RattlesnakeJake

> ...someone cute might see me reading and become interested in me.

Did it work? :)

"The Adventures of a Free Lunch Junkie" by Earl Bronsteen:

https://a.co/d/0b7sZ26V

It's an old guy writing about accepting every "Sit through our seminar and get a free lunch" offer that came his way. I found it hilarious.

"Guild" might have been a better choice :)

I had a Lumia with 512MB of RAM. The OS ran great, but the web outpaced it. I couldn't open a lot of JS-heavy sites without Internet Explorer crashing.

> What happened next was predictable in hindsight. Employees began inflating their scores through tokenmaxxing: running meaningless tasks through AI agents to consume tokens and climb the rankings.

That was predictable in foresight.

That's where I've landed as well.

The current state of things is entirely the fault of the advertising industry. They've acted like users' banner blindness is an obstacle to be defeated, rather than a constraint to build around. Faced with something the users cannot change, they continue to pile up increasingly hostile techniques that only work for a short while before users start to automatically ignore them.

I'm curious where the one-sided arms race ends. Probably a return to subscriptions that frustrate users but are at least sustainably funded.

NSF is also reporting that it took out one of the lightning rod towers. It'll be interesting to see how much damage the pad and ground equipment sustained.

He built it for himself first, posting frequently about it on X. Once it reached a point of stability, he announced that Basecamp was starting to transition it's employees from macOS to it.

Sounds like the "Organizational Update" meeting that meant I was getting laid off :)

I'd call it one of those middle-ground things:

• On the one hand, E Ink devices have a fairly known set of limitations, and it would be ridiculous for me to expect them to render the whole web well.

• On the other hand, it's good for website designs to consider the kind of devices employed by their users. Using a Kindle to access Gutenberg is likely less of an edge case than it would be for other sites, so it's worth the extra design work.

(Keep in mind that -- given my sibling comment -- this is all theoretical. The latest iteration of Gutenberg's site is much better than the previous version)

And now it's time to put my foot in my mouth. I haven't used it in a while because it was frustrating, but you guys seem to have already fixed it :)

The previous version of the site had two major flaws:

1. The search bar had been removed from the top of the page, and hidden behind a "Click here to search" (or similar) link partway down the page

2. Once you opened that page, the coloring of the site was so washed out on e-ink that the text input was hard to find.

Thanks for fixing it!

Check out Standard eBooks. They take the text from Gutenberg and add a level of polish to the ePubs.

As a Kindle user, I still miss the old version of the site. The new one looks great on normal desktop, but the old one was simple enough to load and directly download books on the device's built-in browser.

"Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom" sounds like the beginning of a teenager's bad joke

My first thought is that it's a default base image for a lot of containers, which also include an `apt update` in the Dockerfile. If Iran wants to cripple US industry, then taking down the update servers could screw up a lot of deployment processes

Yeah, all of that felt a lot like Claude's writing style.

He's looking back to a time when they were still special. When every keynote brought out a new, interesting product, feature, OS enhancement, etc. Back in the Steve Jobs era, it was still worth tuning in every year to see what was new.

> What Is a Tort?

My brain always starts with the assumption that it's some sort of British pastry, and takes a minute to adjust.

Ooh - did this carry forward into Wayland?

I don't think LLM use cases are the target audience's chief concern here

At least they can comfort themselves with the fact that their iPhones support Lockdown Mode XD

It's giving me flashbacks to a few months ago.

(*cries in X12 270/271*)

Swiss Army knife

Are there any other kind?

Was that a manual truncation? The capitalization of the "gui" part seems automated, though it could be an autocorrect thing

Yeah, that's the one that came to mind.

I was surprised at how much negativity surrounded the topic, despite what feels like a general dissatisfaction with the public schools at this time.

Yet when we do this by, say, homeschooling, the HN commentariat piles up hundreds of comments accusing us of child neglect and a lack of concern for society.

Four years after the feature was first requested, Postman v11.72.8 has finally introduced the ability to set colors for your environments.

For anyone who's accidentally hit the Prod environment when they meant to hit Dev, this is a game changer.

SpaceX's landing footage has only been decent for the past few years. If I recall, they were able to fix it once Starlink reached a reasonable level of performance. Before that, their sea landings looked about the same as this BO one.

The cause seems to be the heat from the landing burn messing with normal wireless signals.