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TrueSlacker0··on New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
"Updating only what has changed"

So... An rss feed?

TrueSlacker0··on Revenue is easy, profit is harder
Or they are investing internally for the future. You can plow lots of money into internal improvements for little to no growth in revenue, but at their scale saving just 1% more is a large amount of money. Not to mention a possible strategic advantage.
TrueSlacker0··on The rise and fall of Bootstrap and how Tailwind became the go-to CSS framework
That for example has to be the most complicated way I've ever seen to change the font on a bootstrap website. All you need to do is include the bootstrap library and then include your custom css file after. In your custom css file you override the font. No need to change it via sass. I don't think this developer understands basic css overrides. As a side note I use bootstrap and have never messed with the sass section.

I chose bootstrap over tailwind for my personal projects purely because tailwind looks terrible to read. For example the card example they chose. Div class"card" vs figure class"puke lots of classes I will easily forget" .

I think these two frameworks are aimed at entirely different types of people with entirely different goals.

TrueSlacker0··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
With next day air shipping
TrueSlacker0··on What crappy beer demand tells us about the economy
The higher abv is because it allows the beer to obtain more hop flavor (not just bitterness) along with malt flavor. A classic American session IPA[1] will always (of course with few exceptions) be more bitter than a standard IPA and a double will be less bitter than a standard. However as you go up in abv you are able to get a lot more hop flavor in to bitterness. Only so much hop oil can isomerize without enough abv backbone.

[1] not hazys, bruts, east coast, cold or and other sub style. Just talking classic American IPA as made popular in the early 2000'

TrueSlacker0··on What crappy beer demand tells us about the economy
Depending where you buy your beer ingredients a very basic 5 gallon batch of 5.2%ABV blonde/pale ale (10lbs 2 row, 2oz of hops, dry yeast), would be around $0.55/12oz pour for someone in the us (priced from morebeer). Of course $0/hr for labor. It would be very easy to lower those costs 20%+ buying a slightly more bulk amount, or buying the grain from your local brewery. On the equipment side you can go all out and get a setup for $1-2k or go super basic for a few hundred dollars.

Wine is even cheaper and easier. Most wine kits come out to be around $3/per bottle. And only need about $100 in equipment.

TrueSlacker0··on Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
> - price history so you can see when sales are fake

in case you were unfamiliar https://camelcamelcamel.com/ does this for amazon

TrueSlacker0··on Netflix's New Chapter
I understand that fear and that is probably the reason, but why not just put a warning at the beginning and not post it on the kids profile?
TrueSlacker0··on Netflix's New Chapter
They don't even list all their old content. For example the old Donald duck cartoons, there seem to only be about 15 or so streaming. The rest are not available. Why?
TrueSlacker0··on Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)
The root scenario is if a large volcanic eruption causes prolonged limited sunlight. So solar isn't the best option in this case.
TrueSlacker0··on 26 Programming Languages in 25 Days
... and it's amazing how it works perfectly fine for a basic 1 day program as the og author needs. No need to make it "idiomatically correct"
TrueSlacker0··on 26 Programming Languages in 25 Days
While I mostly agree, A program this "basic" is not going to go far enough to learn anything that pushes any language far enough to learn it's limits.
TrueSlacker0··on Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums
I was thinking this same thing.

We might want one, but we don't need one. If we needed one someone would build one, same as we build restaurants, bars, refineries, breweries, manufacturing, etc without any subsidies from the gov.

I would love one for my small business, on a related note, I can't even count the times I have watched my city give millions in tax breaks to bring in already successful, wealthy, large businesses and give the local ones jack shi.

TrueSlacker0··on WordPress testing official SQLite Support
Complexity? MySQL 1 click installs on damn near every WordPress install. I fail to see how it is complex.
TrueSlacker0··on As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big
I have an old (2006) taco at the moment and have had it over a decade now. It's been perfect. I don't want a larger tundra, I have no need for it. In fact I wish Toyota made a smaller truck. I still need all 4 doors and 5 seats but less width and less length. Perhaps the width of a rav 4, and a even shorter 4ft bed (instead of 5 on taco and 6 on tundra). Essentially like the very old 1990s Ford rangers were, but made by the best quality car manufacturer, Toyota. I don't need to pull or hold multi thousand pounds loads, but I like my fishing poles, muddy boots or filthy buckets to be outside in the bed of the truck. Actually while I'm wishing upon a star, could it also be washed inside and out with a water hose? Can it have almost zero tech, no fucking screens!! so it will last as long as this taco has? (My fan setting physical dial recently broke and fell off, but it still works because I can spin the pin that it attached too with my thumb and finger). Also can I stop dropping my keys between the seat and the center console!?!
TrueSlacker0··on Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT
> AI: "I understand how frustrating it can be to wait for a delayed order. I apologize for the inconvenience. We're working hard to resolve the shipping issues and get your order to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help."

