jasonkester

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by jasonkester 10mo ago
So, somewhere on that website, there’s a free version that can be downloaded onto a desktop and run without signing up for their service? I think I understand what it does now. So, basically you leave a computer running at home, and this th
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
I can’t tell if you’re trying to help, or just getting into the spirit of the website’s “how it works (using ten pages of terminology and acronyms we just made up)” page.
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
I’m seeing a lot of this same comment here, so I went to check out this tailscale thing, which clearly I must need. Can anybody explain what Tailscale is, does, or why everybody seems to have it? Looking at their website, it’s just a huge w
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
a car cannot be used like a truck. I think that’s more down to choice than possibility. I’ve hauled all those things home from the diy store in my boring Volvo with its roof rack. Had 600-odd pounds of sand in the back just last week. 4x8
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
Rather than taking their lead and improving the product, they just sat there with the exact same product for like 10+ years. It was outrageous. I think that this is actually the only viable strategy for a hardware product company in the c
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by jasonkester 10mo ago
Indeed. One is given away for free to do whatever you want with it. The other is given away for free to do whatever you want except to be a dick. If you’re not planning to be a dick, they’re functionally identical. It’s an improvement.
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by jasonkester 11mo ago
The problem is that your intern in this case is doing 1600% of the work, and now it’s your job to find and remove that extra 1520% so that you’re left with something usable.
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by jasonkester 11mo ago
I dunno... Different times, different risk tolerance. Back in 1980, my dad was sitting at his desk in Bellevue one morning when news came in that Mt. St. Helens was erupting. Him and a pilot friend had the presence of mind to head straight
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by jasonkester 11mo ago
It was never a good idea for a product. I'm not ever going to talk to my phone. Certainly not for the slim list of things that doing so would make more efficient than just looking at it and poking the button I need. And there's n
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by jasonkester 11mo ago
Well timed. I've been going through this process as a non-artist forced to churn out some tiles for a game I'm building [1]. I started off simply cribbing all the tiles from Ultima IV for the Apple II, then gradually adding some
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by jasonkester 1y ago
Can anybody provide some context for this? I can’t parse what’s going on from the post or the comments here, and there’s no navigation on that page to anywhere but “support “ It sounds like something is happening. What is it?
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by jasonkester 1y ago
Ah, shame. I always meant to expand on my little experiment here to ship 100% content pages to the client: http://www.blogabond.com/xsl/vistacular.xml The upside is that the entire html page is content. I defy google
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by jasonkester 1y ago
I get the occasional NASA photo on my instagram feed, and the comments are always filled with this same kind of Perfomative Ignorance. It must be fun, but it’s a shame to see it trickle in here.
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by jasonkester 1y ago
Indeed. That’s my only interaction with AI coding. Every time Visual Studio updates, it’ll turn back on the thing that shoves a ludicrously wrong, won’t even compile, not what I was in the middle of doing line of garbage code in front of my
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by jasonkester 1y ago
I thought the “tied to a giant rock” part sufficiently explained how to get it down there.
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by jasonkester 1y ago
This seems like it would work nicely if you removed the concept of pipes and pumps, and replaced them with containers and gravity. I imagine a barrel of air at the surface with an osmosis filter at the opening and a big ass rock tied to it.
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by jasonkester 1y ago
I had one of those for S3stat for a while. It lost decisively in A/B tests to the ugly wall of text that it replaced, so that’s what’s up there today: https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx I’m still waiting for the next
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by jasonkester 1y ago
When I launched Twiddla, it was so common that we joked about adding them to the shape tool. I think it’s just human nature that that’s the first thing you try to draw on any online whiteboard.
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by jasonkester 1y ago
While you’re at it, can you find and punch the guy who thinks it’s a good idea to zoom the map to “actual size, 1cm = 1cm” mode for your entire trip? I assume he’s also the one that taught it to spitefully let you drive off the side of the
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by jasonkester 1y ago
A quick Public Service Announcement: Go back and read all those books you were supposed to have read in high school. It turns out, they are actually really good. And now you're old enough and have had enough life experience to underst
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by jasonkester 1y ago
Childhood me hopes this will play out exactly like the Six Million Dollar Man episode. That it will roam around terrorizing rural California, and we’ll have to team up with a pretty young Russian scientist and Bigfoot to stop it. I wonder i
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by jasonkester 1y ago
I notice that I have a form of Gell-Mann amnesia for this sort of thing. Do we need a new term, or does that cover it? Because I find myself nodding along with optimism, having two grandfathers that died from this disease. It’d be great if
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by jasonkester 2y ago
Indeed. So the visitor need only wait for the 20mb javascript bundle, but not the 600kb of images, before he can see the 1kb of text that he visited the site to read.
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by jasonkester 2y ago
This is why I like working on my own stuff. All that nonsense goes away and I’m left with just the two numbers that matter to me: - how much money did it bring in this month, and - how many hours did I have to work to make that happen. The
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by jasonkester 2y ago
Thanks. Any idea what “grey” would mean in this context?
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by jasonkester 2y ago
Can you define your hydrogen colors for us? It sounds like you have something interesting to say, but I can’t parse what it is out of your company’s jargon.
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by jasonkester 2y ago
For what it’s worth, HN is already a bit like this. Back when I lived in the ‘states, I’d wake up in the morning and participate in all sorts of interesting discussions on a bunch of fresh posts. Now, living in Europe, I wake up to a homepa
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by jasonkester 2y ago
Everybody loves their random port numbers these days, but I still prefer custom hostnames. Just chuck an entry into your hosts file and tell your web server to sniff for it and you’re done. Run your stuff on port 80 like nature intended and
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by jasonkester 2y ago
I’ll refrain from piling on to signal that I, too, can travel on the cheap. But I did get a kick out of the shock and dismay that wealthy people might be good at managing their money. If you’re not rich, but spend more than rich people do o
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by jasonkester 2y ago
This got me wondering what I actually do in practice. I think it's this: const KnownFlavors { Vanilla: "Vanilla", Chocolate: "Chocolate", Strawberry: "Strawberry" } Then, use a string

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