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Flash family but costs like a Pro. $9 vs $12 for output.

Is it basically about giving as much data as possible to insurance companies?

fair enough, thanks for elaborating

Maybe my pockets are not deep enough, but I completely fail to understand the value proposition of iPad Air vs the regular iPad. If you want something powerful or big - go with Pro, if not - choose the "regular", much cheaper.

What am I missing?

Since everyone is showing their flow, here's mine:

* create a feature-name.md file in a gitignored folder

* start the file by giving the business context

* describe a high-level implementation and user flows

* describe database structure changes (I find it important not to leave it for interpretation)

* ask Claude to inspect the feature and review if for coherence, while answering its questions I ask to augment feature-name.md file with the answers

* enter Claude's plan mode and provide that feature-name.md file

* at this point it's detailed enough that rarely any corrections from me are needed

Definitely my experience as well.

Another dimension to this is native vs 2nd language speakers.

For those of us who had to learn English, we put a lot of effort into grammar, while native speakers whip out half-baked sentences without a second thought.

I admit I have not properly read a single book in a couple of years.

These days when it comes to technical stuff I much more prefer to fill in gaps by reading articles or documentation. Technical books are so long it feels like authors are paid by words.

And when it comes to fiction I have really leaned into audiobooks. My eyes are too tired from computer work, and I can combine audio with other activities like jogging or cooking.

There are some "technical" audiobooks as well, but only a small category of technical books makes sense in the audio format.

my runner friends hate it, suddenly your Garmin can't show your pace and distance properly. (I am very much aware it's a 1st world problem to have in times of war)

my parents live in Russia and my grandma has alzheimer's, so as a present "for her" I bought an airtag - so in case my mom loses grandma in a crowd she can be found.

Little did I know, GPS jammers around the city make my grandma appear 50km away.

Not Apple's fault of course.

I no longer reside in Russia, so I am not being targeted by these.

But I think that it mostly comes down to companies being able to pay for these ads. Mastercard / Visa payments no longer work in Russia. If a company has a way to pay (by having another business entity in another country), then it probably works.

oh, right! Didn't have my coffee yet :-)

But one difference is Rustore actually has payments and subscriptions, which hurts Google more.

I am not very well educated when it comes to alternative stores landscape. But I do know that in Russia there's now Rustore: https://www.rustore.ru/en which functions by automatically downloading and updating APKs for you.

During the APK install, however, you do see the ugly Android prompt about how this app may be dangerous.

Rustore has its own app payment system, which obviously circumvents Google Play fees.

This works on regular Android phones.

Are there other examples of such stores? Perhaps it's Google's answer to that.

in the ideal situation - yes, but since Russia is big and the climate is cold almost everywhere the government usually does not do it except in big cities.

My grandfather, who is a nuclear scientist, and my mom also come from a small closed-off city in Siberia (Russia).

Visiting my grandparents I remember we had to go through a sort of border control to get there.

My mom told stories of how the government would change the asphalt every year in that city to cover the nuclear dust.

OpenAI structured outputs are pretty stable for me. Gemini sometimes responds with a completely different structure. Gemini 3 flash with grounding sometimes returns json inside ```json...``` causing parsing errors.

My wife asked today which plants growing in Mauritius can grow well at home, it answered for one plant that it:

"grows fucking great in a humid environment"

Personally, I like Amnezia VPN, it has some ways to work around blocks: https://amnezia.org/en You can very easily self-host it, their installer automatically works on major cloud platforms.

Though if Indonesia has blocked VPNs only now, possibly they only block major providers and don't try to detect the VPN protocol itself, which would make self-hosting any VPN possible.

There goes one of the main arguments why I've been using Android over iPhone

Last year I decided to give a try to semaglutides, at the time I was exercising pretty heavy, both weight lifting and long distance running.

And then I went to vacation to Maldives for a couple of weeks. Not much chance to exercise when you are locked on a tiny island.

I surely lost some fat during these 2 weeks, but the amount of muscles I lost? Jeeez! I think it offset my training goals by 2 months.

I realized how unhealthy it was, you are literally starving and not feeling it, and I kept myself on a low dose!

When you consume food it's not just calories, it's also nutrients, if you eat a lot less you are body is missing out on all the essentials!

So it might be a magic pill in some sense, but in other it's extremely unhealthy.

Later that year I have actually lost more weight by doing more long-distance running, that motherfucker burns calories big time and in a healthier way.

