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by patwolf 1y ago
I use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini regularly. Even though 2.5 pro is really good, I find myself using Gemini the least because I have an aversion to giving Google even more data about me. I know that even if they never inject ads direc
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by patwolf 2y ago
I've been building SPA apps for years with express and React. For a recent project we decided to use Next.js and self host. The biggest benefits have been 1) having the middleware contained in the same runtime and therefore not having
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by patwolf 2y ago
> Point being: SCIFs are the right tool for the job. Smartphone apps like Signal are not. The job in this case seems to be secure, ad-hoc communication between multiple parties while on the road (the VP at least was doing an event in Mic
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by patwolf 2y ago
I was working on a legacy CSJ project, and I tried to upgrade an OIDC library, but the newer version would only work with ESM. I decided to use that as an excuse to migrate our project to ESM. However, I hit a bug using dd-trace with ESM. O
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by patwolf 2y ago
I purchased an mp3 from Amazon Music, and there was a song that had a glitch in it, like you used to get ripping CDs if there was a problem reading part of the disc. I torrented the same track and the same glitch was there. So either Amazon
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by patwolf 2y ago
I was always blown away by the fact that YaST could run either as a GTK app or a CLI/ncurses tool. The same config was available in both. Back when I was using SuSE regularly, I was developing a pluggable web-based admin tool. I always
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by patwolf 2y ago
I had a first generation Mac mini, and I was playing around with mouse settings and accidentally changes some setting that basically disabled my mouse. The problem was the button or control to change it back didn't work via keyboard. I
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by patwolf 2y ago
Makes me think of "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress", where the moon went to war with earth by catapulting rocks.
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by patwolf 2y ago
Lately I've noticed this more frequently with Shorts. It brings about an interesting dilemma because I know for the algorithm to work and benefit creators, people need to watch videos with few views. But I also don't want to spend
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by patwolf 2y ago
I'm currently using Yjs to build an app that needs to work offline. It's not actually a real-time or collaborative app. However, if you think of the server as being one collaborator and the app being another, then it's easy t
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by patwolf 2y ago
Brings back memories of visiting northern Virginia as a teenager and recognizing all the town names from IRC servers, like Ashburn, McClean, Vienna, and several others. I saw the VA governor speak at some point in the late '90s, and he
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by patwolf 2y ago
That'd work well for a catastrophic Eron-style collapse, but many companies die a slow death, like Sears.
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by patwolf 2y ago
I previously tried getting military records for my deceased grandfather. From what I can recall, it was complicated by the fact that I wasn't "next of kin", which would limit the data I'd have access to. Even my parent,
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by patwolf 2y ago
Whenever I say Elo out loud, it takes a lot of mental energy to not say E-L-O, as if I'm talking about the Electric Light Orchestra.
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by patwolf 2y ago
I kind of miss the days where building a mobile app was just plopping giant widgets on a screen, and we didn't need giant figma files and design languages. I don't, however, miss dealing with the 300ms click delay.
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by patwolf 2y ago
The UI issues I've noticed aren't really bugs as much as they're intentional UI changes that happen to be poorly thought out. I'm used to Google randomly changing the UI for seemingly no benefit, but these changes are es
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by patwolf 2y ago
I worked on WebSphere back in the day. There were a lot of pre-compiled libraries provided by other IBM teams. I too made good use of decompilers (probably jad at the time) as it was often easier than trying to track down the source.
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by patwolf 2y ago
- double-edged safety razors. It blows my mind how much money is wasted on cartridges. - Bidet - just a basic one that plugs into the existing water line. Everyone in my house makes fun of me for it, but after a year with it, using TP feels
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by patwolf 2y ago
I like the idea of imagining that we can arbitrarily adjust the carefulness knob, but I don't think it works like that in reality. You can certainly spend more time writing tests, but a lot of the unforeseen problems I've hit over
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by patwolf 2y ago
I'm working on a project using CRDTs (Yjs) to generate efficient diffs for documents. I could probably use JSON Patch, but I worry about relying on something like fast-json-patch to automatically generate patches by diffing JSON docume
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by patwolf 2y ago
I'd love to find an in-wall microwave with that UI. I had an '80s Amana Radarange as a kid, and it too had a knob for time, a knob for power, and buttons for start/stop. Every microwave I've used since then has been a di
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by patwolf 2y ago
Reminds me of something I read years ago about how Ultima Online would create "gold sinks", super expensive items that served no purpose other than help remove gold from the economy and prevent inflation.
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by patwolf 2y ago
I used to come up with a bedtime story for my kids every night. They were interesting enough that my kids could recall previous stories and request I tell it again. I've since started using ChatGPT to come up with bedtime stories. They
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by patwolf 2y ago
Someone in my family did some work helping set up a ham radio for a hospital. I don't know the details, but it sounded like it was part of a grant to help with emergency preparedness. The problem is finding people that can operate them
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by patwolf 2y ago
How will they continue to operate into the future with those kinds of losses? More rounds of funding? Loans? Charge more? Most companies with losses that big would be bankrupt, e.g. GM in 2009.
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by patwolf 2y ago
I don't think scam is the right word. Timeshare sales may be predatory, but they're not fraudulent.
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by patwolf 2y ago
I used to read MAD as a kid. At some point in the 90s they released a CD-ROM set of every issue. It was a neat idea, but the software was pretty bad, and some of the scans we're great. They simulated the fold-in effect, but the alignme
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by patwolf 2y ago
What made SpaceX capable of being able to design and build the valve themselves faster and cheaper than the vendor? It makes a good story, but I worry about other companies trying to emulate it when the economics of space vendors might be f
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by patwolf 2y ago
I tried many Fitbits and Samsung watches before discovering the ScanWatch. I briefly get excited when a new Pixel or Samsung watch is announced, and then I remember I have no interest in charging it every night, or every week.
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by patwolf 2y ago
I keep an eye on the market of small SaaS businesses for sale. Lately a majority are something like "A simple tool that uses AI to X". I immediately skip past any company like that because that tells me that 1. the company is ver

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