stasomatic

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by stasomatic 5d ago
As if CSS is pinnacle of software engineering. You can't learn it, you have to keep up all the damn time. It was an elegant concept for its time but it ran off rails, hence all the hacks. Can't we move on? FE webdev is duct tape o
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by stasomatic 6d ago
I embrace informed skepticism but most of it is ignorant. If you read that back to yourself, you don't throw up in your mouth just a tiny bit? No? Tell me your secret! Skepticism you agree with is "informed" and the rest of
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by stasomatic 6d ago
That's amazing, happy to read comments like this on HN. NZ is on the bucket list! on top of all of the workplace culture differences in NZ. Not sure if I parsed it right, what did you mean? I am a Florida man, by choice but we'l
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by stasomatic 6d ago
It isn't to me, kind of revolting, physically. Very off putting, likely because of asymmetry when shut closed, but that's not an Apple problem, they all look obnoxious to me. The tech is cool. I do want an iPhone and iPad mini in
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by stasomatic 6d ago
Who uses WP outside of legacy installs? I used to love it 15 or so years ago for side hustle work, but over time it gained weight and vulnerabilities, whack-a-mole. Plug-ins were nice, but that <?php...> inlining wasn't. I don&#x
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by stasomatic 7d ago
Only sometimes?
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by stasomatic 8d ago
Could you cite a few issues that you've run across, please? I have used Macs since the late 80s, there have always been teething problems, duds and effups, but nothing that wasn't addressed by independent Mac devs. How can Apple m
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by stasomatic 8d ago
The ads have changed. Back in my adolescence, I would read the back pages of Byte, Nintendo World, Sega something, Computer Shopper. I devoured them, there was no scorn. These days it is ads of folks around my age doing a yoga type of a thi
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by stasomatic 8d ago
I've lived in LA on and off for over a decade cumulatively. If Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Burbank, North Hollywood count as "L.A." :) I love the climate and nature there, besides the fires. Ocean, lakes, mountains, deserts, all
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by stasomatic 9d ago
Roughly 30% of global population uses it. It's the backbone of many South American and Continental European countries. All controlled by a private corporation. I don't use it personally but my wife and the extended family does. As
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by stasomatic 9d ago
Sweden
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by stasomatic 9d ago
If they could actually do it, I would be all over it! If you can save humanity from having to spend years acquiring these skills and judgements, they can do something else with their lives. Isn't the question - how are we going to fe
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by stasomatic 9d ago
It's strange that while many parts of the world rely on WhatsApp for essential services, this weak link is almost never in the news. Don't people know that WhatsApp is under Meta? What if he pulls the plug? Is there anything preve
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by stasomatic 16d ago
Making a bad process more efficient is a negative, not a positive, we should instead strive to improve the situation. This gent can Minesweep his extra free time and not tell his bosmang "I finished my day in 20 mins, what else you g
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by stasomatic 19d ago
Perhaps MSG. Seems to have been proven harmless, but leads to overeating, in my case.I"m not giving it up, I can't eat veggies without it :)
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by stasomatic 19d ago
I live in a condo in Florida in a 3 building high-rise compound. There are no water meters per unit. Water is covered by maintenance fees. They are atrocious and rising, but water is "free". Retrofitting will increase maintenance
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by stasomatic 19d ago
and probably the reality is much more mundane and boring. usually technical people have absolutely reasonable concerns , yet most of the time they misjudge the cost-benefit ratios. Are there "technical people" who will volunteer
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by stasomatic 20d ago
I can run a broken toilet tank all day long without extra fees, hundreds of gallons. Can turn all faucets on without penalties, nobody is counting and the utility doesn't care. The maintenance fees for water cover it, spread across all
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by stasomatic 20d ago
I tried to build a Polymarket bot during Christmas break last year, and didn't get as far as I'd have liked to. But I spent a lot of time thinking about prediction markets thereafter and it certainly became a germination point fo
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by stasomatic 20d ago
Hey, thanks for this comment. You seem to be knowledgeable about the topic and I am a moron. What happens to consumer spending and associated tax revenue when imported goods cost significantly more? Let's take a hypothetical German aut
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by stasomatic 21d ago
Your thing is past its warranty, Mac or Toyota. You can take either to an authorized repair center and get an estimate.
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by stasomatic 21d ago
How can "it" run forever? Things burn out, overheat, bit rot, SSD read/writes, blah blah. The warranty is the warranty, or you get an extended one. Comparison to a Hilux seems fair on surface but isn't in reality. At som
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by stasomatic 21d ago
Engaging story. As it is fiction, were you influenced by personal events to write it? I don't have Aarons like this in my life, but there is one childhood friend who'd take on risks I'd be afraid to myself. Still my best frie
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by stasomatic 21d ago
It's nice but the original hits more raw to me. Perhaps because I heard it first ages ago. There was a kerfuffle about the song's provenance a few year ago. I am a fan of covers, like Johny Cash's NIN "Hurt" or Mary
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by stasomatic 21d ago
I've used Hackintosh sporadically since the netbook days. Intel support is finally deprecated with Golden Gate, and Rosetta 2 is mostly kaput. I do have a mint x230 I7, might throw Tahoe on it for fun.
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by stasomatic 22d ago
Good for them. Things cost what they do. I hear you that one can fall into the 0% interest trap, but that’s on us. Not that I want it to happen, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple could get away with even higher prices today. Like 50% mor
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by stasomatic 22d ago
My 2019 macbook pro recently started giving me CATERR errors. It's a seven year old laptop. Did you want to be buried with it? All in good humor, my guy, only wondering about your expectations. The error seems to be Intel related, Ap
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by stasomatic 22d ago
Can't say about Ollama but my 2017 Intel NUC 32 GB runs all of the arr and fin stack while it's idling, swimmingly.
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by stasomatic 22d ago
Are you sayin 0% is bad? What is better then? If you have the means, pay outright, no? It used to be a lot worse, paying $16K+ for a 128MB Quadra something based RIP in mid nineties . Do you mean that these things are overpriced from the ge
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by stasomatic 22d ago
But you aren't buying a Mac at that point, no? The hardware is 1/2 or 1/4. I'd get an X1 myself if it could run macOS, I like the looks and the aesthetic, don't much care about Linux besides my Proxmox / HA&#x2

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