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There's too many fiddly bits of which endpoints return what data in which shape that requires a custom solution each time. An LLM would probably have a very easy shot at this problem though.

It's much more straightforward if you can find a GraphQL, Swagger, or OpenAPI spec to automate conversion I'd imagine.

The use restriction is in a deed covenant, not a part of the zoning ordinances. Im not actually quite sure how those get altered/taken out of the deed other than expiry

How is making this human connection w/ coworkers done remotely? Is it possible? I'm struggling with that.

Is it reasonable to accept/leave a job based on no interesting connections?

I've been in this position a few times now. God is it hard to explain to other people, especially when you know how success is metricized by others and silently judged. But at the same time, the collection of life experiences gained by doing stupid, impulsive things has made me happier than I could have expected in the long run. And has shown me a lot of things I would not have seen otherwise.

> motivated more by my work being MEANINGFUL

Do you have any guiding star for what work gives you meaning?

I thought getting closer to the users/customers would help me. After all, software is for humans. But I found the social aspects of that, handling bugs, setting expectations for features, was tiresome and not meaningful. The only happiness I did find was when I saw my client/users flourish without me with the software I made tailored as best as it could be for the money. But that doesn't make a business unfortunately...

Sublime Text + LSP-Typescript works well at least for Typescript.

As much as I don't like Google, I'm not sure if Google is the issue here.

* Google's autocomplete not having the address is different from USPS not having the address. It depends on who the bank was using as address verification. At least in my area, addresses are handled by the county road commission, and it cost money to apply for one. I believe there is more paperwork with the post office to then get mail delivered.

* PO Boxes are also not really a Google issue? A lot of places just don't accept PO Boxes. Using a mailbox service at a UPS is nicer for this reason. It looks like a normal address + number so it's usually accepted. Though you still can't use it to register for a driver's license, I was able to use one to register for a bank account, when I lived in a tiny home for a bit.

Hmm, isn't this just a co-opting of things smaller creators are doing?

It's just done at a much larger scale, with the aim of making money instead of curiosity/funny memery

The mixture of the narrator + common elements between each one (galvanized square steel) + the weird corporatized animations and it all knowing it is satire is what makes it so funny.

Other people have made their own versions [0], which sort of shows all their elements of the meme transplanted into a different context (furry, in this case).

[0]: https://x.com/i/status/1804207289517359223

Is it really that easy to just leave and find a company/work you vibe with? It seems just as hard as trying to find a quality partner

True, slap a price on it. I'm sure people here get enough utility out of VSCode to pay for it.

The problem is when the free offering is actually designed to ensnare you in a tarpit of legal liability and uncapped financial liability. Especially with a service like VSCode where it's not a single purchase and you rely on Microsoft indefinitely (through extensions and updates). But it's designed that way. There's no other option. They chose to not make it simple to avoid a single clean payment, and extract longer term money of ambiguous amount based on user resistance.

Never could I have imagined users wanting apps to have more control of them, but here we are with a pretty compelling use case for not letting them remove an app. Neat

So is down "deeper" into the rabbit hole? Or is down more specific and up is more general? Or is it just a related topic (meaning up and down aren't different in any way)?

What sort of relationships have you seen in the data you've worked with that you'd describe as remarkable?

I've explained a similar thing to friends before, but I was always at a loss for relationships/insights that have led to concrete outcomes

Hmm, I'm not sure in what capacity Chromium phones home.

I definitely have no ability to setup Google account sync nor did it play nicely out of the box with the Chrome web store, so I assumed not? But I haven't done my own tests

Chromium is still a thing, I use it at work, considering all the corporate-ware that gets installed into Chrome by default now.

Waterfox and Librewolf seem to exist, and I imagine there's more Firefox forks out there. No idea on the state of things though

I think removal of adversity was the point. Optimizing away adversity just as collective humanity tries to.

> Incidentally, after Universe 25’s collapse, Calhoun began building new utopias to encourage creative behavior by keeping mice physically _and_ mentally nourished.

I think I'd be more interested in the follow up work. Were they even able to identify and accomplish this? And how did the rats perform any better?

Is there a better resource that talks about the systems side of things? It looks like there might be something interesting there but it's too opaque to figure out what that might be

The things I could tease out:

* Fully modifiable worlds

* "living worlds", or at least grass grows and other ecosystem-y things

* No partitioning of player base, all in same realm

I hate to think of other agencies that act this negligently. Not enough funds/competence to do their task properly but a ton of power to destroy people's lives, the problems too complex to tease out without real focus.

SecretNYC (and all their secret sub brands, one per major city) always sussed me out a bit. They seem to just be blogs about events, but they also host their own, very templated events, like the Van Gogh immersive exhibits and the Candlelight Concerts (among others). They do this in every city and advertise the fuck out of them, which makes them seem more hollow when you see the scale of their enterprise from a 300ft view...

I mean, I wouldn't mind being taken out to Red Lobster.

I've come to find too, partners who prefer whatever instead of having very specific expectations for time spent together are more comfortable to be around.

It might not be unusual, but it does feel wrong and worsening. Wrong because it feels like we should have security in what we consume/how we spend our attention. Worsening because more and more places commodify their private spaces, both critical to most western human life (the gas station, by law you are supposed to monitor the gas pump) and noncritical (the pause menu of a video player)

What do you mean? The next largest LA heist was caught because they couldn't disperse of the cash properly [1]. It's hard to spend that much money with seemingly no income stream without the IRS raising a few eyebrows.

You would need a lot of planning and coordination on how it's spent and where it's spent to make it look legit. And have enough untainted income to live while you plan on how to spend the tainted stuff.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-01-05/dun...

This was _the_ one thing that kept me switching from Windows to Linux.

Bit the bullet and now I full time use Krita and Linux Mint. But it doesn't stop me from pulling it open anytime I need to do work on a Windows PC. Great for Cg (with its builtin .dds support!) and texture work (.vtf and other plugins)

The community has been good to me. Good piece of software.

Dang, I saw the name and hoped it was a map-based app that showed you ownership of things around you (further intriguing me because I don't believe such data exists at a local scale anyway).

Great project though! Opening up these sort of semi-encumbered datasets is what keeps humans well informed

I'm from MI as well and always wondered about deeper datasets for watching money and influence change hands

This sounds absolutely fascinating. Did you write about it/share it anywhere?

Not many people seem to understand this. Here's an example from a previous rabbit hole.

The Sherman Fairchild Foundation (which manages the post-humous funds of the guy who made Fairchild Semiconductor) pays its president $500k+ and chairman about the same. https://beta.candid.org/profile/6906786?keyword=Sherman+fair... (Click Form 990 and select a form)

I do love IRS Form 990 in this way. It sheds a lot of light into this.

And yet my mustard bottle uses a simple hole and I'm frustrated by the current ketchup silicone cap requiring too much pressure and over dispensing on the initial squeeze. So, worse!

Is it really necessary to do all this engineering for this??