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sosborn

2,394 karma · joined February 23, 2013

Digital Communications Director in the education space.

Proficient in Japanese (JLPT Level 2) and lived/worked there for nearly 10 years. Hoping to move back soon.

Based in Honolulu.

Love my job, but always open to other opportunities.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-osborn-0580481/

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sosborn··on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
Yes, that's my point.
sosborn··on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
All three get reported to iphones.
sosborn··on AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share
https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/rip-intel-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-c...
sosborn··on Read your way through Hà Nội
The reality is that the vast majority of the NYT's audience will not lose any information from including those diacritics, and some people will gain quite a bit.
sosborn··on Self-hosting email like it's 1984
It's addressed in the article:

> The elephant in the room is real-world deliverability. With self-hosting you risk not receiving mail or someone missing your mail. I accept this for my personal projects, but you may not. Keep this in mind.

sosborn··on Raspberry Pi 500+
https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chas...
sosborn··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
It's a classic short-term gain outlook for these companies.
sosborn··on Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages
Sqlite has always been the default database for Rails, even though it probably hasn't been the most common deployment choice.
sosborn··on Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)
FWIW you can do this on stock ASUS firmware too.
sosborn··on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license
Funny you say that - my recent forays into blender have started bearing fruit and I'm sure it's because of what I learned in Godot. Previous attempts were not successful at all.
sosborn··on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license
I've been playing around with Godot for the past few months and as someone new to gamedev, it's been a really good experience. Wrapping my head around some gamedev-specific concepts has been tough, but that would be true regardless of the tooling.
sosborn··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Isn't this just renting, which is already offered by Amazon, Apple, Google ...
sosborn··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
My money would go on mobile phone usage.
sosborn··on Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
Every time I've come across one of these signs and wanted to patronize the establishment, a friendly chat with the manager in Japanese was always enough to get them to let me in.

YMMV.

sosborn··on Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
Those signs have nothing to do with protecting culture. Most of the time, they are simply a naive defense against dealing with a population often doesn't speak Japanese very well.
sosborn··on Show HN: Typeform was too expensive so I built my own forms
As a heavy user of Formsite, these would be the features I would prioritize:

- Logic branching (if question 1 answer is 'A', then hide question 2. etc) - Confirmation emails to the submitter - Widgets to insert design elements (static text, images, etc)

IMO, these are bare minimum for B2B business if you are interested in pursuing that.

Having said that, this is a great start.

sosborn··on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
I got bit by this a long time ago. Will never trust Thunderbird again.
sosborn··on In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home
"Feral Cats are wild-living variant of the common pet cat, introduced to Hawai‘i by Europeans. Feral cats have established populations on all eight of the main Hawaiian Islands and contribute to widespread ecological disruptions that threaten native Hawaiian wildlife. Feral cats are one of the most devastating predators of Hawai‘i’s unique wildlife. In addition to direct predation, feral cats also spread a potentially lethal parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) that contaminates terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments and has been shown to negatively impact birds and mammals – including humans."

https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/...

sosborn··on We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
"Magic" and "Intuitive" aren't mutually exclusive.
sosborn··on We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
API only Rails has been a thing for a long time: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html

Many teams use this with React.

sosborn··on Linux in Excel
Sounds like how things are run at my place of work.
sosborn··on Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660
Would keeping the leading zero cause any problems with future calculations?
sosborn··on Should managers still code?
Hard disagree. Would it be helpful? Sure. But a good boss just needs to know when to trust the judgement and opinions of his subordinates.

Trouble comes when they don’t understand the work, but make decisions as if they do.

sosborn··on Why Ruby on Rails still matters
Maintenance nightmares are a product of organizational culture, not any particular framework.
sosborn··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
How regularly was that happening pre-911?
sosborn··on Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit
Surveillance doesn't make it harder to commit crimes. It might help catching people after the fact a little bit easier, but people committing crimes aren't really considering future consequences.
sosborn··on Backdooring Your Backdoors – Another $20 Domain, More Governments
It's the font design: https://abcdinamo.com/typefaces/favorit
sosborn··on Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/css-css-gri...
sosborn··on What happens when a whole generation never grows up?
Do you think it's a generational issue, or a class issue?
sosborn··on I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch
I built a small personal service to do this for Japanese. Five words + one idiom every day at 9 a.m. It's certainly not the best way to learn/study, but it is a nice passive way to stay engaged with the language.
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