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normie3000··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Building web stuff doesn't require crazy hardware. Working on React and Vue apps, 16GB on a 6th gen Intel processor is fine today. Google Docs or Meet are more likely to cause issues.
normie3000··on My two-part desk setup
You just need a home cubicle.
normie3000··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
> I would love a table that has uneven solid wood surface, with cracks and scratchers, burn marks, broken corners, worn-out edges, ink-marks everywhere, shaped out by the usage, not by design.

So buy a table and start using it.

normie3000··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
The product website says it's more expensive second hand.
normie3000··on Time to talk about my writerdeck
> I'm trying to be more intentional with my tech choices. I want devices that do one thing really well, and that when I'm done with that one thing, I can put them away, and do something else. I don't want everything to follow me around everywhere.

Sign me up.

I would like an audio device which can play mp3, podcasts, internet radio. Bonus points if it supports some kind of cartridge system, size between credit card and audio cassette. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

normie3000··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
Are there compatible alternatives to this shelving without the price tag?
normie3000··on Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street
Additionally I have visited Stonehenge and it's sterilised and disappointing being unable to walk amongst the stones. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
normie3000··on Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street
I lived a long time in a city near the equator with a prominent east-west street. Commuting west to east in the morning and east to west in the evening meant frequent hengings. The roads don't feel particularly safe when you can't see anything. The town planners might have considered this.
normie3000··on Flipper One – we need your help
How often do they get stones out of horses' hooves?
normie3000··on Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
Apologies - Ancient Greek!
normie3000··on Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
kai means "and"

I guess like asking why 120 is said "one hundred and twenty" in some dialects.

Maybe that's how 14 and 12 are written in Greek.

normie3000··on Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
Yes.
normie3000··on SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
I don't need to account for it - I'm just stating that this doesn't match my experience:

> Real cardholders almost never buy something for exactly $1.00. Coffee is $4.73, gas is $52.81. The roundness is the signal.

normie3000··on U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
I was sold incorrect tyres once, picked up in the inspection. Why wouldn't I want to know?
normie3000··on U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
How old was the car? Was the old one faulty? Thinking of getting an FJ but not sure the thought is coming from a sensible place.
normie3000··on SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
Worse than that.

Coffee usually _is_ a round number in my experience, and I know of people who aim for round numbers when filling their car, and of fuel stations which require a pre-set value, often 10, 20, 50€ etc

normie3000··on Nginx.org/En/Changes
I'm intrigued to know what's interesting here.

But while we're on the subject... Nginx is the most old-fashioned-feeling software I have the displeasure to use. For me the official documentation is almost useless, there seem to be many hidden surprises, and after years of working with it I am still never confident of any configuration change I make.

Add that many useful extensions seems to require recompilation.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

normie3000··on The vi family
> The comments about LLM contributed code seems like a specific axe to grind that otherwise detracts from a nice history lesson.

The existence of vim classic would be hard to explain without reference to LLMs.

normie3000··on The vi family
...and presumably quit vi once you're done!
normie3000··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
I was going to ask for more info on this collusion but you say it wasn't reported. And googling "chicxulub" just gives a volcano.

Is this speculation, or has it been confirmed somewhere?

normie3000··on Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
So umm... should I rush home and turn off all my computers?
normie3000··on From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
AuthN is hard and generic, authZ is easy and specific. Offload authN, and keep your users table in your Hetzner.
normie3000··on AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
Maybe? I've filtered 300-400 CVs by hand before, and didn't find it particularly time consuming to bin the ones which clearly didn't meet requirements or have any redeeming features. And hiring was not my full-time role.
normie3000··on Maladaptive Frugality
I agree your mother should get a new phone with a big screen, but what qualifies as a luxury car? There are Toyotas that cost 6 figures USD.
normie3000··on How ChatGPT serves ads
You've said the same thing.

> Ads will be the last way I chose to do that

The implication is that they've exhausted all other options.

normie3000··on How ChatGPT serves ads
> will simply lie, as with a biased human opinion

Is this really how bias works?

normie3000··on High Performance Git
> LFS adds its own operational overhead.

Seemingly seconds on every remote-touching command, even on a very small repo.

normie3000··on NPM website was down
Well it is owned by github.
normie3000··on EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code
Ref 1, he should have called it Daughter.
normie3000··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
Did wifi work out of the box? I really struggled with a 2013 Air.
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