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jakereps··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
It’s one of those types you have to be the person that likes that style. It’s my friends favorite rotator but I think it’s a decent try-it-once beer, that is only around for a little while at a time.

The brewery itself though is one of my favorites to this day with, in my opinion, the best food I've ever encountered at something that identifies itself first as a "brewery." I don't visit the area without making a stop there.

jakereps··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
My old local brewery had a Leggo My Ego[1] beer they also were served a cease and desist by Kellogg over... they still make it, it's just now called the Unlawful Waffle[2] which is a bit funnier if you happen to know the lore/reason.

1. https://untappd.com/b/arizona-wilderness-brewing-co-leggo-my...

2. https://untappd.com/b/arizona-wilderness-brewing-co-unlawful...

jakereps··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
I can assure you not even single people nor couples want doorless bathrooms.
jakereps··on Apple Renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'
Not sure if you’re cutting my quote in bad faith to fit your rebuttal, or just didn’t read it fully. How is this not confusing?

> Apple TV is available on the Apple TV app … on … Apple TV …

Watch Apple TV in Apple TV on Apple TV.

Why choose Netflix as your example as well when both Google and Amazon already have streaming services that don’t have an identically named hardware device. Do you honestly think if Netflix put out a device they would name it Netflix.

jakereps··on Apple Renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'
The article itself even shows just how confusing it is:

> Apple TV is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro ...

How did anyone think "this is fine" in a proofread here when coming up with this rebranding?

jakereps··on The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list
> like a "keep my recurring alarm on, but skip it tomorrow" button (useful for when you don't want to wake up early on labor day)

If you use the Sleep feature, instead of a plain alarm for an “alarm clock,” it has had this feature for quite a few years now. Any modification made to Sleep, which is manageable from within the same Alarm app, prompts to ask if you’d like to change your entire sleep schedule or just apply the modification (shut off, or reschedule) to the next one up.

jakereps··on OpenAI's o1-pro now available via API
While possibly being strange defaults, both of those are options. Remove the file summary and directory structure, both featured on the UI, and on the CLI tool, and voila, it's in your "better" state. There are also additional compression options beyond those two tweaks.
jakereps··on Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok
Removed the star count as any sort of “evidence” to popularity - the point still stands though. It feels absurd to claim a name being “reused,” or implied stolen, when the name is a generic animal name.
jakereps··on Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok
I can't tell if this is satire or a hidden advertisement for various tui browsers? A project that is a "popular tui browser" (for the literally dozens of people that use tui browsers?) does not have ownership claim to the name of a big cat genus which has 4k+ other results on GitHub with the same name.
jakereps··on Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
Did the title change since you asked, or what is claiming that they aren't? I don't see anything on the title, the README, or the website making the claim you want defended. It just says "a" truly independent web browser, that doesn't seemingly claim exclusivity to that status.
jakereps··on OpenAI O3-Mini
The caption on the graph explains.

> including with the open-source Agentless scaffold (39%) and an internal tools scaffold (61%), see our system card .

I have no idea what an "internal tools scaffold" is but the graph on the card that they link directly to specifies "o3-mini (tools)" where the blog post is talking about others.

jakereps··on Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'
This video goes over how it’s not really that simple. Ultimately your body will cancel that deficit out https://youtu.be/vSSkDos2hzo
jakereps··on Go-Safeweb
Isn’t that equivalent to saying “just use NGINX”? Caddy isn’t a library you use in your Go server code, it’s a separate reverse proxy, isn’t it? They solve separate things.
jakereps··on A market mystery: Why do capers come in such tiny jars?
One manufacturer at least has it figured out. These are what I’ve been getting in the US for a while now from places like Sprouts (Fresh Thyme), and Whole Foods. Even using a fork like others mention, it’s still just easier with this jar.

https://jeffsgardenfoods.com/our-products/other-specialties/...

jakereps··on Hertz is ditching even more electric cars
Agreed, just was too lazy for research and the OP EV praise was eye-roll inducing, so I just quickly offered an alternative perspective. Thanks for the actual numbers!
jakereps··on Hertz is ditching even more electric cars
One is certainly underestimating. I only mean some insignificant number of vehicles. Far from the “proven” statement about people vying for EV rentals in the OP comment. I realize now that I shouldn’t have put an explicit number on an internet comment, as now that number is the target to come after me for.
jakereps··on Hertz is ditching even more electric cars
This comment feels so disconnected from reality that I can only imagine you possibly live in a bubble of EV owners. To offer my anecdotal observation, where I live, I rarely ever see an EV. Maybe a single one on the road per day, if that. Various dealerships have told me everyone getting one around the area recently has been returning them.

