rfarley04

My god I bought this board at the exact right time. I can't remember how much it was exactly but my 16gb pi was much less than half this new price a year ago

I have an Asus Vivobook with the same mediatek chip and it does something similar on Linux. I've got it set up to literally unload the WiFi driver after a sleep or shutdown command

> "Then, to throw a little extra wrinkle into the mix, there was Lotus’s product strategy on the PC. If Improv wasn’t your thing, maybe their other Windows spreadsheet, 1-2-3/Windows, would feel more comfortable. Or their other-other option, Lotus Symphony. Or their other-other-other option, Lotus Works. Or their other-other-other-other option, Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS Release 4, which went on sale in 1994."

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I absolutely love little tools where the URL defines the app's data. Cassidy Williams's pocketcal.com is another really simple but really useful one.

At what scale? How is 3d printing at the scale of a boardgame you can sell nationwide different then the current manufacturing methods to create these materials?

Should probably put somewhere in the title that this is an individual's prediction

Thank you for saving me five minutes. Seriously.

I have lived in Thailand for 13 years and taxes have been a huge pain. When I worked for a local company, I had to pay taxes in both places, for example. I have since started a US-based S Corp for my contract/freelance work and have payments arrive in family's US bank account, where I tend to keep them in savings while living off my wife's local salary. I use an expact-specific tax service (Greenback) that typically costs ~$650 for me to just give them all my paperwork and they do up the taxes for me. Absolutely worth it to just not have to worry about everything.

Oh my god this is a lifesaver. Just last week I was using Google Groups to search for old Usenet posts about the Commodore 64 and the Mimic Spartan, and I was getting "too many requests" errors 4 out of 5 times clicking a result. Happened on VPN+incognito, and in a separate browser. Just searched for what I was looking for in Rewind and immediately found the posts and even some I never saw in Google Groups results. So glad all of this is archived in multiple, non Google places

The video is just people typing into a chatbot window and then Claude building them something. Salesforce is totally irrelevant to that workflow except as the place where you store your data.

Another video claiming that AI can do anything and everything, but it needs a human babysitter. Another video claiming that working with a CRM will be fun. Another video claiming that we can finally trust AI. God why does Salesforce still exist at all.

We'll never forget you, Anatoly Cherdenko.

"Commander! You've rained on my glorious parade! For this, I'm sending everything I got at you, but I won't let you have the satisfaction of catching me. I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... space!"

I absolutely love audiobookshelf for audiobooks. And I currently use it for my epubs, but it does not handle that particularly well. It doesn't save progress consistently and the UI for page flipping leaves a lot to be desired. Definitely going to check out how OP's library works

Yesssss a wordcount tracker for daily stats that ignores pasted text, only counting things you typed yourself. I built a very hacky and unreliable word count tracker of my own. This looks way better

Then why can't I see the ketchup bottle sitting front and center in the fridge

Author here, from another issue I sent about my definition of bad ads for this newsletter:

"tl;dr While I do exaggerate the “badness” of 80s tech ads to make things more fun, a nostalgic ad is not the same thing as an effective ad. What we see in advertising today is so depressing because it is often so bland AND more effective than its more playful predecessors."

They are fun to look at now. And soooo much more creative than marketing crap from today. But they're still 12-page long marketing gimmicks. I'd still take them over today's ads any day of the week, and that's why I spend dozens of hours every month tracking them down and learning their stories

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/bad-ads-define...

You're right! That was a not entirely clear enough reference to Gateway 2000's first ad, in 1987, which famously used the headline "Computers from Iowa?"

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-p...

Haha damn, you beat me to posting it. Such an accurate description of my writing process, which, despite being super slow, pays the bills!

Not disagreeing on that front. But the article I saw on /new and the spacedaily one, regardless of their accuracy, certainly looked like wholly AI generated writing to me

Seemingly unrelated, I just saw some post on /new that was saying Dunning-Kruger had been debunked by some recent study. It looked pretty sus so I kagi'ed it and lo and behold guess what came up:

https://spacedaily.com/j-v-the-dunning-kruger-effect-mapped-...

Yes we are. I wrote about it last July:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249

And there have been some other attempts to quantify it:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039478

Saw this immediately after listening to a chapter of Player of Games. The Culture series is full of voice interfaces (Minds and drones) that are always on task