larrik

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by larrik 15d ago
Believe it or not, that's not even the topic of the article. The article is entirely about the AI doing the first pass of the claim intake and causing a lot more work for everyone involved instead. Mis-routing, mis-categorization, hall
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by larrik 20d ago
When I was struggling to figure out why so many of my devices on my gigabit network were only getting 100 megabits, I learned that a lot more of my devices were on 10/100 ethernet than I expected. Including some recent purchases (TV&#x
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by larrik 2mo ago
They should probably rename it from "tail" to "neck" and watch the attitudes shift immediately.
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by larrik 2mo ago
Haven't tried this, but talking to Claude in its app is so much better than talking to Siri that Apple should be ashamed. It got every word perfectly the first time, including programming / project management terms. Meanwhile, Sir
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by larrik 3mo ago
I also use Qustodio, and it has some pretty major rough spots, imo. ScreenTime does as well. They are both very bad at things like my kids listening to Spotify with the screen off. Qustodio also has no way to mark an app as "allowed ev
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by larrik 3mo ago
I personally can't stand audiobooks (or podcasts, or videos), so I'm with you there. I just read way too fast, and they feel so slow . On the other hand, one of my kids has a pretty severe eye problem mixed with dyslexia, so audi
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by larrik 3mo ago
The point is that "doing hard things" is required to be a successful adult. Meanwhile, the bar for what constitutes a "hard thing" is dropping fast.
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by larrik 3mo ago
It's worse than this. I have kids in school. Our school system is one of the top in Connecticut, which is the quintessential "school" state (if any rich kid on TV goes away to school, it's probably to CT). These kids (al
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by larrik 3mo ago
on iOS this is basically impossible
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by larrik 4mo ago
On the other hand, if you swap "Linux" and "Windows" in your complaint, you get my experience. Windows is a hassle to get working for advanced use cases, and then every quarter they nuke my settings via windows update. I
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by larrik 5mo ago
This article was eye opening. I'll admit I find ibuprofen to be a bit of a wonder drug. When I have a cold or flu, ibuprofen by itself is the most impactful medicine I take. The anti-inflammatory effects make my whole body better, incl
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by larrik 5mo ago
A minority of people who drink are addicted to alcohol. Basically everyone who smokes/etc is addicted to nicotine. They aren't the same at all.
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by larrik 6mo ago
As someone who has never seen these or paid attention to them I was thinking "how heavy could they possibly be?" Then I saw 13.6 oz and I was blown away. That's actually really heavy for headphones!
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by larrik 8mo ago
The idea made sense to me, but the execution was trash. Settings was slow, it wasn't any easier than control panel, and if you wanted to do anything that mattered you ended up in control panel apps which were completely jarring UI-wise
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by larrik 8mo ago
Yes, it was like the same price (close enough) as a regular Sony DVD player, which was nuts. There were cheaper off-brand DVD players, of course. You did have to buy a remote separately, though, unless you wanted to use the game controller
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by larrik 8mo ago
I went from Linux to Mac to Windows and every single one is death by a thousand UX paper cuts.
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by larrik 8mo ago
20% seems like a "significant portion" to me
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by larrik 8mo ago
And then you fire off 100k emails, they all bounce, and your mail service shuts you off...
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by larrik 8mo ago
It's an interesting idea, but I'm thrown by "a count" in "should be taken into a count by future translations"
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by larrik 8mo ago
I went from Linux (10 years) to Mac (4 years) to Windows (8 months) to back to Mac. (I have not upgraded to Tahoe, and didn't even realize it was so different until recently) IMO, there's basically no problem Linux has that isn&#x
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by larrik 10mo ago
They can still sell it if its in the public domain. Just not exclusively.
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by larrik 10mo ago
No, we don't do any coding tests, just discussions of what you've done and how deep your knowledge of your tools goes. .NET folks are far less likely to understand much beyond the syntax, nevermind the "why" of things (e
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by larrik 10mo ago
As a counter-point, my company was original purely .NET, then added Python (and later JS). For us, hiring .NET is WAY harder than the other stacks. We get a lot more applicants in general, but almost zero that meet our standards. For Python
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by larrik 11mo ago
Not sure that's fair, given most Linux gamers look like Windows gamers to the metrics. That said, devices like the SteamDeck run games on Linux (and that's without considering that every Android game ever is technically running
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by larrik 11mo ago
Weird, I used to play LoL on linux all the time a few years back. I assume something changed
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by larrik 11mo ago
"Linux is too hard for people"
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by larrik 11mo ago
I mean, my father made a Steam account 20 years ago and he's almost 70.
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by larrik 11mo ago
It's also a ton better for people who get motion sickness from any 3d cameras. Like my wife.
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by larrik 1y ago
I got frustrated dealing with my brother's laptop, threw Ubuntu on it, and never had to touch it again. Like, he got 4 or 5 extra years out of that clunker due to that switch. He's really not a computer guy, and he picked it up no
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by larrik 1y ago
Well Here's one: In NodeJS the most popular ORM is Sequelize. Sequelize struggles with TypeScript, the code to use is extremely verbose (vs Django), and the migrations are simplistic at best. There are other ORMs, but you usually gain

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