mosburger

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by mosburger 27d ago
I think it's cyclical. Punk in the early 80s was a reaction to the excesses of 70s superbands (e.g. Johnny Rotten's "I hate Pink Floyd" t-shirt). Then things built up again to "monsters of rock" arena tours, Th
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by mosburger 1mo ago
maybe they start by not adjusting your rates based on your habits, but just nagging you. Aetna already notices when I don't pick up my prescriptions on time and emails me about it. So I could imagine a dystopian future where the insura
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by mosburger 1mo ago
aw neat I'd love to try doing this for its predecessor GWBASIC (my first programming language on the Tandy 1000EX)
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by mosburger 1mo ago
it'll become nefarious when they start selling it to health insurance companies.
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by mosburger 1mo ago
I use it as a daily driver with few if any problems, but I'm on macOS. Maybe their Linux support is particularly crappy?
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by mosburger 1mo ago
Here's yet another anecdote of near-zero real value to add to the pile: I treated my severe treatment-resistant depression with ketamine infusions. It's obviously not the same as psilocybin, but I believe the current thinking is t
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by mosburger 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure that this sort of thing happens for stuff in big box home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowe's, too. Things like plumbing fixtures that appear to be identical to counterparts in smaller stores will have
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by mosburger 3mo ago
I was an internal beta tester for AltaVista while I was doing a co-op at DEC in 1995. Good times.
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by mosburger 4mo ago
> wasn't there a quite recent incident where an American car manufacturer was leaking the real-time position of all their clients' vehicles? You might be thinking about GM: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/n
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by mosburger 4mo ago
Checkout.com (UK) might be another worth checking. :) [I'm a "payments guy" for my day job].
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by mosburger 4mo ago
I wonder if the author considered moving payment processing to Adyen from Stripe? They're also EU-based and a bit more... well known? I liked integrating with them in the past.
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by mosburger 5mo ago
IMO one of the cool things about Wallet is the notification that appears on the homescreen when you're in proximity of the venue or time of the event and automatically displays the pass when tapped. I wonder if "create your own&qu
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by mosburger 5mo ago
I said this elsewhere in the comments, but I think there's sort of a fundamental tension that shows up sometimes between DRY and "a function/class should only do one thing." E.g., there might be two places in your code t
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by mosburger 5mo ago
I think there is often tension between DRY and "thing should do only one thing." E.g., I've found myself guilty of DRYing up a function, but the use is slightly different in a couple places, so... I know, I'll just add
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by mosburger 6mo ago
I got Source Code Pro. My daily driver is currently 0xProto, but I didn't see that in the game (admittedly I think it's kinda rarely used).
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by mosburger 6mo ago
sssssh! if this catches on we can keep our jobs! (j/k, mostly)
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by mosburger 7mo ago
ah, thanks, that's why my first thought was that "hey, this feels very FORTH like"
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by mosburger 7mo ago
I didn't return mine, I just threw it in the trash and replaced it with a local-only no-cloud Eufy. It works great.
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by mosburger 7mo ago
Yeah - I think it still a bit of a deterrent ... today, not everyone has a camera, and if I were a thief and one house had cameras while the place next door did not, guess which one I'm gonna rob? But I wonder how much of that will w
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by mosburger 7mo ago
I understand your skepticism 100%, but I suspect you might change your mind if you, say, rented a car with it for a week. It's definitely a net positive for safety, and it probably costs the auto maker less than the seat belts (literal
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by mosburger 7mo ago
this is a great analogy despite it possibly coming off as snark. I think it's hard for some people to grasp that programmers are motivated by different things. Some are motivated by shipping products to users, others are motivated to m
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by mosburger 7mo ago
Oh my god. This is me. If I were any better at writing, I could have written this, the author is even the same age as me (well, a year younger) and followed a similar trajectory. And a lot of what I've been feeling lately feels similar
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by mosburger 8mo ago
I thought so too, they reminded me of the speedometer and analog clock (lol) in the '81 Rabbit I had in high school.
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by mosburger 10mo ago
I think (I'm an American so take with a grain of salt) even the "proper lawyer reviewing terms" part can be deferred quite a while by being conservative with PII (which you should be doing anyway) and using a service like iub
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by mosburger 10mo ago
I didn't do this, but I did use a spare unsigned short (used for memory alignment) in the Quantum Atlas 10K II disk drive's servo firmware to store my wife and I's anniversary date just for yucks. :P
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by mosburger 11mo ago
It used to be the case that the middle digit of an area code had to be a 0 or a 1. All the O.G. "cool" area codes like 212 are in this format, and the less desirable new area codes like 646 are not (yes, this is an accidental Sein
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by mosburger 11mo ago
There is, but it's an adjective, not a noun.
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by mosburger 11mo ago
Yeah, see also: Digital Equipment Corp until the mid 90s (where I did my co-op). Lots of brilliant people there, coasting on their legacy until they fell hopelessly behind from mismanagement and bloat. I was lucky to catch a glimpse of it a
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by mosburger 1y ago
Maybe the ubiquitous "to do list" app?
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by mosburger 1y ago
The UI looks a little dated, but I've been happy with 4K Roku. The UX is more functional if uglier than AppleTV.

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