jen729w

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by jen729w 4mo ago
We, tourists, were driving in one helluva rainstorm in Texas back in 2017. It was all I could do to focus on the road. (And yes, we found a spot and pulled over. A Denny's, IIRC.) Anyway, midway through this hellish journey, the car wa
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by jen729w 4mo ago
If you're going to be a pointless language pedant, it really helps if you don't fuck it up. OP said: > me and my friends together built an 8 bit CPU… – and if one replaces that with your suggestion: > My friends and I togeth
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by jen729w 4mo ago
Is it detecting bots? Or just matching ‘fastmail’? A bot I am not.
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by jen729w 4mo ago
I just ordered a pizza from Uber Eats here in Taiwan and was offered the option to "Try Uber One". Clicking "Try now" in fact just signs you up for Uber One. So I suppose you are, technically, trying it. For money. Dir
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by jen729w 4mo ago
> Basically you should pre-authorize the senders This is kinda what 'masked email' services like Fastmail's – of which I am a delighted customer – do. Until you've known the comfort of creating an address; giving it t
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by jen729w 4mo ago
I use Astro but it's not static, I server-render. There's a whole bunch of other stuff once you're signed in.
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by jen729w 4mo ago
That's not a terrible read of the site's tech. It over-sells it a touch – I use Umami for analytics, for example – but yeah, auth, payments, entitlement-gated downloads, those downloads adapt to the app you've selected in y
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by jen729w 4mo ago
Okay. I rebuilt my website in ~a month with the help of Opus 4.7/.8 and it would have taken me, unaided human, at least 6 months. Link's in my bio if you care. Satisfied now? Will you stop asking this question? Thought not.
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by jen729w 4mo ago
> a universal existential risk I'm not sure it is, if your primary business is selling hardware. People are still going to need a 5" wide screen and battery in their pocket in order to do things.
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by jen729w 4mo ago
> Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into Siri over the years. Orders of magnitude less than the literal trillions that others have?
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by jen729w 4mo ago
> Yet I'm glad my index funds have to buy Coinbase. Curious why? Its chart is a nightmare – up and down like a yo-yo. Not something I'd want to have to depend on.
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by jen729w 4mo ago
> I know some who bought during the IPO who are now underwater Yeah you don't say. High of $124, currently $22. But hey: that's ~~gambling~~ stock trading for you. https://au.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FIG&#x2
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by jen729w 4mo ago
- you can't carry 50 of them in your backpack. Invaluable as I travel the world. I still vastly prefer paper books, however.
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by jen729w 5mo ago
Half an hour in and I'm already thoroughly sick of "look I need to be honest with you here…" Edit: OMG too much. Toooo much. Want me to: - (a) stop here and save honest memories + commit, or…
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by jen729w 6mo ago
Right. But how much of that 30% food cost is insurance that the farmer paid? It's insurance all the way down.
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by jen729w 6mo ago
I'd love someone to build a tool that shows the price of that burger, say, and breaks it down to the input cost. Burger: $5.00 ---------------- Meat: $0.20 Bun: $0.05 Staff: $0.25 Insurance
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by jen729w 6mo ago
Because the stock market won't care about that.
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by jen729w 6mo ago
I blocked the email. I use one-time addresses at Fastmail. I meant that after step 3, I was never interested in hearing from the service again.
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by jen729w 6mo ago
There's a false dichotomy here between 'deterministic creation' and 'vibing'. I use Claude all day. It has written, under my close supervision¹, the majority of my new web app. As a result I estimate the process too
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MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be(craigmod.com)
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by jen729w 6mo ago
1. Goes to site. Clicks appointment.tb.pro link in sidebar. 2. Gives email address. 3. Is told to join the waitlist. 4. Blocks email address given at 2. Hardly a terrific experience.
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by jen729w 6mo ago
Oh, catch yourself. Tell me you wouldn't do the same for your family. I run a tiny thing that a lot of people like. Its licence is permissive: if I 'sold out', nobody who is using it today would have to change a damned thing.
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by jen729w 6mo ago
Tailscale, perhaps ironically in this context, has shown me the value of not caring about an IP address. I used to. When I had a home network I'd carefully assign `10.52.1.x` where `x` was the periodic number corresponding to the machi
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by jen729w 6mo ago
Those test failures are pre-existing. We're all done!
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by jen729w 6mo ago
Nah, it's not that simple. Work is an amazing place to bond with people, if you all enjoy the work and find value in it. I'm still friends with a bunch of folks I met in 2007 when we all managed the 3rd level infra for a bank. We
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by jen729w 6mo ago
I remember the march in London. A staggering number of people. Makes a mockery of any modern-day ‘protest’. Made not a jot of difference. In Tony went anyway. Shame.
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by jen729w 6mo ago
This is a delightful historical fiction if you're into this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thousand_Autumns_of_Jacob_... Also there's a museum. It's on my list! https://www.niche-museums.c
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by jen729w 7mo ago
Sounds like you'll be spending your day making a better video! :-)
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by jen729w 7mo ago
You might misunderstand how ISO works on digital cameras. (I did.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWSvHBG7X0w
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by jen729w 7mo ago
> They have to be honest about what they can offer for $200. Isn't that exactly what they just did?

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