richardw

34 ms·

511.
by richardw 3y ago
Thanks for checking. One person is x.yz@gmail. Tens of times I’ve had people or systems strip the x, I am y.z and get their mail. Invites to funerals. Business mail. Admittedly reduced lately, he probably uses it less. One professor has a “
512.
by richardw 3y ago
On this website you can say that and not be unceremoniously jailed. It’s false equivalence.
513.
by richardw 3y ago
Drives me insane. And so many people and systems auto adjust addresses, produce almost mine, and then gmail delivers the random output. I once set up a google group to forward mail to. I’d pay to block the “full stop ignore” feature.
514.
by richardw 3y ago
67m people in UK in a far more homogenous market. US is a lot more complicated, has a lot more legacy and more parties to get anything done. See e.g. the sluggish move to chip and pin, sluggish death of checks, slow move to real-time payme
515.
by richardw 3y ago
I’ve been thinking on and off about personal hosting. Not just for web, for everything that I want hosted. Eg data, address, location, permissions to message me or mail me or read some of my photos or all the functionality we give up to the
516.
by richardw 3y ago
For me it's not primarily about speed, it's about reduced finger movement. I switched to a more efficient layout and carpal tunnel dropped off instantly, and that was a very long time ago. If you're doing fine on QWERTY then
517.
by richardw 3y ago
Trucks, buses, planes, boats (eg ferries), smaller lighter cars, bikes, drones. Everything can benefit from smaller and lighter, or longer charge.
518.
by richardw 3y ago
Obvious to you and me. Server team disagreed and tried 422 unprocessable entity, which is not correct. My point is that these issues should be clear enough that there are not thousands of StackOverflow questions on it, and debates between t
519.
by richardw 3y ago
One team got a stream of 404’s not because the requested objects did not exist in the DB, but because the service moved. Web server was saying: resource does not exist. Another time, the server had the resource but didn’t like the state of
520.
by richardw 3y ago
A very short time with TikTok showed me I need to delete it instantly. It was too good at delivering crack. Twitter is pretty good, mixing up my follows and some random stuff that I enjoy. Threads is useless at figuring me out. Inane self p
521.
by richardw 3y ago
We’re pattern matching animals suited to staying alive by making snap decisions without perfect information. This works perfectly when we think there’s a tiger behind a bush. Suboptimal when we’re faced with the random movements of the mark
522.
by richardw 3y ago
I mostly gave up a very long time ago. Craft an answer, update it to stay relevant and some mod turns it into a wiki. Another mod decides it’s time to move it to a different Stack site so it stops attracting cred on the site I posted it. Ho
523.
by richardw 3y ago
I’d be surprised if it’s not co-opted to do so. We saw what happened with vaccines: global tribes with half-baked ideas all swirling around crazy leaders. Only way it’s not going to be co-opted is if it can’t be due to some fundamental reas
524.
by richardw 3y ago
In Sydney. We’re renting a house for 35% of the mortgage price. And the rental is pretty crazy, so mortgage is ludicrous. Some places are just irrational.
525.
by richardw 3y ago
Or an express queue with only 10m top up allowed, higher rate if you go over that. Or dynamic rates so some areas get cheaper and peak areas more expensive? Might get accused of profiting from surge prices. But might allow people who can sh
526.
by richardw 3y ago
Half the benefit is that everyone puts their phone away. No other screens, selfies, browsing at restaurants or calls interrupting people. Everyone simply being present with the humans and nature around them.
527.
by richardw 3y ago
Nah, just generate the A listers, or make better actors that are better looking and have better voices. Generate the directors, generate the whole movie. Put me in the movie, make me better looking. Toss the studios.
528.
by richardw 3y ago
Can they reach the center? And how long would that take? I ask because time will slow down for them as they accelerate towards the center.
529.
by richardw 3y ago
YMMV but I think the obvious thing to do for anyone who worries about range is to use an EV for daily and hire the right car for a long trip. I don’t buy a car for my 1% trips, I buy a car for my 99% trips. When I need a 4x4, I hire. When I
530.
by richardw 3y ago
I’ve been thinking the leading edge is already in the trough of disillusionment! At least on HN etc. We see lots of reports of limitations on HN. Those in the know don’t trust it nearly as much as the public and all the CEO’s of businesses
531.
by richardw 3y ago
I think 500 is a bit high, especially for an average. Much of the time they’re in a peloton, which will drop the average a lot. Peak can go way higher but it’s for far shorter bursts. “During a normal stage of the Tour de France, pro riders
532.
by richardw 3y ago
> I don't quite get where you're coming from with "LLM's don't actually understand anything Well, Wikipedia doesn’t understand anything, despite having a lot of knowledge encoded in it. This is similar in that it
533.
by richardw 3y ago
Good example of a two-sided market, which are quite tricky but there’s a lot of material out there on strategies and techniques. I’d recommend focusing on one area/city at a time to get enough buyers and sellers. Nice work, very inspir
534.
by richardw 3y ago
With you on finding balance and considered points. That’s my instinct in general. However (and feel free to see if this lands with you) I think I’ve found that the ones that work are super direct. For example, Joel Spolsky had absolutely co
535.
by richardw 3y ago
Aren’t you kinda telling someone how they should write a post? Even though you start writing most sentences with I, it comes off as what they should rather do. Which, you know, is fine. I would maybe have {insert similar advice here} :) Act
536.
by richardw 3y ago
In the beginning of a project I want velocity and progress. CF gives me: Easy SSL. Register domain at cost. Throw up static site on S3 equivalent (or app on whichever cloud), add Cloudflare and a couple redirects (no www to www, no ssl to s
537.
by richardw 3y ago
SO also had pretty serious influencers in the tech community to bootstrap everything. However I’d guess this is existential for them. I’d guess an AI is checking and generating a huge percentage of homework (and work) and that’ll only incr
538.
by richardw 3y ago
Meaning it's an indication that Apple are interested in games and that more partners will come. This is not the last game-oriented move; anyone with any sense in the market is currently staying up late to think how to leverage this.
539.
by richardw 3y ago
Unity as a partner. This thing hasn’t arrived yet. It’ll definitely have games. Personally this is the first AR kit I’ve vaguely wanted. The software, hardware and partner list makes this a game changer. There are more like me.
540.
by richardw 3y ago
First one of these things I’ve wanted. They’re honestly the only company that could pull this off. Meta has been doing some draft devices and Google will follow as hard as they can, but the UX, ecosystem integration and leverage with partne

More ›