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by jwr 11mo ago
I also tried to make Gemini work with opencode and after spending about an hour in various panels, billing settings, setting up access groups, project groups, and other paraphernalia, gave up. There is Google Cloud, Vertex AI, Oauth which w
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Well, either it isn't there in my Safari (macOS 15.7.2) or I can't find it. I have found "Connection Security Details…" in the "Safari" menu, though. But my point still stands: average users won't see any
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by jwr 11mo ago
I don't have that :-) — what I see when I click the thingamajig on the left side of the URL is a menu with "Hide Distracting Items", "Zoom", "Find" and "Website settings".
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Modern browsers are going out of their way to hide every bit of information about the website (including even the URL) — so I don't know how these customers would actually even find out what CA issued the certificate. In Safari, I don&
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by jwr 11mo ago
Thanks, keeping this as a reference — I'm trying to find some time to try mu4e. I used Gnus for many years, then switched to Apple Mail.app, but with the gradual decline of MacOS (and Mail.app) I'm looking to switch back. I rememb
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by jwr 11mo ago
Oh, that's a great website! I found the model I last used: https://walkman.land/panasonic/rq-sx55
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For anyone dealing with databases, and especially distributed databases, I highly recommend reading the Jepsen page on consistency models: https://jepsen.io/consistency/models It provides a dictionary of terms that we
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FoundationDB provides strict serializability by default.
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All these suck so badly compared to the last Panasonic I had. Japanese portable cassette players were incredible pieces of engineering. They were more a wrapper around the cassette than a player that you inserted the cassette into, with ela
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> Nowadays I'd probably just ask Claude to figure it out for me Incidentally, Mathematica + LLMs make a great combination. If you take what is pretty much the biggest mathematical routine library in the world and combine it with int
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I've been using Mathematica since 1992 or so and at least for the last 20 years I've been wondering why they didn't provide cloud computing services, so that I can simply evaluate stuff remotely on a larger computer. So, I gu
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by jwr 11mo ago
The 5G max outdoor looks very good and seems to be a direct competitor to the pretty good Mikrotik LHG series. I wonder about the antenna gain, though, the Mikrotik certainly looks more impressive. (I've been using Mikrotik LHG LTE6
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Yes, it would.
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It's just better in every way than anything else I have ever tried (at least on a Mac). The author cares and it shows. BTW, I recently discovered shaders and cursor_blaze is absolutely awesome.
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> wrong stand But that's the whole point, isn't it? What is "wrong"? You decide. You see people in a peaceful country getting invaded and being bombed, shot, raped and tortured? You decide if this is "wrong"
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by jwr 11mo ago
I am amused by my (unpopular and downvoted by now) comment by the scourge of "whataboutism" sparked a discussion, where comments begin with "how about" :-) That is exactly my point! Saying "but what about" is a
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by jwr 11mo ago
> Why this particular stand? First, any stand is better than whataboutism and just sitting there doing nothing. Second, this stand results from my thoughts. It is my stand. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Third, in the hi
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by jwr 11mo ago
Whataboutism doesn't get us anywhere — saying "but what about X" (insert anything for X here) usually results in doing nothing. Some of us would rather take a stand, imperfect as it is, than just sit and do nothing. Especiall
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Amazingly but perhaps not surprisingly, cars in the EU do similar amounts of spying on you, but the EU is silent. Car manufacturers pretty much run the EU.
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> I am not sure that most people in urban areas even know what good air tastes and smells like. I run air filters in my apartment throughout winter months, which tend to be the worst in terms of air quality here. When I go outside in the
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I used to run npm only inside docker containers, and I've been regularly laughed at on these forums. I eventually gave up…
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It's funny how price triggers people. Let them price their products however they will :-) As a counterpoint, EP-133 (KO-II) is a very interestingly designed product that is ergonomic, quite useful, and gets a specific job done very, ve
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I love the fact that somebody tries to do something with computers and computing! Rather than being the usual bunch of grumpy armchair critics (raah raah, too expensive, raah raah, suboptimal GPU), we should be happy that there are still pe
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You pay against a proforma invoice, or if your credit card gets charged automatically, there is no proforma and you just get an invoice that confirms the transaction. But in general, this is why proforma invoices exist.
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> inflexible subscription system For example, Braintree can't switch from monthly to annual billing (or the other way around). You have to delete the subscription and recreate it with a different billing period. I want my customers
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> invoice to be a payment request — which makes issuing them after payment nonsensical Most EU countries use an accrual-based VAT system, where taxes are owed on any invoice issued, paid or unpaid. This makes issuing them before payment
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I measured this years ago: https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...
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Quick feedback from a Stripe and Braintree customer, who wrote their own subscription system so as not to use Stripe Billing. The things that caused me problems in the past: * inflexible subscription system * unreliable web component for ga
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I think the "cancel-rebook" explanation is a red herring. Yes, it might have been a factor, but that's easily fixed by having a cancellation fee. Reservations being totally non-refundable at any date or time are an entirely d
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I've been making reservations recently and I think there is a huge imbalance in power. All bookings in popular places or on popular dates are NON REFUNDABLE. As in "click and you will never see any of this money again" non-re

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