joshuaturner

Oof, I would be livid if that happened to me, too. Maybe I just threaded the needle and got lucky or something, but I'm disappointed to hear mine isn't a universal experience.

Funnily enough that's the one feature that works pretty well for me and is keeping me on Apple Music as opposed to Spotify.

Considering the state of every recently made/"remade" first party Apple app I cannot imagine how horrible the Music app would be after they got done with it.

Even in the context of an application stack - my initial read had me believing they were moving away from DuckDB

Cities benefit from people being in office and thus, in the city spending money. In 2024, SF had a new business tax plan to incentivize employers to bring people back to the office, and I wouldn't be surprised if other cities did similar.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s-f-economy-tax-plan-...

Apparently the source code for RA2 has been lost (along with Tiberian Sun)

Bad websites make the times we interact with the government much less efficient than it otherwise would be, especially if a artifice has no reasonable online alternative and instead required in person appointments, costing you time, requiring additional staff, and requiring office space.

One of the best examples of this is passport renewal. In the US until very recently you were unable to do this online, either having to print and mail in a form or go in person to an office.

Another example is the work of 18F to allow Americans easy direct filing of their taxes without the need (or cost) of a third party.

From some light testing, the results here are pretty lackluster. I've used videosummarizerai.com in the past via ChatGPT and the ability to specify the format of the information you're looking for is a huge plus.

Here's the summary of this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1WkG8WuRcg (AoE2 video)] from tldw.tube:

> The video discusses the most powerful team combinations in the "10x Shared Civ Bonus" mod for Age of Empires II. It highlights how certain civilizations, when combined strategically, can create overpowering unit types and tactics. The focus is on four-player team compositions that leverage unique benefits: for instance, the combination of Franks or Incas for free castles, Japanese and Tatars for rapid trebuchet fire, and Celts for enhanced onagers. The video also explores various combinations for cavalry and infantry, including the Goths for swift unit production and a range of secondary civilizations to amplify strengths. Commenters contributed ideas for clever combos, emphasizing the limitless potential for exploiting the mod's mechanics to develop broken strategies that can quickly overwhelm opponents by accelerating unit production or enhancing existing attributes, thereby showcasing the humorous and chaotic nature of the mod's gameplay.

and here's the summary of the same video from videosummarizerai.com via ChatGPT with the prompt "Give a summary of all civ combos mentioned in order":

> Here’s a summary of the civilization combinations mentioned in the video in order:

    Castle Spam Team:
        Incas: Free castles and massive villager armor bonuses.
        Teutons: Adds +30 range to castles.
        Celts: Castles fire at four times the usual rate.
        Sicilians or Spanish: Increased castle build speed (castles built in 30 seconds).

    Ultimate Trebuchet Team:
        Japanese: Faster fire rate and instant packing/unpacking for trebuchets.
        Tatars: Adds +20 range to trebuchets.
        Britons: Adds splash damage and perfect accuracy with Warwolf.
        Saracens or Celts: Additional attack bonuses or faster firing trebuchets.

    Best Onager Combo:
        Celts: Increased fire rate and durability for onagers.
        Mongols: Super-speed movement for onagers.
        Koreans: Adds +10 range and removes minimum range.
        Slavs: Makes onagers free.

    Scorpion Team:
        Khmer: Adds range and additional projectiles.
        Romans: Reduces cost and increases attack rate.
        Ethiopians: Adds torsion engine tech for better area damage.
        Chinese: Adds huge damage to projectiles for almost quadrupled effectiveness.

    [goes on to list remaining 4 team combos]

I love seeing old hardware kept alive by community effort like this.

Would love to see similar for the Sidekick, although I know hardware limitations will make that much less likely to materialize anything meaningful.

I just want to flip it open to respond to a text message one more time.

I just find their karate abilities quite remarkable

I remember the announcement for Orion but I haven't followed closely at all - any support for container proxies like in Firefox? Can't lose that feature

I try not to be one of those people who resist any/all change just because it's change, but the gradient on the progress bar bothers me so much.

