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Not every engineering effort is a product in search of market fit or a community. Some things are already very useful as just a one shot. I just made a quick app to help me pack fo…

They have a version for mini-splits that is an ir blaster.

I use http://getmysa.com for this. they have their own app and scheduling, but i just automate mine via homeassistant

Considering Microsoft wasn't allowed to use SkyDrive as a name for cloud storage because Sky is registered for unrelated purposes, I would assume using the same trademark in a dire…

This is because this is the "Sexist Doctor Riddle"[1] but with one word changed. And the probability machine is returning its training. This isn't some political correct overtraini…

I've even received designs in PowerPoint Everyone used whatever they were familiar with regardless of the purpose of the application.

I went through the multi-step process for the bananas last year. It failed to validate me during the purchase window. Their support never responded to me (it's been 9 months now). …

Claude will answer all of those questions. The restriction Anthropic has is letting Claude pull the trigger and vibe-murder with no humans in the loop. This restriction is apparent…

GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, which has a 3 trillion market cap

The teams have always been 32 tax paying companies. The NFL central office was a 501(c)(6), but the tax savings from that was negligible. In fact, when they changed their status ov…

This doesn't feel much different than words. There was a whole ordeal at Microsoft when an intern said an event was going to be "lit" and a bunch of older generation folk assumed t…

Why not everyone invite a different Anna? I think the moral is for everyone to be individually a bit nicer, not one friend group to support an entire community.

These aren't anti-AI comments. We're on a forum talking person to person. It is antithetical to just spout "AI said this" repeatedly when the entire point of this place is human di…

Same feeling. After scratching my head at some of the descriptions I decided to just head as far southeast as I could. I was met with a bunch of edgy comments and a penis drawn on …

That was Windows Mobile, which was the end of the line of the old Windows embedded line vs Windows Phone, the brand new OS made for modern (at the time) smartphones. WP7 was the fi…

There is no memory that the LLM has from your initial instructions to your later instructions. In practice you have to send the entire conversation history with every prompt. So yo…

UWP was limited because it was the subset that could run on PC, Xbox, Phone, and HoloLens. Being able to make one responsive app and deploy it across that ecosystem was pretty awes…

It's not the same, but I don't know if it's worse. My IRQ conflict resolution skills or knowledge about himem.sys aren't really useful these days. But I've seen genz kids do incred…

And FB would really like to own the next platform so they don't get kneecapped again by things like Apple's Do Not Track.

Not if I only seeing updates from the people I actually know and explicitly connected to on the social graph. The current problem exists because the content is chosen algorithmical…

I used the SocialFocus extension to remove those kinds of features from sites when I was still weaning off the sites. Removing the official apps was an essential first step. Then I…

And like this in Windows/Chrome latest: https://imgur.com/a/QnNbLEG on a non-maximized window.

Missouri Governor was the one going after them for viewing the source of a public webpage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805

Everytime I read someone saying Linux is so easy, they name yet another distro I haven't heard of yet. I'm squarely in the "use what works for you camp", but it seems like people f…

Just want to point out that location names are used for codenames because they cannot be trademarked Big tech uses them instead of wasting legal time and money having to clear a ne…