mikepurvis

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by mikepurvis 8d ago
I'm just storing my passkeys in 1password, which means they're synced across my two computers and phone and also means I gave up any kind of hardware security. Oh well.
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by mikepurvis 8d ago
Surely it's a pretty easy pitch to average Joe: Using a passkey takes the place of typing in a code they sent by text or email. That's a pain point in everyone's day that should make the benefit easy to understand.
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by mikepurvis 10d ago
Yeah no we're aligned; I have some raspis that I'm interested in doing long term battery stuff with (remote sensing and the like) and it definitely does seem like connectivity is the huge battery killer, like even if you wake up o
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by mikepurvis 11d ago
Thanks for speaking to the battery question; I'm very interested in how to run this kind of thing (the display portion at least) cordlessly too, especially when lipo pouches in that range are so dirt cheap.
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by mikepurvis 11d ago
Dave's old portfolio/blog is gone though: http://www.mezzoblue.com The Bright Creative site is also AWOL. Too bad neither is set up to redirect to the current https://daveshea.com/ Hope he's doing
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by mikepurvis 12d ago
ChatGPT has been doing that for a long time, like "by the way, can I just say it's funny how xxxxxxx". Always an invitation to continue engaging, which with a human conversation partner you would feel obligated to respond to
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by mikepurvis 12d ago
Will file that away as well, seems like it could be useful in various professional contexts.
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by mikepurvis 14d ago
The Square One commentary on the AlphaZero v Stockfish game from 2017 is pretty entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnVDUQksIDk In other videos he's called out the influence that this and similar games have h
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by mikepurvis 15d ago
True, though I wonder if 2026's "Claude make me a minecraft plugin" is 2006's "View Source" button. Web development took a long time to gain respect in part due to the accessibility of it. When everyone had a n
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by mikepurvis 15d ago
I remember fifteen years ago I would tell people leaving my house "oh yeah, ignore your GPS that tells you to go that way, just down the road here and left turn; that'll get you on the highway much faster." Nowadays obviously
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by mikepurvis 15d ago
I can see how the situation is annoying there; I've had a similar frustration when doing manual code review for someone's obviously AI-slop PR only to have their bot auto-respond to my comments. There's an asymmetry of effor
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by mikepurvis 15d ago
Transporting and handling cash is absolutely not free, and unlike joe sixpack taking out $20k in a stack of benjamins that one time to buy a motorcycle with cash, it's much worse when a. a lot of it is coins, so it's heavy and b
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by mikepurvis 16d ago
The Square One Chess channel on youtube turns this kind of exploration/commentary into quite digestible content, though the thumbnails are, like everything else these days, a little clickbaity. It's been fun viewing for me and my
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by mikepurvis 17d ago
Agree. The comparison to a passport is ludicrous since a passport can be curled around your leg when it's in a pocket where this obviously cannot.
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by mikepurvis 17d ago
I switched off my 13 Mini this year to go to a Pixel 10 for the better Pebble support. I still miss it, it really was the last perfectly-sized phone.
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by mikepurvis 17d ago
I mean, cash is also expensive in its own way. It has to be handled and insured, coins may need to be rolled before being taken to the bank, a register is a mechanical device to power and maintain, petty theft by employees is a concern. It&
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by mikepurvis 17d ago
> For most users who only use a single platform Also depends if your "platform" extends beyond just the OS. If platform includes IDE/editor/terminal, then a lot of users are juggling multiple keyboard schemes from dif
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by mikepurvis 20d ago
For a while after the acquisition you could syndicate your external blog's RSS feed into your Facebook profile. Didn't take long for that to get the axe.
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by mikepurvis 22d ago
Seems like an extremely practical way to handle that requirement without hauling around a ton of extra battery capacity that will rarely get used.
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
It's definitely a case where I see the value of the Asia-style super apps, where you just attach transactions like this to LINE or Grab or whatever, and everyone knows what to do with it. The only thing remotely comparable in Toronto m
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
Using tab to cycle between interactive elements in a window or page. As soon as you tab and it goes somewhere unexpected, you're cooked.
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
That seems reasonable. The kiosk is still there to pay with cards or cash directly, but the app/website lets you skip that, avoid printing a slip, maybe buy a pass or something. The risk is mainly that down the road someone looks at th
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
Valid, though I expect this being down the block from the festival theatre, it probably was being actively patrolled. I was a bit shaken by a prominent sign threatening a $400 fine for illegal parking, though having just checked the website
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
Yes, just a plain tap-to-pay on the meter itself (or a nearby kiosk) is the obvious solution. I think doing it on the meter is awkward because then they all need to be online, so you're either dealing with individual M2M cards or some
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
I guess, but no one carries coins, and the machine doesn't accept them. Me not having coins changed nothing about this situation.
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
Ehh maybe. I mean, it was a three hour show and I don't carry coins any more. So that would have been ATM -> go to a store and break a twenty -> put in a few bucks -> remember to go out at intermission and put in more money. P
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
There are a lot of businesses that have a semi-captive hold on a market. Like a recent example was I drove my daughter and I to a stage play, and to pay for street parking I had to install an app, make an account, and add a credit card. A t
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by mikepurvis 29d ago
But isn't that really just about giving "front end" models more access to specialized tool libraries, which include models tuned to specific tasks? Like the first model says ah, we're being asked to code something, oh an
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by mikepurvis 1mo ago
I suspect some of this goes the other way too, that the people who see the value in Nix and/or are willing to tolerate its idiosyncrasies in exchange for what is on offer there are are a lot of the same kinds of folks likely to take an
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by mikepurvis 1mo ago
Yeah, Nix flakes can be a static URL path, but they inherit your VCS refs directly, so nix run github:tailscale/tailcat Gets you the default branch. Tailcat doesn't yet have any tags, but if you want a build of the main

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