jonawesomegreen

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by jonawesomegreen 8mo ago
I’ve noticed Claude has been noticeably worse over the last week. For example, it told me I should pass frozen to make my Enum immutable—that’s not a thing. (It is a thing for dataclasses, but not for Enums.) That’s a pretty basic language
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by jonawesomegreen 3y ago
I work at a non-profit organization and part of our mission is exactly this. You can find more details here: https://indieauthorproject.com/ Another part of our mission is providing libraries an open source ebook and audiob
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by jonawesomegreen 3y ago
I've encountered frustration with Python packaging in two main areas: 1) Installing applications within Docker containers. While wheels have improved this situation, I was surprised that building a package for easy copying into a conta
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by jonawesomegreen 3y ago
We dropped the penny in Canada in 2012 and I can’t say that I’ve missed it at all. Penny are still charged if your paying by bank or credit card, otherwise price is rounded to nearest 5c. > If the price ends in a one, two, six, or seven
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by jonawesomegreen 3y ago
> Alternative platforms already exist: one promising place to start might be the Palace Project and the associated Palace Marketplace. It's great to see the Palace Project mentioned as an alternative in this post! I'm one of th
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by jonawesomegreen 4y ago
https://zoom.us - 502: Bad gateway https://status.zoom.us/ - All Systems Operational Seems fine to me. Edit: Looks like the status page says MAJOR OUTAGE now.
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Amazon Publishing in Talks to Offer E-Books to Public Libraries(publishersweekly.com)
2 points by jonawesomegreen 6y ago|0 comments
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by jonawesomegreen 6y ago
This is really cool. The killer feature I see is to be able to have a cloud storage tier for warm data that goes off to s3, while keeping the hot storage local. Does anyone know of another option that allows this kind of hybrid local /
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by jonawesomegreen 6y ago
> Since then, he has been unable to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes. ... Without a record of new experiences, the passing of time means nothing to him. Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and his w
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Tesla Model Y Paint Is as Thin and Uneven as Model 3(insideevs.com)
1 points by jonawesomegreen 6y ago|0 comments
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by jonawesomegreen 6y ago
I still have the problem that my 16" MacBook runs really hot with a external display plugged in. There is a pretty good thread on the issue on the mac rumors forum [1]. It seems to particularly be a problem at 2560 x 1440 @ 60hz. [1]
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by jonawesomegreen 6y ago
Sounds like a great attack vector to me.
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
With Safari removing my ability to use uBlock in version 13, I've been wanting to make the jump back to Firefox on the desktop. The one thing that has been holding me back is that Firefox can't use the OSX Keychain for passwords.
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
Twitter thread from Snowden: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1207624251953549312 > The government may steal a dollar, but it cannot erase the idea that earned it. I wrote this book, Permanent Record, for yo
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
I found this article by the CBC more informative then the one linked: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/electric-sea... > "It's a prototype for sure," said McDougall, "but
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I Spent a Month Away from My Company(inc.com)
1 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|0 comments
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Flexible nuclear operation can help add more wind and solar to the grid(news.mit.edu)
1 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|0 comments
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Another company is dialing back expectations for self-driving taxis(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|0 comments
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Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker(bnnbloomberg.ca)
1 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|0 comments
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
> The government isn’t a bigger version of a startup and can’t act like a startup does. Innovation activities in government agencies most often result in innovation theater. While these activities shape and build culture, they don’t win
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For 40 Years This Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact(smithsonianmag.com)
4 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|0 comments
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On Progress and Sustainability(letter.wiki)
1 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|0 comments
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A thing that keeps me up at night(twitter.com)
6 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|1 comments
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
> This is the most astonishing part of the story to me. If you had a crystal ball in 1928 and you could peer into the future of any scientific discovery, you would have been screaming to the world, “Guys, GUYS! OVER HERE! This one!” [p
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When Innovation Hits “Snooze”(rootsofprogress.org)
2 points by jonawesomegreen 7y ago|1 comments
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
Thank you for posting this. I didn't know about it, and this post made my day. Gonna get this setup for my older Sonos speakers this evening.
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
That is a really great demo. I had way too much fun replacing the text with death ray in almost every example.
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
Congrats from PEI! Great to see a company from the east coast at YC.
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
I went to an engineering school in Canada for Electrical/Computer Engineering and this was an example of engineering failure we studied in a course about software quality assurance and engineering ethics. Not sure if its widely used as
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by jonawesomegreen 7y ago
As the article mentions it seems like the show "Chernobyl" is a dream come true for the anti-nuclear crowd. Its dramatization of the event is truly horrific and actually had me questioning my support of nuclear power as a sensible

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