marcuskaz

What I hate about QR code ordering is that it puts me in charge of getting everything right. It takes way too much time, so when I go out with my family I have to hunt around for each item, make sure I put it in exactly how they want it, and now any mistake even if the kitchen goofed is now my mistake. "Dad, you ordered it wrong! There's ketchup on my burger"

Plus half the time I forget to even enter my own order trying to get everyone else's and double checking it's all correct. So my meal comes out late.

The paying and getting up and leaving without having to wait for the waiter to bring the check is nice, but the ordering part is not worth the hassle.

NPR just had a series called Body Electric, the episode from Nov 17 explains sitting and how to counter. The takeaway is there is more benefit from small amounts of exercise, walking for 5 minutes every 30 minutes, so taking 16 breaks in an 8 hour day and breaking up sitting for long stretches.

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510375/body-electric

Can we add the Chrome, Google Photos, Apple Photos, and Slack icons to the mix?

Agreed, I can't tell if it is real or all generated?

Instead of the feature selector popping up and blocking the avatar, it would be nice to have it side to side, or top to bottom and not close on selection but allow for tapping through the different options and see the differences.

The sound is annoying and does not add much to selecting an item. All the features look small when selecting them, so hard to to see the differences until clicking. So trying out a bunch of different ones combined with the sound was irksome. I'm not sure how you test with it on, I turned off my speaker.

This site has feeds of windows around the world: https://www.window-swap.com

"a rapid unscheduled disassembly" - what a phrase for an explosion

> Machines lie. Machines tell the truth.

ChatGPT generates text based on input from a human who takes the output and does something with it. The machine is not really the one in control and lying or telling the truth. It's the person that does something with it.

BeOS were my favorite. https://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/beos

I have a Python one, Termgraph, but maybe not as feature full as this one https://github.com/mkaz/termgraph

You might have a slight color deficiency, you can try this online color vision acuity test: https://www.xrite.com/hue-test

Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

There's a card game Krypto that is similar, fun to play with my kids. I wrote some scripts awhile ago to solve Krypto games and figure out how many games are unsolvable.

I wrote up my thinking and how I went about solving here: https://mkaz.blog/math/krypto-game-analysis/

I'll have to try it again, I didn't realize there was a setting for it. I uninstalled it because the typing felt really slow and awkward.

My two cents, default disable so it feels faster, it sounded like speed and smoothness was one of the many selling points.

This one is fun, the original Atari Lunar Lander in browser http://moonlander.seb.ly/

Yes! This is what a modern task runner should be. Includes ability to list recipes, and a consistent format between multiple platforms. Just two things Make doesn't have.

Very cool! I have a simple terminal graph tool that I can pipe the ascii graphs into svgbob and it converts pretty well to an svg graphic.

Termgraph: https://github.com/mkaz/termgraph

It really is the best command-line prompt tool https://starship.rs/

It's a fun low risk space to try out a language. I just started rewriting an old one I had now in Rust. Many similar ideas and planned features, currently mine just accepts notes from command-line, piped in, or uses the editor.

https://github.com/mkaz/zk

This argument is a slippery slope implying any comment can be objected.

No worries, thanks for the suggestions. I didn't read them as complaints at all.

I updated the link too, I switch back and forth between vim/neovim, the only real difference to me is the location of the config file.

Ah, it is Vim's todo list, not using Vim as a todo app.

I was looking for more pointers on the later, I wrote a little on using Vim Wiki for managing todo list, always on the look out for more tips.

Here's the TLDR;

- Install Vim wiki plugin

- Convert line to checkboxes using ctrl-space

- Use ctrl-space to mark complete

- Use gln to toggle partial complete (glp for previous)

- gl<Space> to remove checkbox

A little more at: https://mkaz.blog/working-with-vim/vimwiki/

Data stored in files within a hierarchy of folders. It's the hot new thing!

I worked at ETRADE around the same time and led the migration from Sun to Linux on the software side, switching everything to Apache was once a radical idea. We switched to IBM machines and not HP, a Sun server cost around $250k and the equivalent Linux server was $5k and outperformed the Sun machines. It still was considered risky by CTOs.

During the dotcom boom there was huge competition for ordering Sun machines and it was difficult to get enough, we were competeting with eBay to get our hands on machines.

During the crash, we went back to eBay as a seller and couldn't off load all the old Sun machines.

Here's an article from the time: https://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Projects-Enterprise-Planning...

> I don't think a 3 second warning is valuable at all

3 seconds is plenty of time for a sensor to trigger an actuator to close valve, say a natural gas valve that could leak and cause fires.

This is the key! The whole world is falling apart with kids doing distance learning, partners losing jobs, all sorts of stress and anxiety for a simple thing like going to the store to buy groceries. I think it is rather obvious to expect a drop in productivity under the circumstances, and frankly quite thoughtless and inhumane to think otherwise.

No, Ubuntu 18.04 shipped with Python3 as the default.

> This new behavior doesn’t change the long-established policy that our users and developers can run arbitrary code on their Macs

This irks me, I don't know why. Maybe because calling it an Apple policy is something that can be changed. I consider it more a right that I can run arbitrary code on my computer.

So yes, I would agree, quite reasonable to be concerned.

> use Linux with a Windows VM for the occasional Zoom call or similar thing

The other way around works pretty well these days. Windows 10 and their new terminal app plus WSL2 for development is a pretty good combo. Most things work as expceted, and if you use Visual Studio Code it has good integration between the two environments.

Ideal experience:

1. I write code in an editor, it auto lints and formats to standards of project.

2. On save, whatever is needed to build and test is automatically run.

3. After repeat 1-2 and ready, commit code and create pull request.

4. On commit, integration tests run and one-off environment to smoke test is created.

5. On accepted review and merged, auto deploy to production or next release.