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this is one of the coolest projects I've seen in a while. Great work.

Hi Everyone, I vibe coded an image aspect ratio calculator and wanted to share it because so many online tools are cluttered with ads and I hated that experience. I find myself hav…

One easy thing you can do to reduce your caffeine intake is to drink 1/2 caff or have every X coffee be decaf. I switched to 1/2 caff and tapered down, that was a lot easier for me…

Geo Metro was my first car, I still have fond memories of the freedom it afforded me.

Great article and I had no idea what to call 'time of check, time of use' (TOCTOU) which is a great name instead of me having to describe the situation. I'm building an app on top …

Both men are trained in martial arts and have competed in fights in the past in those disciplines. It's hard to describe the draw to someone that hasn't trained seriously or partic…

OpsWorks is going to stop working next year.

AWS just killed OpsWorks.

certificate manager also down (I know because I tried to update an ssl cert for cloudfront which only allows US-East-1 ssl certs, maybe someone will eventually fix that to allow an…

wanted to install a new ssl cert for cloudfront which can only be done on US-EAST-1, wish that would get fixed to allow SSL certs in different regions.

I live in a midsize city outside of California that has 3 shelters downtown. 1 shelter dropped the sober requirement trying to house those people. They had to reinstate the rules w…

I'm curious about example 1. It sounds like you had all the right things in place so I have a few questions for you: 1. Were you just so hungry that you didn't want to stick with i…

Twitter can give you access to the beta version of 'The Narrative'. It's a little messy and there are trolls, but you can kind of see how stories and media are shaped. It's like a …

For me it was the YouTube algorithm. One day it recommended a video by agadmator chess about a classic Bobby Fischer game. I've been following it ever since and really had a lot of…

> a worse teacher doesn't create 10x losses I would argue this is exactly what a worse teacher does. They can discourage/mislead/destroy 100s or 1000s of students over their career…

FTX took customer deposits and invested them in their failing hedge fund which lost tons of money. That was not childish incompetence, that was malicious and calculated fraud.

GPT-4 easily won this rap battle

My wife and I do this for our kids. Photo albums are more fun anyways as looking through them and talking about the memories is more of an event then just getting a 'like' on a pho…

> big brother stepped in and saved you True. People should be very thankful the government did this to allow people to keep getting paid and to keep these businesses solvent. But d…

I have used GraphQL and REST extensively. I prefer REST. It is easier to cache server side which for certain types of data can be extremely useful. It works well with monitoring so…

I have 3 and I remember the process you're going through. > thinking of all the vacations and iPhones I would have to buy You don't have to buy this stuff. I grew up lower middle c…

Having grown up in a country into adulthood that used metric and then moving to the US there are certain things that are nice about the US system. In particular a foot is an extrem…

maybe I'm missing something here. If 40% of users got rage-level angry was it really worth removing?

I love Golden Delicious apples. To me they are the standard of what a green apple should taste like. Crisp and tart, truly an amazing apple. Rating on this site was a 33. I suspect…