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by jmuguy 6mo ago
From my old experience in IT - people just default to Microsoft for everything. They don't want to hassle with learning anything else and assume better the devil you know. Glad I'm out of that world but its wild what people will
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
This is ignoring things like newspapers that were made obsolete by the internet. At some point someone does need to actually pay for the content we see online. That is if we want that content to actually be good.
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
One of the principles of HN is to take the strongest meaning of an argument, instead of the weakest. I am not casting everyone who prepares for a disaster into the same bucket - I have specifically said I think that people who are attempt
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
Well for one thing - you'd get by a lot better with beans and rice and a functioning garden than overpriced dehydrated meals. And what I'm referring to by buckets (that is a lot/years supplies) of dehydrated food and who i
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
I agree with you on actual preparedness and getting to know your neighbors. However, I think the derogatory prepper must exist in some number because you see so many products clearly targeting them. All the tacticool stuff, the buckets of
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
They probably saw good results with this back when everyone could take a piece of Craiglist's business and make a billion bucks. Now you're just left with the ethos of cheating your way to the top without a real business to attac
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
Well usually when people refer to someone as a prepper its the specific type of person that is buying hundreds of guns, tons of dehydrated meals but still living on city water - like they're preparing for a disaster movie but not anyth
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
A lot of this is also missing understanding the software we're creating. I have a deep knowledge of our SaaS because I've spent years working on coding it. If I had been prompting an LLM this entire time, I can't imagine I
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
Yeah really the take away apparently is that Democrats should just lie, brazenly, about everything. I mean that's what Trump and JD Vance did and continue to do. When you can just invent your own world to live in, how are rational pe
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
I hadn't really considered the case of actually wanting to learn English :) I just assume its tolerated by the rest of the world.
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by jmuguy 7mo ago
Beyond folks for whom English is a second language, I agree with you. I don't understand why people are immediately trying to find some loophole in this with spelling, grammar, etc checks. We just want to communicate with you, and if
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
Its disingenuous to claim that OP spent that much time and money to know when the washing cycle was complete. That's one of several different things the screen can do in addition to everything else it can display.
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
I think you can divide the comments in here between people that have a family and don't. "Why would you need to know when the washer is done! Just set an alarm". When you have (young) kids, you'll be wandering around
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
What do you mean?
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
Without it, if you want to know when something is happening on camera, you have to use motion detection. Motion detection sucks. Everything sets it off. Shadows moving, insects... anything moving. Object detection, and then human detecti
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
Fastmail seems to go through periods where they're a little slower to adjust to new spam techniques, and they do rely on users filtering somewhat. About twice a year a few will slip through, but if I report them as spam they soon stop
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
Google is at least less arbitrary than Microsoft. Microsoft will decide an email is spam today, and tomorrow the exact same email is perfectly fine. I think Google relies more and more on sending IP and domain reputation rather than conte
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
Most of that can be mitigated, or at least centrally managed, using an ESP like Mailgun or Sendgrid. It is a pain in the ass though, coming from someone that had to dig their domain out of "low" reputation with Google Postmaster.
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by jmuguy 8mo ago
I agree, as I was reading this I was like - why are they responding to this like its a person. There's a person somewhere in control of it, that should be made fun of for forcing us to deal with their stupid experiment in wasting mone
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
This definitely does fill a gap that Rails has. I love using it but man I can't make a nice looking front end to save my life. We've used Tailwind UI a ton but thats kind of a foot gun because you end up slightly tweaking classe
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
I think their comparison page does a good job of breaking down the differences (vs Tailwind UI that is) https://railsui.com/compare/tailwind-ui-vs-rails-ui
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
Yeah I agree, I found dozens of options that look (subjectively!) a hell of a lot better.
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
Possibly but we don't have much to measure which is "better" - maybe could just ask people to give thumbs up or down.
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
Yeah this was a major problem for us as well. Luckily we can just replace the map, and we'll continue to use the Geocoder and address lookups elsewhere. Its kind of crazy how much better it is with "newer" US addresses vs e
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
I came so close to getting our app off of Google Maps a few months ago, we'd be saving literally thousands a month. But the "look" of the map from open street map, map tiler, etc was deemed too different and the team was sca
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
Listening to him talk about the Spanish Flu, and clearly not understand why secondary bacterial infections killed more people than the flu itself, was my personal point of "wow, this guy is an idiot".
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by jmuguy 9mo ago
Shocked that the same people that were using Lolicon as their avatars on Twitter won't do anything about the CSAM on X.
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by jmuguy 10mo ago
The podcast thing reads like something he made up that sounds cool and futuristic on the surface, but doesn't actually make any sense. Maybe what's actually happening is he's just having the LLM give him the cliff's not
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by jmuguy 11mo ago
That Wired article might as well have been a GPT summary of the shit people have been saying about Ruby for two decades. It is beyond stupid to continue to act like "it doesn't scale" is a real argument. Not every applicatio
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by jmuguy 11mo ago
All I really do on my Windows system is play games, and because of that I don't mind whatever draconian crap that's required to keep cheaters in check. It sucks, but not sure of a better solution.

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