manmademagic

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by manmademagic 8mo ago
Some people genuinely want to help others, without any immediately visible reward. I won’t say it’s necessarily altruistic, as of course there could be a drive from inner machinations that we’d never be privy to. (Sometimes the exposure of
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by manmademagic 11mo ago
This may be true in some cases, but I’ve also seen issues with too many stamps, signatures, red-tape, tribunals/committees, and multi-stage approval chains. There’s a balance somewhere put there, but that balance is different for every
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by manmademagic 1y ago
Mostly because there are different depths of reporting required depending who you’re creating said reports for. Often it’s unnecessary bureaucracy, but also often the ones doing the “actual work” don’t have a full understanding of how what
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by manmademagic 1y ago
I wouldn't call myself an 'experienced' developer, but I do find LLMs useful for once-off things, where I can't justify the effort to research and implement my own solution. Two recent examples come to mind: 1. Convertin
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by manmademagic 1y ago
It's an interesting dilemma, since if I know that an email was written mostly with AI, it feels to me like the author didn't put effort in, and thus I won't put much effort into reading the email. I had a conversation with my
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by manmademagic 3y ago
It would be pretty hard to do a fair comparison between the users of the Reddit app and Apollo. Accessing reddit.com on a mobile will bombard you with pop ups to get you to access through the official app, while Apollo would only be found v
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by manmademagic 5y ago
https://monkeytype.com is also an excellent alternative. You can change the difficulty to fail on words, individual characters, or if you fall below a % threshold.
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by manmademagic 5y ago
Obviously the ideal solution would be for Apple to fix this, since resetting network settings forgets wifi passwords. But as far as I’m aware the issue doesn’t affect everyone, so could potentially just be some minor corruption occurring du
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by manmademagic 5y ago
I’ve had something similar happen with a few different iOS updates. Usually I’ll just reset the network settings (Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings) and that seems to resolve the issue.
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by manmademagic 6y ago
Also love fraidycat, the approach it takes for keeping things “fair” is really nice. It solves one of the problems I’ve had with other RSS readers around the overwhelm when adding a new source/neglecting an existing source. Opening up
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by manmademagic 6y ago
Probably due to their workplaces using different schemes e.g. My personal is [firstname].[lastname] and work is [firstinitial][lastname] If I didn’t use macros I’m sure I’d eventually mix them up too.
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by manmademagic 6y ago
All of the old direct page links still work You can click on the Disney logo, and then on the various icons on the bottom of the text notes to navigate around Seems to be a fun little hypertext adventure/joke about Kicks Condor's
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by manmademagic 7y ago
ING Australia is even worse for this, as it’s an 8 digit acc number with a 4 digit PIN to login. St. George isn’t as terrible, but they have a quirk of requiring a 4 digit security number along with your password. That’s not how MFA works..
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by manmademagic 7y ago
I used to bank with WestPac and from memory it wasn’t possible to do this as they had some additional javascript running that would cipher every letter.
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by manmademagic 7y ago
I think I had most things working properly within the first few days, but kept customizing and changing settings/fonts/themes/plugins. Mostly procrastinating by pretending I was "Being Productive"
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by manmademagic 7y ago
Writing appears to be fine for me (Chrome 79 on Win 10) The drawing above the cursor looks like an issue with the iframe The iframe url is https://app.ryeboard.com/board/demo , which works well
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by manmademagic 7y ago
Had the same thing when I was studying CompSci. Ended up spending more time configuring vim than doing the work I was supposed to do. Even did the completely pointless exercise of making custom syntax highlighting for the pseudocode langua
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by manmademagic 7y ago
That’s basically what I did. I had a few things running in IFTTT and Microsoft flow, but both have pretty big limitations. Moved everything across to webhook, which is running powershell scripts in the backend. Makes it a lot easier for tes
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by manmademagic 7y ago
The small incentive from gamification works surprisingly well, especially for things where it's hard to visualise the net gains (Oral care, cleaning, etc). For tasks though, I personally use Todoist, which I've haphazardly rigged