”. It’s “what is the accumulated probability of death by jumping repeatedly.” The way you answer it is by flipping it upside down (what
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by jamwil 1y ago
Several is the gap
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by jamwil 1y ago
IMO the reason devs started being paid in stock in the first place is VC-style grow at all costs mentality. The fundraising economy didn’t work without fabricating compensation and only paying out on hits. No other industry operates with su

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