joshstrange

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by joshstrange 5d ago
The linked PDF says the driver alleges that one of the passengers yelled there was an emergency which is why he pulled over where he did, that “fact” is contested and we will probably never know exactly what happened. But I’m not ready to b
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by joshstrange 5d ago
And if you stop the car because a passenger was yelling there was an emergency? If your passengers refuse to get back in the car and wander off? The “facts” of this event are highly contested and not at all clear. I’m not saying what I type
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by joshstrange 5d ago
I’m not at all trying to downplay Uber’s responsibly here, I also am not pretending the driver is not at fault, however everyone seems to want to put the full/majority of the blame on the driver while reserving a bit for Uber as well.
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by joshstrange 5d ago
I did read it. In fact, I read a good bit of the PDF, not just the wiki. There are a lot of unanswered questions, and the PDF admits that. No one can seem to agree on exactly what happened or the sequence of events. What’s not in question i
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by joshstrange 5d ago
I’m not at all opposed to Uber getting slapped. I just think that “the driver is the bad guy” is incredibly reductionist and absolves Uber of the responsibility that I think we both agree that hold.
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by joshstrange 5d ago
> The bad guy here is the driver. We can agree that the driver made bad choices but I feel like you are skimming over the 2 women's responsibility in this situation. Intoxicated to the point of vomiting, arguing over the cleaning fe
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by joshstrange 5d ago
> “Because you go on to X or you go on to Reddit and you go, why are people so mad at us when we've been doing the same thing for nine years?” Langley said. “And why are they so mad at us for things we don't do? And we just wan
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by joshstrange 8d ago
On my phone I don’t see any way to disable the system passkey option. I have only 1Password toggled on in my settings but I still see the system prompt to save a passkey. It’s maddening. I’ll have to double check on desktop but I thought I
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by joshstrange 8d ago
It's the banks/Amazon/etc-type places that keep prompting me, coupled with random one-off websites here and there. When I upgrade my phone in a month or so I'm dreading the deluge of passkey requests I'll run into a
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by joshstrange 8d ago
I continue to avoid passkeys but it's becoming an incredibly dense minefield. Certain sites try to trick me into adding one each time I log in and I have to be careful to dismiss the 1Password prompt, then dismiss the chrome prompt, th
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by joshstrange 10d ago
Nvidia and Apple and Server hardware. What an unlikely combo, I would never have put money on that happening. Heck, neither Apple+Nvidia nor Apple+(publically available)-server-hardware were something I would have guessed. But I think the f
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by joshstrange 10d ago
> You can't even release an app without first doing a beta test with at least a dozen people. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you are saying here but less than a month ago I released a brand new app with no beta period, direc
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by joshstrange 10d ago
Apple's App Review has also been slipping over the past few months. I have multiple apps that have taken days, up to a week to be approved. What's most galling is that if you use CapacitorJS or similar you can ship app updates ins
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by joshstrange 10d ago
The craziest part of this story, for me, is it was on the dad’s _company_ credit card. Which might not be as surprising except the reason it was already on file is because the dad used his company’s (not _his_ company, the company he works
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by joshstrange 11d ago
I might be misunderstanding your comment but the display is run/powered by the board so all you need to do is provide power to the board. For e-ink it uses no power to "hold" an image, only to write/refresh (sorry if I&#
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by joshstrange 11d ago
If you want a simple e-ink wifi screen I'd point you at the reTerminal e1001 [0] if that size works for you. It's the easiest to get started with. You can either keep it on power or use the deep sleep to get more from the battery.
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by joshstrange 11d ago
It's a rechargeable battery, I just plug the board in (USB-C) and it charges the battery.
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by joshstrange 11d ago
Here are the parts I bought, I'm still getting it all setup (I have my pictures displaying, working on designing the 3D printed case now, and testing it all) but according to OpenDisplay's calculator [0] I can expect 3.4 years if
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by joshstrange 11d ago
e-ink is so much fun, especially when combined with ESP32 or BTLE boards. I currently have 4 around my house displaying book quotes that I've highlighted in KOReader and they bring me joy each time I see them. They are simple and do on
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by joshstrange 15d ago
Agreed, I’ve never used react native myself but I do use CapacitorJS to run JS (TS) apps and with a dev server I can hit save in my IDE and see it on my phone screen in <1 second on average. It’s so nice for iteration. Throughout my care
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by joshstrange 15d ago
I have no doubt AI is acceleration or continuing out march into isolation. I also have no idea how to combat the root issue (since stopping the progress of science has never really worked or been possible). This has been going on for quite
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by joshstrange 15d ago
I’m not on a supported carrier and I don’t think I’d pay extra for this feature but I would be nice to take a dev phone and temporarily give it my cell plan for testing purposes. That said, it would require I be signed into my Apple ID on t
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by joshstrange 15d ago
This squares with my, much much, smaller OpenRouter usage. It’s just incredibly unreliable and you are forced to pin providers and even then it can be a crapshoot as the author found. OpenRouter sells the idea of swapping being commodity pr
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by joshstrange 16d ago
For all I know it is accurate for them but I encourage you to hover on the bars and see the min/max. That's where the issue is. I wrote more about it here [0] but the TL;DR is that it's wildly inconsistent, sometimes it can t
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by joshstrange 16d ago
Crazy that it's not defined anywhere in this post while also being an existing thing (Repetitive stress injury).
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by joshstrange 16d ago
This bags or bins or whatever your preferred organization method is. Don't just have "cables" group them. This is how I discovered "yeah, I don't need all these DVI/VGA cables and I can do with only 10 extra HD
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by joshstrange 16d ago
> these technologies are many years old That's been Apple's MO for almost forever. Very rarely do they chase the newest tech, instead they wait for it to mature. They didn't invent the smartphone or the touchscreen, they d
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by joshstrange 16d ago
This feels like a massive misstep for Apple. It's as if they looked at the Meta Ray Ban controversy and said "I'd like a piece of that!". I'm pretty sure this is meant as a swipe at OpenAI's upcoming hardware a
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by joshstrange 16d ago
Because it's fun. That's it. I like new tech, I like playing with the "new hotness", it's fun to always try out the newest features. That's 100% the reason. I could tell you it's because I always wanted to
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by joshstrange 16d ago
I agree it's anecdotal but that's all I have to go off and global averages don't help me at all. The problem it's a complete crap-shoot. You have no way of knowing if you are going to get a quick turnaround or a long one

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