sholladay

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by sholladay 6d ago
Not yet, they’re trying to say that galvanization prevents rust and therefore it’s stainless. I don’t want to spend much time on this and they are probably betting on that. In the future, I’m just not going to buy a product unless it specif
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by sholladay 8d ago
Are you aware that none of that is required when signing up for a site that supports passkeys? I think there is some confusion here caused by sloppy use of terminology among FAANG and the standards groups. You’re right that, strictly speaki
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by sholladay 8d ago
I’m convinced that a lot of the passkey hate ultimately stems from the inconsistent and confusing flows that websites have implemented in the name of backwards compatibility with passwords. I have made some apps where passkeys are the only
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by sholladay 10d ago
He convinced me to get a Dyson vacuum. Worst expensive purchase of my life. Nothing he said was wrong. Dyson’s performance is genuinely excellent. The problem is everything else. It squeaks as I move it around while vacuuming due to flimsy
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by sholladay 11d ago
You should check out all of the voices available on macOS. They still have the original, robotic sounding MacinTalk voices from 1984, such as Fred. They’re fun to play with. Personally, I think Majel Barrett is my favorite computer voice of
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by sholladay 11d ago
One big problem is that prices are easy to compare, while quality is not. I recently bought a tub that was advertised as stainless steel on Amazon. I was suspicious but decided to take a chance. Turns out it is galvanized, not stainless. I’
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by sholladay 12d ago
Disagree. The TNG computer was used via voice input when it was efficient to do so, which is exactly how it should be. There were plenty of computer consoles, laptops, and tricorders/phone-like devices that were also used, especially w
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by sholladay 22d ago
In my view, intelligence includes an ability to learn and adapt to never-before-seen situations. And then general intelligence is an ability to apply that across a wide variety of domains. Machines can certainly recognize patterns and achie
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by sholladay 1mo ago
Unfortunately, they don’t have to be very successful to have an impact. Even just their introduction to the marketplace normalizes the concept, just a bit. Google Glass failed and so have other camera-equipped glasses, but notice that they
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by sholladay 1mo ago
Shout out to AVA for running all tests async by default, which not only finds order-dependent issues, but also race condition and other timing related issues. https://github.com/avajs/ava
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by sholladay 1mo ago
Amazon built their own in-house logistics network because UPS et al. weren’t cutting it. They offer one-hour delivery for a lot of basic items where I am and it’s not even a particularly urban area. I think in urban centers those same items
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by sholladay 1mo ago
In my experience, Etsy and Amazon are both following the same trajectory. Lower quality, lower value, fake and imitation products becoming more common, etc. On Etsy, it used to be the norm that a product would be unique, interesting, and pr
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by sholladay 2mo ago
Everything I said applies to overseas labor, too. I’ve worked at both types of companies, those that co-locate support with the product teams, and those that pay bottom dollar and don’t care at all about support. With the latter type, there
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by sholladay 2mo ago
> That human would have also been hopelessly uninformed for all the same reasons. Not really. At minimum, a half-way decent support person would ask a few people internally or search Slack before answering. In fact, they would have likel
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by sholladay 2mo ago
The cookie banner is a significant accessibility problem, for blind and low vision users, among others. I would like to see a stronger push to attack it from that angle.
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by sholladay 2mo ago
Mistral and ElevenLabs seem to be doing pretty well. Also, here in the U.S., we’ve managed to screw up so badly on data privacy and basic rights that the EU has been systematically replacing their entire tech stack with sovereign components
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by sholladay 3mo ago
I understand the appeal, but let’s be honest. Costco is designed for rich people who think they are frugal. You drive your big SUV there to load up on months worth of food and goods, which you can only do because you have a big house with e
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by sholladay 3mo ago
Music producer here. High resolution audio is useful for editing and anywhere there might be downstream processing or format conversion that may or may not be high quality, let alone lossless. The article covers that pretty well. However, t
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by sholladay 3mo ago
My guess is you are deleting the word each time. Unlike the FUTO keyboard, the iPhone keyboard will give you different results each time after you delete because it assumes that if you delete a word, it’s probably because the autocomplete g
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by sholladay 3mo ago
This keyboard seems to ship with a dictionary that includes a lot of curse words. No more ducking around.
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by sholladay 3mo ago
> it doesn't deal well with doubled vs single letters, etc. You mean like the two E’s in “feel” or the two L’s in “fell”? I just tried and it handles them well. Are you aware of the circling technique? When you want to double up on
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by sholladay 4mo ago
If sunscreen is supposed to provide specific health benefits, namely to reduce cancer risk, then it is a drug, not a cosmetic. Regulations should ensure it provides the intended effect without undue harm. Cosmetics are given more leeway bec
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by sholladay 4mo ago
I encounter this all the time, I just want to help people and pass along things I’ve learned but it’s not always received well. For sure, many adults would not want to be told how to tie their shoelaces. My only advice is to start by approa
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by sholladay 4mo ago
Do you not consider Tunguska an explosion? It’s always described as such. IIRC, it never even hit the ground. Sure, a lot of the damage was caused by the air being compressed from above, but it created an air burst, which would have release
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by sholladay 4mo ago
Open models are pretty good at this point but the problem is that they are limited by the tooling and infrastructure that surrounds them. For example, the last time I tried to set up web search with an open model, the experience was pretty
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by sholladay 4mo ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by sholladay 5mo ago
I can't tell whether you are being sarcastic about it discouraging retaliating. When they had us both in the room, I said to the staff, "If you're just going to give me detention anyway, then the next time he punches me, I&#x
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by sholladay 5mo ago
Some of the generic policies can be very strange, too. I once got detention for getting punched in the arm. I was much taller than any of the school bullies, so they mostly didn't start anything with me. But every now and then, they wo
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by sholladay 5mo ago
That all sounds reasonable until you realize that the same logic is how we ended up with customer support systems that try to walk you through a phone tree and if you are lucky, you will be able to press 0 to speak to a human without answer
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by sholladay 5mo ago
You explained it well. Representative democracy complicates systems of fairness since it adds another layer that itself also needs to be fair. And each is an opportunity to be corrupted into unfairness. Our education curriculum is also a bi

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