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by sobjornstad 3mo ago
HPV, not HSV. Acronym soup. * HBV - Hepatitis B * HSV - Herpes Simplex Virus (two strains, what most people call “herpes”) * HPV - Human Papillomavirus
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by sobjornstad 4mo ago
On iOS, there is an app called xSearch that integrates into Safari and sneakily hacks around the limited search engine options by watching your browsing history for queries to the search engine you've selected in Safari, then immediate
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
I was looking to see if someone had commented on this. For me it sometimes even happens if I start the workout before starting navigation – it will start off in the right configuration but then suddenly switch back to workout data in the mi
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
Indeed, the court actually explicitly held that Anthropic had the right to train their AIs on books, so long as they paid for them.
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
Is adding JPEG compression to your software “intentional degradation” of the software? I wouldn't say providing a selectable option to use a faster, cheaper version of something qualifies as “degradation”. It is certainly true that the
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
Is this comment in the wrong place? The article is literally about how the medical establishment gives good advice on acetaminophen and ibuprofen, but it's not getting through to people.
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
Even if you're working on one single thread of development, jj is easier and more flexible than git though. That it works better for super complicated workflows is just a bonus.
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
My favorite Apple example of this is that when the Apple Watch notices that you're walking/running/biking and asks if you want to start a workout, for some reason you cannot accept it with the double-tap-your-fingers gesture.
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
I still buy e-books for nonfiction I expect I'll read once, take a few notes on, and then probably never come back to, if I can't easily get them at the library. No need to clutter up my already overflowing bookshelves. For anythi
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
Very frequently when I turn on my Kindle it starts on “Home”. I have never found anything on “Home” remotely useful, and just want to see the books that I already have on the device, but they keep pushing me over to the screen full of ads (
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by sobjornstad 5mo ago
Car ownership is not a good proxy for how important cars are to living well in a particular place, when the places you're comparing have completely different design philosophies. If you look at how many trips the average Dutch car owne
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
This reminds me of the sailor who [decided]( https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html ) to measure his internal resistance by pushing probes through the skin on his thumbs and electrocuted himself with the 9V m
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
Yeah, but there's a big difference between having a car because you can afford it and it's often more convenient, and it being completely impractical to not have one. Or even to go have a beer without having to drive home.
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
Lifelong American Midwesterner and I'm also convinced there's a big difference in the taste of some produce between what you get at a typical American grocery store and a farmer's market or my local natural foods store. I get
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
There are subtler versions of this too. I've been working on a TUI app for a couple of weeks, and having great success getting it to interactively test by sending tmux commands, but every once in a while it would just deliver code that
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
Relevant: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/last-rights
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
> Except most companies do not have endless amounts of new feature work. Eventually devs are mostly sitting idle. At every place I have ever worked (as well as my personal life), the backlog was 10 times longer than anyone could ever hop
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
My assumption was always that the December promo was a combination – they were presumably way under capacity because everyone was on holiday given how enterprise-heavy they are, so giving people a bunch of extra usage with a loud promo mean
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
This is completely insane, and that's coming from someone who does 95% of edits in Claude Code now.
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by sobjornstad 6mo ago
Claude at least does: add "permissions": { "defaultMode: "plan" } to your settings.json. I'll note this only applies to new sessions though – if you do /clear and start working on something else it doesn&#
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by sobjornstad 7mo ago
Surely if I took a program written in Python and translated it line for line into JavaScript, that wouldn't allow me to treat it as original work. I don't see how this solves the problem, except very incrementally.
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by sobjornstad 7mo ago
Nowadays I refuse to do any serious work that isn't in source control anywhere besides my NAS that takes copy-on-write snapshots every 15 minutes. It has saved my butt more times than I can count.
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by sobjornstad 7mo ago
Yeah, except then they would lose 10 seconds from going 54 mph instead of 56 mph...
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by sobjornstad 7mo ago
I worked at a place like this and we had a software registry, where if you had installed something and it wasn't on the registry somebody would start sending you nasty emails. This kind of thing would happen all the time: maybe the Lin
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by sobjornstad 7mo ago
I second this. GitHub used to be a fantastic product. Now it barely even works. Even basic functionality like the timeline updating when I push commits is unreliable. The other day I opened a PR diff (not even a particularly large one) and
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by sobjornstad 7mo ago
I have a vague recollection that it might come up named as such in Half-Blood Prince, written in Snape's old potions textbook? In support of that hypothesis, the Fandom site lists it as “mentioned” in Half-Blood Prince, but it says not
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by sobjornstad 7mo ago
Literally every time if I press the "stop" button while it's writing back for the first conversation turn because I notice I forgot something and want to correct it, my prompt is lost. Anytime I run into a bug like this, part
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by sobjornstad 8mo ago
Surprisingly, I find the Apple Watch significantly more comfortable and less perceptible than any other watch I've worn in the past. My theory is it's the contoured back for the heart rate monitor, etc. But maybe I'm just wei
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by sobjornstad 9mo ago
I've noticed the same thing with rote memory tasks like lines of poetry, so I think it might be a more general thing involving the memory consolidation properties of sleep, maybe particularly focused on fluency/speed rather than m
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by sobjornstad 10mo ago
I also hate the ones that are exactly at the spot where the speed limit changes and still flash you aggressively in the distance. Yeah, I'm going faster than 35 because the speed limit is 55 where I am and I'm still slowing down

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