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That's a great way of looking at it, and touches on why I have the most fond memories of the most difficult of trips with the family. The challenges unite to find a shared purpose and a shared identity that persists long after the trip is over.

Good point about the importance of checking your own page with your ad blockers and similar turned off.

It's something I imagine a lot of people would forget - I don't think the thought ever occurred to me for a personal site.

Part of having browsed the web with ad blockers turned on for so long is I tend to forget ads exist for the most part - I definitely forget how pervasive they are.

I had some wool (mostly) socks that I love and are 95% in great condition, but the other 5% was holes/near holes in several key spots.

I finally got around to trying darning, and I succeeded, and it's incredibly satisfying to look at and wear those socks. It makes me happy that I managed to turn them from trash into something that'll last another couple of years, and every time I look at them I'm reminded of that.

I even chose some bright colorful yarn for the darning, and it just improves the experience even more for me.

There's more details on the next video released after you wrote this comment:

https://youtu.be/tzXRb8PdmJo

There's more details on the next video released after you wrote this comment:

https://youtu.be/tzXRb8PdmJo

Doesn't work for mine. I just have "Days Read" (no "Years Read"). My "Days Read" is a small number and dated 2009, but I was posting comments in 2007. All of my achievements are from 2009.

For my car the fix for this is to plug a cable into the aux port. I just have a plug with no cable permanently plugged in and the car defaults to aux (with no audio) when it starts. Then Android Auto will happily take over from that if I wasn't to listen to music.

Honey / Rakuten are very useful extensions, but I don't want them having access to every site I visit.

In Chrome I use profiles and set up those extensions on my "shopping" profile only.

In Firefox I use containers, but can't isolate these extensions the same way

> https://reversedns.space/

That's a really cool visualization of the IPv4 space. It's fun to look at it like that. Thank you for sharing.

Did you consider adding an option for lookup in the tooltip and/or coloring by ASN info? It seems it'd be really interesting to see the clusters that would emerge from that.

> Interesting to note that panoramas in the latest Google Camera app still have the option to record audio.

You're right! I've never tapped the settings icon on the panorama view, but sure enough, there's a "audio recording" option. It's unfortunately a bit hidden and thus hard to decide on a case-by-case basis, but it's there.

This effectively replaces cardboard camera. Thanks for pointing that out!

That's Cardboard (the viewer app), not Cardboard Camera (the recording app).

But as mentioned elsewhere, the official camera app does offer this functionality.

That's a shame. I don't use it a lot, but it's contributed to my photographic memories over the years. Quality was never amazing, but it could make for some fun pictures.

A somewhat related feature I miss that Google dropped a while ago is Cardboard Camera.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr....

It basically took panoramas that also included a short clip of sound, which made for some fun "relive the moment" style picture/videos. It's a bit different from video, and was especially fun in the "turn your phone into a VR headset" short-lived experiment to teleport yourself back to a moment in time. They still work in Google Photos and there's still the little cardboard "VR" mode button to view them, although I imagine that'll silently disappear at some point.

Edit: As pointed out below, the Cardboard Camera functionality is in the official Google Camera panorama mode now (under settings when in that mode).

Thank you! I wish Plaid would document this on the website. I've always been hesitant to convert from my dev account to a production account because everything gives the impression you're looking for a Serious Business.

I'd much rather just pay the money and have the standard API, and my workflows are all built around Plaid anyway.

I guess I'll give it a go now.

Fighting with Mint and categorizing Amazon purchases was what initially pushed me down the path into plain text accounting (PTA).

I ended up long down the rabbit hole with auto-downloading Amazon orders (originally with https://github.com/jbms/finance-dl, but then my own custom scraping) and importing and matching them up with credit card transactions using beancount-import (https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import).

This ultimately resulted in me spending a lot less on Amazon - to the point that now doing it manually wouldn't be too bad...

Your weird clocks are very cool!