Neko is back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

AOL keyword "chat"

> Put hawk tuah in fortnite

some ideas deserve to die

I disagree. We pretty explicitly ask candidates to not use AI.

While it's fine when doing the job the purpose of the interview is to gauge your ability to understand and solve problems, while AI can help you with that you understanding how to do it yourself signals that you'll be able to solve other more complex wider-spanning problems.

Just like with a calculator - it's important for candidates to know _why_ something works and be able to demonstrate that as much as them knowing the solution.

I think a lot of this comes down to AI. In a recent hiring round we experienced multiple candidates using AI tooling to assist them in the technical interviews (remote only company). I expect relationship hires to become more common over the next few years as even more open-discussion focused interview rounds like architecture become lower signal.

So with that in mind I'll see you all at ReInvent

If anything the non Developer Editions of Firefox disabling the ability to load an extension locally (without resetting it every time the browser starts) closes one path to preventing auto-updating of extensions.

This is very, very unimportant - but the build in your demo video on the site has a typo in the application name, "Selectirc" instead of "Selectric" (seen in the menu bar)

That’s awesome, it’s always exciting to hear how others used the app and the kind of monitors they were able to build for their communities.

I’m glad you found it useful! It was a really fun project to build and I was always surprised at how many users it attracted.

Especially because if I had monetized it, it likely would have been a subscription model because that would obviously be the only way to cover the continued operating costs, and users have such an aversion to any subscription.

Before Reddit changed API access I built an iOS app called Pager (https://pager.app) that allowed users to set up alerts for content posted on Reddit. It had a lot of success but the issues you highlighted here kept me from monitizing the project.

Users became so demanding and I felt like if I began to take money from them it would only get worse. Looking back on it I'm not sure it was the best choice, but at least at the time the application being free felt like an important defense against users that you really could never satisfy.

I'm sure enforcement around it would be difficult but I'd imagine most major apps would fall in line if only because the risk of losing their notification entitlement would be too great.

I think they used to have a rule about this but then their own apps started to violate it, so they loosened restrictions. What I'd really love to see is notification categories so you can choose which to accept.

It's very much a "death by a thousand cuts" situation - I'm not a fan of the removal of 1Password mini which was my primary interaction with 1Password, especially for the common workflow of password generation/account lookup.

It seems their focus is to drive this into the browser extension but that doesn't cover all of my use cases - I very often need to generate a login password _outside_ the context of a browser and doing so now requires me to open the application and create a new password and save that record while before it was one click away in the menubar.

I'm also annoyed that we're no longer able to define which vaults are included in "all vaults" and the inability to simultaneously disable the browser extension from injecting their UI into websites (the login icons, blue input fields, etc) while keeping the prompt to save a login when a new one is detected.

I'm glad it's working for you. I use v8 every day on my work machine. My complaints aren't about the speed of the application, but rather the reduced features and removal of any menubar app functionality that was present in v7. I'm not a fan of the UI changes, personally; I don't know why everything needs to have _so much_ space, but I could ignore that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Electron, and I'd prefer it have remained a native app, but that alone wouldn't be enough for me to jump ship. And I'm not even claiming alternatives are better than v8; it's simply that v7 was much better, and I'm actively looking for alternatives.

I don't mind paying for quality software, which I considered 1Password v7 to be. However, their recent v8 launch has soured me on the company pretty severely. The macOS app is a pretty dramatic downstep and their focus on a browser extension over a system/menubar app is frustrating to say the least.

I don't know if Apple Passwords will be a perfect fit for me, I'm hoping someone shares a deep dive on the product soon because I'm not in a position to use the beta, but I'm happy to see some more competition in the space.

> No contributions on December 19th.

smh

(I realize this could just be down to timezone differences considering I'm in the US)

I wonder how widespread the damage to the app's reputation is after this. I've had multiple conversations with people about this today and everyone is moving to alternatives.

As you said, I don't think knowing that Applause (applause.dev) is the acquiring company helps much considering they have no track record of anything as far as I can see, but having a full day of radio silence must have done some considerable damage.

> that being healthier and richer improve your sleep

Either that or, apparently, living in Nebraska or Minnesota