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98codes··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
We do still need it. Any time to need to scroll through any extremely long list in order to find a single particular item, the scroll wheel beats the manual binary search of scrollscrollscroll... too far... scrollscrollscroll back... too far... etc.

I would, unironically, use a device that had that iPod interface as a music device until my dying day. Make it only able to stream from Apple Music, make me load up songs through USB -- I'll do it.

98codes··on Claude Duet
We had Slashdot in the late 90s.
98codes··on Claude Duet
The big difference is that when the web blew up, there were new players in every direction. Now, we get to hear from the same 3-4 companies over and over and over and over again.

It doesn't remotely hit the same way.

98codes··on SimCity, but with Permits
My immediate thought: "Ah, SimSeattleProcess"
98codes··on Credit where credit is due
You're telling me this author uses that many em-dashes in their normal writing?
98codes··on My Gen-Z Intern Thinks Showing Up to Work Is Optional [video]
I know enough about Shkreli to know that the intern is right.
98codes··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
They do.
98codes··on SynthID Detector
It's worth nothing that this IS Google.

Given that it's an ad company, they want something to connect what you're doing to the rest of their data, and they couldn't possibly keep the old image search results there if they want people to use this.

98codes··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
Just don't blame the user and/or their internet service when the service you're relying on inevitably goes down.
98codes··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
It is definitely worth asking for a copy of those notes, verbatim, as-is from the automatic transcription, to check for errors while the session is fresh in your mind.

If your doctor is worth seeing at all, they will be glad for the corrections.

98codes··on Borland Turbo Basic
I graduated quickly from Borland Turbo Basic to Turbo Pascal, and really wish I'd bothered to hold onto all those old floppies. I do still have a Visual Studio / VSCode color settings file that matches the old look -- I used those colors for a good long time, longer than it took me to stop coding in all caps.
98codes··on Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?
Don't worry, nobody but Colorado is ever going to try to, or even think to, fix this one.
98codes··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
> so there must be some market for it out there.

Not anymore, looks like.

98codes··on Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com
At home? Not really, no.

At work? I've got ADHD, so the idea of making a to-do list is fine but keeping it up to date was a challenge. I've created a set of agentic skills that comes through the last 36 hours of emails, meetings, chats, and gathers up all the work I volunteered to do (or was told to do), triages them across urgency/impact, and sorts them into Do/Defer/Schedule/Delegate piles.

Last, I created an app to give a UI to this data to see and act on it all, including a way to flag a to-do that was found and enter why I thought the status or categorization was wrong. On the next run, a review skill reads those comments, makes changes to the other skills accordingly, and sends me an email with details of the changes, and the commit I can use to roll back the change if I'd like.

I've been running it since April and while there were a lot of updates at first, I haven't had to flag anything for review in months, and I get to feel a whole lot better about managing my to-do pile.

I'm looking at open-sourcing it, but since I created it with work resources on work time, I need to jump through a few hoops first.

98codes··on Don't Just Say Hello
I've gotten "Hi" with zero other context from people of all backgrounds.
98codes··on Doing Everyone Else's Job
As someone that has done a lot of that work, can confirm.
98codes··on Tell the speakers that you liked their talks
I remember! Lanyrd was fantastic as someone that did a ton of community speaking before I ever did anything on a bigger stage.
98codes··on List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games
It's not a great defense if you ask me, unless they're counting on the judge not knowing the difference between owning a copy of something vs. the IP and license to sell the thing.

After all, Sony isn't selling the source code and IP for Resident Evil, they're selling a copy of the packaged software.

98codes··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
It's not as if he's stopped working on Windows since 2000.
98codes··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
When you can align hyperfocus with your most beneficial vector of productivity, it's like you can accomplish anything, in half the time thought possible.

Problem is, there is no good way to direct the hyperfocus demon. It likes what it likes, it wants what it wants, and that's that.

Medication helps to save a pile of willpower/spoons/executive function safely from the demon so that we can get things that need doing done.

98codes··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Nothing new under the sun
98codes··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
This matches what I'm seeing.
98codes··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services
Certificate expired over 100 days ago
98codes··on Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way
> extremely unlikely

But never zero.

98codes··on "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)
Adopting anything as blind dogma is Expert Beginner territory. See also: DB table normalization.
98codes··on Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop
Weird to us, but it's not as if it's not well known to (in this case) the state of NJ, nor is there an infinite set of license plate designs, particularly for the actual letter/number size, shape, and coloring.
98codes··on Em dashes are amazing
Every AI response I've seen that uses em dashes also includes spaces around them.
98codes··on Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
> I don't think the average person actually knows anything concrete about them.

The average person around them knows quite a bit about the noise level, and how far it carries. They're starting to learn about the effect consistent noise at that level has on their mental & physical well-being as well.

98codes··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
It's a team (part of engineering, not sales) that helps companies that bought M365 Copilot and/or Copilot Studio use it well - http://aka.ms/whoiscat
98codes··on My favorite keyboards
> - nearly made me cry.

> - solved my back pain.

Reminds me of the first time I got to sit in an Actually Good chair that came with a new job. My back was killing me for the first couple weeks as the decades-old knots undid themselves.

I got to relive it when I went back to crappy office chairs at my next gig.

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