jrockway

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by jrockway 11mo ago
Yup, well said. Companies want me to have an emotional investment in them. I don't.
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by jrockway 11mo ago
I've noticed a pattern of companies writing their customers open letters asking them to do their contract negotiations for them. First it was ESPN vs. YouTube (not watching MNF this week was the best 3 hours I've ever saved, sorr
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by jrockway 11mo ago
I sandwich them between my phone and a clear case now. Don't even have to take the stickum protector part off, so when you get a new phone, you can take your favorite stickers easily. Disadvantage: you get like 2 stickers total.
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by jrockway 11mo ago
I love how long the terrible speech synthesis on BART lasted. I don't mean this in a negative way at all. BART was so state of the art when it was built, that it still feels like the future today. They did a good job on ... everythi
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by jrockway 1y ago
I don't think it's even that abstract anymore. The AI companies donated to help Trump build a ballroom. archive.is didn't.
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by jrockway 1y ago
Honestly, I'm not even an Apple fangirl and that thing is a great computer. I bought one for work and it served me better than any other $999 computer ever did. It's apparently $599 now? Great value, in my opinion.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I never punish people for asking a question. It's how you learn!
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by jrockway 1y ago
Something burned into my brain is "call 836-7000 or visit transitchicago.com" which was an announcement that played seemingly every 30 seconds on CTA buses back when I lived there. I was in California once and tried 312-836-7000
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by jrockway 1y ago
There's got to be some rubidium frequency standard that's a drop-in replacement for a 555 timer ;)
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by jrockway 1y ago
Yeah. I log in json + unix timestamp nanoseconds, and just convert it to something human-readable on display (github.com/jrockway/json-logs). I am not sure why logs need to be "pretty" at time of logging when they can
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by jrockway 1y ago
https://www.aclu.org/cases/orr-v-trump
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by jrockway 1y ago
I see. I guess you guys keep merging in your upstream branch until it's finally time to merge a PR into that branch? A lot of people like that workflow but it never really made sense to me. I personally feel like your employer's
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by jrockway 1y ago
I mean, we shut down the government and so now we're just waiting (a year) for the midterms. What else do you expect people to do? Among other things, people are constantly challenging Trump in court and have reversed many of his poli
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by jrockway 1y ago
It can remember everything about your life... except whether or not you already opted out.
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by jrockway 1y ago
Yeah, I always force push. I always treat PRs as one atomic unit ("squash and merge") and the history that goes into the PR isn't relevant to me after it's merged. Maybe once or twice I've regretted this (maybe yo
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by jrockway 1y ago
jj is actually so good though. People don't need to know you're using it, which is why it's nice. A problem I run into when working with other people is that code reviews take forever and I need to build on top of them. Cod
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by jrockway 1y ago
Is this just title inflation for the PR team? The article doesn't really say anything beyond "CTrO positions exist and think tanks think they're not a trend."
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by jrockway 1y ago
I think that if we didn't do TLS, every ISP would be injecting ads into websites these days. Making it difficult for middle-of-the-road interlopers is a good thing. ISPs don't want the customer service burden of proxy configurati
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by jrockway 1y ago
As far as I know, it's always been grouped by reservation / record locator. Like... the airlines do know how to sell more than one ticket at a time and remember that fact.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I wonder what would happen if the author were to legally change his name from what's on his birth certificate (4 names) to his passport (3 names). Then when the documents don't match, you have a name change order that explains wh
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by jrockway 1y ago
Two people take twice the vacation of one person, have twice the healthcare costs, etc. It is almost always cheaper to have 1 person work 16 hours than it is to have 2 people work 8 hours.
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by jrockway 1y ago
Yeah, NFL games are kind of crazy. I missed a MNF game recently and saw it on YouTube the next evening (and somehow I hadn't spoiled the score for myself). It was less than 2 hours without a single play or comment edited out. Aired
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by jrockway 1y ago
What is shorter games doing for attendance, concession sales, ad sales on the TV broadcast? Seems like you want people stuck in the park for as long as possible (well, at least until they make them stop selling alcohol) but if that's
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by jrockway 1y ago
Indeed. At the end of the day, the entity underwriting the insurance plan decides the price. This is often the individual's employer. Your doctor does not know what your HR team decided to ask for when designing their health plan.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I don't think this would accomplish anything. For one thing, quite a bit of misinformation these days comes from official government sources that can just compel the manufacturers to turn over authentic signing keys. Remember that Tr
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by jrockway 1y ago
It is sometimes difficult to get progress reports because it's difficult for the people who are doing the work to figure out where they are in the process. For example, imagine that you have some tickets; "Add create method, &quo
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by jrockway 1y ago
I am not sure if fake people are a real problem for social media. Real Names ends up being pretty lame, people are more open and interesting when using a pseudonym. To me, it's clear that you understand the value because you are usin
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by jrockway 1y ago
There are a lot of projects that involve very little of high level experience and a lot of grinding things. Juniors can be very good at these, and there are probably enough micro-problems that aren't critical that their brain is still
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by jrockway 1y ago
Yeah, the sticker that says "J-Link" is the expensive part. That's why $1.99-on-AliExpress level hardware mistakes are inexcusable. (I mean, a bug is a bug, they happen. But you've gotta make it right.)
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by jrockway 1y ago
Honestly no excuse for this to be done wrong on a $400 device. They should replace all deployed units for free. (Because you know these cost $20 to make.)

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