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by jen729w 1y ago
Fun fact: all cockies are left-handed. I used to live in Canberra, where they're plentiful. I heard this 'fact' and was doubtful. Well, I've since seen hundreds of these birds eating acorns and, can confirm, every one a
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by jen729w 1y ago
Done this. Re-installed the browser.
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by jen729w 1y ago
GPS has also ruined our city-level spatial awareness. Before, you had the map. So you were aware that Fitzroy was to the west of Collingwood and both were south of Clifton Hill and so on. I had dozens of these suburbs roughly mapped out in
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by jen729w 1y ago
Oh, sweet child. Airplane mode can be disabled as quickly as it was enabled. As can Raycast's 'focus mode', which is why I'm typing this (on my laptop) and not reading my book, and why a thread about cheap e-readers imme
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by jen729w 1y ago
> I am curious what they’ll show off at WWDC this year Fool me once...
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by jen729w 1y ago
And who knows how much personal travel? Me and my partner are just setting off on an indefinite working trip around the world. Starting in SE Asia to try to save a bit of cash, but we have no longer-term plans yet. We've long dreamed a
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by jen729w 1y ago
I'm also an insta-download. Very clear landing page, very clear value proposition. Nice work.
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by jen729w 1y ago
Its real-world use is drawing diagrams on a web page! I much prefer diagram-as-code to diagram-as-screenshot. e.g. https://sbs.johnnydecimal.com/14.23+OPS1#diagram
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by jen729w 1y ago
Me: is 'Claude does not have the ability to run the code it generates yet' a split infinitive? it's clumsy, no? i'd say 'Claude does not yet have the ability to run the code it generates' Claude:
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by jen729w 1y ago
If you were Ive, you wouldn't need to.
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by jen729w 1y ago
> if any clock in your house was off by six seconds, you wouldn’t spend any amount of time thinking about that Excuse- me . I'm so glad I never got in to Instagram. And I'm grateful that YouTube Shorts show up as unique pages i
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by jen729w 1y ago
Just the other day, walking through a sleepy country town (Hawks Nest, NSW, AU), I was explaining to my partner how I'd love to have an AR overlay of the town that told me, statistically, what each person in each house was doing. Ideal
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by jen729w 1y ago
> Try to think of an object that doesn't exist, and isn't based on anything you've ever seen before, a completely new object with no basis in our reality. It's impossible. Pick up an Iain M. Banks book, my friend.
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by jen729w 1y ago
Oh turns out ChatGPT generates exactly the level of banality that one would expect. https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/6827fcdd3ec88191ab6a2f3297... I don't want to read this story. I probably want to read one
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by jen729w 1y ago
> At least he was apologetic about the shitty toilet. I never said that! He was not.
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by jen729w 1y ago
> Chesky figured that Airbnb’s experience in attractively displaying homes, vetting hosts, and responding to crises could make it more trustworthy than competitors and therefore the go-to option for virtually anything. Online reviews are
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by jen729w 1y ago
Just so you know, there is something about dragging that app bundle to /Applications that causes something to happen. Because if you `mv` it in the terminal, the app often doesn't work. It's been a while since I did this, a
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by jen729w 1y ago
It sounds like the sort of thing you'd say if you were asked to give your mate a review of their product.
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by jen729w 1y ago
`the.va`?
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by jen729w 1y ago
Left Australia some time last year. Ironic, given the name.
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by jen729w 1y ago
I bet you’re fun at a party.
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by jen729w 1y ago
No it isn't. The world's amazing. Just yesterday I went to the shop. A man was carrying an animal to the vet. He said g'day on his way past. Then I had a nice chat with the lady at the post office about her kid's birthda
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by jen729w 1y ago
I'm living (temporarily) with someone who obsessively watches the news on TV. And not the good news. The trashy, commercial-channel news. 'Oh who cares about this rubbish!', they'll say to the screen. Or 'who cares
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by jen729w 1y ago
> beside the inter-airport shuttles Singapore and Sydney would like a word.
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by jen729w 1y ago
Shopify store owner here. Credit to them, they make deleting customer data trivial. One obvious button. This is interesting though: is that data deleted everywhere? It makes no sense just to delete from ‘my store’. But I can delete any cust
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by jen729w 1y ago
Shopify store owner here. It’s my entire income. This is terrifying. Shopify is well past its move fast… phase. It powers a vast percentage of ecommerce. If not in dollar percentage, certainly in human. Please, I beg you, pretend like y
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by jen729w 1y ago
OP here. You may read my comment as a dramatic over-simplification of the facts for the sake of a robust argument and brevity. ;-)
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by jen729w 1y ago
None of the onboarding material actually works. I guess because it’s all based on Azure/Entra which changes so frequently. So there’s videos, articles, VSC extensions, all to help you navigate this Byzantine structure. But they’re all
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by jen729w 1y ago
I quit a AU$300k job almost exactly 2 years ago to work on my ‘side project’ full-time. My partner too: it’s our only income. I earn perhaps 20% what I used to. We just quit our lease and sold all our stuff so we can live in a cheap country
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by jen729w 1y ago
Honestly the most admirable part is shipping a Teams app. I’ve been down that rabbit-hole and Je-sus what a horrific experience. Never again.

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