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by sholladay 9mo ago
Personally, I like that UTC is the default time zone. Processing of dates should happen in a standardized time zone. It’s only when you want to display it that the date should become local.
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by sholladay 9mo ago
I started looking at self-hosting many applications at home once I realized that IPv6 could enable me to do that securely without any complicated router/firewall configuration that would need to be maintained. The only wrinkle I ran in
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by sholladay 9mo ago
When people say “creator’s intent”, it sounds like a flavor. Like how food comes out of the kitchen before you put toppings on it to make it your own. But vivid mode (et al) literally loses information. When the TV tries to make everything
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by sholladay 10mo ago
I have a Samsung SlimFit HD tube TV from 2005 or so. It’s such an interesting piece of retro tech because it is widescreen, supports 1080i, and has HDMI, but it is a CRT! It’s also quite a bit thinner than most tubes. Super unusual. I got i
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by sholladay 10mo ago
I’m only aware of two times that Apple has revoked certificates for apps distributed outside of the App Store. One was for Facebook’s Research App. The other was for Google’s Screenwise Meter. Both apps were basically spyware for young teen
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by sholladay 11mo ago
This sounds like a really good excuse to not bear any responsibility for anything other than what you want to work on. PR reviews will mean nothing; they will all be rubber stamps or style nits because no one else will understand the code o
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by sholladay 11mo ago
If someone else steals your work, you should be proud. They found it to be valuable. If they managed to sell it or build something with it, they’ve demonstrated that you can do the same. Use it as a learning experience. Keep in mind that yo
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by sholladay 11mo ago
I think the main thing holding people back from leaving the cloud is simple inertia. There was a time when the cloud was obviously the right choice. Static IPv4 addresses were becoming scarce, IPv6 had not been deployed widely enough, and c
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by sholladay 11mo ago
Star Trek has a number of organic computing examples, too. Species 8472, Data, and the Borg all use varying degrees of organic components. There's also the bio-neural gel packs on Voyager and the unnamed 31st century Earth vessel disco
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by sholladay 1y ago
Some time ago, there was a project called Citizendium that aimed for quality over quantity, with articles written and peer-reviewed by subject matter experts who had to use their real names and working email addresses, among other requireme
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by sholladay 1y ago
This is why you should: - Write functional tests, not unit tests - Not use compilers or other systems that do a lot of black magic (like changing the type signature of your functions (!))
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by sholladay 1y ago
Props to you for taking the time to test with a screen reader, as opposed to simply reading about best practices. Not enough people do this. Each screen reader does things a bit differently, so testing real behavior is important. It's
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by sholladay 1y ago
Obviously you should set standards for your company. I’m not saying just hire anyone and be done with it. But I am saying that hiring is a long-term project. And I am saying that many people could meet your standards if you meet them half-
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by sholladay 1y ago
Monocultures can avoid stagnating if they occasionally accept fresh blood from the outside. But hardline stances don’t allow for that. My point is, even if you only want to work with the best of the best, and you’re willing to ignore underp
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by sholladay 1y ago
It’s the largest residential model that Ecoer makes. The home is a 3-bedroom, large but nothing crazy. The installers said they erred on the side of too big, rather than too small, and that’s corroborated by my back-of-the-napkin math and G
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by sholladay 1y ago
I always preferred to use sanitize.css, which is the same thing except it also makes sure everything looks pretty good. https://csstools.github.io/sanitize.css/
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by sholladay 1y ago
We had a heat pump installed last year. It’s advertised as a cold-climate heat pump and it’s “good enough” for us, but it’ll never again be toasty on a cold night, just relatively warm. When under heavy load, it also has some kind of loud v
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by sholladay 1y ago
Your logic could be sound if the lowest rung of the skill ladder was simply inevitable for everyone who is currently there. But that is wrong and, really, makes no sense. Many people are just young and need to be trained. Others were taught
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by sholladay 1y ago
My PS3 controllers are still working perfectly almost 20 years later. Yet I’ve had to replace my PS5 controllers three times so far, due to the joysticks not reading their position correctly. Each one lasted about a year and a half.
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by sholladay 1y ago
I was responding to a comment, not the article. I can’t say for certain whether they read the article, but my guess would be no, based on their dismissive (or at least pessimistic) attitude toward these types of articles. So I figured I wou
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by sholladay 1y ago
“Oh, that river. It can be very treacherous.” - Rom
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by sholladay 1y ago
The most compelling and plausible solution to this that I have seen is a set of standards called Solid, made by Tim Berners Lee, who invented the web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr... You
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by sholladay 1y ago
Agreed. One big difference, though, is that the local AI tech we have as an alternative to OpenAI is significantly better compared to the local alternatives we had for Google. You can run a reasonably powerful AI on your own machine right n
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by sholladay 1y ago
Newer versions of Fish have significantly improved bash compatibility. The LLM may actually be making things harder for you than they need to be.
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by sholladay 1y ago
I agree with you. Have you tried Fish? I find it to be the perfect balance of these goals. It has lots of niceties, which for me was already enough to switch to it years ago. But lately, they’ve been adding lots of bash compatibility, which
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by sholladay 1y ago
There is a very popular professional audio website called Gearspace that had a much spicier name for a long, long time. https://gearspace.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments&#x2
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by sholladay 1y ago
To be fair, I think this is partly because ChatGPT went viral long before they had an official app. I remember thinking, "Why the heck haven't they made an app yet?" And it was notable when it was finally released. So many pe
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by sholladay 1y ago
This generates some fun results. I searched for "A laptop made by Whole Foods", expecting to see a crazy looking laptop made of food. Maybe a tortilla for a lid? Instead, it has a relatively normal MacBook-like image but with a ve
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by sholladay 1y ago
I highly recommend Astro and Starlight for building websites from Markdown. It is very simple to set up and can grow with you as your needs become more complex. https://starlight.astro.build/
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by sholladay 1y ago
From a design perspective, the reason this flaw exists is because the code can be typed on any machine and sent through any intermediary. More secure schemes are possible without much effort. Magic links have some pros/cons but overall

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