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by joenot443 2mo ago
I’ve been at it over a decade now and still found the only reliable way to make money from offline App Store apps is good old fashioned paid apps, $2.99 being a nice sweet-spot. If you had customers buying last year, it’s likely you’ll have
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by joenot443 2mo ago
I answered something similar above, but I'll paste it here too: This was for a largish (40,000L) above-ground pool with no hookup to my home's plumbing system. The water was all pumped in from a water truck. The previous system wa
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by joenot443 2mo ago
Yeah, absolutely. The YouTube guides have all been very helpful, a lot of them are done by actual paid professionals promoting their pool brand. The fellow who'd done it originally is my neighbor and he's a retired teacher. There&
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by joenot443 2mo ago
What do you think it's telling of? I'm not sure if the sites you linked would have been immediately very helpful in my specific case. You know this is for a pool, right? The first is called "Everyday Uses for PVC Water Pipe&q
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by joenot443 2mo ago
Definitely! My understanding is everything I did has been pretty well established pool maintenance for decades now. I'm sure there are loads of good books on the topic, though I'm a good 45min from the nearest library so it wouldn
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by joenot443 2mo ago
> I run a not-for-profit pinball museum Yeah, I would imagine pinball machines are at least an order of magnitude more complicated to maintain than above-ground pools are. That situation sounds really annoying, I feel for you.
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by joenot443 2mo ago
A pool filter is for removing physical debris, it's not really for preventing bacterial or fungal infections. I guess what you're talking about is sanitizer, in my case we use chlorine. I test it every time we swim, but I wouldn&#
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by joenot443 2mo ago
That's a good point - I've heard people make the same one whenever LLMs are brought up. I hope someday you're able to get more value from them. Anyway, my pool's looking great and I gained some new skills. I probably cou
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by joenot443 2mo ago
This was for a largish (40,000L) above-ground pool with no hookup to my home's plumbing system. The water was all pumped in from a water truck. The previous system was also installed by a non-professional and was mostly tubes. It leake
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by joenot443 2mo ago
I hope your DIY projects go well and you don't need any repairs at all.
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by joenot443 2mo ago
> It’s likely it missed some crucial subtlety that will come to bite you in the ass down the line. Maybe, but that's part of the experience of learning. I plan to maintain pools for the rest of my life, if I made an oversight which
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by joenot443 2mo ago
We have a similar list in America [1] and Canada [2]. Unfortunately, like any regulation, its efficacy is only as good as its enforcement, so my understanding is they're both routinely ignored. Particularly grim for the Canadian case -
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by joenot443 2mo ago
Last month I rebuilt my pool's plumbing system with the help of YouTube and GPT. I was quoted $6k and it ended up costing me about $1k of materials and a few days of work. This was my first exposure to any kind of outdoor plumbing, I&#
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by joenot443 2mo ago
This is very true. There are a handful of countries, South Africa comes to mind, where the government lost that monopoly and security is a type of commodity which has to be purchased in the private sector.
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by joenot443 2mo ago
From my perspective, the difference is that we societally condemn the Sackler family in the same way we societally condemn Robert Pickton or Ted Bundy. It is absolutely failing of the government and the American legal system that nobody spe
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by joenot443 2mo ago
The government has a monopoly on violence and companies do not.
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by joenot443 2mo ago
MacKenzie Scott? Jensen Huang? Bernard Arnault? The Walton siblings? Even ol' BG - he may be a billionaire but I think he's in general a very reasonable, liberal, secular, and fairly moderate guy. I guess he believed Windows Metro
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by joenot443 2mo ago
About 70% of American adults can name all three branches of government. That leaves about 81m Americans who cannot. I'm sure you were a very clever 8yo, many of the people here spent a lot of their childhood being told they were clever
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by joenot443 2mo ago
What were the changes?
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by joenot443 2mo ago
Oh, they're crowd-sourced internet UGC - of course they're subject to manipulation. But frequently having something is better than nothing. I think it's ultimately a positive thing to have a mechanism for users to flag conten
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by joenot443 2mo ago
> The flipping robots underneath this post which have nothing to do with his message demonstrates to me the ridiculousness of X, that is a reminder of the cess pit that these social media platforms have become. Who are the flipping robot
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by joenot443 2mo ago
My aunt was recently hit by this scam, they used a deep fake of a teenager and she really believed it was my cousin. The lie was that he was stuck in Montreal and needed money for the next flight home. This happened in Canada. I don’t think
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by joenot443 2mo ago
My understanding is that while the stories of foreigners being kidnapped to work in a pig butchering compound are much more likely to make international news, the reality on the ground is that the vast majority of people working these scams
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by joenot443 2mo ago
It’s an English translation of a Chinese phrase. The method began in China before it came to the west. “shā zhū pán (杀猪盘) translates literally to "killing pig plate" or "pig slaughter table”.
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by joenot443 2mo ago
> It's illegal to be homeless. Where?
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by joenot443 2mo ago
I'm Canadian as well and type this while wearing my ring, but I've come to accept that Americans use the term differently from Canadians and that's just fine. The Canadian definition is directly downstream of the Quebec bridg
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by joenot443 2mo ago
Your team did an awesome job - I’ve been wanting this feature for years and what you guys delivered is exactly what I had in mind.
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by joenot443 2mo ago
People don't really care for imageboard culture here; talking about (You)'s can be a bit alienating.
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by joenot443 2mo ago
I think it would have been much more insightful if you just shared your thoughts directly. I'm not interested in reading Claude output. A lot of people spend more than an hour writing a post and it usually results in a better experienc
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by joenot443 2mo ago
Can you share the prompt you used?

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