While on a time limited event, like a vacation, where I may need a rental car, I have no desire to sit and wait for my car to charge and waste my time, over a 45 second gas fill up. Hotels don’t universally offer charging ports (or enough of them, if it even does). EVs have a very long way to go to being generally useful for the non homeowner who doesn’t have a charging station in their own garage.

jakereps··on Major outages across ChatGPT and API
Not sure how I’m making fun of anything, training wheels inherent purpose is to train you to ride a bike without them. A lighter isn’t meant to teach you how to spontaneously light fires once it’s out of fuel, nor is dropping off clothes at a clothing store going to teach you how to sew.
jakereps··on Major outages across ChatGPT and API
Seems more like a crutch in that sense, then. If you can’t ride without it, it hasn’t trained you anything.
jakereps··on The thinnest video on YouTube [video]
It works only if I open in a tab in Safari on a 14 Pro. If I just click the link and the app opens it, it shows an error in the player window.
jakereps··on Show HN: Open-source user onboarding and KYC flow made with Svelte (~50kb)
Not to detract from the project itself, but neither this HN post or the GitHub repo ever define any of the initialisms in use. Being slightly unfamiliar with what KYC/KYB even stand for, I had to guess and search all around the docs for clues that my guess was correct. Might be worthwhile to add a single expansion somewhere.
jakereps··on What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
You’ve never heard of a bootstrapped startup? On this site?
jakereps··on Shazam turns 20
I haven’t tried humming with Shazam recently, but I don’t think it worked well back when I did have the actual app. It works very well for music though. I used it around five times, just this Wednesday night at a concert, and it got every track for me.

Soundhound is what had humming “support” explicitly in its product description, and it worked pretty well from what I remember. It’s been long enough though that I may only be remembering the times it worked.

jakereps··on Shazam turns 20
> Wow blew my mind was when Google introduced 'hum and we'll recognize the song for you' in Google assistant

Their announcement actually made me roll my eyes a bit, as Soundhound had that functionality nearly a decade before. I had both SH and Shazam installed on my old phone for these usecases - now Shazam is baked into Siri so I don’t even have the app itself installed.

jakereps··on AirPods don't “just work”
The absolute worst annoyance, IMO, is that if you are listening to audio with an iPhone, AirPods (Pro), and an Apple Watch, and set a timer on your watch (say, a 1.5 minute rest timer at the gym) it will disconnect from your phone to play the alert from your watch and then fail to play music from your phone again without sometimes requiring full Bluetooth cycling, or another 1.5 minutes of fiddling - removing any and all convenience of the device ecosystem. There are support issues open on the Apple forums going back years, but it’s still unresolved. To contrast, my Bose SoundSports can seamlessly achieve the above example just fine, so it’s not a fundamental flaw in the use case, just Apple’s implementation of some part of it.
jakereps··on Show HN: Learn Python the Right Way – free introduction to Python book
It's also fairly controversial within the Python dev community. I read this title as a jab at that one, because it's not recommended to follow a lot of the "Hard Way" patterns and practices. It's been quite a few years since I was working in Python exclusively, so I can't recall specifics to point out.
jakereps··on JWT should not be your default for sessions
That token itself is still valid - regardless of whether or not their browser still has it stored.
jakereps··on Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
It appears they could be supported at the moment. In the sidebar there is a GitHub1s Settings menu (the bottom) and in that you can supply your own OAuth/App token to increase your request rate limit, but by delegating access to that token to your private repos you should be able to read your own or chosen/owned private repositories (the caveat being you're giving this app that token outside of a normal OAuth login flow, so I'm not sure how comfortable someone would be with doing that - it seems a normal GitHub OAuth sign in flow could be investigated).
jakereps··on Show HN: Weekend project, shows when the next season of your TV show premieres
One more show to validate any testing with is High Maintenance (https://next-season-of.com/high-maintenance/ - that appears to be before HBO picked it up), as IMDB itself shows no ending year yet, and it gave me a little panic that it was already over, haha.
jakereps··on Fitbit is now officially part of Google
>Because what Google wants to buy is their marketshare and existing userbase.

Personally, I'm curious how that worked out for them. The announcement of this purchase, and how they handled Nest, is what made me stop using my Fitbit.

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