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by steelframe 2y ago
Apple Express Mode lets you use certain Wallet cards when the phone is very low battery and turned off.
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by steelframe 2y ago
> It's often €50 now to print boarding pass at the counter in Europe. I was about to respond, "No way this is true. I don't believe you." But then I found an article claiming that yes, indeed you can be fleeced like t
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by steelframe 2y ago
Printing a boarding pass at home works for the flight out. But what about the returning flight? Just last week I flew back home from SFO. I needed to change the flight at the last minute. The app failed to update with the new flight. The ai
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by steelframe 2y ago
I'm all-in on this. If the only way for me to attend an event is to deal with an app on my phone, I automatically assume there are a few dozen other activities or events I'd enjoy doing more during that time and choose to go do on
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by steelframe 2y ago
There's a restaurant my parents take me to when I come to visit that requires you to scan a QR code to get to a website and then order and pay for your food on your phone. You are prompted to provide a tip up front before anybody has e
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by steelframe 2y ago
> > 1. Parking apps are worse than parking meters. > I certainly don't agree with that one. I really don't miss having to pay for a fixed number of hours and then having to figure out what to do if I'm running late (
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by steelframe 2y ago
I'd like to take a dig into this notion of "purpose" and "primary goal." To me, LLMs are a phenomenon. They have not intrinsic purpose or goal -- they just are. Purposes and goals come from you and me. An LLM is a t
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by steelframe 2y ago
> very limited 250W/15mph pedelec class of e-bikes Meanwhile in the Wild West (a.k.a. the United States) we have children hurling 100+ lb 750W throttle-controlled motorcycles (I'm sorry, "e-bikes") at up to 28 mph on
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by steelframe 2y ago
Here is that same exchange with paid Kagi Assistant using Claude 3.5 Haiku: Me: Who is Trump's paternal grandpa? Based on the available information, Frederick Trump is Donald Trump's paternal grandfather. Here are some key details
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by steelframe 2y ago
> If you don’t like them, don’t apply. Due to the prevalence of the practice this is tantamount to suggesting constructive unemployability. People were up in arms about widespread doping during the Lance Armstrong era. But the only viabl
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by steelframe 2y ago
> They just say, well the AI picked this, as if that means something in and of itself. In any other professional field that would be grounds for termination for incompetence. It's so weird that we seem to shrug off that kind of beha
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by steelframe 2y ago
> In a world today, where your a LinkedIn profile is literally essential to your means of livelihood Several years ago I removed nearly all content from my LinkedIn profile and set it to private. Lo and behold my career has been doing ju
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by steelframe 2y ago
Thanks, but all the same I'm not going to jump through arbitrary hoops set up by people who think it's okay to just capriciously break email. They simply won't ever get me as a customer and/or advocate in the industry. S
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by steelframe 2y ago
For me that sort of thing actually dilutes the prestige. If I'm interviewing someone, and they have "I was an author on this amazing paper!" on their resume, then if I open the paper and find 1k+ authors on it, at that point
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by steelframe 2y ago
I tried signing up, but it gave me some bullshit "this email domain isn't supported in your region." I guess they insist on a GMail account or something? Regardless I don't even trust US-based LLM products to protect my
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by steelframe 2y ago
I installed a Swytch conversion kit on a couple of my bicycles in the U.S. I did have to file down the axles by about 1mm to get them to fit in the drops, but after that everything has been working pretty well. The ring with the magnets aro
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by steelframe 2y ago
At that time I ended up just buying a gaming PC packaged with the card. I find it's generally worth it to upgrade all the components of the system along with the GPU every 3 years or so.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I used to work with someone who was arrested for having a beer in his possession when he was 20 years old. The circumstances were pretty colorful, and so it made the local news. He had since worked his way into management at the company we
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by steelframe 2y ago
When an app rots you're left completely helpless. When a website rots at least you can try with multiple browsers until one of them works. In 2015 Robin Hutcheson partnered with a vendor, ParkSLC, to deploy an iOS and Android app that
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by steelframe 2y ago
> aggressive technicians trying to convince me to install their bloatware on my computer I still remember the look on the tech's face back around 2002 when he saw a text login prompt on my FreeBSD box.
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by steelframe 2y ago
> I’m repeatedly asked SEVERAL TIMES EVERY TIME I USE THE APP. You know what doesn't do that? The local cab company when I call them to ask for a pick up.
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by steelframe 2y ago
Point taken about preferring Apple over Google. I buy Pixel phones and immediately install GrapheneOS, which does a pretty good job of keeping Google at arms' length. So I guess the answer to your question is that there is another alte
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by steelframe 2y ago
I run LineageOS on an Xperia Z1 Compact that I use as a cycling computer and GrapheneOS as my daily driver. If any business excludes my phone, I exclude that business. The only trouble I run into is when (pseudo-)public institutions such as
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by steelframe 2y ago
I'm still of the opinion that an Xperia Z1 Compact running LineageOS handily outcompetes any cycling computer that Germin or Wahoo has shipped in the past 10 years.
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by steelframe 2y ago
Another software engineer chiming with QModem being one of his childhood core memories. Sorry for your loss.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I'll never trust some rando working at a valet to treat my GRC right. I've seen too many dashcam horror videos of even people working at dealerships failing at manual and safe rev temps.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I've owned two LEAFs. Fantastic vehicle. I only got rid of it when I realized all the cars around me were only getting bigger and heavier, and I felt I needed to get an SUV to defend myself against that.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I pulled the DCM fuse on my GR Corolla. I can confirm that it disabled the microphone. One of these days I might get around to pulling the car apart and popping in a resistor in place of the antenna.
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by steelframe 2y ago
I fully agree one should own their own keys. I suppose in the case of my phone I feel I can't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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by steelframe 2y ago
Since I run GrapheneOS on a Google-less Pixel phone, I can't install airline apps. So what I typically do is use my web browser to check in for my flight and get a PDF of my boarding pass, then I take a screenshot of the QR code. The l

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