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by macNchz 1y ago
I feel like advances in manufacturing and materials science have really made some massive strides in the past 10 years or so—my sub-2lb 2p tent feels just as durable as my 7lb backpacking tent from the late 90s did.
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by macNchz 1y ago
Recording videos to send to our AI Tamagotchis so they don’t start complaining that they’re bored.
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by macNchz 1y ago
People are adaptable. Likes and dislikes and comfort zones are all malleable. I never liked working out in the slightest. Never stuck to any sort of "gym routine" more than a few days. Did most of the Couch to 5k program in colleg
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by macNchz 1y ago
I have been heavily using the Gemini API via Aider for a few months and it has been absolutely stable. Claude, in comparison, has been much flakier. OpenAI somewhere in between.
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by macNchz 1y ago
Tesla...certainly isn't top of mind when I think about makers of technology products that permit true ownership of the hardware / respect their users' privacy.
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by macNchz 1y ago
It sounds to me like the distinction here is that the ban in NY specifies the entire school day, as opposed to just during class.
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by macNchz 1y ago
The horizontal rear waistband zipper pocket on Patagonia Strider Pro running shorts genuinely makes my phone not noticeable at all during runs, unlike any other shorts I’ve tried. My experience is limited to smaller phones (6S, 12 Mini) wit
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by macNchz 1y ago
I found this stat a little hard to believe so I looked up what appears to be the source—it’s 81% of iPhone owners who own a smart watch https://www.statista.com/chart/31973/likelihood-of-iphone-us... It’s hard t
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by macNchz 1y ago
I find that regular wilderness backpacking trips in places without cell service accomplish this kind of reset in a fun, social (bring friends!) way that provides plenty of exercise and fresh air, with the added bonus of being a reasonably &
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by macNchz 1y ago
I’ve driven a lot in urban places with speed camera programs (which I fully support along with other car reduction and traffic calming designs) and lots of pedestrians and cyclists around, but I’ve never had a camera ticket in 20 years of d
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by macNchz 1y ago
Waze works great once there's a critical mass of other drivers—busy roads in populated areas. My radar detector fills in the gaps on back roads and small towns very well.
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by macNchz 1y ago
I spent a good amount of time digging into genealogy tools last year, tracing some family as far back to the 1500s. I felt it was a pretty mind-expanding exercise, learning about the places people lived and the journeys they must have taken
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by macNchz 1y ago
Once upon a time Mac laptops used reed switches to detect closed lids, and they were a common point of failure, presumably since they contained moving parts.
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by macNchz 1y ago
> there's a hustle culture that glamorized lack of sleep as a badge of honor For all of the pop science/bro science/measured self/life optimization stuff that percolates in this world, it’s funny to me that glorifying
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by macNchz 1y ago
Build and tag internal base images on a regular cadence that individual projects then use in their FROM. You’ll have `company-debian-python:20250901` as a frozen-in-time version of all your system level dependencies, then the Dockerfile usi
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by macNchz 1y ago
All three of us trumpet players in my middle school band would sit in the back and have breath holding contests while the director was working with other sections or whatever.
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by macNchz 1y ago
> They claim that somehow hundreds of unique kinds of river/lake fish escaped notice for centuries, that this happens every year, and each one of those kinds of fish is critical to preserve. Is this plausible? I don't disagree
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by macNchz 1y ago
I was so surprised and bummed when I discovered this was a thing. My wife and I started watching the original Beverly Hills 90210—a sort of ridiculous snapshot of American pop culture in the early 1990s—on some streaming service, and after
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by macNchz 1y ago
That seemingly depends a bit on how hard you ask it to think, or how hard it decides to think based on your question.
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by macNchz 1y ago
On desktop at least the model selector only shows GPT-5 for me now, with Pro and Thinking under "Other Models" but no other options.
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by macNchz 1y ago
I've had Claude decide to replace my existing fetch-based API calls with Axios (not installed or present at all in the project), apropos of nothing during an unrelated change.
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by macNchz 1y ago
I think it makes sense to want that, but at least for me personally I’ve had dramatically better overall results when manually managing the context in Aider than letting Claude Code try to figure out for itself what it needs. It can be an
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by macNchz 1y ago
You could recirculate water past the CPU via an insulated storage carafe. This would create a fun and exciting gamble wherein you might receive a freshly brewed pot of coffee OR your computer might turn itself off just before the water
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by macNchz 1y ago
There are basically countless examples in human history of disparate self-interested parties overusing a shared resource and failing to regulate themselves until that resource becomes unusable for everyone involved, from the most micro scal
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by macNchz 1y ago
I bought an Awair device in 2020 when my wife and I were working from home full time in the same room, out of curiosity as to whether our office area air was accumulating lots of CO2 during the workday (turns out this is not really an issue
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by macNchz 1y ago
Businesses want you to use their app for a few reasons: it’s stickier because they can start sending you push notifications right away without even signing in/making an account, they get their logo right on your home screen, there are
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by macNchz 1y ago
3D Touch was amazing for typing alone, I miss it basically every day when I type more than a couple of words on my phone. It was so great to be able to firm-press and slide to move the insertion point, or firm er press to select a word or
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by macNchz 1y ago
I see restaurant reservations as an example of an AI agent-appropriate task fairly often, but I feel like it's something that's neither difficult (two or three clicks on OpenTable and I see dozens of options I can book in one more
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by macNchz 1y ago
As with any investing there's a risk appetite/timescale component to thinking about this stuff. Lots of companies went to zero in the dot-com bubble. Even Amazon was down over 90% between the end of 1999 and late 2001, and took un
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by macNchz 1y ago
I think the whole timeline of WWII is broadly misunderstood in the US. I imagine it’s related to the fact the US entered quite late, and that much of what’s taught in school is fairly US centric. It’d be very interesting to survey people an

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