sircastor

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by sircastor 3mo ago
Sometimes when I’m programming I get a little lost in trying to make a pipeline more efficient. While it’s a noble goal, I have to remind myself: “somewhere here, you have to pay the piper”. No matter how you squeeze the bits, distribute th
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by sircastor 4mo ago
It’s a “always a free option” which doesn’t clarify what you get with the free version. IIRC LastPass did this by slowly reducing how many devices and what kinds you could sync. They made the free option increasingly painful.
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by sircastor 1y ago
We've got reusable mesh bags that we use for this.
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by sircastor 1y ago
Since all our local markets have introduced handheld scanners, I don't even bring my bags in. I put everything in the cart barcode up, get to the checkout, scan everything, pay, and go. When I get to the car I unload into the bags. I&#
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by sircastor 1y ago
I think what might happen is all these other markets are going to end up “playing fair” while the US remains an abused ecosystem- because it’ll be the only place left Apple and Google can push their advantage.
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by sircastor 1y ago
I think if we'd had a "normal" administration, this probably would have been pushed by the US government. The US services have been gunning for this for decades . But we have an administration that seems extremely disjointed
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by sircastor 1y ago
This is an incomplete thought, but a friend of mine has this idea around reputation built through a sort-of key signing. You get a key, your friend gets a key, you sign each other's keys. The key can serve as an indicator of trust, or
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by sircastor 1y ago
My iPhone 12 Mini's camera just broke (the zoom is failing..) I have been poking around for any solution that is around the same size. The best answer is generally never-heard-of companies that pop new phone models out and no certainty
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by sircastor 1y ago
The hardest part about inevitablism here is that the people who are making the argument this is inevitable are the same people who are the people who are shoveling hundreds of millions of dollars into it. Into the development, the use, the
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by sircastor 1y ago
One of the mild tragedies of my youth is that when we switched from the Macintosh SE/30 to the IIci, my MacPaint art didn't make the transition. My dad told me that the files were incompatible. I don't think that's actua
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by sircastor 1y ago
> I have found that there are people who just want to watch the world burn. There are many reasons, but, at its most basic, hurt people hurt people. I'm not sure that it's even malicious. I think many hackers look at a website
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by sircastor 1y ago
I absolutely loved it. It’s well structured. The science is well written, but not overbearing. Fun story.
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by sircastor 1y ago
I do a lot of non-work AI stuff on my own, from pair programming with AI, asking it to generate whole things, to just asking it to clarify a general approach to a problem. FWIW, in a work environment (and I have not been given the go-ahead
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by sircastor 1y ago
I'm a senior engineer with 20+ (oof) years of industry experience. I appreciate that this sucks and you don't want to do it. I wouldn't either. That said, it's a hirer's market out there right now. There will be ple
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by sircastor 1y ago
I didn’t want to be attached to the Synology system or hardware anymore. Synology Photos is great (and we’re still using it for the upload atm), but Immich lets me control the whole thing, top to bottom. I’m running a DS1813+. It’s stopped
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by sircastor 1y ago
Immich is what I'm using right now. I'm running it in a Docker container on my Synology. It was very advantageous to spin up another docker container on my laptop to do the face recognition work because the Synology was going to t
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by sircastor 1y ago
> Sure, some things (like taking customer lists when you leave a company) are messed up and should be barred Is it messed up? If you're a salesperson, and you've built the relationships with these customers is their loyalty to
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by sircastor 1y ago
Getting off topic, there's an interesting This American Life story about the Coca Cola formula, and why there are many extremely close formulas, but no exact replicas. [1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/427/ori
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by sircastor 1y ago
This implies that any employee at Coca Cola knows and has access to the secret formula, which is of course, not true. And even if it were true, there's a substantial difference between a specific, limited piece of information (such as
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by sircastor 1y ago
I have a very old iPad that my kid uses. It’s stuck to iOS 10.3. Also, it can’t use my password manager. The browser is so old that the website won’t load (32-bit app). And the PW manager app isn’t made for this old a device. So Apple wants
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by sircastor 1y ago
Yes, but every large company in the US would view the nationalization of SpaceX as “shots fired” and investors would likely panic worrying that their stock portfolios would be at arbitrary whims of a tiff between the administration and the
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by sircastor 1y ago
And to expand on #2, we not only get our hobby coinciding with our career, but that work can pay exceptionally well.
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by sircastor 1y ago
https://aaroneiche.com
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by sircastor 1y ago
https://aaroneiche.com
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by sircastor 1y ago
https://aaroneiche.com
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by sircastor 1y ago
For a variety of reasons I wanted some notoriety when I was younger. I wanted to be “the guy who’d done that thing” I became a lot happier with myself when I stopped chasing that and just decided to post the things that I like and the proje
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by sircastor 1y ago
Traveling together does not imply that you're rooming together. It's probably a bit of a fight with the airline to get them to pay for it, but then everything is a bit of a fight with the Airline.
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by sircastor 1y ago
I love this idea. I don’t have a Nest, but I really appreciate you making an effort to keep these devices at least partially in service
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by sircastor 1y ago
Writing a silly little iOS app with ChatGPT. I’ve done a little iOS dev, but not enough to be proficient. As an experiment I wanted to see how far I could get just asking the AI to write a thing and make changes. It’s been a very instructiv
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by sircastor 1y ago
It looks like Apple Mail has plugin support, I wonder if you could author a plugin that’d provide a button to apply the diff.

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