nmcfarl

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by nmcfarl 1y ago
I read a lot, I have 2 e-readers and stacks of paper books, and an iPad Pro. And it has been at least five years since I read a book on the phone, or iPad, though a couple years ago I read part of a PDF book on the iPad. I think this stuff
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
The horrible thing is there can be lots of differentiation here. I grow my own meat birds for my own consumption, and they taste radically better than anything I’ve ever had in America. (Barring when I eat my friends’ birds.) Artisanal chic
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
My stepmother (in her 60s) inherited or rather lot of furniture from her parents, enough to furnish most of a house. It’s spectacular and at this point it has to be well over 100 years old. She both wanted it and has lived with it daily for
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
I lost a Mac laptop in the pre-MagSafe days, to a bullpen environment –a sysadmin was rushing to a meeting, snagged his foot, and took the cable and the laptop off the desk at high speeds. After that, I was a big fan of MagSafe, but today’s
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
I don’t know what Amazon did - but I use Aider+Openrouter with Gemini 2.5 pro and it cost 1/6 of what sonnet 3.7 does. The aider leaderboard https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ - includes relative pricing t
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Kermit: A typeface for kids(microsoft.design)
360 points by nmcfarl 1y ago|166 comments
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by nmcfarl 1y ago
I grew up in Alaska which has a billboard ban. And then I went to Florida for university, and while there was a lot of culture shock I really think that the in your face billboards everywhere where the biggest bit. Huge aggressive grabs for
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
I do. My eyesight is so bad that, without my glasses, I cannot see the numbers on my iPhone, even when using the big number display in standby mode. About a decade ago I got a cheap no name thing off of Amazon with a 4” high LED display. T
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
She does journalism, but this is a fantastic article about what it’s like to go independent, in any way. Bootstrapping a business of any kind is not dissimilar. The hats may be different, but there are still a lot of them. Well worth a rea
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
Since everyone’s discussing the inverse, I shall mention that long ago I worked for a 100 person, 5 year old, startup who's policy was: your vacation is your year-end bonus. No one could take vacation ever, it just got paid out in Dece
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
I don’t know – I look at history and I see series of AI bubbles directly after a breakthrough that led to a great advancement in the science and nothing else. And then AI crashes and winters. I think it’s completely possible to look around
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
Ours really depends on your definition of simplicity. We have independent checking accounts (normally at the same bank), and credit cards. And then we have 10 or so joint savings or roboadvisor investment accounts – each one for a single pu
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
I think this is cultural or location based – I know at least a dozen people who can weld and no one who has a 3-D printer, but I live /way/ out and rural America. The Internet would suggest that urban America is the reverse.
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
If you need heat resistance and can give up reforming and strength sugru is a moldable silicone that I’ve used for a quite a number of repairs. A knife handle I repaired in 2014 is still going strong. (InstaMorph is new to me - but will cer
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by nmcfarl 2y ago
I don't know about that - my Subaru head unit crashes a lot more when I'm clicking around in the Subaru programs, and it very rarely crashes when I'm clicking in CarPlay. My feeling is there are bugs in the Subaru provided
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
No where. Rather I was pointing out that this clause in Anthropic’s TOS is so broad that if Claude ever adds code interpreter you can never use it as a code generator again.
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
However anyone that uses Claude to generating code is 'supplanting' OpenAI's Code Interpreter mode (at the very least if it's python). So, once Code Interpreter gets into Claude, that whole use case violates the TOS.
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
You can turn off the barriers in settings.
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
This particular one I live with constantly being in tech and living on a ranch in the US west. I'd never call a tech friend at 8am, I might well wake them up. And I'd never call a rancher after 8 - they will be working without c
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
No - but they can imply that you should, and if you don’t make cashing the check more onerous opening an account. I had this happen to me 25 years ago with Wells Fargo. I was on vacation and had a check drawn on the branch I was standing in
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
However on the flip side a user can be someone who downloads your app, pokes at for 10 minutes and deletes it. Not something I would call a user, but for apples purposes it works.
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
I am the owner of the great Great Pyrenees (several in fact: we use them to guard our sheep from cougars - but one that sounds much like Agnes in temperament), and he would never consider going near people. People need to come to him. In th
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
They should have just paid for yellow routers. - I know that this is not the author's point, and that it even undercuts his point, but it feels to me like the original color scheme was flexible to handle this development, it's jus
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
This sounds a lot like a ‘title company’ to me.
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
I use emacs like that. When first getting into it, 20 years ago, I was very much as described above - slowly pulling everything in my life into emacs. And then the iPhone arrived, and I started pulling out things that I wanted to do mobile:
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
In addition to curries I make a New Mexican style posole stew with my necks - it is also delicious.
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
This was exactly my experience. I then got a short contracting gig when I needed some cash. It was good money - and I never wanted to do that kind of work again. The language has any number of deficiencies, that have been fixed by later lan
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
The feature is pretty awesome - I just learned about it myself last week. And the link totally works! (I have no clue on Nuxt though.)
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
Scroll to text fragments are your friend (though they are not in Firefox yet): https://astro.build/#:~:text=Learn%20more%20in%20our%20docs Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Te
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by nmcfarl 3y ago
I have done both (I have also purchased with a realtor), all in rural Oregon. I did a FSBO in a tiny town and the property was purchased directly by a buyer that was also without a realtor, but both sides had a mortgage from a national bank

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