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itslennysfault··on California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states
Considering...

> In the state, there had been no legal age to wed, allowing children to get married as long as their parents consent and a judge signs off on the nuptials.

I don't even think the headline was sensationalist.

itslennysfault··on I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records
> the story that came from stakeholders was that the accounting team found the error, and I left in disgrace (despite that not being my department?).

That sounds like defamation to me.

itslennysfault··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
Agreed. I've done some crazy stuff in apartments. Last place I rented I installed a projector on the ceiling and ran wires through the ceiling and walls because it'd be ugly otherwise. Also converted a ceiling light into an outlet to power it. Patched the drywall before I moved out and the landlord never needed to know.
itslennysfault··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
I'd cut a block of wood to fit snuggly to the left of the knob, wedge it in place and screw the stepper in to that.

.....or just screw into the AC unit somewhere discrete and hope no one notices.

itslennysfault··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
My favorite one has to be "production ready" it will say that about completely broken code without hesitation. LLM says it's production ready, lets ship!!
itslennysfault··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
I agree with this, but it seems so crazy to me. How can money be a motivator when you're that rich. I'm not even "rich" but I'm already at a point where money is far from my #1 motivator.

I LOVE puppies, but if I had a trillion of them the last thing I'd want is another puppy.

itslennysfault··on Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)
I seriously remember this game being hard... I finished with $500k cash, $11m in the bank, and $0 debt. 100/100 score. High school me is very proud.
itslennysfault··on Have a fucking website
The phone. Wow. Great solution..... Literally the whole point of putting information online is so your employees don't have to waste time answering the same question 999999x per day.
itslennysfault··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
cPanel reborn
itslennysfault··on Have a fucking website
> If you don't want to do business with them just because you shun platforms

I don't do business with them because I can't access their hours, menu, services, etc... I've had this happen a few times. I'm not avoiding these businesses because I'm a snob. It's because I literally can't access the information. So, I go back to google and find a business that provides the information I need to decide if the business meets my needs before traveling to their location.

itslennysfault··on Hyperlinks in terminal emulators
Yeeeeah, I made it as far as...

> It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages

before saying "oh... no.... I hate this. Please don't."

itslennysfault··on Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface
OP mentioned using this to scale WordPress instances in one of the comments. So I assume that had something to do with the choice. It probably wouldn't be TOO hard to support multiple dialects of SQL in the future though.
itslennysfault··on IBM to acquire Confluent
What's wrong with kafka or what WILL BE wrong with kafka?
itslennysfault··on Nostr
They explicitly don't have a "nostr coin" or do anything "on chain" which I applaud them for especially since the Venn Diagram of Nostr and the crypto community is basically a circle.
itslennysfault··on Try and
This is also the construction used for FAFO

FA = "try" (as a vulgar slang)

When you de-vulgar/de-slang it it becomes: try and find out

itslennysfault··on Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
Very odd. This must be some kind of Ubuntu issue. Out of curiosity I tried it in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on MacOS 15.5 and saw very little CPU usage and no difference with/without the video playing. I don't have a Ubuntu Desktop handy to confirm. Looking at the video it's nothing special. Just a fairly small mp4 using a native html5 video element to play it. Really no reason this should be causing issues.
itslennysfault··on New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Just in case... Maybe you didn't wait long enough? I saw nothing so I came to the comments expecting a lot of others to day the animation is broken. However, it turns out it's a lot slower/longer than I thought. I saw the little bar on the left shrink to nothing and thought that was it and exited, but that's just the start. The full animation is the red circle shrinking all the way until it disappears. There is no illusion until the circle shrinks quite a bit.
itslennysfault··on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
That's crazy... Did they bill you for the cost of shutting down the MRI and refilling the helium?
itslennysfault··on How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024)
I went through your exact same hate timeline. The CoffeeScript one was so bad that I was REALLY hesitant about TypeScript, but the whole "it's a superset of JS" thing won me over in the end.

I still hate PHP the most, and I very much mean PHP 5 when I say that, and have no idea what happened beyond that, and honestly the scars are so deep I don't care to find out.

itslennysfault··on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
I don't think the risks are high with this. It's not writing for you. It's just correcting your grammar. If you're 99% writing it yourself and just having it highlight grammar mistakes I wouldn't expect it to trigger an alarm....... but I haven't been in school since waaay before LLMs were viable/common. So, maybe it's worse than I think.
itslennysfault··on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
Gosh people love complicating things.

You don't need to fight with installing (the correct version of) java. I wouldn't in my life consider installing java on my OS directly.

For anyone with docker already installed (most people these days)...

  git clone git@github.com:gardner/LocalLanguageTool.git

  cd LocalLanguageTool

  docker compose up
itslennysfault··on Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly
Did the website originally say this? I just checked and it says "an" now... Perhaps they didn't use their own tool when writing the web copy.
itslennysfault··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
This was even a major hurdle for Google Fiber. The incumbent ISPs did everything they could to obstruct them from installing fiber, and it was fairly effective even against someone with deep pockets like Google.
itslennysfault··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
I'm not a doctor or any kind of expert, but I think consistency is pretty much always the best. A lot of people get stuck in a weird mindset of "it's only a mile why bother" ... but even just going for a walk every day is infinitely better than doing nothing.

From my own experience, after 2020 threw me into a bit of a depression I gained a bunch of weight for the first time in my life. I decided I was going to "workout every day" but gave myself a ton of grace about what the definition of "workout" meant. If it was bed time and I hadn't done anything yet I'd just do a couple sets of pushups to "check the box" and go to sleep. I tried to do as much as I could every day, but still gave myself a pat on the back as long as I did ANYTHING that I could call a "workout" ... I lost the weight shockingly quickly and felt a lot better even though most days I was only working out for 10-20 minutes.

itslennysfault··on Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
Thanks for your suggestion, but at this time the NSA cannot allow this change.
itslennysfault··on Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing
Yeah, the "why" the URL changed is a pretty messy story.

The original founders both wanted to start a new version of the original, and had a very public feud about ownership of the domain / name. I can't find any of it now so I'm assuming it was all removed as part of the settlement. Instead, they both posted this nearly identical statement.

https://jperla.medium.com/turntable-resolution-c66c6662ad62

https://billychasen.medium.com/settlement-agreement-9d5a5366...

itslennysfault··on Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing
Very cool. It's like a much more minimal (and more open source) version of one of my favorite sites https://deepcut.live (formerly turntable.fm)
itslennysfault··on Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators
At a company I used to work at I saw the CEO do this publicly (on slack) to the CTO who was an absolute expert on the topic at hand, and had spent 1000s of hours optimizing a specific system. Then, the CEO comes in and says I think this will fix our problems (link to ChatGPT convo). SOO insulting. That was the day I decided I should start looking for a new job.
itslennysfault··on America’s incarceration rate is in decline
> ...society will die off.

*capitalist society will die off. ( )

See also: automation, ai, robots.... we probably don't need as many people / are headed for work shortages anyway.

itslennysfault··on Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacle
Did you stop using it? For me it seems like a huge improvement now.

I was really excited for the app update because the old app was really unstable. Then the update happened and it was like 10x worse than the old app. Then in the past few months it's gotten really solid (for me anyway) and I'm pretty happy with it.

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