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bengaleon Show HN: Atlassian Design for Bootstrap v5

Linear is that tool IMHO.

bengaleon Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

Almost everything that wants to send me a notification get put into scheduled summary on my phone. It’s much easier to deal with them a few times a day rather than at random times.

bengaleon Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

I'm surprised you guys don't eat much duck, it's also really good. Do you eat goose? We often have that instead of Turkey, although it's a lot smaller.

bengaleon Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

I don't often see mutton in the UK.

bengaleon Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

I remember the first time I had mutton curry in the Middle East. I thought it was going to be gross, turns out it's delicious. It does seem a shame its not more common in the west.

bengaleon Lie still in bed

I use audiobooks that I’ve listened to many times. I know exactly what’s coming so it’s a bit boring but I can focus on the words.

bengaleon Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro

I seem to recall the first-generation Apple Watch experience being like this.

bengaleon Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

Is it still invite only? I don’t think I know anyone that’s got on there yet.

bengaleon I won't pay on your website

If you don't offer me Apple Pay and skip the whole payment step, you better offer something I can't get anywhere else because otherwise, I'm bailing.

bengaleon Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

I assume because there are several great tools for handling this so it’s not really a priority.

If and when they do add one we can look forward to the many articles about “sherlocking” though so that’ll be fun.

bengaleon Addressing the community about changes to our API

In fairness, he only seems to have released it in response to Huffman telling people that he was blackmailing him.

bengaleon Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page

For bookmarking or opening in a new tab you can do that reasonably easily now anyway: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routin...

bengaleon The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030

In the UK, my provider has a thing called Intelligent Octopus that allows them to control when my car charges.

They offer me discounted rates (41p KWH vs 7.5p KWH) if I charge between 2330 and 530, but I can plug it in when I get home, and they control that charging block. It allows them to turn on charging anytime they like if the load on the grid is low, and they charge me that lower rate even if it's outside the off-peak time.

bengaleon Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars

I think my current BMW is probably going to be peak design for me. All of the driving and climate controls are physical click-y buttons. It still has a touch screen for ancillary stuff that I don't need when driving which is fine, but I don't have to use the touch screen at all when driving.

Sadly it seems they are following the crowd on the new versions, it looks like climate controls have moved onto the touch screen. I won't be glad to "upgrade" to that.

bengaleon Bank failures come in waves

Tops out at £2m or £4m for a couple.

bengaleon Office kitchen wars are back

No fish, no popcorn.

bengaleon Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/introduction

"The main input is the messages parameter. Messages must be an array of message objects, where each object has a role (either “system”, “user”, or “assistant”) and content (the content of the message). Conversations can be as short as 1 message or fill many pages."

"Including the conversation history helps when user instructions refer to prior messages. In the example above, the user’s final question of “Where was it played?” only makes sense in the context of the prior messages about the World Series of 2020. Because the models have no memory of past requests, all relevant information must be supplied via the conversation. If a conversation cannot fit within the model’s token limit, it will need to be shortened in some way."

So it looks like you pass in the history with each request.

bengaleon Apple gets a cut of search revenue from Chrome as part of secret Google deal

Or paying to acquire traffic is just a business arrangement and no one needs to be “the bad guy”.

bengaleon Zoom lays off 15% of employees

I think an argument can be made that all jobs are temporary jobs. If you're increasing headcount during a period of high growth then there is often hope that the growth continues enough to support those numbers when things taper off but it's not as easy as people seem to be saying.

It looks like they grew somewhere around 300% since the start of COVID, a rif of 15% doesn't seem too far off estimates to me.

bengaleon Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)

Cuts off tax dodgers too. I have heard of people that had a lot of problems when the notes changed over because they had tens of thousands of old notes from cash in hand work over the years that hadn't been declared.

bengaleon The death of Rackspace’s ‘fanatical support’

I'm pretty often surprised by how good AWS premium support is. Every time I've asked them a question they seem to have gone to quite the lengths to gather information even when the issue isn't really theirs.

bengaleon The death of Rackspace’s ‘fanatical support’

We do something similar on the non-tech side. We offer a saas product but most of our questions are more around how the person should be doing their job rather than how to use our software so we have a small team of experts that can answer those questions, they can also help with content creating on the marketing side too which is handy. We constantly hear from our customers that this level of service is one of the key things they really value from us.

bengaleon Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on

I’ve always assumed that behaviour like this is so unusual is would motivate a closer look by security services.

bengaleon Home truths about macOS

Yeah I tend to do day one upgrades and can’t recall any real trouble. I sometimes think I must have some sort of lucky charm the way people go on about bugs online.

bengaleon Low Energy Chest Fridge

Our chest freezer is white and works basically as its own whiteboard. We just scrawl on the top with dry wipe markers what's in there.

bengaleon Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?

I started getting heart palpitations when I had a drink, so I knocked it on the head. It was already barely worth the headache, it certainly wasn't worth feeling like rubbish during too. Not had a proper drink in nearly four years now, recently had a few of the non-alcoholic or 0.5% type beers that are ok and haven't caused me any issue.

bengaleon Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory

Best news in that article was a brief reference to video calls coming to huddles.

Been finding huddles really useful but sometimes a quick chat moves onto a more full on discussion and most of the time now we move over to zoom for that so we can talk face to face. Being able to turn on video for these huddles will be great.

bengaleon Queen Elizabeth II has died

I’m finding this is hitting a lot harder than I expected.

bengaleon Bitwarden raises $100M

I would think so, on the business side of things. I'm not entirely sure what we pay for 1Password because we pay it without question tbh. We have a fair few subscriptions but 1Password would be up there with the indispensable ones.

bengaleon Bitwarden raises $100M

A feature of what service though?

The OS? iCloud keychain does this, it's not a compelling offering though if you need to use any other OS.

Something like Google? Not sure I'd want to risk my Google account ever getting locked and loosing access to all my other accounts.

I'm not sure what that leaves.