Also seeing a 400% increase in pricing after this. Mostly due to cache reads / writes if I had to guess, the dashboard isn't showing any data currently.

Overall, it's really not clear how this can be optimized. It's... cache... You could have less cache writes, but it means your users see stale content, which isn't an acceptable solution.

The wording that 92% of people see smaller bills since many people host projects that aren't really being used, anyone who has traffic is going to get higher bills.

I haven't, I don't think it was even an option for me, it's easier for clinics to get a legal clearance if you inject your own cells.

Just like in programming, the boring but true answer is "it depends", because every situation is different.

A generic advice that I learned is that muscle-strengthening exercises help A LOT. Basically muscles form a protective corset around your knee and reduce the stress on your joints by a lot.

Also, arthritis often happens due to low blood flow, so as painful as it may be, you have to keep moving, try not to sit too much.

Another generic piece of advice is controlling your weight, this is just simple math, the less you weigh, the less stress your knee receives.

What also worked for me was hyaluronic acid injections, when I was in a lot of pain and it was hard to work on my muscles, hyaluronic acid helped to reduce this pain by being a good lubricant. Probably I am going overboard with it now, but I keep having injections every 3 months just to be safe. It can be of different concentration and volume. If you inject something with a smaller % you have to do it multiple times in a row with 5-7 days between, if you inject something with a higher % then a single injection is okay.

The PRP / SVF part you already read about. I am also a 31 yo, so while I am young my body is better at regeneration, I don't think elderly people get the same effect from these. I did 3 sessions x 5 PRP injections with 6 months between sessions. The effect is by no means immediate.

It's certainly a hard road, but better than a wheelchair.

I was recently talking to a colleague of mine from Canada who needs to get shoulder surgery but there's no end in sight for the waiting.

I think it's worth it considering getting a paid surgery in a "2nd world" country, like Kazakhstan, Turkey, Russia (pre-war, feels uneasy going there now) and etc. Things there cost 10 times less and most surgeries, where hospitals don't need very advanced equipment, are probably done on the same level as "1st world" countries.

Managed to finish in the top 10% after 6 months of preparation.

There was no pain during them, but once you cool down you feel all the beating you received.

I mean, I am still not 100% healthy, I get some swelling after exercise, and I don't think I can compete with anyone doing it seriously, I just can't get the same volume of exercise a healthy person can. Like, I can only run 10-16km every 2 days, because I need to give my knee time to recover, while a healthy person can run it every day.

But hell, just some time ago I was looking with jealousy at people running at all.

Of those 50 injections around 15 were PRP and the rest were hyaluronic acid injections.

I was doing them back in Russia and a PRP injection there would cost around $80.

I keep doing hyaluronic acid injections every 3 months just to be safe, whatever I am doing it seems to be working, so I continue doing them. Right now I live in Georgia they cost around $105 here ($90 for the syringe, $15 for the doctor).

SVF seemed to have a much stronger effect than PRP, it's hard to quantify, but I would say a single SVF felt close to all the PRPs I did before.

Yes, in PRP they take your blood, extract platelet-rich plasma from it and inject it into your joint.

With SVF they make you a small liposuction (around 80 ml if I am not mistaken, local anesthesia), then also extract cells from it that are similar in function to stem cells and inject them into your knee.

PRP is very noninvasive. SVF is more invasive, mostly the liposuction part, but I'd say it's still walk-in the part if you compare it with something like arthroscopic surgery.

I had 3rd-degree arthritis in my knee that I developed after 4 surgeries due to a football(soccer) injury.

4 years ago I could only walk with crouches due to pain.

Last month I competed in 2 half-marathons.

I was able to get much much better by doing a lot of PRP (platelet-rich plasma) injections over past years and a single SVF (stromal vascular fraction) injection 1.5 years ago.

My MRI shows that cartilage has grown back significantly (not fully, but I no longer have a gaping hole in it).

oh, in that case it's awesome news!

Personally, I have used it on Intel macs and on my wife's M1 Pro about a year ago.

But we recently had a couple of new folks join our team who opted for M2 laptops and they've been having more or less the same pains I had a year ago, so have to run images with emulation (and those sometimes have nasty segfaults).

I have switched to Windows for development on a laptop as well.

Linux still feels very "raw" to me on laptops outside of laptops designed to run Linux, and those are very few, hard to buy, not enough options.

MacOS laptops are great... unless you need to work with Docker, then it's still a nightmare. And these days most devs who work with backend need Docker.

Windows with WSL offers a sweet middle spot.