barryvan

Not sure what sort of burgers and beer you buy, but $150 generally goes just a _little_ bit further than that in my experience...

Any chance of Western Australia? This looks like a really useful tool and I'd love to give it a proper go here...

Me too, and I'm in Australia...

I appreciate a lot of the points made -- particularly that a CSV document, like any text, is a product of a partucular context and needs to be understood as such. It's a fascinating area to delve into for any product, even one as seemingly-simple as this.

But I struggled with the writing style: short, staccato sentences, each following the same simple structure, and each presented as its own paragraph. I can't help but feel it would've read better as normal prose.

I'm waiting on my 13 Pro. I need a new laptop, and the big advantage here is that I can more easily upgrade ram when (hopefully not if!) prices return to more reasonable levels. So I can be a bit more modest for now, knowing that when it comes time to upgrade, it'll be a lot cheaper than buying a whole new machine. Seems like the best option to me!

The pope's "lane" is humanity. In reading the article, I found the position he puts forth to be measured and considered, focusing not on the technical aspects of AI, but rather on how to approach its use and implementation with empathy and careful thought.

I've been working on a super-straightforward volunteering platform -- https://handsup.barryvan.com.au/ . Mainly because I got frustrated with my kids' school and sailing club activities being (mis)managed across WhatsApp, Google Forms, pieces of paper, and the like.

Really interesting to see just how _loud_ the infrasound from these datacentres can be.

I'm curious as to what the cause is, though. I have to imagine it's related to the cooling systems in some way -- but is it the overall datacentre's cooling, or all the individual fans? Or something else entirely?

There are lots of ways to style these native controls, though, including ways to start from scratch and retain the accessibility affordances.

I'd be curious to know more about the usability issues you've found on mobile -- I've not had any personally when using radio buttons. I'll readily grant you that 'select' is awful everywhere though!

This is an unreasonably effective way of running cables. The first time I used it it felt like magic with how quick and painless it was.

From the article:

> The vast spider population is attributed to an abundant food supply: more than 2.4 million midges in the cave, ready to be entangled in the intricate web.

...although I guess the question then is what sustains the millions of midges!

Or Firefox, which isn't just a reskinned Chrome...

As an Aussie, it terrifies me that it could be anywhere close to what working in America could be like. But having heard stories like the Walmart "smile" failure in Germany, I can only assume it's not too far off.

Most, including the company I work for, operate on a 100/100/80 model: 100% pay for 100% performance/output in 80% of the time. This means that, for example, meetings are generally short, on time, and straight into the topic. For me personally, and from what I've heard from colleagues, you get more done when you don't have the same mid-week or end-of-week slump.

The company I work for, Wonde, allows staff to choose the day. There's negotiation with the manager to ensure appropriate coverage across the week, and a fair bit of flexibility around swapping days around as and when necessary too.

Ah -- I missed that it was AI-generated! That being the case, you're not wrong.

I'm a PM and I assumed that this was parody at first. I've been guilty of using terms like this with customers ("Not something we can do at the moment, but certainly something to think about down the track."), but always with a sense of discomfort -- or an attempt to make it clear that it's a "nice no".

Inside a company, I don't think there should be space for these sorts of responses. I can see these only being necessary/used where people are disenfranchised and not involved in setting or understanding the overall product priorities. But then I've always seen the PM's prioritisation role more as an expert mediator than a dictator...

I've been thoroughly enjoying these streams. I think I now have a better understanding of a lot of the underlying basics of not only game dev but also general C++ development. All of my professional programming has been in higher-level languages so it's really interesting to me to see the thought processes that go into developing in C++.

Not quite, though. It's a shortcut to copy-and-paste text into a _Google_ app. For example, this wouldn't let you use Apple Maps or TripAdvisor or whatever other system you may prefer, instead funnelling you into Google's ecosystem. It's an attempt to bypass competitors hidden under by a façade of convenience.

Nobody that we know of has yet been hurt by this. I think it's very unfair and unhelpful to call people who flag issues like this "whiners". Would you accept a chainsaw which worked fine 99.9% of the time, but occasionally just exploded even with normal care and use? Why should LLMs be subject to a different set of expectations from any other tool?