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jakeva

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Software developer in Salt Lake City. Elixir/Phoenix, Golang. https://jva.lol — essays, travelogs, haikus https://mastodon.social/@jvalol

I build https://popsicleboat.com

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jakeva··on I’ve been single all my life
The big one was about 10 years ago and I agree with you about letting go of the past. I'm no longer angry or bitter. I got into another serious relationship a few years ago and it didn't end well either but not as bad. I found myself not as affected by it. Both taught me a lot. Where I am now I'm happy to be single, I can do what I want. Nobody to argue with or plan my weekend for me. I'm open to another relationship in the future but I'm not really looking for one and I see things in potential relationships differently and with more skepticism.
jakeva··on I’ve been single all my life
I haven't been single all my life, but the relationships I have had have taught me things that makes it easier to be single. I remember the good times fondly, but the bad times remind me why being single isn't so bad.
jakeva··on About communication safety in Messages
I did, and lots of former mormons who leave their religion and embrace the vices of the world after their two year mission.
jakeva··on 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
Where I work the P in PTO means "paid"
jakeva··on Use Git tactically
I'm irrationally annoyed that the first graphic misspells "stash" twice.
jakeva··on Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
I prefer working from the office, even if it’s empty. 99% of my interactions continue to be remote but I like to have somewhere that isn’t my home office to do work. I don’t like being _that_ much of a hermit.
jakeva··on About the security content of iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1
Even doubly so, since at least for some of us they were bricked somehow recently. I had two. One is flashing the volume buttons and is unresponsive otherwise. I can't even replace it without going to ebay and paying double. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomePod/comments/g3lm0e/flashing_vo...
jakeva··on Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
But shaming victims is acceptable?
jakeva··on Exa: An alternative to Ls
I've got ls aliased to exa
jakeva··on How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978)
The first mention of Christianity is one in which it is rejected

"In Plato’s Timaeus, God does not create the universe, as does the Christian God; He simply finds it one day. It is in a state of total chaos. God sets to work to transform the chaos into order. That idea appeals to me, and I have adapted it to fit my own intellectual needs: What if our universe started out as not quite real, a sort of illusion, as the Hindu religion teaches, and God, out of love and kindness for us, is slowly transmuting it, slowly and secretly, into something real?"

jakeva··on How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (1978)
"But the problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups — and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into the heads of the reader, the viewer, the listener"

I wonder what he would think of today's world

jakeva··on YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
My interpretation would be closer to "the jab slows the spread".
jakeva··on I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2
I spent the money only to find out I don't actually take notes in any form other than with a keyboard. I have used it to do some sketching though, but I don't really do that much either.
jakeva··on How we got to LiveView
I might try setting a mounted hook on the element with something like

  this.el.addEventListener('onkeydown', function (event) {
      this.el.dispatchEvent(new Event('change', { 'bubbles': true }))
    }, true);
jakeva··on Swift Regrets
I don't do Apple development as much anymore, but I used to write in AppCode a lot and used Xcode only to build.
jakeva··on Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance
not everyone is married
jakeva··on The Descent to C (2013)
what does this program do? i compiled it and ran it and got no output. i hope i haven't fork bombed myself or something
jakeva··on Fractons, the ‘weirdest’ matter, could yield quantum clues
> The odd but customary way certain physicists understand this movement is that the electron moves because space is filled with electron-positron pairs momentarily popping into and out of existence. One such pair appears so that the positron (the electron’s oppositely charged antiparticle) is on top of the original electron, and they annihilate. This leaves behind the electron from the pair, displaced from the original electron. As there’s no way of distinguishing between the two electrons, all we perceive is a single electron moving.

I've never heard this idea before. I haven't finished the article yet but this is fascinating to me.

jakeva··on NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
I had to know so I googled it. Paradise Lost, John Milton. The original quote is "Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."
jakeva··on Coming to Terms with Tailwind
Have you tried it? I don't know what you mean by "sign of dementia", but I find the approach taken by tailwind makes me a lot more successful in applying designs. Doesn't feel like dementia to me.
jakeva··on I still use plain text for everything. (2016)
I recommend https://bear.app/. It has good markdown support with code blocks and a tagging system I like.
jakeva··on The Lightness of Windows
Apple is never going to release a folding phone, it's way too gimmicky.
jakeva··on The Lightness of Windows
> prevent you from downloading and installing netscape like Apple is currently doing with iOS.

I don't know about netscape, but I currently use a browser other than Safari as my default browser. Unless you mean the underlying framework is WebKit?

jakeva··on Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral
Surely it's closer to an estimate than purely random?
jakeva··on Ever-increasing home values are a Ponzi scheme
Didn't everyone who didn't sell have the same amount of stock they had before the crash?

Not that it helps since you can't live in a share, or a bitcoin, but I don't know how being able to live in something makes the market around it a ponzi scheme or not.

jakeva··on Archaeologists discover and crack a thousand-year-old chicken egg
> While much of the egg’s contents leaked out, some of the yolk remained, and the researchers preserved it for future DNA analysis.

I'm amazed there was still yolk in there! Although I'm sure it's probably decomposed I would still love to see a picture of 1k year old egg yolk!

jakeva··on US’ First Crypto Bank Reveals Date of Commencement
Assuming there is still a power grid
jakeva··on Most Expensive Drugs in the U.S.
$8,550 is a lot of money to most Americans
jakeva··on There are no results for tank man
I didn't know DDG uses Bing's search index. What exactly is their value proposition over Bing then?
jakeva··on The story of the Tank Man photo by its photographer
aside from a benevolent dictator
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