This kind of response is exactly the kind of response that pisses me off. It says absolutely nothing, in a lot of words, and feels very much like a hollow "corporate auto response". It's not more empathetic, nor more personal. It's garbage. Advised by 10,000 legal departments, approved by 10,000 hr departments and published by 10,000 customer service departments against their wishes. It's basically a modern day corporate middle finger.

At least the "person" said 1 shred of truth that there is a problem and that it is their fault.

TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?
Have a long unique classname on it and submit that for being blocked by major AdBlock lists.
TrueSlacker0··on .NET 7 is Available Today
I am moving a personal project with ~50k loc and it has turned into a rewrite of about 2/3 of it. Not fun, but on the plus side the app runs A LOT faster now. So much faster that even non tech people that use it noticed the difference.
TrueSlacker0··on .NET 7 is Available Today
And web forms to core was/is terrible.
TrueSlacker0··on You Might Also Like
Don't forget the fact that you had to see a command line, no general user should ever see a command line.
TrueSlacker0··on Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes
"Life is too short to quibble about this crap. "

Yup, so have a drink when you want, or don't. We will all die eventually.

TrueSlacker0··on Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes
Of what abv%? 4.1% light or 8% dipa.
TrueSlacker0··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
I remember reading somewhere people can be broken down into 3 types. It applies in programming as well as in a restaurant kitchen or your family's garage cleanup.

*I'm probably remembering everything wrong but it was something like:

Cowboy: move fast and break things style. Sorta what you mentioned above.

Duct tape: most people are a form of this. Work on something just long enough to get it working but it's not beautiful and not prepared for the future or edge cases.

Professor: these get very little done because of the amount of planning put in and tend to over think most things. But almost never have to come back to a job since it's done properly and to completion.

Any team without a blend or with too many cowboys or professors is going to have a tough time.

TrueSlacker0··on Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
Combo that with toilet sinks and a lot of water would/could be saved per year/person.
TrueSlacker0··on I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)
Sorta reminds me of the Zen Koan "Is That So"

"The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.

A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.

This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.

In great anger the parent went to the master. “Is that so?” was all he would say.

After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else he needed.

A year later the girl-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth – the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fish market.

The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back.

Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: “Is that so?”"

TrueSlacker0··on What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
Today in the US the 3 music industry giants tax(via legally required license fees) the venues where musicians play instead of taxing the musicians for the exact same reason. The venue doesn't come and go as quickly and has a set location. Musicians change band names, people, etc often and are harder to track.
TrueSlacker0··on As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing
- Mandatory retirement from public office at age 65. We have minimum ages for elected office, nothing wrong with a maximum age.

Match it to social security age.

TrueSlacker0··on U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Google drive has a Windows app that will create a fake drive like G:/ that is a shortcut to the actual folder on the file system.
TrueSlacker0··on Git making me want to pull my hair out yet again
What about the third group who don't want to touch a cli? Who want to push a button on a gui and call it a day.
TrueSlacker0··on Kanban Board for the Command Line
For most people I see it as the language has shifted to be a fancy todo list variant, designed more for team communication, by middle management.

"A goal of the kanban system is to limit the buildup of excess inventory at any point in production" [1] I would also add that its goal is to switch all work from push to pull, which is a concept both odd to understand and hard to totally achieve.

Take the concept of a Kanban card(meaning signal card) [1]. It is great in the physical world of production but not as easy to understand in the digital world of mental work. This physical card can be used to control a simple task such as ordering inventory, as well as a large task of producing a complicated piece of machinery.

Take the simple inventory idea and think of your pantry. You have two bags (two bin system) of coffee beans and you place a kanban card behind the first bag. Once you finish using the first bag you will see the card and set it in the pile of other cards (pulled) because this pile becomes your grocery list. Then when you go to the store you don't have to go through your pantry looking for what all you need to get(pushing), you know because its on the cards, past you did the work, and you still have enough from the second bag will which will last until you go to the store. You end up reducing your unused inventory with everything set to a low par(1 extra bag), and by not purchasing an extra bag because you forgot to look and cannot remember if you need it or not so you get it just in case. Now your pantry is too small and you plan your pantry expansion project because you NEED more storage space.

So when this idea got converted from physical to digital the goal of the board is really to reduce work in process and switch from push (developers writing useless features, writers writing the wrong docs, artists working on art for a canceled project, etc) to pull (planned releases, features based on customer requests, bug fixing over new features, etc).

> 1. Does software have logistics?

Absolutely, there is a limited supply of mental capacity in people. Their productive capacity is consumed via meetings, working on the wrong tasks, spreading their work over too many tasks, email, breaking flow via people asking useless questions such as what is the status of X, etc.

> 2. Is there any need to have a back pressure system for a single user?

How else do you know exactly what to do? What item do you get from the grocery store? If you have no way of the customer telling you what to work on? What to fix? What to build? At the end of the day we are building for the customer and need to build what they want most.

But back to the board itself I think it boils down to most people having to much WIP causing this board to be a fancy todo list that is organized but ultimately overwhelming and just as useless. But again at least it is organized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban#Kanban_(cards)

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