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by rconti 7mo ago
These conversions are super common. What am I missing?
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by rconti 7mo ago
It feels very much like AI is creating AI lock-in (if not AI _vendor_ lock-in) by creating so much detailed information that it's futile to consume it without AI tools. I was updating some gitlab pipelines and some simple testing scrip
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by rconti 7mo ago
I _do_ find it weird that the LCDs from crashed cars are so expensive. I wonder if newer models have better screens, so people with older cars upgrade? Or if they're a common failure point? I have a Model 3, but I can't say I foll
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by rconti 7mo ago
"YouTube argued that it was not a social media company and that its features were not designed to be addictive." Well, that's laughable.
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by rconti 7mo ago
I think the design is great; my only gripe is it's awful on the iPad mini. But so are Apple apps. They think it makes sense for the side drawer (in portrait mode) to cover half the screen. Which is especially insane in apps with maps w
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by rconti 7mo ago
I've been a lightweight homebrew user for many, many, many years now. I just use it to download or update a thing I need, once every 3-6mo. It constantly blows my mind how insanely long it takes just to do a few simple things on the fa
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by rconti 7mo ago
They need to _commit_ to this, and execute, though. This feels very much like yet another half-hearted Apple initiative.
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by rconti 7mo ago
> "Companies – wherever they're based – are not allowed to sell unsafe toys to children in the UK. And society has long protected youngsters from things like alcohol, smoking and gambling. The digital world should be no differe
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by rconti 7mo ago
> The Government Accountability Office outlines some of the impact of rising government debt on Americans Well, we found another agency that won't last much longer in this administration...
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by rconti 7mo ago
I park on the street for free. (The lot is also free in monetary cost, for the short windows I'd park there, but the hassle is larger than the hassle of finding street parking).
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by rconti 7mo ago
TBF a lot of the complaints are coming from businesses that are _probably_ renting. There is absolutely the chance that their business will go under due to construction disruptions before they can benefit from the increased foot traffic onc
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by rconti 7mo ago
A tiny 2BDR shack next door that is worth $3M because of the 6000sqft lot it sits on _absolutely_ goes up in value when density increases.
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by rconti 7mo ago
I've never seen the evidence where density increases drive down existing land/home values.
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by rconti 7mo ago
As long as the cost to build housing is less than the revenue from selling it, why wouldn't you? It's not like homebuilders in Austin flee for North Carolina when the margins shift slightly.
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by rconti 7mo ago
Well, in Menlo Park they're just flat surface parking lots, not even multi-story structures. The planned development is multi-story housing with parking underneath. To be fair, I am boycotting the (similar) underground garage over at S
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by rconti 7mo ago
Meanwhile, California is also trying to build housing near transit, but Menlo Park wants to preserve the character of downtown by preserving dirty, cracked, flat, surface-level parking lots like it's 1950.
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by rconti 7mo ago
Profitable vs unprofitable is not black and white. No doubt there are some places where it's simply not profitable to run the fiber today. However, there are a TON of places where the business strategy you outline is a great idea, and
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by rconti 7mo ago
It doesn't justify the cost when they can just rip you off, charging the same amount for a fraction of the bandwidth.. unless and until there's competition. Funny how quickly my internet options went from expensive cable internet,
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by rconti 7mo ago
No, the ones suing his ass.
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by rconti 7mo ago
What about all the ones who are suing him for shortchanging them?
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by rconti 7mo ago
Tip: Skip recommendations and just go to your subscriptions page.
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by rconti 8mo ago
Yeah, I think the paradigm has shifted. There's a perception that, while these companies have always profited off of our inputs, that we both benefitted. We contributed to a public good, they provided the platform, and profited off tha
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by rconti 8mo ago
Apple wants to give me $250 trade-in for my M1 Air with 16GB, but it seems to be worth $500+ on the open market, so yeah, still above hand-me-down territory. It feels as good as the day I bought it, and literally the only reason I'm co
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by rconti 8mo ago
> You are literally just paying the Apple tax that they deliberately choose And when I go to the grocery store, I am paying the Safeway tax that they deliberately choose, and when I go to the gas station I am paying the Exxon tax that th
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by rconti 8mo ago
Reminds me of the Notorious B.I.G. line "phone bill about 2G's flat"!
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by rconti 8mo ago
I worked for an ISP that was racks and racks of bare couriers with lucent portmasters.
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by rconti 8mo ago
I've never felt lucky when reading a post from someone whining about downvotes.
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by rconti 8mo ago
> Apple owners seemed to feel it was a good deal, not realizing that you shouldn't even have to replace stuff before the 7 to 10 years mark appart maybe for the battery. This whole post is a [citation needed] on multiple fronts.
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by rconti 8mo ago
Yeah, this jumped out at me too. It's a wild misunderstanding of how BBSes worked. That said, I have no idea how a multi-node BBS would work, in terms of keeping state synchronized.
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by rconti 8mo ago
As someone who spends an hour or two a week using AI tools, it's a time sink. I spend (almost) all my LLM time keeping on top of changes in my company's preferred tooling, updating software, updating authentication mechanisms, etc

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