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Re:Is the Music Business Collapsing? on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:27PM (#50322206)
I miss grooveshark. Exposed me to an absolute ton of new music, and still has what I feel was the best mobile UX. The "play now, play next, play later" buttons were genius
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:32PM (#50282429)
Not even for government. Many of these models aren't available on fedramp available providers, like bedrock. Instead they're stuck months ago. Iirc bedrock just got sonnet 5
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:33PM (#50267392)
Every tor SF book I've ever read had that. Neat little bit of history
I love iosevka, but really wish they'd ship a variable font version of it. The argument against it was that variable fonts didn't support as many different parameters as they needed, but that argument fell flat for me. They could still ship variable versions of the fonts with the settings variables don't cover the way they do now
Re:Beauty in DVD Menus on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:53PM (#50015028)
What's even more amazing/sad is that Matroska containers support much of it, but no one has implemented a player that has all of them
Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:51PM (#49955558)
I second this. But I used to use SyncThing for sync. Now I use Bookorbit and the Koreader plug-in for sync

It beats the pants off kindle

Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:43PM (#49955478)
Koreader has a number of plugins for Bluetooth support on various devices, and you can buy cheap "tiktok remotes" for a few bucks that work with them

I got a "tiktok ring" that I use to read in bed, and it's fantastic

Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:42PM (#49955464)
I don't know why they refuse to make a new oasis like kindle. Horizontal and square is extremely comfortable to read on

The abandonment of Oasis, coupled with their DRM goofs, led me to a Boox Go, with Koreader, and Ive never been happier

Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:36PM (#49955406)
They tried that with buzz. It flopped even harder
Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:38PM (#49902357)
So make it so all clients pretend to be livenerf at first. Same as the ol' pretending to be Google UA for free articles
Re:You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:43AM (#49895291)
I still host dinner parties. I even had one last night! But this article does touch on many things

I like hosting. People like attending. But they never do. I'll host several a year, and there are constantly people who say they'll come, and then never do

I'm not at the point no longer inviting people, but I've thought about it before

Claude has yet to tell me about the terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side, so I'm going to assume it's closer to Eddy the shipboard computer or the elevator that wanted to go down
They've had ads for years. Try not upgrading to Tahoe and you'll get a popup every week advertising their new os
Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:43PM (#49795421)
Mimo has long been one of my preferred models. It works well at many code tasks, generally has a pleasant voice, and isn't prone to over-analzing and researching

Also when I was using it, I managed to do quite a bit on a few bucks worth of OpenRouter credits. Not sure how well it keeps up in the modern world against things like Luna, but I hope it remains competitive

Re:CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:54PM (#49770046)
I used to go play board games and such at a local shop. Stopped years ago. Just too much bs about anything.

Nowdays I occasionally host small DnD games, and its a blast. But its invite only, and we're not afraid to not invite people in the future. But our group works and plays well with each other, and it's been blissfully drama free

Re:CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:00PM (#49749373)
Never been to a ccc, but sadly experiences similar to yours drove me off of attending "nerd" events
Re:Wax Motor on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:55PM (#49749335)
Moen figured out a good enough solution without wax called moentrol

Push/pull adjusts volume, rotation adjusts hot/cold mix

Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:35PM (#49734507)
It had a runtime
Re:The Beauty of Roundabouts on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:43PM (#49732741)
I have actually seen some roundabout like constructs on parts of the interstate. They're giant, far larger than singular interchanges, and serve to handle multiple branches and belt loops.

Of course, they are augmented by allowing the main direction of travel to bypass the circle and go over/under it

Re:The Beauty of Roundabouts on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:31PM (#49732572)
Thank you for mentioning the asymmetrical traffic flow problem. YUMBL even managed to reproduce this using cities skylines, and there's an intersection near my house that's maddening for this. Large two lane circle, downstream from a traffic signal. When the signal is red you can use the circle normally. But when the signal turns green and there's a massive influx of traffic, forget about entering the circle from any point other than the one downstream of the light. Effectively one light controls two intersections
Re:GitHub is having trouble counting things on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:25PM (#49732486)
At a previous gig we had a simple "reset staging" task on gha, that ran once a week on Tuesday

It ran fine for years, then around November just stopped and never ran again. Tried moving it around for which time it would trigger, and it just never started again. Opened a ticket, and got nowhere

Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:47PM (#49719324)
Terrible for code, amazing for prose

I've set my documentation sub agent to Gemini and my code agent to Luna

Re:Things That Annoy Me About Cars on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:55AM (#49713532)
Sunny days stat can be seen on https://tridec.org/climate-geography/

As for number of 100+ degree days, it's more elusive, but the mean max is over 100 for two months on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick%2C_Washington?wprov=...

Re:Things That Annoy Me About Cars on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:53PM (#49705346)
Tourism board proudly advertises the 300 days of sun on big bill boards at the airport in Pasco, and the hot summers are honestly worse than Phoenix, as there's humidity
Re:Things That Annoy Me About Cars on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:52PM (#49702942)
Which part of the pnw? Because in the mid Columbia you get 300+ days of sun and summer temperatures in the low 100s
Re:Things That Annoy Me About Cars on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:49PM (#49702894)
Tesla has managed to violate the laws of thermodynamics?
Re:Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023) on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:48PM (#49676497)
Was hoping to test the demo page she talks about on my pixel fold. 404s
Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:03PM (#49646011)
I bemoaned devs refusing to learn their tools myself

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-07-26-tailwind-and-the-death-of-cra...

Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:59AM (#49645927)
What about Phoenix live view?
Re:I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:26PM (#49636551)
A task for Claude

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