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by jkestner 1y ago
Not for the neighbors. The courts are 10x the impermeable cover of the house they’re also trying to build. There should be nothing on that land.
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by jkestner 1y ago
At a (central Texas) city council hearing today on granting someone a variance to build tennis courts on a meadow next to a creek, a longtime resident said, “I think I’ve lived through five 500-year floods here.”
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by jkestner 1y ago
“[Matter in its current version] doesn’t really help resolve the key issue of the smart home, namely that most companies view smart homes as a way to sell more individual devices and generate recurring revenue.” https://staceyoni
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Matter only solves about one of the smart home core issues (2022)(staceyoniot.com)
1 points by jkestner 1y ago|1 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
Using Couch/Pouch on our current app for this reason. Great to work with. Though we’re not supporting offline-first right away (depends on external services), it’s going to help with resilience and a future escape valve.
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Customs and Border Protection Wants New Tech to Search for Data on Seized Phones(wired.com)
2 points by jkestner 1y ago|2 comments
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CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones(wired.com)
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by jkestner 1y ago
Oh yeah, those guys who came up with qualified immunity.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Scannability is one of the reasons my formula is to link a complete descriptive phrase, like “Read more about hrefs,” or “take a survey on meeting times.” Links can be long, and probably doesn’t hurt SEO.
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by jkestner 1y ago
And Nielsen had plenty to say about that too.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Because there aren’t jobs there?
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by jkestner 1y ago
If they’re just targeting HN, they can save those pennies too. You can’t make me RTFA!
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by jkestner 1y ago
To be precise, "more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors." What exactly does that mean? Anything that "promotes" a non-heterosexual, non-binary lifestyle? Anything that discusses safe sex? Texas
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by jkestner 1y ago
I suppose it’s a feature. We don’t care if someone else gets you, as long as you’re scared and compliant.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Using natural language discussion to probe for an answer is more draining for me than scanning a large volume of text (much like watching a video instead of the transcript is). I didn’t start coding for more humanish interaction!
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by jkestner 1y ago
Even more insane that the lack of accountability means that common criminals and vigilantes pose as federal agents to kidnap or rob people. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-r...
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by jkestner 1y ago
Sustained protests are merely a part of what's necessary. Sure would help if the media would cover them to the extent that they did for George Floyd/Women's March/etc.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Yeah, I hate the code rot that the push for the latest SDKs brings. I’ve kept old Xcode versions around, and don’t jump for every OS update so _those_ don’t rot. Kept an app (useful to dedicate old devices to) running on iOS 9 until last ye
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by jkestner 1y ago
Word. This is the Papert philosophy of constructionism, learning to think by making that so many of us still carry. I’m still trying to build software-building software. We do live in that timeline; it’s just unevenly distributed.
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by jkestner 1y ago
What I liked about this article was the case it made for recycling/reuse systems (run privately) backed by regulations. Things like having packaging design standards that make automated collection easier.
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The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here–and It's Loony (2024)(wired.com)
4 points by jkestner 1y ago|2 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
We like plastic because it is lightweight and not biodegradable. Sometimes. Its plasticity of use means that we use it for for a lot of single-use products. The Clive Thompson Wired article I’m reading right now starts with “a plast
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Scrambling Up the Supply Chain(blog.supermechanical.com)
2 points by jkestner 1y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
I'd not personally be comfortable riding in one since I'm not senile, drunk, teenager, hothead, distracted (using phone while driving), etc - not part of the class that are dragging the human safety stats down. The challen
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by jkestner 1y ago
Yeah, it’s a big grid with wide streets. Did it fail there? If so I imagine it’s just due to lack of business—there are almost no taxis in Phoenix. Mostly just from the airport.
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Scrambling Up the Supply Chain(blog.supermechanical.com)
4 points by jkestner 1y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
Kickstarter works like this too. If you know anything about fixed manufacturing costs, when you see hardware projects with a 4-digit goal, you cringe. Some have other sources of funding, but the reason you set an artificially low goal is th
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by jkestner 1y ago
It is hard to tie cause and effect together for people here. Prices may go up months after the tariffs got coverage, they may be slipped in with shrinkflation, they get lost in the noise of your personal budget, etc. My goal here was to pro
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Tariffs don't make you competitive(blog.supermechanical.com)
2 points by jkestner 1y ago|3 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
Depends. Is Grok or a sibling to it being deployed in the government?

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