Brendinooo

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by Brendinooo 5d ago
Anyone starting from the couch just needs to start. I started by just pursuing a goal of "run a mile without stopping", then 2, etc. I've messed with zone 2 a bit and read a fair amount about it. If it gets you out there movi
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by Brendinooo 6d ago
As someone who loves buying music - yeah, I hear that. I just never really felt like the incentives were quite the same to purchase movies. They've always been constrained by their formats/vendors in a way that was never as true f
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by Brendinooo 6d ago
Nope, not a Netflix exec. One would imagine if I was, I'd have used Netflix as my example. I dunno about you, but in my lifetime, if I would have invested in owning VHS, DVD, or HD-DVD, that would not have paid off for me. (I might hav
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by Brendinooo 6d ago
Still a great ecosystem and value for dollar overall! That's one reason why prices have gone up. No long-term contracts, no additional hardware needed, no hidden fees. Still the option to not see ads for most of the services. You can f
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by Brendinooo 6d ago
This is such a weird take. Did you gatekeep people who built sites with FrontPage as well?
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by Brendinooo 7d ago
I dunno. Maybe there's a sense in which there's some untapped use cases out there that Apple needs to go figure out. But in a different sense, the idea that I buy a watch that lasts for years and I don't feel like I'm mi
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by Brendinooo 10d ago
I'm not morally/philosophically opposed to someone generating text with AI. I just don't want to read something that isn't really "owned" by the person creating it (that is, the writer knows what he is sending
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by Brendinooo 11d ago
Right. But it doesn't say what kind of geopolitical unrest, and it draws a stark contrast to an article that is filled with all sorts of unproven guesses about it (guesses that are quoted as being "inherent").
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by Brendinooo 11d ago
I mostly agree with this; your comment paints a far more plausible and level-headed picture than the article does.
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by Brendinooo 11d ago
> It’s easy to say that Trump was a factor in this decision I don't disagree with that. (I mentioned Iran, a crisis that was precipitated by the current administration.) I disagree with "Experts say that rhetoric appears inhere
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by Brendinooo 11d ago
I mean, if I hear the phrase "geopolitical unrest", I'm far more inclined to think "Iran"/"Russia" than "51st state". If the point is to get your gold away from the US and its president, why
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by Brendinooo 11d ago
Data from a chart in the article: Share of gold before relocation: New York: 31.33% Zeist: 30.83% Ottawa: 19.72% London: 18.12% Share of gold after relocation New York: 18.52% Zeist: 30.83% Ottawa: 18.52
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by Brendinooo 12d ago
Yeah, exactly this. The Web has always been a bunch of things: complicated backends that just need something in the frontend to operate, flashy marketing sites that don't do much behind the scenes but build brand credibility, cheap-t
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by Brendinooo 12d ago
Ah yes, right around the time when I buy my heating oil for the winter...
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by Brendinooo 13d ago
Perhaps you want a website for your Monterey cypress and want the domain macroc.arpa?
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by Brendinooo 13d ago
> Who is still using Anthropic seriously...Subscriptions only get you frustrated If you're using Claude in a pair-programming/"exoskeleton" sense, you'll probably never get close to maxing your subscription allot
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by Brendinooo 15d ago
My impression is that Opus 5 can be very impressive if you don't care about maintenance, novel-length comments, and really having any input in general. But otherwise it's borderline-to-totally unusable. It seems tailor-made to not
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by Brendinooo 15d ago
Useless for reverse-engineering the software that talks to a ten-year-old video cam + DVR system I was given, really nice for things I actually do in my day job (web dev at an agency).
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by Brendinooo 17d ago
Love a good IKEA hack. Readily available, standardized, low-cost materials are a great platform to build creatively!
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by Brendinooo 19d ago
bwahaha. I mean to say, I don't run it.
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by Brendinooo 19d ago
I don't run this kind of skin unironically but I do think that desktop GUIs used to be a lot more intuitive in some ways. They were still educating PC users on how to use PCs and so there was less of a temptation to hide features and s
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by Brendinooo 21d ago
What lie, exactly? The claim was > Twitter did used to have some pretty notable censorship. Are you saying that the person you replied to is willfully deceiving people by saying this? Because I think it's very obviously true, and we
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
People use these things differently, for sure! I compare to those because these are social networks - the network is the biggest thing that matters. I LOVE what Bluesky is doing with atproto and was there pretty early as a result, but I did
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
>amongst the microposting sites I look at "major" was doing a bit of work for me. Facebook, Instagram, Reddit were more in mind when I said that. >would keep "forgetting" and pushing you back This hasn't happe
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
>What is the main use case for X these days? I use it to follow people who either have ideas I find interesting or do stuff I find interesting, and typically I'm looking for accounts that are small enough that I know they will at le
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
Stretch the timeline out enough and add enough inflation and anything is possible!
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
This is really nice, and it's a good reminder that we're so early with regards to how AI can be used to make art. And the fact that it's flowers creates a pretty nice mental model for it! One can plant seeds and cultivate the
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
I've generally tried to stay with cash back rewards in categories that don't change, that's been the best way to balance complexity with rewards for me while not nudging me to buy stuff I don't actually need. I don'
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
They mention "premium credit cards" in the article, is there a general understanding of which cards are premium? I clicked through to the study and the only example they cited in there was Chase Sapphire Reserve but I didn't
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by Brendinooo 22d ago
I don't really know my way around corporate filings, but...is that just for credit cards? Capital One also is supposedly huge on car loans; I'd imagine the interest from those would comprise a big chunk of that revenue.

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