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OkGoDoIt

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About OkGoDoIt

Twitter and GitHub: @OkGoDoIt https://rogerpincombe.com hn@betechie.com

Principal software engineer by day, cabaret stage manager by night. Pro hackathonner, wearable computing fan, previously Techstars startup founder and creator of (now defunct) AllThePeople.net, an automated people directory that was free and surprisingly comprehensive.

Looking for my next big thing. Feel free to reach out, let's build something together.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49151412

    “Using your own firm’s president as a supposedly independent expert, without acknowledging the relationship, is a striking departure from basic journalistic norms” Well that’s abou…

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    Comment #49126365

    I think I’m missing something, what do you mean Chinese resellers? As I understand it, it’s difficult to even access OpenAI in China, how could they be reselling it? Do you mean so…

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    Comment #48637048

    Yeah, this does seem somewhat reasonable. I get that most users will probably accept it without thinking twice, but if you’re going to do something like this, this is at least a fa…

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    Comment #48637024

    In the article they mentioned that Amazon and Roku block apps from using these SDK’s, and specifically after Roku recently made a change to disallow this kind of thing, many of the…

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    Comment #48606978

    Whenever I try to do that, the noise canceling amplifies the wind noise so much it winds up being louder and less comfortable than not wearing them at all.

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    Comment #48480539

    The readme explains how to set this up, but it doesn’t really explain what it does. What does this do? I’m guessing it pretends to be a flash drive containing infinite books and th…

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    Comment #48276377

    Yeah this seems like an obvious thing that would make it a lot more useful. Sad that Apple is barely scratching the surface of what’s possible, and it’s too closed for third-party …

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    Comment #48151646

    I’m surprised the search function in the start menu doesn’t do anything. Seems like that would be super useful. But I did enjoy this, nice job with the polish.

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    Comment #47630819

    In case anyone’s wondering, I tried it again and it worked this time, even without logging in. Maybe because this was my first visit to GitHub in a new country (I’m currently on va…

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    Comment #47630773

    Sorry for being off topic, but why can’t I open this without being logged into GitHub? I thought gists are either completely private or publicly accessible. Are they no longer publ…

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    Comment #47584520

    Is that better or worse?

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    Comment #47271867

    Presumably professional hardware uses ECC memory, which automatically corrects these kinds of errors.

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    Comment #47064023

    I’ve been plenty of graveyards where the old gravestones are completely unreadable. Did they use different/worse stone in the past or is this the most likely outcome of new gravest…

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    Comment #47031989

    What city requires you to register your pet and get a license? I’ve never heard of that before. Sounds kind of crazy. I’m assuming this is very regional.

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    Comment #47019842

    I’ve seen gift cards work around this by charging a “monthly maintenance fee” after a year of inactivity.

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    Comment #47019803

    I had the exact same thing happen to me at a hotel in China. I could not get the person at the checkin desk to understand the problem so I ended up having to just eat the extra cos…

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    Comment #47006552

    It’s using AI to try and determine if it’s a proper noun or other scenario where multiple words are really one semantic term. Except it’s really really bad at it and it’s almost ne…

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    Comment #46939484

    Everything about this feels like what Microsoft should have done. It’s absolutely amazing to me that search is so broken in Windows and yet a free third-party tool can instantly fi…

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    Comment #46859897

    Also interesting that they are both only for macOS. I’m feeling a bit left out on the Windows and Linux side, but this seems like an ongoing trend.

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    Comment #46859668

    If you’re focused on productivity and business use cases, then obviously it’s pretty silly, but I do find something exciting in the idea that someone just said screw it, let’s buil…

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    Comment #46701020

    I don’t believe that’s true. Locking is entirely something done by carriers for promotionally-priced phones attached to active phone plans. Can you point me to anywhere documenting…

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    Comment #46577920

    iOS 18 with glaring, actively-exploited security holes is still better than iOS 26.

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    Comment #46509165

    That doberman site feels kind of sketchy. It doesn’t say anything about the hardware required or how someone would integrate this. Also it says it’s free but then one of the five t…

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    Comment #46188715

    The statement is almost certainly made in jest, since it is obviously untrue. Sometimes adding silly artificial constraints can be a fun way to spark creativity.