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by vanilla_nut 4mo ago
Way back when I used Spotify, I felt they should go this way instead of dabbling with (fake) podcasts, pivot-to-video, audiobooks, and slop music. All of that stuff is a distraction from my core subscription model: listening to music from a
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by vanilla_nut 4mo ago
Quite right. I'm worried about the impact that LLMs will have on the learning process, especially in programming, but also in writing. Programming and writing are both skills that seem simple, but take an absolutely staggering amount o
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The macOS Quarantine Bit Error Message Is Bad(lambdalatitudinarians.org)
3 points by vanilla_nut 1y ago|2 comments
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Post-Social Social Media(lambdalatitudinarians.org)
5 points by vanilla_nut 1y ago|0 comments
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Install the Pebble App Persistently on iOS(lambdalatitudinarians.org)
2 points by vanilla_nut 1y ago|1 comments
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
This is absolutely wonderful. As a former resident of Astoria and soon-to-be Brooklyn resident, I noticed something that becomes pretty obvious quickly to NYC residents: literally all of Queens (except perhaps LIC) is over 40 minutes from t
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The Day Google Killed the Pixel 4a(lambdalatitudinarians.org)
9 points by vanilla_nut 2y ago|2 comments
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
Source? This seems extremely unlikely to me, running a camera all the time consumes a fair bit of energy and they don't take long to turn on. Unless that's because they're always on? Regardless, that's a pretty strong cl
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
A lot of companies pay and treat tech writers like shit. If you're a decent tech writer who can write well, grok engineer speak, collaborate well with engineers during crunch time before a release, and apply your technical knowledge to
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
I've used ridewithGPS for multiple bike tours, the longest being a full month of unsupported riding. I also use it to scout out routes when I want to create a new ride somewhere in my area on roads I don't know already. ridwithGPS
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Not a Bicyclist's Guide to Bicycles(lambdalatitudinarians.org)
2 points by vanilla_nut 2y ago|0 comments
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
TL;DR it looks like the M4 Mac Mini redesign is _not_ soldered onto the logic board. So instead of paying 6x street prices of similar SSDs, you can just upgrade it yourself with an SSD of your choice! This is absolutely huge news. I wonder
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
> Kagi Maps, based on Mapbox and OpenStreetMaps. Extremely exciting. Google Maps has gotten significantly worse in the last couple of years, finally passing the threshold of enshittification by instructing me to turn "at the <fas
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
Only time I've ever had an issue is when I manually disconnected power from a Pi 4 when I overreacted to a network outage. I was dumb and thought my Pi's DNS was screwing things up for the whole network, but it turns out that it w
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
I don't think London has made quite the strides in bikeability that Paris has since 2020, but when I visited Hackney last year I was astonished to see more bikes during rush hour than cars. Walking down a road to a coffee shop, I actua
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by vanilla_nut 2y ago
Works well until you end up with temperatures too hot to wear pants. Or you exercise someplace with ticks and get too sweaty for pants. Hell, I live as far north as you can go in New England, and I've found ticks on my feet after grill
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Why do housing prices go up? Partially inflation. But mostly because purchasing a house and renting it out is massively profitable, state subsidized, and a safe way to invest a store of wealth. Owners of capital seek out niches with good ri
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I find that 4 to 7 day forecasts tend to be 80% accurate. So probably a little bit better than they were when I was a kid. Unfortunately, the most important part of any forecast IMO is intensity. I don't care if we're going to get
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Sorry, but my Article and Walmart.com accounts do not need 2FA. I'm fine with OTP, but most places use SMS 2FA, which exposes a unique identifier for myself and -- due to SIM swapping, which is a risk on literally every major carrier d
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #0
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
In my experience, administration cares a lot about pass/fail ratios. Much less so about the distribution of passing grades. I've seen situations where administration forced a curve in a difficult class because they weren't wi
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Two ways: - a Yubikey - a sparingly used email account with no 2FA, just a very long password 2FA through the sort-of-secret email account lets me get back into Bitwarden (and thus everything else) even if my house burns down and I lose acc
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Worse, ultrawideband/mmwave 5G and 8k TVs can be a nuisance. I've seen 5G phones repeatedly get "stuck" on a weak or nonexistent mmwave signal while traveling, and it can take quite some time before the phone decides to
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Hyperion was a big surprise for me this year as well. I expected it to be good, but the way the first book unfolds a larger universe is incredible. I'm not sure I've read science fiction that feels quite so... planned, and intenti
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
A good reminder that I need to finish my Malazan readthrough! The universe is incredibly deep, the characters are incredibly rich, but I do wish Erikson would let us get a little bit comfier in the shoes of each character for longer stretch
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
An interesting read. Do most engineers really prioritise money this much when accepting an offer? I understand that it feels good to be paid well, and you might as well negotiate, but when most tech jobs pay so much better than other work i
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
> PE has nothing to do with it; they are just looking for returns. If PE comprises 44% of purchased homes, they're increasing demand, and therefore prices. So they have plenty to do with the current housing market. Don't let id
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Average revenue per user is $70/year in the EU and $230 in the US. But how much of that is profit? How to costs compare between serving a user ads and serving an ad-free user? Server costs for images, text, and the occasional video c
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Enshittification has really ruined the promise of every new technology. Sure, I believe there's _potential_ for something cool in AI. But all of that potential is overridden by the rent-seeking profit interests of companies that want t
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Accessibility -- native keyboard shortcuts often work better in native apps, and a lot of Electron apps aren't navigable at all without a mouse or with a screen reader. Lower memory usage than a chromium instance. Visual consistency. A

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