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a coder, https://cobertos.com
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cobertos··on Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
Are the mold that grow at acidic pHs common in the household?
cobertos··on The mystery of the garage
If it's an ordinance and someone complains (or it's one of those narc-y townships using satellite imagery and drone enforcement) then you get an inspection. If you're found in violation you'll get an enforcement notice.

It's the one reason I am so nervous about who my neighbors are when doing anything "weird" on a property. The township, city, county, state, whatever jurisdiction it falls under _will_ handle it.

cobertos··on The mystery of the garage
Agh, county, not city. My memory...

Sacramento County, this is the one that made the news a while ago and people got upset - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34081331

I couldn't find more through Kagi. I could do a search through LexisNexis or another tool that indexes a bunch (_not all_) of the ordinances but it's more time than I want to spend right now.

You'd be surprised what is allowed and not allowed by ordinances, it's very locale specific too. I tried living in a tiny home and it very much broke many ordinances.

cobertos··on The mystery of the garage
If only city ordinances weren't getting more restrictive with time. Would be hard to do some of this stuff today when some cities ban working on your car in your garage.
cobertos··on Expanding Our Partnership with Google
So Google will just prioritize site:reddit.com content now? Doesn't sound quite "open" or "authentic" as Google mentions on their blog post.
cobertos··on Hetzner GPU Server
Do you have more details on their own racking system? I couldn't find anything on this.
cobertos··on Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
I deleted all the content on my main account. Most of it wasn't useful, but a couple of posts and threads ranked well on Google and I like to think that hurts the site just a little bit.
cobertos··on YouTube Oddities
Using YouTube's search through something not tied to your account like NewPipe will solve this issue of recommendations in search.
cobertos··on Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple
Probably just not wanting to deal with the unsavory side of the lurking userbase on HN or the poor, ill-informed discussion on sensitive/political topics? There are certain things HN is not good at talking about

There are multiple people I've seen express this in-desire towards HN

cobertos··on When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019)
Same... Or that the husband is objectifying the wife as a thing that just needs to be kept happy, regardless of what the husband actually truly thinks. Inauthentic.
cobertos··on When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019)
Honestly, the relationships are similar. They both require a lot of trust and companionship to be successful, you spend a lot of time with both people but in very different ways

Finding good business partners is like dating

cobertos··on When Laws Make Divorce Easier, Women Benefit, Outcomes Improve (2019)
> then endeavor quite seriously to keep their wives happy

Why not just find someone who is already content living their life single but enjoys the added social aspects of a relationship? That plus someone where those social aspects happen naturally without a lot of using the finite motivational energy.

Then there's no expectation or perceived responsibility to have a sort of dependency relationship, and the happy social reinforcing moments happen naturally.

cobertos··on Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)
I do find the same great productivity and focus at the same hour (usually). However, this happens from my sleep schedule sliding to where I end up nocturnal, not from something like caffeine or nicotine. Waking up at 11PM and staying up until the late AM of the next day.
cobertos··on The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning
What is meant by this? Is the parent comment not on topic or useful? Because I'm failing to see why
cobertos··on A roadmap and appeal for help from The Matrix.org Foundation
I've made some money making apps for others using Matrix and contributed a portion of my profits back to them

Hope they can keep going, it is really useful technology.

cobertos··on Untranslatable
Sounds more like the community of people in this interest group/hobby had an interest and she was just stewarding their desires. And her and the communities values ended up aligning. Like a contractor/contractee relationship
cobertos··on Untranslatable
Very interesting they were funded partially from Kickstarter! 292 backers at 10k€. I assumed you needed quite the following for Kickstarter to work...

And it looks like they do. 49k followers on Facebook and 16k on Instagram. Not sure how far back these go, but looks like very "shareable" content, where they would take I translatable words and make little funny pictures or memes or other intriguing things and post them. Lots of interaction comments/reaction-wise

Timeline-wise this was backed on Kickstarter in 2020. Site launched in summer 2020. The creator was very active on Kickstarter working on communicating and updating the community with what was going on (until the end there).

Also seems to have a Patreon, and worked itself into other places like https://github.com/theimpossibleastronaut/awesome-linguistic...

cobertos··on What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
This makes me think that mental health failure modes are not uncommon. 2 in 650 for relatively well-socialized/well vetted candidates.

And yet, no one really seems to be able to figure out how to plan for these mental health failure modes or even talk about them in the first place. Corporate America for example seems unable to grasp this stuff.

cobertos··on For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed
Why weren't using the APIs fun? Can you talk a little more about what you did with it?
cobertos··on For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed
Still?? For a brief time I worked at one, and the entire 3-ish years I was there I got "Hey, we're migrating away from Lotus Notes for real this time". That was in 2013

None of the groups I was in ever used it, so I never saw how it was used in the wild unfortunately

cobertos··on For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed
Is there anywhere that has a good catalog for the API surface area of lotus notes? It seemed like it might have a lot of lessons learned to study
cobertos··on Willow Protocol
By having a more generic protocol on top, it allows the same tools to be used for different specific end results. So shared libraries and common debugging tools can benefit more use cases. You might even make a "higher-order" tool that can work with any willow data, at the cost of specific UI affordances that can be used when you know more about the underlying data.

This is sort of how ActivityPub is a thing, but it underpins multiple, sorta-but-not-really interoperable systems like Lemmy and Mastodon.

cobertos··on My Knowledge Lakehouse
Isn't this what Hypercore[0] is? But distributed? It's a append-only log, and then there's higher order abstractions built on top of this log. Hyperstore is a key value store that uses an append only log, hyperdrive is a filesystem, etc...

[0]: https://github.com/holepunchto/hypercore

cobertos··on Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic styles
They serve a _ton_ of images on the front page, can't imagine what the bandwidth/bill looks like
cobertos··on We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
Interesting, so like sort of like an affiliate program, but in like a bulk non-realtime way.

Is there any way from preventing under/over reporting of how many referrals were sent? Or is that just implicit in having the hashed identifier

cobertos··on Trying to use Firebase is the most horrible experience in my life
I wouldn't touch Firebase. I've had issues with lost data and unexpected/unknown BigQuery bills. Very unintuitive and a ton of footguns, no support
cobertos··on Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud
I clicked the link and you have to _apply_ and potentially be admitted just to get a free exit? So there's no guarantee??

Is requiring a Google committee review/application process a new trend with Google products? I recently was denied on another application through Google for API access to get one businesses GMB reviews, and it's frustrating because there's no recourse. Google is so opaque now.

cobertos··on Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
Twitch chat also uses IRC
cobertos··on You can't follow me
Yeahh, understandable, I had to read the linked articles twice to form coherency. More time than I would have invested normally, I only did so after reading your comment xD

Makes me wonder if inner-monologue type stuff is even useful to post to the internet (something ive wanted to post more off because it sucks less energy from writing motivation). Takes more effort to parse as a reader though...

cobertos··on You can't follow me
I hope I don't run into this many issues when I do the same implementation. I've been wanting to add integration with Mastodon to my static blog for a while now, as my refuge from Twitter and platforms in general. I just never use my "normal" Mastodon account so it feels weird to think I'll use this blog any more than I do that one...

Some of these issues seem avoidable though? The author seems to be diving too far into the testing rabbit hole. For my workflows, I generally find holistic integration tests to be too time consuming and not worth it, for the level of fidelity I want (I'm not NASA/bug-free). Same with trying to avoid testing on prod. It might not be "clean" but for a site like this it seems like a reasonable tradeoff.

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