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A dirty pipe

I’ve seen this at work and it drives me nuts. I don’t value my time extraordinarily highly but even still I find it disrespectful to offload my question and make me read something they didn’t even bother to read.

“OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership” the english language is rapidly running out of brand new sentences.

I promise I am fine lol, I actually had a really productive chat with their panel last year and found it wasn’t the right role for me anyway for some logistical reasons.

Do you genuinely think that was earnest?

(author of the post here) I cut a paragraph how Figma costs cuckoo bananas money for your entire team for the privilege of enduring this byzantine nightmare. And they paywall certain features, which you likely can't get authorization for, so you have to do more hacks on top of hacks on top of the “gold standard” practices I shared in the blog post. The price ramp is not gradual.

Author here, it’s all me. I ran it through Claude before publishing to spot check me on grammar/typos and it caught a few syntax things, but this is just my writing style.

Here’s a satire piece I wrote in the summer of 2021. Tonally very different but you can pick up on my voice between it and my essay yesterday: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20210803-localhost/

I actually gave a de-gendered draft of the essay to some friends a few days ago and heard that it landed with a thud — the essay is largely written about myself, in the third person, retrospectively, so removing the pronoun made the autobiographical thread harder to follow. I switched it to "he" to make that clearer.

I think if I used "she" it would've made the "That kid was me" transition harder — it would either involve some gymnastics to make it make sense or it would introduce a reading I didn't intend.

ARM macs are too new for us to know how the reuse/hand-me-down/legacy support world will shake out for them. There’ll be signs when the first M1 machines get axed but for now, I have no clue.

(Author of the post here) The post was inspired by the Neo and provoked by a certain YouTuber’s review of it, but yeah it’s about the Neo in the same way that The Old Man and the Sea is about fishing.

I wrote about the Mac in general since that’s what I know, but I imagine if I grew up in the Windows world and liked Windows more, I would have a similar experience with my dad’s old ThinkPad or something.

Author of the post here. You nailed it here; I used Chromebook as the example in my post since the one I used in high school was locked down to basically a kiosk. Couldn’t even open dev tools, much less root it. Such a wild departure from the eMacs I used in my elementary school’s library where I could set bonkers `defaults write` commands and customize every aspect of my account.

If I got a Chromebook as a personal machine as a kid, I probably would’ve rooted it and see what I could do, but growing up, the beauty of the Mac (in that Snow Leopard era) was progressive disclosure. I could start on the happy path and have a perfectly stable machine, then customize the behaviors through the terminal, see what it does, mess with the system files, see what breaks, revert it, then go back to using iMovie like normal.

In my (admittedly limited) time using a rooted Chromebook, it’s much more like a switch flip. You go from mandatory water wings directly into getting pushed into the ocean and Google shouting “Good luck!!”

I’m curious what the use case for that would be. Where would someone opt for that over a Mac mini? They’re already pretty cheap ($500 on sale)

Author of this thread here, thanks for sharing! This was the first time I publicly went into assembly code so I was a little nervous about screwing up a detail but glad it’s getting a warm reception.

They told me they would need a notarized letter signed by both me and my mom. I figured at that point I’m just gonna die with this account name.

Hey, developer of this experiment here. I screwed up the calculation on the demo video, but it’s patched in the latest version on the repo.

I thought it was centidegrees but it turns out the sensor was reporting the raw degrees.

Might have to do with it being the last OS available for purchase (i.e. not a free download)

It’s a shot in the dark though, I’ve also wondered this.

That’s a rude thing to say to a stranger; her voice is perfectly fine.

It’s been a big year for Silk Roads

“while i’m not a fan of donald trump, it is chilling to realize that this could happen to any one of us after livetweeting 34 consecutive crimes” –https://x.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1641566644924297218

Heh, it did more or less what I was hoping it would for the song ‘How To Be A Heartbreaker’: https://stepify.tech/video/vKNcuTWzTVw

Having trouble finding that, do you have a link?

“Increasingly, modern bullshit native apps are being infused with Bullshit bullshits, improving business efficiencies and bullshitting new use cases and bullshits for customers.”

This was a fun page to test it with: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-native/

I’m curious to hear what else lives in that collection

Oh hey that’s me. I have a soft spot for those “juicy” interfaces that popped up frequently in late 2000s Mac OS X. This is completely impractical but I’ve wanted to get this idea out of my head for years now

Mirror of the video if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytMZOLyF4Q

I see others are offering reasonable user style solutions and I raise you my irresponsible, over-the-top solution:

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