Seeing the Game of Life display stirred a memory in me of finding this book in the public library at a very influential age and obsessing over it (I checked it out multiple times):

Armchair Universe: An Exploration of Computer Worlds (A. K. Dewdney, 1987) https://archive.org/details/armchairuniverse0000dewd_x2e7/pa...

I remember being fascinated by Conway's Game of Life (and implementing it a few times in a few languages) and, of course, also became fascinated by fractals, but never understood them as well.

I haven't thought about it, but that book was incredibly important to my path through the world of programming.

Your prices are surprisingly low. I assume you're not trying to make money so much as scratch an itch, but I wonder if you'd sell even more if you charged a more premium price and added a few more details / higher quality pictures.

Really cool work, dude - thanks for sharing and for the nostalgia trip.

With temp 0 this morning:

  First, we know that Bobby has 3 sisters. 

  Second, we know that each sister has 2 brothers. 

  This might initially seem like Bobby has 6 brothers (3 sisters x 2 brothers), but we have to remember that all the sisters have the same brothers. 

  So, Bobby actually has 2 brothers.

And again:

  First, we know that Bobby has 3 sisters. 

  Second, we know that each sister has 2 brothers. 

  This might initially seem like Bobby has 6 brothers (3 sisters x 2 brothers), but we have to remember that all the sisters have the same brothers. 

  So, Bobby actually has 2 brothers. The sisters' 2 brothers are Bobby and his other 2 brothers.

But with temperature =1 (the default on the playground):

  Since each of Bobby's sisters has 2 brothers, that means there are only 2 boys in the family - Bobby and one more boy. So, Bobby has one brother.

again

  Bobby has 3 sisters. Each of these sisters has 2 brothers. We might initially think that this means Bobby has 2 brothers, but remember: Bobby himself is one of the brothers. So in reality, Bobby has only one other brother, because the two brothers the sisters have are Bobby and his other brother.

again

  Firstly, Bobby has 3 sisters. 

  Secondly, each of his sisters has 2 brothers. This would mean there are only 2 male siblings in the family. One of them is Bobby.

  Therefore, Bobby only has 1 brother. So, Bobby has 1 brother.

So temp 0 - which isn't actually making it deterministic - is getting this wrong, but temp 1 is getting it right.

And it's only fixed for the stated case, but if you reverse the genders, GPT-4 gets it wrong.

  Q: Bobby (a boy) has 3 sisters. Each sister has 2 brothers. How many brothers does Bobby have? Let's think step by step.


  A: First, we know that Bobby has 3 sisters. 

  Second, we know that each sister has 2 brothers. 

  This means that Bobby has 2 brothers because the sisters' brothers are Bobby and his two brothers. 

  So, Bobby has 2 brothers.

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Clicking the link the first time gave me a default nginx:

   502 Bad Gateway
   nginx/1.22.0 (Ubuntu)

The link worked the second time.

Re: ElasticBeanstalk - it's just a feeling, and hopefully not correct - it just doesn't feel like it's one of their primary focuses, and seems suspiciously stable overall. There's nothing I particular want them to add, though, so maybe it's "perfect".

I love it, though - it's been a great boon for our small team - allowing for a painless hands-off deployment strategy that's worked great (largely unchanged) for almost a decade.

[parent comment was edited, it originally mentioned SimpleDB]

Speaking of SimpleDB, we still use it. It's amusing how it's basically swept under a rug at AWS. It's never mentioned, barely documented, but continues to work. It's a pretty good product for what it is - a very simple key/value store where you don't need/want to manage provisioned throughput, costs, keys, etc.

The way they handle SimpleDB makes me respect AWS and feel more comfortable on some other services we also rely on that seem close to abandoned (like ElasticBeanstalk).

However, as a counter-point, they are killing OpsWorks with what feels like a fairly short notice, so I'm also a bit cautious about how long they'll maintain services.

