jorisboris

In last few years I’ve been to multiple very mediocre hotels and restaurants with 4.5 or higher rating, so there is definitely some sort of manipulation going on.

Frankly, if I had a restaurant I would also try to crank up my rating.

It’s still useful though, the above experiences taught me to actually read the reviews, and read between the lines. It just takes more time.

And it literally blocks users from using messenger in the mobile browser, I need to ask for desktop website

When my manager wanted to put me on a pip, an experienced HR friend recommended me to speak to an employment lawyer asap. They would help for a relatively small fee, and a percentage if they win. In many countries PIPs are subjective, and courts nudge to protecting employees. A lawyer can help you prepare to document and catch errors. It doesn't solve your problems but at least you have the chance to get a premium for your frustration.

This was not in the Netherlands, so things might be different, but probably similar to a certain extent.

How do they block it?

> My best guess is that Grok “knows” that it is “Grok 4 buit by xAI”, and it knows that Elon Musk owns xAI

Recently Cursor figured out who the ceo was in a Slack Workspace I was building a bot for, based on samples of conversation. I was quite impressed

I thought my interests changed or I got more busy

And hence checked hn less

But maybe it’s just less interesting indeed

That destination matrix is something I’ve never seen before!

This was quite fun!

Exploring N8N

I have the impression clients like it when their code is “visual” so I’m trying to learn more of it to attract new clients

I need this solution

Our landlord installed a Honeywell home, the cheapest version, and it has no remote or timer capabilities

And especially in winter it would be nice if it would jump on before we wake up!

Change the persons orientation (make him turn around) when going back up?

how to apply for the junior roles if they are not posted yet?

I believe the challenge was to access the volume settings from a browser web page (I wanted it to be a web app)

Not sure if that’s solved

I once tried building a Macbook app which lowers my music volume when I'm not smiling, to try to stimulate more happy emotions (forcing yourself to smile induces happy feelings)

Then I started thinking how this could be used in restaurants to see if waiters smile to the people they are serving Or in customer service (you can actually hear it when people smile on the phone)

Then I realised that this kind of tech would definitely lead to abuse

(btw that's not the reason I didn't build it, it was just not that easy to build)

I'm not the right fit ... but the careers page is great!

Maybe I’m lazy but why do above four posters do so much effort?

I just mark as spam and or block the sender

My wife doesn’t quite appreciate that in the middle of the night

My best ideas come in my bed

Ideally I have a kale phone to note them

Because it’s too easy to go to social after I noted down my idea

Robo helper in the household

Ai personal assistant who knows me and understands what I want

Ais chat among each other to figure out if their “owners” are good matches. If they are the ais set up a time and place for the first date

We can’t change the bureaucrats but I would expect private companies to have more common sense and customer focus to avoid these shenanigans

Airlines, insurance, ikea, … basically everyone who redirects you to a bot menu can’t be reached by WhatsApp

WhatsApp doesn’t work for a fixed line or a business phone number

I use my Skype credit when abroad and making local calls so this is quite painful

Yes, I typed that too fast

I guess “paintings” is the right word here

Nevertheless the strongest association in my brain to the word “art” are probably paintings

Hiroshi Nagai is the first time I felt art resonate with me

All of a sudden I appreciated art!

I wrote an app which shows me which documents or notes I need to review

Typical documents include my short term goals, my long term goals, my marketing ideas, my coding ideas, …

For each doc I defined how often I want to read it (every 14 days, every month, …)

Once i read it, I update the latest read date

The app then calculates which doc I should read next

Keeps me of the doomscroll

What's more surprising is that despite this trade off it's still possible to fly for 50 dollars or less at moments. So I don't feel the trade-off made hinders the economic viability

Not sure if an automation, but a European marathon has an official resale platform which is first come first serve, which in practice means resale tickets are snatched up almost instantly.

I built a cron job which checked the page every minute, and sent a push notification to my phone when the page changed.

I probably could have optimised it further, but this was sufficient for me to secure a ticket.

I would love to remove the email app for iPhone for that reason but it’s a standard app for iPhone

Maybe I should just delete my accounts and access them through browser instead

It’s also mindset, even if a country is a 3rd world country, if there is growth and a sense of progress, the population will be in a much more optimistic state.

It’s not the current situation which matters, it’s how people look at the future

What do you use the 3D printer for?