jonathanlydall

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by jonathanlydall 4d ago
I don’t think they’re proposing remotely controlling it, just so that the guest would experience being unable to change the temperature to outside the allowed range. Of course any guest is free to write in their review “can’t make temperatu
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by jonathanlydall 4d ago
For some people they may only opportunistically (perhaps they have excess PV production at that moment) run their AC or temporarily turn it off when they temporarily have other power demands at that moment (eg running dishwasher, washing ma
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by jonathanlydall 5d ago
> I was surprised when it hung my computer and of course asked "Does it do that every time?" A true scientist! (see https://xkcd.com/242/ )
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by jonathanlydall 6d ago
I watched The Shining for the first time about 15 years ago (at about age 30) and when my friend asked what I thought I said it was good, but seemed pretty typical of horror films, to which he pointed out that it’s because all those films w
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by jonathanlydall 7d ago
Thank you so much for sharing on a website, as someone who started LAN gaming in the 90's it was a real joy to read, especially with the FAQ. Regarding the lack of patch panel, while not ideal it probably isn't going to make any d
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by jonathanlydall 12d ago
I think the new version is a net positive value as creates a better "vibe" to prospective patients than just a Google Business listing would, and I expect will age well. The domain's used for email anyway and is on a very che
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
In this case, because spending it was more hassle than any time she would have saved by doing so. If she had no choice, then spending it would not have been an issue.
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
I've responded to your other comment too, but regarding anyone's assumption that it's worth paying $20 to have it done quickly, but there was no urgency as it's been a thing she's been wanting to do for years. She p
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
You're pretty much right about the reasons. But as for the "value of her time", despite having to wait due to the rate limits for free users, this was probably still less time consuming for her than paying someone else to mak
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
If anything, it was a bit of a chore while keeping in mind that chores aren't necessarily a bad thing, e.g. tidying your kitchen after a meal is a chore, but it's satisfying to complete the chore as the alternative is not only a m
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
The new web page (since it's a single page website now) is also mobile friendly and intentionally not "flashy". Another goal with the website I didn't note before is that its "quality" or "style" sh
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
After 20 years, her new business is mostly word of mouth, but website was very dated and potentially a minor liability. Scope of work and urgency were so minimal that it was simply not worth the hassle to actually subscribe and then have to
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
She had no shortage of patients from word of mouth, but old website was minor liability in its datedness potentially putting off prospective patients. People already knew about her and website is essentially just “this is what I do, where I
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
Only minimally, after 20 years of practicing word of mouth does 99% of the work.
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
See my more detailed sibling comment, but was more that the scope and urgency were so small that it wasn’t worth the hassle to set up the subscription and have to cancel it after.
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
Wow, it’s fascinating after waking up to see all this conjecture here on why she didn’t pay for the subscription. The short version, wasn’t for wanting to save money, but simply a matter of it not being worth the hassle to any of us to subs
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
My mother has a psychology practice and wanted to update her 20 year old website. I did the first few prompts (single static page, basically a brochure, don’t worry about hosting) into ChatGPT to get her started and a few days later she sen
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
Perhaps “feature” would be most appropriate.
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
It’s a fair point to raise and also occurred to me shortly after writing my comment. While $200 might be within my disposable income bracket, it wouldn’t be for a lot of people, who may also see my blowing that much money (to show off to fr
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
From a purely utilitarian point of view, the price of a Louis Vuitton bag is unjustifiable. But from a social signalling perspective the price makes sense, it’s a way to show that you have lots of money. Anyone who would need to “save up” t
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by jonathanlydall 13d ago
Superb article. There was very little new information for me as I have applied some of these techniques myself based on having developed an intuitive understanding on how a rendering "thread" works and blocks, but for a less exper
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by jonathanlydall 16d ago
Interesting, when I was a WoW GM our special “GM WoW Client” contained a lot of features that QA would use. One of these was showing NPC pathing in the form of dots with lines in between. At any time the WoW client would know next 5 or so w
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by jonathanlydall 21d ago
As you mention the 90's you're probably referring to their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. This situation with the sound card hardware mixing was quite different and a lot later. Windows Vista moved away from kernel mode dri
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by jonathanlydall 21d ago
Creative Labs also turned itself into a brand I actively avoid for various reasons. In early 2000s for example, friend with something like a Sound Blaster Live, but couldn't use it anymore as they lost the drivers, their website only h
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British man charged in Singapore two years after alleged theft at airport(bbc.com)
2 points by jonathanlydall 22d ago|0 comments
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by jonathanlydall 23d ago
Yes, but it can be worth it as I've generally found that the most effective professional writing has your high-level request appear within the very first sentence. This is because it as quickly as possible puts the reader into the cont
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by jonathanlydall 23d ago
The terrible part to me is them saying "the majority of cases are resolved within 24 hours", this should be like a 15-minute delay at most when you can present your passport with its number which also matches your biometrics (as w
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by jonathanlydall 26d ago
I'm very surprised you feel it's a given that every SWE at every company has the perk of getting a new machine as quickly as every 2 years, I doubt it's justified by the productivity increases of just 2 years of hardware impr
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Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons(bbc.com)
112 points by jonathanlydall 27d ago|110 comments
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by jonathanlydall 27d ago
I also had this worry when moving from an iPhone 8 (or something) to a 14. But you can use a swipe down gesture on the white bar at the bottom of the screen which pulls the whole thing down, bringing the top part of the screen easily in rea

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