It feels older to me, too. It definitely gained a lot of momentum recently around Reddit's recent API pricing changes, but Google Trends shows it having a lot of interest in 2004 and then sporadic interest over the years.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=e...

I don't use Google Trends enough to know how to interpret that data, so maybe there's some quirk of Google Trends that makes it look more significant back then.

It would be awesome if some service had a similar feature to Google Ngram Viewer, but for content on the internet instead of books. Search interest isn't quite the same as how much it's being written in content.

> (Also, I’m not sure if you were aware, but technically you can split the cost with multiple people (i.e. friends or relatives) if you set up an Amazon Household account)

It's just two adults now (and a limited "teen" program which doesn't acknowledge the realities of kids living at home past 17). I have four adults on my account, but two of them are grandfathered in and still receive my "prime benefits", but aren't shown anywhere in my Amazon account that I can find.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

It is regularly updating, though, as now my count is up to "5 such comments".

The "f word" detection is not accurate at all.

> Has used the F word in at least 2 comments and more than 0.1% of comments. ydant has 4 such comments.

My comments:

      1 DuckDuckGo
      3 Luckily
      1 duckdb
      1 luckily
      1 lucks

Replies to me:

      2 Luckily
      1 bucket
      1 bucks
      1 fucking

Understood and I agree with most of what you said here. Thank you for clarifying.

I've just personally crossed a threshold where I can't avoid the fact I use enough of it that I should be paying for it. I'd like to think I'd just boycott it entirely if I decided it was too expensive. Not sure if that'd be true in practice. I'd definitely boycott the official app, though - the experience is pretty bad.

Historically, I've avoided using a non-official app due to some questionable distribution methods for some of them, and due to not wanting to anger Google into shutting my account off for non-supported access. The latter is why I no longer use Google search nor Gmail anymore.

(not the person you asked)

It allows me to pay for a service that I use and I know costs money to run - for a reasonable fee (although it just went up in price and is less reasonable now), given how many hours our family watches per month on YouTube.

Creators still get paid from YouTube premium views, and some creators see better revenue from that than from YouTube ads. I like supporting the creators I watch. I refuse to participate in regular ads. Sponsored segments are (barely) tolerable and skippable.

I run an ad blocker and try to provide compensation to the sources I consume regularly. Patreon, news subscriptions, YouTube premium, etc. So just blocking ads through Newspipe or similar but still consuming a lot of video - doesn't feel right to me.

If you own your own domain name for your email, then it's pretty simple and will take a few hours of effort to get fully moved over.

Part of why I pushed myself to move away from Gmail was I was still using the @gmail address occasionally.

Luckily, I'd been using my own domains for a long time for most emails, so it's been a pretty easy transition - I still have Fastmail poll Gmail for emails to make sure I see the ones that still go to @gmail.

I was reading this thread thinking, "I haven't noticed any ads on Gmail"... then remembered I've been using Fastmail for more than a year on my personal account.

So I guess that's a good thing - the fact I'm using Fastmail and not Gmail anymore just mainly disappeared from my consciousness.

This thread inspired me to pull out the display and finally tinker with it - and then I realized how expensive the APIs are for this data - especially if trying to do a "constant updating" style approach like you'd want for this idea.

It makes sense you listen for the sound of a plane / wait for a button press before making the call!

Seems like this would be best done with a receiver and monitoring that directly and/or exchanging the radio logging for API access.

This is normal. This is a bragging thread, so you're getting the subset of people who have something to brag about.

For me, most of my mental energy goes into my day job, so I'm often just tired of programming and tech stuff after hours. I tend to have to balance - either put my energy into work work, or work work can suffer while I put my energy into personal projects. I also have family and other hobbies that take up time, and there's only so much of it.

I've also found that if I'm not careful, I'll get too obsessive over this stuff and everything else suffers, so I have to try to keep it in check or I'll end up burned out, more tired, and have half-finished projects - which can be even more mental overhead.