PebblesHD

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by PebblesHD 7mo ago
So don’t allow accounts with ages set below the limit like they already do for under 13s. Why does this translate to every other site wanting my government ID or a scan of my face? Just this past 12 months both my drivers license and passpo
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by PebblesHD 7mo ago
I’m very interested to watch (not as much to experience…) what this will do to economies like Australia where the middle class and up are driving a shockingly large percentage of actual spending in the economy. If the historically wealthy w
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by PebblesHD 8mo ago
Thats just… weird? Why would you want to use somebody else’s fridge? Like I get its a few hundred dollars but they last decades. The Samsung fridge I still have was the very first appliance I ever purchased when I moved out at 18. Added to
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by PebblesHD 9mo ago
My experience with eSIM has so far been quite negative. I’ve upgraded phone twice since being forced to use one by my carrier and it’s been a pain both times. The initial setup of scanning a QR code was nice, why is every subsequent SIM cha
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by PebblesHD 9mo ago
This reads like more overworked salaried employees mentally justifying spending their own time on work. Once you start setting the expectation that you’ll spend your own time doing work that couldn’t be finished during the week, that’s what
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by PebblesHD 9mo ago
Rather than improving testing for fallible accessibility assists, why not leverage AI to eliminate the need for them? An agent on your device can interpret the same page a sighted or otherwise unimpaired person would giving you as a disable
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by PebblesHD 10mo ago
While not a complete rebuttal, allow me the following. I manage a team of 4 scrum masters each with 5-6 engineers. We provide services via a user interface we'll call the console, as would be fairly familiar to any B2B or B2C service p
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by PebblesHD 10mo ago
Just as I’m sure producers would love Australia to stop labelling produce for use of hormones and pesticides. But in both cases, there is a consumer interest in buying high quality products free of polluting elements, and in many cases, sup
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by PebblesHD 10mo ago
He seems to be intentionally missing the point of most of the complaints in order to direct away from his core area. The many legitimate criticisms of windows poor user experience lately will eventually drive change, but long will that take
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by PebblesHD 10mo ago
Possibly too little too late. Even my uninterested family and friends are moving over to MacBooks just due to not enjoying windows 11 or not wanting to upgrade hardware to get a minor OS change. Between that and valve looking to move on the
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by PebblesHD 11mo ago
Yep, declarative mode is what I use, tried the data mode with loaders and it never really agreed with me as a pattern.
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by PebblesHD 11mo ago
I have yet to reach the limits of doing a Vite create and installing react router myself for the several entirely client side apps we manage. It has sane build defaults and for whatever definition of ‘works’ is possible in JS, ‘just works’.
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by PebblesHD 11mo ago
I had a play with this and you’re right, it does have a style, but first: this is awesome, and good fun, well done! I think the system prompt or training data probably focuses on marketing websites, it didnt manage to make a settings page o
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by PebblesHD 1y ago
Challenge is we ended up with one really bad streaming service but lots of capital slurping up all the licenses. In my ideal world, the regulator would prevent using exclusivity as a moat to prevent smaller operations competing. Australia i
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by PebblesHD 1y ago
I’ve posted before about my half-in half-out life between Japan and Australia, and the media I consume is a product of this. Anime, while not a massive part of my watching habit, is certainly a weekly thing at least, and over the past few y
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by PebblesHD 1y ago
While these are cool, I honestly wish GRUB was silent unless you’re holding a key during boot. The 5 seconds it takes to go away and just boot the OS by default is really unnecessary.
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by PebblesHD 1y ago
I agree, and in the space I spend most of my time in regulatory compliance, the adage ‘its not done until its done’ applies, so showing 100 is almost never helpful unless it actually is absolutely complete. Most of my reporting tools implem
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by PebblesHD 1y ago
Both the video and related post are incredibly high quality productions. The animated circuit diagram on brown paper in the video is a very approachable way to explain the problem and solution. Nice! And it’s always nice to see some Austral
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
With the US seemingly entering a period of isolationist market settings, some portion of foreign investment is bound to be heading back out either to home markets or elsewhere international as those investors potentially deal with market al
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Your example of web devs writing drivers is why I posed the question, as go is very much not a widely used web dev language, and the devs who know go may not at all understand the common web development patterns and practices. Rather than t
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Would be interesting to see a follow up in a few months on whether the tradeoff from a heavier but widely used stack to a possibly more performant but certainly more esoteric one works out positively. I can’t imagine trying to hire for a fr
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
It does suffer slightly from looking like it was developed in the 90s. The UI kit it uses by default looks very out of place on most modern platforms and despite their being other UIs available, most end users will look at the default and c
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Switching equipment for anything over gigabit remains triple or more the price here in Australia, so these standards might be great but even the 2.5gb port on my desktop is useless to me so any more than that just gets further from helpful
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
I don’t understand what value the users would get out of such an environment and therefore why they would keep interacting? I find the same with Snap’s AI they put at the top of everyone’s friend list, I’ve never sent so much as a hello to
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
To be fair though, in places like Sydney, the 1% are buying most of the houses, having most of the good experiences, and living a very much better quality of life. You could be in the 90th percentile and still not afford any better than ‘ho
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
I had wondered at the time what the expected outcome was of spinning off the business, beyond simply trying to shed the terrible reputation IBM had as an MSP. The companies still doing business with them in my area were looking for the door
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
If the FCC cannot regulate the caps out of existence, they could at least enforce consistency in how they are advertised. For example, a theoretical offering of 1gpbs internet with a 120GB cap might need to include prominent language that a
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Not difficult to imagine a future where streaming gameplay footage is banned by rights holders because the video can be used by ‘unscrupulous’ users to ‘steal’ the game. Seriously though, we can’t have good quality home recording devices th
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
Dropped my prime subscription when they added the first lot of ads. I don’t buy enough stuff to make the free shipping worth it on its own, and was mostly there for video anyway, so having ads immediately killed the value proposition for me
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by PebblesHD 2y ago
For a technology offering I once thought had a shot at being the future of packaging and deployments, Docker (the company) sure seems set on being the betamax of container technology. We’ve reviewed this at both companies I’ve worked for si

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