johnyzee

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by johnyzee 22d ago
"Watch Now" just shows a black screen with an audio track for me.
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by johnyzee 25d ago
I do use a second Claude (both Opus) to review the first one's output - it almost always finds worthwhile (often critical) observations. They have different 'perspectives', one wants the job done, one wants to find problems,
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by johnyzee 2mo ago
You heard it from someone with no experience developing software. A lot of AI hype comes from that, even (or especially) from people in the actual business of developing software - a surprising amount of managers and adjacent or supporting
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by johnyzee 2mo ago
Spot on. The Amiga broke my teenage heart (name checks out). I was disgusted with computers after Commodore had run themselves into the ground, and left the whole thing for a few years. I just couldn't work with clunky PCs. In the end
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by johnyzee 3mo ago
"Meta notified at least 20,225 people that their accounts had been compromised. [...] The compromises allowed the hackers to take over the person's entire Instagram and any linked accounts, including obtaining contact information
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by johnyzee 4mo ago
I always hated Maven, until I started using Gradle.
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by johnyzee 4mo ago
This is ridiculous. The only ones afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood are Middle Eastern dictatorships, who would rather not see a political movement take popular hold.
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by johnyzee 4mo ago
It's mostly slop. And sometimes slop is good enough. But Fred Brooks was talking about actual software systems, not a shop front for an amateur wine importer.
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by johnyzee 6mo ago
I know this was about the journey, but for anyone interested in home hydroponics (without the journey of building it), I have had a Gardyn[1] for 6-7 years. It works well. It has a 6 gallon (20 liter) tank and a couple of strong vertical gr
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by johnyzee 6mo ago
Calling it a 'canvas' makes me think that this tool is about AI agents doing some kind of collaborative drawing. Looking at the vid though, it seems more like an environment for visually organizing and managing agentic work (which
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by johnyzee 8mo ago
The only winning move is not to play.
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by johnyzee 8mo ago
Calories isn't everything, there is a lot more focus these days on how different foods affect metabolic hormones affecting satiety, blood sugar, etc. On those metrics, fat alone (which account for most of the calories in peanuts) is ve
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by johnyzee 8mo ago
I loved the tactile feel of 3.5" floppies (especially coming from the - actually floppy - 5.25"s). Great choice. In particular, the spring-loaded metal shield was very satisfying to play with, unfortunately those are missing on th
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by johnyzee 9mo ago
That's how I read this too. The publisher invested a non-trivial amount of work and was left with nothing, for no better reason than the author changed their mind. From the tone of the post, the author seems to not realize or care.
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by johnyzee 9mo ago
MS Bob -> Clippy -> Copilot -> ?
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by johnyzee 10mo ago
That was a lot of words to get to the point that Fleming probably misremembered the sequence of events when he retold the story 15 years later. He even mentioned this possibility at the time. Interesting article but not much of a mystery.
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by johnyzee 11mo ago
Seems like you would at the very least need a fairly thick application layer on top of Postgres to make it look and act like a messaging system. At that point, seems like you have just built another messaging system. Unless you're a fi
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by johnyzee 11mo ago
Ugh, I've had the exact same problem in a Java project, which meant I had to go through thousands and thousands of lines of code and make sure that all 'toLowerCase()' on enum names included Locale.ENGLISH as parameter. As th
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by johnyzee 11mo ago
Unchecked exceptions are more like a shutdown event, which can be intercepted at any point along the call stack, which is useful and not like a return type.
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by johnyzee 1y ago
Your neighbor's dog barks at Swing.
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by johnyzee 1y ago
Those are not Java paradigms per se - they're just practices of mediocre enterprise developers, of which Java has many, owing to being such a mainstream platform. As for the language itself, a lot of verbosity has been culled in later
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by johnyzee 1y ago
Sorry, that's what I meant (misread the OP). Better to just eat fish.
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by johnyzee 1y ago
Yes. A real, raw source is almost certainly better than a processed and treated source. Packaged fish oil is sometimes rancid, unnoticeable to you, and those oxidation products are harmful. It is also heavily loaded with antioxidants, witho
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by johnyzee 1y ago
Yeah, just drop a bunch of brick generation bots and let them run wild. Come back later and harvest bricks. Seems useful for stuff like landing sites.
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by johnyzee 1y ago
For Tesla to even be in the conversation with Waymo is very promising for the concept of low-tech solutions to autonomous vehicles, which in turn is very promising for how scalable this technology can be. As far as I know, a self-driving Te
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by johnyzee 1y ago
It has LTE but apparently does not support phone calls or SMS, without being paired to a phone. Close, but not quite there.
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by johnyzee 1y ago
I really want a smartwatch with proper always on screen (so memory LCD, like those COROS ones), but I also need LTE so I don't have to bring my phone on short errands. Unfortunately no such product currently exists for some reason. The
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by johnyzee 1y ago
The rock alum works better, and I don't think you can get it into a different form. The stuff in deodorant is a different aluminium compound.
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by johnyzee 1y ago
WTF is with the "coördinated" umlaut... Seriously the New Yorker works hard to earn their monocled caricature.
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by johnyzee 1y ago
First thing I thought. If I go to a coffee shop or the park, it's because I want to enjoy that place, not do the same work I could do (better) at my desk. That's an aside, though, the OP's setup is really cool and intriguing.

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